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I swear people give the south shit for the wrong reasons. Yes it’s racist, and sexist, and homophobic, and transphobic, and corrupt as hell, and WAY too serious about their imaginary friends, and I will happily admit all of those terrible flaws about my homeland and bear the shame of my ancestors for creating that world, but yinzers are the ones that talk weird and make up dumb words. At least y’all makes linguistic sense
Rural areas in all states are all those things. The South is simply a few percentage points more rural than the East or West coasts.
If y'all visited us here in Atlanta, you'd realize we're just as cosmopolitan as anywhere else.
Wouldn’t need to visit I’m from just slightly OTP and lived ITP for 12 years, Atlanta is the exception as is Nashville, but I’ve lived in Hiram and Acworth too, my description is apt. You’re not wrong about the rural urban divide but I would also present you with Jackson, Memphis, August, and the fact that the governors mansion on West Paces in Buckhead is staffed by prisoners (you can probably guess what color skin the vast majority have) are evidence that while the whole country is racist in rural areas, it’s not even close to exclusive.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the south even though I don’t live there anymore, and deeply miss the parts that aren’t terrible especially the food and nights out on the Beltline. But the problems I listed in the previous comment, while existing everywhere in the rural US are baked into the deep south in ways that are different that other parts of the country.