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Originally Posted by SECdomination
I've noticed that in many of these North v South debates, the northerners continue to call out southerners for being "narrow-minded". I think it's narrow-minded to discount tradition and fairly ironic that those who accuse others of being anti-progressive don't want to consider the culture of the southeast or take the time to try and understand it.
Again, for emphasis, it's nothing personal towards Benzgirl, it's just a pattern I've been noticing in these arguments.
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A pattern that I have noticed is that northerners often express a distaste for the idiosyncracies and customs of their southern brothers and sisters (often a vehement distaste), but they don't deny them being brothers and sisters. Some (definitely not all, but some) of the southerners are claiming that their northern brethren are not in fact brethren at all, and have in essence disowned the northern chapters for not being exclusive enough, or elite enough, or whatever their specfic standard may be that they find lacking. That I think is probably very troublesome and offensive to the northerners.