Quote:
Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
pinstrypes, I assure you as a southerner who lived for years in New Jersey- northerners think about it a LOT - and delight in being rude and obnoxious about their self-perceived superiority. "At least we won the War!" is their idea of a witty retort.
Even when they (Yankees) come south, they are so bad about it that a very popular bumper sticker is "I don't care how you did it up north!". Houston saw a lot of "Well, this is how we do it up north" during the last oil boom in the 80s (dating myself here).
I managed the crystal department at a Macy's store in Texas- couldn't get them to stock iced tea glasses for love or money. I was not surprised when they had to pull out of most of their Texas stores in the 80s. Their thinking was, we don't drink iced tea, so why carry the glasses? We are from NEW YORK, the only place in the world that matters.
I am glad you do not indulge in this type of rude and stupid thinking, but please believe me, it does exist.
|
I've lived in the north all my life, did my ug in Jersey, and lived in the South for grad school for a short stint, and coming from my experience it isn't something northerners think about all that much. I've personally had maybe one conversation with a southerner about the whole north vs. south thing, and I wasn't even too much a participant in that conversation because it was assinine. I've heard the "At least we won the war" comment like once or twice, at best. It's just "regionalcentrism" at it's best. Northerners do it when the go south just as much as Southerners do it when they go north.
Threaded Mode
