People down here are super-friendly. No one wants to disappoint their mama by being known as rude
Down here, even if a woman is being rude, she'll say it in the nicest way possible. Think Julia Sugarbaker from Designing Women. We tell it like it is
One of my roomates is from the midwest, and boy is she ever a passive agressive piece of work. And I've encountered that from other people from that area too. Must be all that snow or something.