Old South

[SWTXBelle]

Okay, family ribbing you is one thing. I'm talking complete strangers hearing my accent and ripping into me - . Or even worse, fellow students acting as though I was an extra from the set of "Deliverance". AOE, as long as you aren't indulging in the whole "Well, the way we do it up north was THIS way and it's the RIGHT way" thing then any stranger who gave you grief was rude and tacky, and there is nothing worse than being tacky. Shame on them. Let's collect our nickels and head east to Europe.

I think we can agree that stereotyping of ANY sort is almost guaranteed to end up being offensive - I try very hard not to lump all yankees together. Some of my best friends are yankees. There are yankees, and there are damn yankees.

I kid, I kid, .

[DrPhil]

It could just be bad timing. That's unforunate for both the KAs (because they could be accused of something they did not intend to do) and the AKAs (because some of them felt uncomfortable).

That's my conclusion at face value.

At the same time, there could be racial issues on that campus, as there are on many campuses across the country, that led to this timing. I don't know. I don't make assumptions regarding racial antagonism without proof. A confederate flag isn't inherently proof if there's no contextual evidence.

[banditone]

So how many boyfriends you sporting right now exactly?

[Munchkin03]

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't a cross burned in front of the AKA house at UA sometime in the not too distant past? If that's the case, I can see that there would be a level of sensitivity on both sides.

Seriously, people have been called Yankees? In all my born days, I've never heard anyone say that with a straight face. I grew up in the South, and have spent my entire adult life in the Northeast. The only time I hear anything about the Yankees, it's in reference to the unfortunate baseball team in the Bronx...

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't a cross burned in front of the AKA house at UA sometime in the not too distant past? If that's the case, I can see that there would be a level of sensitivity on both sides.

Seriously, people have been called Yankees? In all my born days, I've never heard anyone say that with a straight face. I grew up in the South, and have spent my entire adult life in the Northeast. The only time I hear anything about the Yankees, it's in reference to the unfortunate baseball team in the Bronx...

Haha, yeah, I've been called a Yankee a few times on my trips to the South (mostly to Mississippi). My first reaction is to wonder how they know I'm a fan of the aforementioned unfortunate baseball team

Again, I've found it happens on both sides - you get Southerners who come up North and say that things are better down South, and you get Northerners who go down South and do the same thing. There are obnoxious people all over the country.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

Haha, yeah, I've been called a Yankee a few times on my trips to the South (mostly to Mississippi). My first reaction is to wonder how they know I'm a fan of the aforementioned unfortunate baseball team

Again, I've found it happens on both sides - you get Southerners who come up North and say that things are better down South, and you get Northerners who go down South and do the same thing. There are obnoxious people all over the country.

Some people are really serious about these regional loyalties. I think that's dumb.

On a lighthearted note:
Does anyone remember the episode of Sex and the City when Carrie was telling her boyfriend that NY women don't wear scrunchies? They saw a woman with a scrunchie in a club. The woman said (with a VERY strong Southern accent) "Oh mai?! ohhhh, nah...I'm from Nauth Currrlina. Honey, did you hear what that lady just said, she thought I was from NY?!" That definitely played on a stereotype.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

If I'm not mistaken, wasn't a cross burned in front of the AKA house at UA sometime in the not too distant past? If that's the case, I can see that there would be a level of sensitivity on both sides.

Welp, there ya have it. Thanks for the reminder.

[MysticCat]

Originally Posted by Munchkin03

Seriously, people have been called Yankees? In all my born days, I've never heard anyone say that with a straight face. I grew up in the South, and have spent my entire adult life in the Northeast.

Really? I've heard people described or called Yankees all the time, although as often as not if it's to the person's face, it's tongue-in-cheek (as in "What would you know about what tea is supposed to taste like? You're a Yankee, for Pete's sake!).

Otherwise, we just say that they're "not from around here."

[Munchkin03]

Originally Posted by MysticCat

Really? I've heard people described or called Yankees all the time, although as often as not if it's to the person's face, it's tongue-in-cheek (as in "What would you know about what tea is supposed to taste like? You're a Yankee, for Pete's sake!).

Otherwise, we just say that they're "not from around here."

I should posit here that I grew up in a military town in the South. Therefore, most people "aren't from around here."

[srmom]

I call my husband a yankee all the time, and it's totally tongue in cheek. He's from Chicago, but moved to Texas before I was born, so his comeback is that he's been here longer than I have. Then he says that I could technically be called a yankee for the years I spent in New Jersey, and the remnant of the Joisey accent

My ultimate comeback is that he is old and will always be older than me!

We give each other alot of crap

[Ghostwriter]

My wife was born in MN and has lived in the South for 43 years. I was born in SC and lived in the South all my life. She has more Southern traits then others who were born here but...

She likes to claim to be a Southerner but I won't let her. If you are born north of the Mason-Dixon line you will always be a Yankee no matter what.

We give each other a lot of crap, too.