I don't have any preconceived notions about people with southern accents... my grandmother was a southerner and even though she moved out of the south when she was a teenager, she still had a strong accent until she died in her 80s! And she was a pretty sharp cookie. My husband is from the south and has an accent... I think it's sexy.
(In fact, he just came back last night from a trip visiting his family & his accent is thiiiiiiiick again & I love it! And I KNOW he's not stupid.)
I didn't realize how much prejudice was going on around us when we first moved out there until our neighbors and my coworkers pointed out to me that "This is just how we do things here." Flabbergasted me beyond belief, but it had to be the area we were in (oh, and I should also say that we did find out later that the bigoted landlord I mentioned turned out to be a klansman...no big surprise, but I cannot figure out how those people sleep with themselves at night or where that kind of hatred comes from).
I wish I would have met some of the kind folks from the south that have posted on this thread, because I did not have any preconceived notions about southerners until I moved out there and lived amongst the people that showed me not only how prejudice they were, but how important it was to them to maintain those notions. I remember crying myself to sleep and saying to my husband, "Why didn't you tell me it was like this here???" because I had no idea. I was in utter culture shock, and it took a few months for it to set in. Louisiana is probably the prettiest place I've ever been to in America, and I did meet a handful of really nice people there; but where we were, hatred of other races and of nonchristians was grossly predominant.
I am sure there is prejudice everywhere, as others have said. My step-dad was kinda prejudice, too, but we just ignored his nasty comments as him just being a bitter old fart because he had something snarky to say about EVERYBODY, even his only family members. He was an equal opportunity jerk to people.
I didn't realize how much prejudice was going on around us when we first moved out there until our neighbors and my coworkers pointed out to me that "This is just how we do things here." Flabbergasted me beyond belief, but it had to be the area we were in (oh, and I should also say that we did find out later that the bigoted landlord I mentioned turned out to be a klansman...no big surprise, but I cannot figure out how those people sleep with themselves at night or where that kind of hatred comes from).
I wish I would have met some of the kind folks from the south that have posted on this thread, because I did not have any preconceived notions about southerners until I moved out there and lived amongst the people that showed me not only how prejudice they were, but how important it was to them to maintain those notions. I remember crying myself to sleep and saying to my husband, "Why didn't you tell me it was like this here???" because I had no idea. I was in utter culture shock, and it took a few months for it to set in. Louisiana is probably the prettiest place I've ever been to in America, and I did meet a handful of really nice people there; but where we were, hatred of other races and of nonchristians was grossly predominant.
I am sure there is prejudice everywhere, as others have said. My step-dad was kinda prejudice, too, but we just ignored his nasty comments as him just being a bitter old fart because he had something snarky to say about EVERYBODY, even his only family members. He was an equal opportunity jerk to people.
