Visiting American South for a few days, damn these people are polite

re teaching, though we pretend the bias is liberal, my experience that was more a college thing and maybe a third of us see college. my experience in the south was conservative bias in government and economics classes. like you were implicitly being taught to be a good little republican like 95% of the area used to be.

i think as the cities and suburbs in the south have started to integrate, more minorities in the schools, more diverse teachers, this sort of abbott/desantis nonsense has come in. it's a throwback, now that we have liberal teachers around -- moved into the suburbs as the cities go blue -- but we're not going to have many conservatives get education degrees -- we're gonna force things back to the old ways of teaching to indoctrinate. you're not going to teach johnny black people once got mistreated. before it would be omitted by GOP teachers in almost segregated living spaces. now it's just banned by the politicians since they don't have the numbers if it was a teaching decision.

it's servile. one of the benefits of being half northern half southern is my northern parent told me that crap stops now. you be nice to people but they aren't above you. you're probably smarter than half the parents who want to extract a sir from you.

that benefits you when you get in sports situations. you are not intimidated by anyone. it's not burned in your brain that others might be above you. i matter as much as they do.

i feel like i got the old fashioned southern niceness but without the classist crap. a lot of that sir and ma'am stuff goes back to slave plantations and english class systems.

personally i found southern cities to now be fairly enlightened on race vs. northern cities and southern suburbs/rural to have issues. but when trump or some pol is smacktalking cities, he's talking about not just chicago or baltimore, but the diverse southern cities, past them to the southern suburbs and sticks, as well as the bigots up north or out in places like idaho.

we're not imagining things, he's talking to someone.

Sherman should have burned every city in the South to the ground, killed every Confederate Officer and every southern 'state' should have been forced to earn its way back into the Union with iron clad rules about sharing power with freedmen and destroying cancerous southern culture norms.

The Confederacy never really died and haunts us to this day. Some how, some way it's going to have to be buried once and for all before this country will move forward.

For the OP, those around you sound sweet until the first minute you're out of earshot. They're also very quiet right before they light crosses and slip the sheets over their heads.

Snakes in the grass.

You are absolutely clueless. The war started because South Carolina left union. The south didn't want to be part of the US. The north didn't want to let them go. That was the whole point of the war.

I’m not doubting your experience, but I am confused by it. I attended school in the South, and I pay relatively close attention, and you will find a massive liberal bias in most. My children learned about MLK before they learned of any other historical figure. (I don’t see that as negative at all.) All schoolchildren are well informed of the South’s racist past. I see no conspiracy to keep it silent. On the contrary, I don’t know how any teacher could. America’s racial history is constantly recounted in movies and books and documentar.

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I have no need of friendship, friendship causes pain
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain

I’ve had the opposite experience with 3. I live in DC yet people bring up politics more when I visit my family in Tennessee.

Fake….fake….fake…fake….fake.

In reference to the best tv show of the 90s. But so true.

I lived all my life in Colorado & people are nothing but rude, obnoxious & plain mean. 😒

I have about a decade to go before retirement & I'm going to move to the South & enjoy some of that Southern hospitality.