Work hard. Play hard. Pray hard.
These are words to live by in the American south. Easily summed up, but deeper meaning can be quickly lost on someone who hasn’t grown up there. This article shares what I’ve learned from living here in the last five years.
A Brief History
Most areas of the United States identify with one group or another without much effort, but in the south an often-cited ancestry is “American.” Which usually refers to the Scots-Irish. A group who had an influence so great on the course of American culture that it basically became synonymous with American culture.
To understand the south you first have to understand who southerners are and where they come from. From their earliest days in their fight against the English under the likes of William Wallace to the Protestant Reformation, the Scottish people have been an independent group with a fighting spirit.
None embodied this more than the Border Reivers who were a wild bunch living along the borders of Scotland. Quickly the Borderers found that raising crops only to have them burned when warring factions came through was a waste of time. Raiding livestock however proved to be profitable, as did their riding ability as skilled horsemen and guerrilla tactics.
During war in this area allegiance to any one side could mean death whenever a new ruler rose to power so the Borderers remained loyal only to their kin and clan. To make matters worse the rulers who employed them to maintain law and as the first line of defense would often deal with them harshly in other times when their lawlessness got out of hand.
All this encouragement of predatory behavior gave rise to a way of life based around their own strength, cunning, and gain at another’s expense. Combined with their defiance to authority you have the beginnings of what would later become Ulster-Scots in Ireland and the Scots-Irish in America.
Having failed to find their desired life in Ulster the Scots set out once again for America. First brought here by the promise of land on the frontier (as a buffer between the Indians and Quaker pacifists) they didn’t start arriving in large numbers until Governor Gooch of Virginia offered them something they never truly had before—religious freedom.
Work Hard
Frontier life in the Shenandoah Valley was full of hardships and danger, which soon gave rise to one of the key characteristics of the southerner—self-reliance. Southerners are hard workers. They hold on dearly to their second amendment rights, stemming from a time where mistrust of the government was common and the threat of wolves or Indians was real. A man had to defend his home, family, and way of life. If he wanted to eat he had to put in the work farming or making whiskey.
If you want respect from a southerner the first way is to be a hard worker.
Play Hard
It wasn’t all hard work though. Often people would gather together to help with the work and with them they’d bring whiskey and music. Out of these Appalachian hollows came the fiddle and banjo music, which would later transform in Nashville to what is known today as country music.
Speaking of Tennessee there must be something in the water as Knoxville has also produced some great looking women like Megan Fox, Christina Hendricks, and Hailey Bright. What’s more southern women really are friendly, but there are a few things you’re going to need to learn before you get carte blanche.
The first is basic social conduct and the other is the southern man.
One of the first things you’ll notice about the south is complete strangers will talk to you. It’s not weird here, it’s just good manners. Manners are big in the south. Here are a few more:
- Whenever you want to talk to someone you can’t just get right to it. You have to have polite small talk before issues are addressed. Otherwise you’re seen as rude.
- Despite speaking to everyone if a southerner doesn’t like you they’ll talk behind your back. Adding, “bless their heart” at the end isn’t a complement it’s pity.
- People will say, “yes sir,” or “yes ma’am” out of respect and habit. It’s not like other areas where this is calling someone old. Elders are sometimes addressed with Ms. or Mr. in front of their name.
- Being called a Yankee in a derogatory way happens. Watch out for the southerner who will bait you by asking you questions about “up there.” They don’t want to know more about you they’re just looking to twist your answer into a veiled insult.
One of the most baffling examples is perhaps the southern version of saving face. Anytime you say something that falls too far outside of proper social conduct you’ll be ignored as though you never said what you said thus doing you a favor by not acknowledging it and saving you the embarrassment.
While manners are important so is the concept of honor. Most readily seen in the southern man. Masculine guys who like to drink and fight still live here. They’re territorial and honor is quickly upheld with violence. He’s raised to be respectful and chivalrous towards women. Take what’s his, he thinks is his, or disrespect his women and you’ll have a fight on your hands.
Basically this came out of the tradition of early settlers feuding. Men desired to be feared and respected enough that others wouldn’t try to steal from them. Post war poverty ensured many men were only left with their honor, which was defended at all costs.
Pray Hard
Southerners go to church. Even the non-religious ones go on the major holidays like Christmas, Easter, and Mother’s Day. Yes, Mother’s Day. It’s the south. Family is a big deal here.
Although church going isn’t the only religion you’ll find in the south. There are two others: food and college football. BBQ, booze, and co-ed boobs tailgating on game day means you’ve come full circle. Now you’re playing hard!
Conclusion
Just remember if you really want to know what it is to be a southerner keep in mind it really comes down to four key elements: music, food and drink, religion, and honor. Stay on the right side of these and you too can work hard, play hard, and pray hard in the south.
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I’m from the North of England, a place I liken to our equivalent to the US South.
Materially poorer on average. But tougher, more loyal, more honest, more traditional and yet more genuinly fun than the hellhole of London and its associated pretentious metro cocksuckers
Provincial folk are always more real. By definition!!
Hear, Hear ! The French countryside is with ya !
I fucking love the French countryside. But then again, I love french wine, french food, and french girls in non-branded clothes
I live in the us southeastern region and what you says is true. We are generally more down to earth people. We haven’t fallen under the grips of SJW’s and feminism…yet.
Well, parts of Texas have, but Austin and San Antone haven’t been part of the South for a long time.
bullshit….the south has fallen prey to liberalism….just not as much as the rest of the country, not to mention all the blacks who are primarily liberals.
“I fucking love the French countryside. But then again, I love french wine, french food, and french girls in non-branded clothes”
Isn’t France Sharia compliant yet? I understand their cultural is being systematically destroyed as well. Does France have a chance to fight back and avoid becoming an Islamic shit-hole?
No. Outside of a few suburbs of Paris and Marsseille, France is doing alright.
A friend of nine commented that France may be the first country to take up arms against the islamification – mainly due to the french’s protection of their culture (thank God for this ) do you see any chance of this happening?
Sure, argue with someone who has spend the last 31 years of his life living in the South. I’m not arguing that liberalism isn’t here but it’s a lot weaker here than it is in say, California or New York. The hardcore liberalism festers in the big cities, but the smaller outlying areas are much more conservative. I see it changing soon though. My area is about to have a huge population explosion and I would be willing to bet it’ll go to shit shortly afterwards. Such is the pattern with high population, urban areas.
Southern blacks have been solid democrat voters for a long time but, that’s going to change as at least a few are starting to see through the white liberal bs.
I remember reading a French media report that the government was shocked that over half of France’s police supported Le Pen’s National Front. I’m sure the numbers are similarly reflected in the military as the officer class still come from old Catholic families with a very un-PC view of what French identity is.
some might become enlightened but the vast majority probably won’t. young people don’t tend to be anything but liberal fucktards. young blacks not only have this going against them but have that whole family thing which is rooted in liberal fucktardedness working against them too. the odds of a young black person becoming a non liberal is very very very low….and young black woman? simply forget it.
sure they exist….but they are a rare breed.
“Sure, argue with someone who has spend the last 31 years of his life living in the South.”
born an raised in the south….so don’t pull that line on me lol
i agree the south isnt quite as liberal as new york and california. that being said the south isnt some beacon of conservative values and still suffers from much of the same BS the rest of the country does….just slightly less of it.
i do agree people moving down and creating population explosions is a problem….i hate new yorkers who move down here with a passion.
So you think. But do you really think that all your gals would dress in shorts so short you can see ass cheeks hanging out the bottom if you weren’t? The modern south is just as different from the 1950’s south as the modern north is from 1950’s north. Nashville is just as corrupt as hollywood. Have you seen these newest country music videos? Two metro looking dudes wrestling and playing with a puppy, girls acting bad ass and no amount of ladylikeness are now the cultural icons.
No sir. It’s more polite in the south, but that’s the main thing that is better. Girls are just as slutty in the south and north, girls chase careers in the south as well, more men in the South are total pussies than there was 50 years ago (judging from looking at pictures) and a lot more issues that are exactly like the rest of the country.
But what about your women? Do your women really behave better? Is there less cheating? Is there less divorce? Is there less single motherhood? Is there less rampant slutiness? Less abortion? These are the cultural and moral failings of the US that I believe are tearing the whole country down slowly.
They are definitely few and far between, the ones who are beginning to see the light are 30 plus working guys with no children so they can’t get an earned income tax credit and they are beginning to notice how much Big Sam is getting out of their check. I don’t see a huge number of blacks jumping off the liberal ship(garbage scow) but every one who does is an improvement.
“i agree the south isnt quite as liberal as new york and california. that being said the south isnt some beacon of conservative values and still suffers from much of the same BS the rest of the country does….just slightly less of it.”
That’s all I’m saying. I don’t think we’re above corruption and I see it happening more and more outside of the Nashville area. All I’m saying is we haven’t reached CA or NY levels yet. It’s a matter of “better”, not “great.”
well glad we are in agreement.
i guess my main thing is:
1. i dont want folks getting to rosy a picture of the south because its not true
and
2. being deluded by point 1 they move down here which i really dont want. I’ve seen it happen a lot. northern folks move down here, complain about the bad economy of the north, and then start voting in liberal fucktardedness thus ruining the south.
so because of that…i suppose i felt the need to say…the south isnt as great as people are saying. and the truth is it will turn into new york if non-southern folks keep on moving down here and voting in their liberal crap.
South is an embarassment to the USA-poorest and most obese region. When they refer to someone from the Western USA as a yankee they deserve another General Sherman-esque ass whomping. I despise country honky BS, ad the south lives by it. In the military, people with a southern accent are rightly ridiculed by nearly everyone.
In the south, most milfs are about 19
Oh evil CA! Look at rural areas of CA-still conservative
It’s not a matter of probability. It’s a fact that France has the strongest drive in Western Europe against progressivism-islamism-multiculturalism.
They, and the swedes are walking the same path, are the first ones who rose up years ago. It makes sense, it’s like a newtonian reaction
Actually almost the whole western side of Europe is under a sociopolitical transformation switching stances from liberalism to conservatism.
Vlaams Belang, Alternative für Deutschland, Golden Dawn, Freiheit Partei Österreich, UKIP…
Britain and Ireland are still kind of asleep and electing muslim mayors
Portugal is just doomed and Spain…well, we reacted in the worst possible way. By placing even more liberal politicians in the chamber of representatives
I’m starting to realize why took us seven centuries to get rid of the muslims
so you are a terrible troll then? basically the yankee that the south rightly hates so much. you know perhaps if you dont want the south to hate dem yanks, then perhaps you shouldnt openly mock our accent which we have little to no control over.
The French are really unexpected and the only European nation with a history to revolt against virtually anything and protest for the most banal reasons.
There are quite a few MILITARY bases in the southern tier of the U.S. – Fort Bragg, Fort Knox, Maxwell AFB, a submarine base in southern Georgia. That doesn’t include some big installations in Texas such as Fort Bliss, Fort Hood and Dyess AFB in Texas.
Texas is not the South. It’s history is related but not as intertwined due to Mexico, German, Czech, Black, and more native American (Comanche, Apache, Arapahoe), influences.
” to revolt against virtually anything and protest for the most banal reasons”
One can only hope.
So to fight both the polirical rlites and islam, is the smart mooney on France?
Pegida needs to get embedded there.
One can only hope. I’d pick up a rigle and fight for France if the shit hits the fan.
Texas is indeed the South. Any further south you’re in Mexico.
I don’t know what part you’re in, but just a hair north of Nashville here and I see what you’re saying about the creeping corruption. It’s like it’s seeping in from Illinois. That and the case of that poor SOB being railroaded on the false molestation charge here only goes to hammer that point home.
I live in Wilson County, just east of Nashville. Hello, fellow Tennessean!
Central CA, Orange County, and a few other spots are still conservative but Frisco-Berkeley-L.A. are libshit leper colonies. Same with hippie-dippy cesspools like Santa Cruz.
The only places with shittier gun laws are Hawaii, NYC, NJ, and MD.
Also, the present governor is the same jackass who whiteknighted for fag marriage back in the ’70s when he was governor the first time around.
Totally vile in most of the urban areas. Especially, the liberal assholes in the Silicon Valley tech industry.
Your point? Just about everyone has a few military bases, newsflash!
Yankee? No, I was born in the West, shitlord. Now get back to your Waffle House and continue rotting your brain with sweet tea. And losing.
so you are a troll.
Just moved to the DEEP south and I agree with you…
How deep you talking?
Louisiana ya’ll…
Yeah, Texan here. A common saying is “Anyone north of Ft. Worth is a Yankee!”
Wow yeah, you got me beat. Heh
Whatever you want to call illustrating the stupidity of the American South, so be it. It would have been a lot better off if the Spaniards owned it, worked the farm help to death, and then gave us an identical twin to Argentina as a neighbor.
https://pando.com/2014/11/20/the-war-nerd-why-sherman-was-right-to-burn-atlanta/
Actually, Lousyanna is not as traditionally Southern as the rest of the deep south. I say this having lived in both Louisiana and Alabama (as well as South Carolina while in the Navy).
I lived in Decatur Alabama, just below the Tennessee border and on the Tennessee river. It is not Nashville’s fault, or even Illinois’s fault; all the big cities in the US are cesspits and the filth is spreading from those points of corruption both north and south.
I lived in Florida as well as the other southern states I mentioned above. The rest of the South does not count Florida as a southern state (and I agree whole heartedly). Florida has for a long time been nothing more than a state of transplanted Yankees.
Large portions of the northern tier of states have no military installations of any kind. Minnesota has none. IIRC Wisconsin has none, and possibly Montana.
Them is fighting words. Never dare disparage the Waffle House near me.
And as I said above about Louisiana is because it is a transition from the deep south to Texas.
South is not a geographic reference; it is a cultural thing.
From decades of observation Southern women were way ahead of Northern girls on the blatant hypergamy. A very old Southern mother’s instruction to their daughters was, “Marry the richest man you can stand.”
Montana has an AF base called Maelstrom I think, and WY & MT are states that represent great things. Im sure the places youre thinking of at least have Guard units, even VT has F-16s
I got Perkins Ill playa hate all day
your argument has been the south is stupid….which is amazingly well researched argument!!!
” Florida has for a long time been nothing more than a state of transplanted Yankees.”
so Seinfeld is correct yet again?
Still waitig for yours. FACT is that is the most obese and poverty stricken US region, google that cupcake.
trolls be trolling i see.
i guess your father left you for a southern girl. and you grew up with a south hating momma is my guess. and you’re even more butthurt cause you lack the southern accent to sing a country song and were probably shot down by that simone guy on american idol.
take your butthurt elsewhere.
Wtf? Writing facts isn’t trolling & sorry you live in denial. Country music is for honky tonk faggots.
Here, I did it for you since your little head cant accept some facts of life.https://www.nerdwallet.com/blog/health/medical-costs/poverty-obesity-states/
True many do but not as many as the south given better year round weather. For example, most basic training occurs in sunbelt states. The largest installations tend to be in the South – Camp Lejeune Marine base, Fort Bragg, Fort Hood, Fort Bliss, Fort Sill, Central Command in Tampa, Brooke Army Medical, Fort Sam Sam Houston, Randolph, Camp Bullis, Maxwell AFB, Army War College, Air Force cyber command in San Antonio,
Null points, TX isnt the shitty south. Look at the size of bombing ranges and bases in the west, across the board no single region really wins out. Maybe the Southwest.
I especially like your point about non-branded clothes. Why would one wear such? They cost more, and you are not getting paid for being a mobile advertisement.
But vanishing, as the work and industries that sustained them are forced out of existence. And, of course, there is the continuing re-allocation of water away from farmers and to the cities.
Even the northern part, including the panhandle?
“If you have ever fallen asleep in a Waffle House, you might be a redneck” – Jeff Foxworthy. Not booze, but the endorphins after one of their substantially carbohydrate meals. God, I miss that.
I get that. Texas was also a part of the Confederacy. I am a Southerner and a native Texan. Anyone who says Texas isn’t part of the South either isn’t a Texan or is just ignorant. I have been all through the South, and Texas is South as it gets.
I’m a Texan. Texas is culturally Southern. I’ve lived here my whole life.
lol rural hick, go kill yourself. so irrelevant. can you even feed your family with your low iq?
Would be nice if all urban liberals were to be killed by ghetto blacks in the midst of the escalating war between law enforcement in the big cities and the ghetto blacks with all the white liberals ending up as collateral damage.
Alas, change is coming to La France profonde. This is from this week’s Spectator Low Life column.
https://life.spectator.co.uk/2016/05/french-labour-laws-should-come-with-a-health-warning/
I spent some time in France a few years ago. I got the distinct feeling that cars with Paris tags were subject to being keyed.
Who let you out of the fahrkin’ mines, ayyy? Get back to work you northern monkey or you won’t get your ration of lard this week!
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Tougher? On yer bike yer Northern bastard!
English Bob is southerner
FFS 😉
There is nothing “tough” about the American South, where the average person is north of 300 lbs.
Meh, I was born in the South East and now live in the North West. Can’t say I’ve noticed much of a difference in how people are. You get friendly people, rude people, pretentious hipster limousine liberals, down-to-earth blue-collar workers, thieving scumbag benefits-scrounging chavs etc everywhere.
Full disclosure: I live in a poor part of Manchester, and moved up from a lower-middle-class part of Kent. I await your response, which, if my prophetic abilities aren’t too rusty, will be “Well, you’re living on the wrong side of the Pennines.”
No, you’re on the right side of the Pennines
I’ll let Mr. Randy Newman take this one…
https://youtu.be/2nGw_vAnqPI
Great article – but it only hints at a very important fact:
southern women are much hotter and better looking than their northern sisters.
I was watching ken burns civil war a few months back. It included a section about women during the war. I was stunned to see that the southern women even back then were significantly more attractive than the northern women.
“southern women are much hotter and better looking than their northern sisters.”
If you can find one whose blouse doesn’t double as a tent.
They don’t all look like Honey-Boo-Boos mama.
Yes, though according to obesity statistics, it’s going to be harder to find a thin woman in the south. It can be done. Just like if you search hard enough, you’ll be able to find that one non vacusous Valley Girl.
Oddly enough though the ugly ones are always more visible. For every hot one there is one that’s ugly as a slop jar full of armpits.
One other thing to keep in mind as bad as I hate to bring it up here but, it’s the truth. Most of the Deep South states are around 50% black and that’s where at least some extra obesity rates come from. Seeing a black woman around here whose ass cheeks weigh 50lbs each is an everyday occurrence.
It’s not like 96% of women are fat. Don’t be ridiculous. Yes there’s fat people, but that is distributed mostly through an older age range, late 30’summer and up.
Girls from the north are just about as fat these days (even nyc is starting to get bad). Only going to find thin ones at various university and urban thin oasis.
Don’t confuse Southern with Appalachian. The deep South has some hot women. Especially Texas. But yes, obesity is rampant down there.
Texas has the legions of (largely undocumented) Mexicans in those statistics, too. Between the Blacks and Hispanics, two populations with disproportionate rates of obesity, it looks worse than it actually is.
Except Austin, San Antonio, and an increasing percentage of Dallas – anywhere privileged feminists congregate.
There’s tons of 8’s, 9’s, and 10’s down here. TONS
Southern boy here. I’ve noticed traveling up north that the women have much sharper facial features.
Good point, there are many blobby faces around the south. The north has more of the Scandinavian / Italian chivelled face look.
I’m from New England. Lived on West Coast and have been in 40 States. I found the obesity to be even worse in the south than the north. I also found the women extremely two faced.
Ohio, well, we’re the midwest, but basically it’s all Blonde Germanic Princess look with girls, with a few Irish redheads and brunettes thrown in to mix things up. The other “white” folk are more or less exotic to us (Italians, Greeks, etc) that we almost see as foreigners. Minorities, outside of the big cities (Cleveland, Cincy) are a very small segment of the population. I think my stomping grounds are like 92-95% white, according to most demographics sites I visit.
Yes, yes, so you keep saying. I am definitely enticed to get up there at some point. I’ve never really spent any time in Ohio to speak of. It’s a bit out of weekend casual driving range for me, but it’s on the radar. Are there any cool events or festivals that would make the trip especially worthwhile? One of my favorites down south is Thunder Over Louisville in KY.
Hmmmmm….
Well, we have our own Oktoberfest in German Village during the actual German Oktoberfest.
We have Cedar Point (Righteous place if you like roller coasters, beats the rest of the nation hands down)
Irish Fest is in Dublin in the summer, June I think.
Red White and Boom is good fun, in Columbus, huge fireworks event, 4th of July.
Just off the top of my head.
And chicks. Pretty much all season. Central Ohio chicks pictured below. The quality of girls here is pretty fucking epic. We just keep it hush hush so as to not attract dudes like Mystery walking in with a leopard skin suit and top hat. Because standards. Heh.
These are *not* unusual in the area. The first pic is kind of on the 8 end, but the rest are more or less normal fare.
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3532/3924599559_04ebf09704.jpg
http://coedmagazine.files.wordpress.com/2009/08/miami-ohio-cheerleader-jenna01.jpg
http://www.thesportsbank.net/core/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/osu-girls-2.png
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MKaCLvke0rI/TsmYhkgsyTI/AAAAAAAABWs/4F5OZjRZnnI/s1600/Ohio+State+girl.jpg
http://www.collegeenvy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ohio_State_University_CE10.jpg
Ah. So the secret is out on my old stomping grounds I see.
Not sure what you’d consider it, but up on campus where all the girls sunbath and pretend it’s the beach is pretty good.
Howdy, fellow Buckeye.
Near/around Mirror Lake?
It’s dangerous to drive around campus in late spring time, your neck will crane right off your body. I do like however that most people have no idea what it’s like around here, keeps things friendly and we don’t get invaded by dorks looking for hot chicks.
Nah, it’s just a big grassy area between buildings on campus. I’m surprised there aren’t more accidents driving up High St. when the weather gets nice.
Used to call the German Village home, but I’m down south now mainly for the milder winters.
Come to think of it I have a cousin who just started at OSU. Should make a trip up this summer and have her introduce me to her sorority sisters.
As a Southerner I approve of this
born and raised in the south. love it here, although if you’re an atheist like me, you may as well tell ppl that the devil himself lives at your house lol.
can’t beat the cost of living, cool ppl, the ability to hunt and fish when you want, gun laws, sec football, and lastly southern women among many other things
You live in the south as well? What state?
you’re a fellow southerner too? I knew you seemed cool for some reason haha
lived in memphis, tn for most of my life but have lived in atlanta, ga now for the past 6-7 years. where are you located chief?
I’m located between you guys….
No shit? I live right outside of Nashville!
know that i approve of your screenname “Dangerous Internet Sea Otter”
my man, a fellow tennessean too?? you know how the memphis/nashville connection goes. you’re alright in my book chief
thanks man. once upon a time I was an innocent, easy going sea otter — until that fateful day I found the internet. haven’t been the same since *sheds single tear*
Damn straight, buddy! Give me a holler if you’re ever in town and we’ll grab a drink.
damnit Al Gore….he ruined us humans when he invented the internet but now he even ruins the sea otters? I thought he cared about you creatures *cries*
no doubt my friend! I’ll prob come check out the new and improved titans at least one sunday this fall
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I wasn’t/am not an atheist, but I used to get flambéed at school for saying anything that remotely could be construed as not jiving with cookie-cutter Christianity in my youth.
oh yea, the religion angle is super strong in the south. guess they don’t call us the bible belt for no reason.
I dated a woman from Iowa briefly. She was an atheist and whenever she went back home to Iowa her mother refused to introduce her as an atheist to her church-going friends. So she told them her daughter was a Wiccan., which I find hilarious.
lmaooo man that story is crazy. like Crazy with a capital C.
I always tell ppl, if you want to know persecution and hatred over religious(technically non-religious) beliefs, just tell everyone that their god is fake. they’ll have the pitchforks and torches at your door in no time lol. the funniest part about it all is that I bet your atheist friend was mad as hell they called her a wiccan lmao.
Not really, she was very laid back and matter-of-fact about her atheism. She had two children in their early 20s, a son who was an atheist as well, and a daughter who was actually an Evangelical Christian; had found her way on her own. They all got along fine. She found the Wiccan stuff pretty funny, too.
Don’t know if her mother made up stories about her grandson’s beliefs.
nothing wrong with that, guess she was pretty settled in her beliefs. can’t say that I would get upset, but I def get a little irritated when ppl automatically think I’m a satanist because I don’t believe in theology and deities. like, hell I don’t believe in your diametrically opposed bad guy either.
all that talk of scots irish is bullshit and not accurate. Simplest way to describe them would be as British. To pretend they have any cultural relation to the celts of scotland is misleading in the extreme.
My Mum’s side is Celt, my Dad’s Saxon
On balance which side would you want in your corner in a pub fight??
……..yes, exactly
The one holding the pool cue!
Yeah, the Celt
I’m both – but lets be honest – my Saxon ancestors chased my Welsh ancestors off all the good lands. The Celts were left with the crappy corners of Britain.
The Celts were too busy killing each other
You do understand that they are mostly from Scotland and France, or were originally, right?
he said Scots Irish and that’s who im addressing. The scots Irish is a ridiculous term that refers to scottish/british colonizers of Ireland particularly Ulster. They are no more Irish than you are native american. It’s the exact same correlation. Almost everything he wrote regarding them was bullshit. You sound completely outlandish talking about France and only for I know you usually talk sense i wouldn’t give you the benefit of the doubt.
Thank you for an appreciative article about my people. I’ve apparently descended from the Potts border-reiving clan in Northumberland, England, and I have a mix of English and Scottish surnames in my genealogy going back to Colonial times. My 23andMe results also show a general British ancestry.
So you can just imagine how much it pisses me off that our elites don’t consider Albion’s Seed Americans, especially white Southerners, good enough to hold dominion in this country in the 21st Century, and they want to dispossess us with random diversity trash drawn from around the world.
I mean, seriously, when I visit my mother in Springdale, Arkansas, I don’t want to see Mexicans and Marshall Islanders as well. They have no business coming to this country to work in construction and chicken processing when white people can do those kinds of jobs. My grandmother worked in a chicken processing plant in Decatur back in the 1970’s, for example. Did Arkansas run out of hillbillies or something?
You decend from my world, bro.
Thomas Sowell wrote a book on demographics and how the white population of the southern US are decended from Celts
I really don’t see what that has to do with anything and is very childish.
My answer will reveal nothing other than my own bias.
Masochist
Depends on the girl.
Good answer
mexicans and islanders have as much right in america as any british person. If your gripe is that they are illegal thats a different story. And you don’t seem to understand what the term British means either. You say you have scottish and english blood in you as well as British. British is scotland and england its a redundant point to make.
British is England, Scotland, Wales, and technically the North of Ireland
Did i seem like i didnt know that ???
And technically being the Operative word.
Technically correct
It’s the best kind of correct
hahahahah sure it is. I much prefer reality myself but each to their own.
Only joking you.
When you factor in the crown dependencies, British is more difficult to define than quantum entanglement. I live less than 100 miles from the Isle of Mann and an army of constitutional lawyers couldn’t work out that place
good ! i knew their was something i liked about you. you don’t see the world in black and white at the least.
Good luck splitting the atom
😉
Regarding your last sentence: I think that is the point…
Manx = Gael, language descended from middle Irish like the Scots.
English = Germanic and Brythonic Celt with some Viking thrown in from Danelaw and the Normans.
Did I miss something in history class? Heh.
More legal and cultural status
Oh, I see. Well, carry on then.
You’re right. American white Christian males don’t deserve their own homelands!
I’m sorry but if that’s what you took from my post you misunderstood it.
There wouldn’t be an America without them.
I meant that I have ancestors on both sides of Anglo-Scottish border. 23andMe treats the entire island as a genomic unit, along with the neighboring island of Ireland.
Tell the Israelis that they need to let in Mexicans and Marshallese, and see how far you get.
an octopus has eight tentacles
I am a Northern Yankee of English and, paternally, Border Reiver descent, and I share advancedatheist’s sentiments, including those about religion. Speaking only for myself, this does not mean that I have contempt for Highland Scots or Irish people, whom I know to have been genocided by the false Judeo-Protestant government in London. It only means that you have to be insane to deny that the entire American civilization was built over discarded teepees and mud huts by full-blooded Europids, and we deserve an existence in Europe, North America, South Africa, Australia, and wherever else far from Europe our pre-Cultural-Marxist ancestors saw fit to settle.
well i respect the fact that at least you are aware of the english governments transgressions against the Irish and who ever else they colonized.
And i understand that you are proud of your people and heritage and culture but i despise it and I am the antithesis of a anglo saxon protestant. It warms my heart to see ye colonized by mexicans, islanders or anyone else.
Yer time is done. I’m going to sit back and enjoy watching it crumble. There most likely is no evil but the closest to it is the anglo saxon race and their pretense at civility and justice.
Though I flatly reject the leftist concept of culpability for the sins of the father in any case, my antecedents happened to have been Roman Catholic. I, however, reject all forms of Christianity, and I resent the WASP establishment of the United States for some reasons of my own; namely, how irresponsibly it handled its erstwhile political monopoly.
For one, establishment WASPs imported some ten million Negroes and instituted a slave economy which excluded lower-class whites, whom the upper-class WASP gentry sneered at as “white trash” (just like in the present mestizo-coolie economy). Also, they, like their Rothschild-hosting Protestant cousins across the pond, cheerfully permitted the immigration of what is now by far the world’s largest Jewish population; then, at best, they sat back in their clubs and stately homes while our culture went to Hades via women’s suffrage, abortion, Civil Wrongs, serial divorce and women bosses (two Protestant innovations), among others. They permitted the rot and degeneracy so long as they and their spoiled brats were insulated from it for the moment in their private schools, clubs, and networks.
Just as the selfish and irresponsible American, British, and European elites may not be saved from the cultural and demographic havoc which they wrought on their proles; just as the weak, sexually and culturally degenerate social justice warriors will be killed and subjugated by the very Muslims whose right to invade they so histrionically defend; so shall Hibernia be one of the last dominoes to fall unless the United States and its allies across the pond remain rich, strong, and white. In my country, that European stock cannot be fully Irish, Anglo, German, or Italian; Protestant, Catholic, or even Christian; but if the next eight years go right, we can help prolong and cultivate our civilization and race.
If you think the largely fictional Anglo-Saxon race to be the closest thing to evil, you have a whole other thing coming, boyo.
Some great points some erroneous points. But you are a unique man and i appreciate that even though i don’t agree with you.
It’s nothing short of ridiculous to call the anglo saxon race a myth. My people and more people around the world have suffered at their hands than any muslim. Not that i want my country islamizied. Love the use of “boyo” by the way !! wonder did you mean it to be as apt as it was.
I meant it as an apt enough closer, unless there is some nuanced pun you see. Slan.
And thats the way i took it !!!! Slan (you outdo yourself sir)
Up through the 1970’s popular culture used rednecks and hillbillies for comedic purposes, like in Al Capp’s Li’l Abner comic strip and its TV ripoff, The Beverly Hillbillies. That seems to have stopped around the time our elites decided to mainstream blacks, so instead the media started to portray poor white Southerners as ignorant, degenerate racists.
Considering the failure to integrate blacks and get them up even to the standards of white Southerners, those Southern racists might have known more about blacks than we give them credit for now.
The surest path to racism is living among blacks.
I dunno about that – living among FOB Hindus and no-English Mexicans can wear on ya just as well.
I was always told that traveling the world would open me to different peoples and cultures. Completely false, years and years of travel have only confirmed my preexisting biases.
That’s probably true, but I can speak from experience on American blacks in particular.
I grew up with prototypical conservative parents (the type we now know as cuckservative). I heard ALL MY LIFE how I should respect women, how all people (of all races) were equal and how horrible racism was, and how we should be generous to others to the point of bankruptcy.
Now I have a wife to protect in an apartment increasingly surrounded by blacks. I’m tired this morning because I was up at 2:30 last night doing a thorough shotgun sweep of our home due to suspicious noises near our windows.
It’s my third sweep thus far in May 2016.
We’re getting the fuck out in November. Hopefully going to Indiana.
I always smile when being lectured too by other white people about my “non-PC” attitude. I usually suggest that spend a year in a “vibrant” neighborhood and talk to me then. No takers yet.
Seriously! A friend of mine (who I’m hanging out with less and less) tells me I’m horrible for despising Islam.
I’ve offered a bed, a meal, and ammunition to TWO different Christian guys and their families who renounced Islam and needed help. One Ugandan and one Iranian. Horrific treatment is directed at converts away from Islam.
Meanwhile, my liberal Jewish friend thinks Muslims are great because his designer watch store employs one of them. (*It just occurred to me how anti-semetic that entirely accurate sentence appears*) Of course, he’s non-observant atheist liberal who is the “Christmas and Easter” Muslim equivalent.
Their “diversity” really is just cherry picking various brown people who share their exact beliefs.
The phenomena of white liberals lecturing others about “diversity” as they move deeper into vanilla white enclaves with high fences and security reveals the truth no matter what they lie about. I dumped all my lib/pigressive acquaintances years ago with no regrets. Unteachable and unreachable– the amount of cognitive dissonance is astounding to behold. (Their lives turned out exactly as you would expect it– heh).
Good on you for helping people out who needed it.
Forced integration is by far the worst thing to ever befall the black community. The end result is the best and the brightest abandoned the worst and the dumbest for white suburbia. Prior to that a segregated black community thrived because the best keep the worst in check – pre WWII Harlem is the best example.
Did they have legitimate gripes? Absolutely. Was Jim Crow an abomination? Yes, it was. But blacks got what they asked for and except for the elites the rest of the community has cratered. Feminist will get what they asked for and except for the elites the rest of the culture will crater.
History repeats itself in failure when politics takes supremacy over nature.
Dont forget that Malcolm X and the nation of islam was against integration. The government killed him and killed MLK once he changed his mind on integration as well. Malcolm X was wayyyyy too radical for the govt talking about doing for yourself, calling out the so called jews, telling women and men to keep strict gender roles and maintain morality (not having sex till marriage), eating clean food, not drinking, not smoking, not doing drugs, not comitting crime. The nation of islam turned career criminals into upright moral men. The FBI admits they fomented discontent in the nation and thus its followers.
You win the “best username I haven’t seen before” contest, friend.
its hard to argue with someone named “Rachel Maddow’s Testicles”
also i concur….I’ve been on the internet a long time….that name is amazing and unique
Love your internet name.
MLK was getting ready to head down the rabbit hole before he was killed.
fuck man I love your internet handle. I’m laughing so hard I’m having difficulty typing…
>> Was Jim Crow an abomination?
Jim Crow: An abomination of government.
Black response: Give us more government!
Ever notice how the Clampetts were the nicest, kindest folks who just didn’t understand (or care to understand) the crazy ways of city folk? 99% of the comedy was them pointing out how ridiculous life in the 60’s was.
Easily my favorite comedy show, past or present.
The problem wasn’t forced integration so much. The terrorism of the klan kept a lot of southerners from stating their mind, but a lot of southerners had fought alongside blacks in WWI and WWII and knew their worth as men. The problem was when “Yankees” decided to come in and start telling men that owned nothing more than their dark skinned neighbors that they were somehow holding their neighbor down. That embittered a lot of people that wouldn’t have cared as much.
The problem is exacerbated when dealing with people with a culture and good historical reasons for not trusting outsiders and especially yankees.
” a lot of Southerners had fought alongside blacks in WWI & WWII.” I don’t know where you learned that, but the US Army was segregated very heavily during both conflicts. The first integrated combat units appeared during the Korean War 1950-53. The military in fact only became de-segregated in 1947 when the War Department name was changed to the current Department of Defense.
They did end yo fighting side by side often. Whites witnessed the professionalism and skill of their comrades in arms. They were inclined to see more equality, but the klan had an absolute death grip on the political systems in the south.
Plus many southerners are very reluctant to trust an outsider at first, which I think is a good thing; this is what it takes to be tribal when the shit finally hits the fan. It would behoove anyone who does not live in the south to start making southern connections via spcial media or other means. Because when civil war does break out, it will be the south that will fight for the constitution.
Appalachian Southerners certainly love Donald Trump. They can see a fellow American nationalist in him, even if he descended from later arriving Germans and Hebridean Scots, and he spent his life in New York.
Coastal plains southerners like him too.
Any tips to break in if you are a transplant?
Find some good guys and bring a bottle of decent whiskey. You drink with us, you wrassle with us, and you become one of us.
(NOTE: mileage may vary based on community – works with my big ole Lutheran family, but wouldn’t work with some Baptists)
“Any tips to break in if you are a transplant?”
It will take some time, but just be a genuine person. Yes there are southerners who are fake, but by being genuine, you will eventually meet like-minded genuine southerners.
Thank you
You’re welcome. Good luck.
We’ve already done that and lost. The Constitution died on July 3, 1863. That is what the war was about. Winners write the history books and the North needed moral justification for what it did to the South. Was slavery a component? Yes, it was. Was it the primary reason? No. The entire South unified in the cause. Does any person with a brain think that the entire white population would endure what it did to protect the property rights of a small minority of slave owners and a dying institution?
Also, Sherman’s March is celebrated. Is was nothing more than the scorched earth policy the Nazis did to the Russians in WWII. Believe it or not, that barbarity and the horrors of Reconstruction are still remembered down here.
It Lee had been Sherman the South would still be the CSA. Instead of fighting the unnecessary 2nd day at Gettysburg if Lee had turned northeast and burned Harrisburg and then maybe Philadelphia the war would have been over by August 1st. But Lee was not a barbarian like Sherman and that is why we lost.
And let’s not forget that Sherman was one of the great practitioners of genocide in history. What he did to the Indians, he learned in Georgia.
Some say we lost the war at Chancellorsville when Jackson was killed. Jackson was the George Patton of his time and the mere mention of his name struck fear into many a Yankee heart.
History is proving the South was right.
Ewell not taking the hights on 1 July was the first mistake, but understandable as it was uncertain what was in front of him. Lee should have moved east on to DC and made the entrenched Union army persue which then Lee could have picked the ground to fight them as his advantage.
Lee was deathly ill at Gettysburg, which explains his behavior during and afterwards. Had he been well there would likely be two nations now instead of one. He was a brilliant man.
I heard he suffered a mild stroke before the battle and Jackson’s loss was something that was never replaced. Mortally wounded by one of his own sentries IIRC. Jeb Stuart left Lee blind for a few days that costed them the iniative.
I read alot, but I really enjoyed Shelby Foote’s documentaries.
*And yes. Lee was one of the greatest men in the nations history. Lincoln offered him command of the Union army at the outbreak of the Civil War, but he declined.
Having grown up in the South (Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia), it took me a while to swallow certain truths about women. Those Southern belles, no matter how beautiful, no matter how good they are at maintaining that innocent smile, ride the carousel just like any other girl. And they love taking advantage of the chivalrous men who, unless they’ve seen the red pill light, play Captain Save a Hoe and White Knight Deluxe like it’s an annual sport. That being said, I love the South and its traditions, the gorgeous women, the parties (no one else in America parties like a true southerner), and the subtle, but softly delivered jabs such as “bless your heart.”
Perhaps it is because I was in Atlanta but I did not notice any of the “innocent smile” type of attitude. Most women I saw were fake and practically a cheaper uglier version of California girls. I always thought of Atlanta girls as a poor man’s California girl, the same sense of entitlement without the stereotypical California girl looks to back it up.
TBH, I did not notice any “southern belles” when I was living in Georgia. All I noticed with bullish masculine women who walked around with a resting bitch face. The only good women in Georgia that I ran into were the black women there who were some of the classiest and most down to earth women I have ever met.
Atlanta is the worst the south has to offer. Most of/all of the problem, few of the benefits. The counterpoint to Atlanta is Charlotte; IMHO, the best the south has to offer. I’d claw my eyes out before I’d live in Atlanta, but am actually considering moving to Charlotte. Not because of the people so much (although, I’ve never been anywhere that exemplified the “true south” as much as CLT), but because it’s one of the few southern cities that has mountains.
I’ll never leave the south; but I might move 500 miles north to get into the real south. As strange as that sounds.
I have always seen Atlanta as a poor man’s Los Angeles. The fake baller culture which results in guys leasing out flashy bling to please shallow gold digging whores, so annoying. Terrible crunk rap music being played at bars and wiggers walking around in the suburbs trying to put on the tough guy act. I just see Atlanta as being this trashy mix of rap culture, redneck culture (remember, redneck does not in any way mean southern or country!), and snobby country club culture.
The only thing Atlanta has going for it in terms of game is that it has the best looking black women in the country. White women in the city are among the worst I’ve ever seen in the entire nation, ugly on both the inside and out. Tons of 5s and 6s who act like cunts and have major entitlement issues. Georgia women are the only kinds of women I’ve known who literally put their nose inside of your business and try to ruin life for the men who are just having a great time, truly devious cunts who are always looking for drama.
I’ve met some exceptions, especially from the rural parts of the state but Atlanta (especially the suburbs) has some of the most horrible people I’ve ever met. I do not think I’ve ever met a more fake and two-faced group of people in my entire life no matter where I have lived. Sometimes I wonder if it is the city where burn outs from other parts of the country end up.
@BilzerianDreamer
Same exact experience here too, I remember Tennessee being a little bit better, but not by too much. I’d also add the general business environment down there moves as slow as molasses.
Essentially, once someone has lived in any of the big cities on the West Coast, Southwest or the Northeast, ANY part of the south, in comparison, just seems like one giant “poor mans something”. Plus the population there knows you are not from the South instantly and can be real dicks about you not being born there, creating an issue out of something that is a non issue anywhere else in the country.
Which part of Atlanta were you in? I lived in the northern suburbs and traveled to just about every part of the state and met plenty of beautiful, down to earth southern women. The innocent smile mostly applies to small town, church-going girls who are really good at pretending to be innocent virgins, but once you dig deeper, you find out they’ve ridden every cock in that small town. The city girls are pretty much the same as you would find in any big city in the US.
I met several cool black women as well when I lived there. As long as they grew up right, they’re very classy and fun to be around. The ratchet ones are a nightmare though. And some of the black men get VERY possessive of black women when they start hanging around white guys. One night I was dancing with a gorgeous black girl when this black guy (who claimed to be her brother, but I think was an orbiter), kept grabbing her by the arm and pulling her off of me. Then he’d chastise her, then she’d come back and dance with me, then rinse and repeat until I finally got tired of it and moved on to another girl.
Buckhead, Brookehaven, Marietta, Johns Creek, Peachtree City, Dunwoody, and Duluth. I lived in various parts of the city and went to social gatherings in many parts of it. As for the state itself, I’ve also partied in Athens with a few friends. Generally, what I found was that a lot of the women get taken really young in the state (rare to find a hottie who is single after 22).
I found that the circles were very tight knit and there were plenty of mismatches in terms of couples. Some of the guys I saw doing well in Atlanta would be sexless virgins in most other parts of the country. As for the women themselves, I found that the quality in terms of white girls was seriously lacking compared to other states I have lived in.
The good girls I met in the state were from south GA, they seemed to be the only ones who had a soul. Atlanta girls were the fakest and as I have said before, practically an uglier version of California girls.
I think that Atlanta is the one place where people who failed in other parts of the country go to in order to re-invent themselves. The problem is that they carry their massive egos with them. Kinda like an average player who isn’t good enough to be on the Yankees but is still on the team (not starting though) going to another team. The guy is still an average player but he carries his Yankee sized ego with him to the city.
IMO, it is one of the worst big cities for guys unless they are into black girls.
A few little facts I’ve observed over the years I’ve lived here:
Kids often call adults Miss So-and-so, or Mister so-and-so. They’re not being disrespectful using your first name. It takes time to get used to.
Barbecue is not a porch appliance you cook with; it’s a way of life. Until you’ve been to a brisket cookoff, you can’t understand. Some barbecue trailers are better equipped than small restaurant kitchens. I’m not kidding.
Football as a religion extends to high school. Big time. Schools spend over $50 million on stadiums. Yes, 50 MILLION.
Guns. If you don’t like guns, don’t move to Texas – period and stop. It’s easy to imagine a defense plea for shooting someone in a rural area to be, “Cuz he needed killin’.
In rural areas, it will take time to get used to the fact that a preacher might use the word ‘peckerhead’ three or four times in a sermon, and nobody seems to notice anything odd.
And the girls are pretty, and that southern drawl is enough to make your knees wobble, but never, ever forget AWALT – period.
Some say we never really leave high school.
Here’s proof:
Awalt High School!
http://www.radwin.org/awalt/
High school? Ain’t y’all got a middle school league worth supporting?
Yes we like guns, but it’s more accurate to say we don’t fear guns because common sense tells us they’re only as bad as the person using them..
Cuz he needed killin.. gimme a fuckin break.
The Mr. and Ms. so-and-so definitely true if one or both of the parents come from Texas small towns. But don’t misread it, it’s just a way of using the casual familiar with an adult with a dose of “respect your elders” built into it..
Note, it’s usually paired with the first name e.g. Mr. John, or Ms. Katie
ROK has been seriously worshiping the south as of late, the post
about Atlanta was a complete disaster and very inaccurate. The South is no longer the south all of the conservatives are used to. Cities like
Atlanta are turning into liberal hellholes.
I see that the crowd on ROK isn’t too black friendly either, well, a lot of the deep south states are at least 50% black. Throw in the awful humidity, self-righteous religious nutjobs, and the moral police which wants to make a man feel guilty for having sex before marriage; it puzzles me why ROK is somehow supporting the Bible Belt.
The women are not that attractive on average either, highest obesity rates in the country are in that region. Then when you do run into the few hotties, they’re locked down before 25. You need to play some serious social circle game in a lot of the tight knit church communities to have a chance with any girl above an 8. Overweight guys regularly beat out Chris Hemsworth lookalikes from outside of the area because they have an “in” with the social circles there. Nowhere else in the country have I seen the game be so unfair to where a 100 overweight guy wearing Polo is doing better than a Chris Hemsworth lookalike simply because he spends so much of his time faking his love for Jesus and playing the tight knit social circle game.
Anyone who has no biases and has been around various parts of the country knows what I am saying is true. I would take most areas of the country any day over the south. Even the “conservatives” you run into down there aren’t the Trump supporter types that you guys like, most are Cruz supporters who hold dat bible high and then lie.
Usually all it takes to “fit in” around here is for one to act like one has some sense and they are welcomed into the community, except self righteous Yankees who know more about the south than the residents do.
Edited to add; Trump is a pretty popular cat around here, there is a huge sign on the side of a cotton wagon in Pitts Ga that says “Trump! Make America Great Again!
It’s takes much more than to look like Chris Hemsworth to pull a southern redneck chick. The Hemsworth looking guys tend to be sandal wearing, late sipping softies while the Polo clad fatsos have a moe familiar yet rougher edge to them in the eyes of Southern women.
“Nowhere else in the country have I seen the game be so unfair to where a 100 overweight guy wearing Polo is doing better than a Chris Hemsworth lookalike” This is all I see everywhere in the US.
The humidity is indeed unbearable, and soon I will be in a pissed off mood until fall arrives. I can travel down to the equator and it’s actually better there.
COMPLETELY agree that if you just visit here and you come away thinking the girls are attractive, there are VERY FEW thin attractive single girls. You are either looking at jailbait, or the ones that were married off prior to age 24.
“Overweight guys regularly beat out Chris Hemsworth lookalikes from outside of the area because they have an “in” with the social circles there. Nowhere else in the country have I seen the game be so unfair to where a 100 overweight guy wearing Polo is doing better than a Chris Hemsworth lookalike simply because he spends so much of his time faking his love for Jesus and playing the tight knit social circle game.”
Most accurate comment.
One of my exes introduced me to all of her friends at one point. Every single last one of her girl’s boyfriends were sloppy, obese bowtie wearing pusses who sat around and leached off their parents, all of whom were some kind of preacher/pastor/reverend/priest/minister-whatever. And all their women were 7s and up.
No game, talent, propects, or anything, but they’d been in a tight circle for their entire lives, and some of them spanning back multiple generations.
You and BilzerianDreamer make interesting points. Correct me if I’m wrong, but isn’t this one of the biggest complaints on ROK, that men are being judged on looks instead of being sought after for being a good guy/provider with sound morals?
Or do you mean that these 100 pound overweight guys are just pretending to be moral and are really just betas with no ambition or true masculinity of their own?
The answer to your question is.. these two guys above don’t know what the fuck they’re talking about. Does that help?
After a reread, I can see your assessment is purely from a PUA perspective. In that sense I suppose it’s accurate, and I suppose that’s a good thing for us southern gentlemen.
Yes, to get attention from the 7+ girls here you might have to work for it the old fashioned way, hang around for a time.. become accepted and liked by the community.. etc.. playing some pickup football with the townies is the fastest route, I’d say..
But it is very doable, and if you succeed the rewards can be great if you are looking for a young, quality woman who is not too damaged, is loyal, was raised right, has manners. Believe me there are plenty of small town Texas high school QB’s who’s sweetheart opted for some outsider after graduation. Those guys you’re talking about are no strangers to love lost. So forgive them for being protective and having PUA prevention built into their social circles..
To me it’s a credit to them. It is a competition after all.
Edit: Also, I’d probably experience the same dynamic as a southerner in Brooklyn.
Texas has my respect, I see it as its own area. The Texans are a respectable and kind people of values, true conservatives I can love.
My comment was more directed at my experience in Atlanta and talked about how most of the south might not be the good ol conservative area you’re used to.
Whenever you want to talk to someone you can’t just get right to it. You have to have polite small talk before issues are addressed. Otherwise you’re seen as rude.
Interesting point. As a lifelong southerner I’ve never understood this as I don’t like beating around the bush and get to the point as I have other things to do besides talk. Many times when I call someone as soon as they say hello I start telling them what I want and they STILL want to B.S. for a while. Many times when they call me, after a couple of minutes I usually just ask,”what do you want anyway?”
One of the most baffling examples is perhaps the southern version of saving face. Anytime you say something that falls too far outside of proper social conduct you’ll be ignored as though you never said what you said thus doing you a favor by not acknowledging it and saving you the embarrassment.
Another interesting point that I never gave much thought to but, I do that too. I always refer to calling someone out for saying something stupid as” putting them on the spot”, always thought that was rude.
A Southerner will be polite to you up to the moment he pulls the trigger.
This.
Very hospitable people. Kinda like the Arabs. And clearly both people love religion and guns. Yeah, I don’t like where this is going.
Except Arabs aren’t polite. They are pushy as hell.
Arabs are arrogant as hell, until you put them in their place, which isn’t hard at all. They’re so used to getting away with metaphorical murder that simply showing some cajones is enough to shake them to their core.
“And clearly both people love religion and guns. ”
Maybe the Southrons and Arabs should unite to kill liberals and oppose any who wants to see government having a monopoly on firearms.
Southerners are the most patient and tolerant people on the planet. The moment there is discord, we will offer what help we can, and if it gets worse from there, instead of better, we will simply abandon you to fate, knowing we tried to help. In rare cases yes, that involves a trigger. But alas, it’s usually you who’s shooting your own self in the foot.
they luv their grits?
The apple in the snake’s mouth gets me every time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PovCPDqeDjE
Fooseball is the DEVIL!
Debbil.
The Scots Irish settle in the South, to the extent they became yeoman farmers, they did not work hard. From the beginning, the demonstrated a preference for leisure over income Same phenomenon obtain in Australia, land of the ‘backward bending supply curve’ They did not have to work hard. They were able to make a comfortable subsistence living raising corn and selling it to the plantations, whose owners were making too much money on high value crops to waste their labor assets on producing much food. TAfter the war, stuck in a low productivity economy, the former yeoman farmers didn’t work hard because it hardly payed.
The 1920s were a bad time for farmers there even as the industrial sector in the rest of the country boomed. Post WW2, as the South finally began to recover from the double whammy of Reconstruction and Depression, and business relocated down there – mostly for lower electricity and labor costs (thank you TVA), they became as productive as any one else. Additionally, the exodus of low-educated, low skill Negro work force improved the position of the whites that remained – including the descendants of the farmers.
Born and raised in the north, I expected the south to be a hot bed of discrimination and hatred towards come-here Yankees when I moved south. Turns out the southerners are just like the northerners, only with kewl accents, and a weird liking for sweet tea and sayin’ “y’all.” People who say southerners are racist are making it up Or they don’t know any northerners, who are just as racist (speaking in generalities).
Yeah. If you’ve never been here then you can’t really pass judgement. I wouldn’t dare live anywhere else. The character and honor are unmatched, as is the landscape.
Keep in mind that also there many different factions within the South. I’m Appalachain, so the concept of bayou life is as foreign to me as to a northerner. Being from Appalachia on the TN side of the mountain, I have a unique position to take against SJW’s and “reverse” racists. We were Union in the war and we never had slaves….we were our own slaves! I know racism still happened but they cannot throw the “your ancestors did” on me. I mostly German and most migrated here after the war was over.
Yep. I hail from the Germanic Central Texas region, but was raised around bayou folk, and Appalachian folks are a bit foreign to me.
When my family came here just before the War of Southern Succession, we didn’t have anywhere near the kind of money required to own slaves. Instead, we rented land and worked odd jobs as far as two-hundred miles from the homestead to feed the wife and kids. My grandparents’ generation was the first to even finish high school, and the first to make enough money to own multi-room homes.
We don’t give a rat’s ass about slavery – it has absolutely nothing to do with us. And ain’t nobody got time for Social Justice bullshit – we have businesses to run and families to take care of.
I respect the South for being a very religious, non-PC bastion of hope for keeping America from steering to far to the left (or the insane).
I also understand and appreciate you pointing out in your article that people from the South aren’t just bunch of racist hillbillies.
Here’s my beef though.
The Southern tradition of “bless your heart” and “subtle, softly-delivered jabs” as someone here put it, always seemed really passive aggressive and kind of bitchy to me, especially if a man says it. Passive aggressiveness is for women and betas.
Same for the facade of Southern politeness. I know from my own experience in the South and people who moved down there from other parts of the country that the facade of politeness wears thin real fast.
I want to be real with people and I want them to be real with me.
As for Southern women, I’ve seen that they’re as much of a mess as women everyone else in the US. I was once slapped by a religious Southern girl for saying the name “Yahweh” randomly.
I told her what she did was disrespectful and demanded an apology.
I eventually got an apology but I was really turned off by the attitude down there that it is okay for a woman to hit a man BECAUSE CHIVALRY.
With that said, I appreciate the article expressing pride for a region long derided and mocked by the snobbish liberal cultural and political elite.
I also thank God that the South is there to continue to provide America with the balls to hold onto our gun rights and for keeping strong traditions of masculinity alive.
I was born and raised around Nashville. I used to work on Broadway right near where that pic was taken.
As the USA and the rest of the world embrace toxic multiculturalism and modernity, any unique touches of the south offered are fading away just like any vestiges of traditional culture elsewhere in the country.
Southern belles? Now they are tatted up whores that look and talk just like every other girl from every other place in the country who graduated from college. The only difference being they might actually have a southern drawl and go to church on Sundays for more attention whoring and virtue signaling.
By and large the churches are FILLED with faggots preaching weakness to men and empowerment “through christ” for women. Even before I learned about the red pill I quit going to churches because masculinity did not exist there.
Do not think for a moment that the women are any less whorish than other spots in the country. In fact the remaining traditions of polite society only exist to shield them from Real Talk.
Calling someone out for their foolishness(especially women) could possibly have you sucker punched or worse. I have been blacklisted from several social circles throughout my life simply because I don’t give a fuck about “saving face” for some white knight or some putrid slut.
I do like the countryside areas though where you’ll find more masculine men, guns and a love of freedom. The urban areas become more disgusting every day.
In conclusion the south, great as it once might of been is already dead and the carcass repeatedly ran over with a F350.
We’ve discussed this before and you’re right. Nashville is quickly becoming a liberal hellhole. The surrounding areas aren’t quite so bad but as the population explodes, so will the leftist bullshit.
Damn good town to get layed in. It’s so funny that I get asked where I’m from when I’m there. No one has an accent there anymore. It’s starting to become that way in the city I’m im now too. Transplants are loving it and most of the women transplanting are smoking hot and will eat an accent up.
Yea Nashville has something like 100 or so people move here A DAY. The traffic is turning into a place like Atlanta with all the attendant problems therein.
Nashville is the 2nd most visited destination for bachelorette parties with Vegas #1.
I wish I could feel sorry for the dudes who wife up these hewas.
Some of the shit I’ve done with and seen happen to these girls who party out of their area code is probably one of the most sobering experiences I’ve ever experienced.
I posted here that a few months back I saw an early 20s girl in a nice dress WELL before midnight, like maybe 9 oclock, just hike up her dress and piss right there in the street. This was less than a block off the main downtown drag, a VERY touristy and public area. Nasty.
But I did notice lots of friendly horny bachelorettes.
Yeah, the transplants have got some sexual history, no doubt….and if your GF is going on a bachelorette party there, just assume the worst. It’s an awesome city for tradtional straight guys. You’ve got pick of the litter since a lot of the guys are gay or at least look gay. You know, the skinny jean-shaved side-mop top-glasses-beard combo the boys love in Nashville.
But the pick of litter is dwindling. Just in the last year you can’t find a girl who isn’t tatted up and pierced.
Is this because of northern hipster liberal migration to the area??
Pretty good article. I would add 2 more:
1) The women are fat and eat unhealthy food.
2) The women are especially sarcastic and snarky.
…stemming from a time where mistrust of the government was common and the threat of wolves or Indians was real. A man had to defend his home, family, and way of life.
Perhaps feminism will rekindle neomasculinity. I mistrust my government far more than I would have mistrusted King George or any of the early American presidents. And the threat that the feminist fascist state puts on me is far more real and dangerous than a wolf or Indian (assuming I didn’t live on the frontier but in a stable city).
You forgot in the “Play Hard” section one of the biggest parts of the culture of the American South: College Football. I’m from and living in Louisiana currently, so it’s not like I’m speaking from second hand accounts. Want to experience Southern culture (food, drinking, women, celebrating superiority over others through conflict and a near religious fervor)? College Football is a good place to start. My two cents.
He does mention college football…
Wow, I’m a dumbass. My bad.
Good photos. The pitcher for tea is like that of my Grandma born in 1903. Long since passed away.
Remembering people and saying their name is crucial to America getting its identity back
And they talk like this.
Sweet tea is awesome.
Nah, it’s kind of nasty if you ask me. Hate sugar.
I have a yuuuge sweet tooth, sweet tea satisfies this. When sweetened with xylitol, it can be healthy.
Not a matter of healthy. I literally cannot stand the taste of sugar.
Fair enough!
Celts v. Germanics seems to be the impending feud among whites. Italics and Slavs do their own thing. Celts and Germanics made the modern world, we beat the shit out of each other forevermore. The cycle of life.
I’ve got both and can go back over a millenia on each side. Both are folkish and stubborn so there is no solution. I go visit family monuments or castles and always get shit until I explain my connection. I’d say the worst is when I visit this one memorial in bible belt Appalachia every seven years and the people will not accept a Yankee as being blood to one of their idols.
Oh please.
You’re both celt and germanic, Monsieur de Charette. The Germanics (Germany, England) have been your enemy for so long I think that y’all didn’t know any other until after you gave up war entirely after WW2. That you speak a Romance language is only indicative that the Romans occupied your territory for forever and a day.
I would’ve said that, although having Celtic roots, we’re more German-Latins than German-Celts apart from very Celtic regions of ours like Bretagne, and would’ve sum up cilivised world history as a competition between Latin and Germanic paradigms.
Latins hit a peak with Rome, no question. After they fell it was Celts v. Germans I think. As I understand it, what is now France was once basically chock full of Insular Celts, until the Frankish germanics came into town? Bretagne being its own unique case of English celts fleeing the island after the Saxons invaded and settling in the closest continental place they could find, Bretagne?
Yeah if I remember well, you’re right, prior to Roman invasion, we’re a celtic dominated culture, although we already have some hispanic types of people like the aquitani.
But I think we absorbed the Roman culture so well, that the arguments of the Celtic Gauls resistance must have quickly sound like those of that famous Monty Python scene.
I thought about the German vs Latin competition, for if you look at the Roman Empire vs the Franks, then Charlemagne vs the saxons, then the middle of Middle ages, in which a major conflict places the germans and english against the French and the Pope, then the wars of religion, during which a Germanic interpretation of a religion fight against a Latin interpretation of the same religion, then the Napoleonian wars, in which a mostly Roman-inspire idea of the State is trying to force itself on Germanic peoples.
Roman culture, yes. I mean peoples, as in genetic people. Charlemagne, Karl Der Gross, was German, as were the Saxons. Etc. The French wholly absorbed the Roman ways, no question, that’s where we get the absolute ruler thing from (Louis XiV), which is derived from Caesar I believe, which contrasts in a stark manner with the Anglo Saxon concept of vassalage and kingship.
Another thing Yankees don’t get about the South is that on top of the generally friendly attitudes there’s not much racial tension down here. When I (white) buy my convenience-store coffee from a black clerk, she pats my hand and addresses me as “honey” as she wishes me a nice day. No one finds this at all unusual.
Sometimes I feel as if all these ‘racial tensions” between black and white are just made up by the elite to keep our minds of more important issues. None of that where I come from as well. The 1950s are long gone.
The progressive side doesn’t even portray the 1950’s. They go all the way back to the Reconstruction era and on through to the 1920’s for the vast majority of their bread and butter propaganda. Brown v BOE was 1954 and the military was already desegregated under Truman. 1950’s tends to be a period the feminists target more so. Naturally they all form into a blob in the minds of the blobs that tend to portray these inane comparisons.
All Progressives use history as if it’s the cafeteria steam table at a Golden Coral: they pick the parts that serve a specific political end and ignore the rest. To a Prog, politics is everything and subjects such as history are only useful as tools to further their narrative and thus, their political goals. Respect for subject matter is irrelevant.
To folks like me, and I presume yourself, history is what makes us what we are and to leave great chunks of it out because it doesn’t suit a particular political myth is wrong.
At the drive-thru I go to real early some mornings the lady answers “watchuu need, baby?” over the speaker.
There were free Black Confederates, no matter what the Yanks want you to believe. And, unlike the North, we didn’t just stick them in front of the enemy cannons.
Apparently, when the US Government held a 50-year anniversary dinner, they didn’t even think to invite or prepare for the Black Confederates. I hear their brothers-in-arms gave up food and seats for them.
Hell, I didn’t personally know any folk of any color I really hated until college, when I was finally exposed to crazy feminists and racial agitators.
That happened at the 50 year Gettyburg vet re-union IIRC.
The racial tension is not a overbearing factor because most of the blacks and whites have naturally segregated. In middle communities where the two groups mesh, there is substantial tension.
The racial tension is not a overbearing factor because most of the blacks and whites have naturally segregated. In middle communities where the two groups mesh, there is substantial tension.
Met some students from Tennessee on a student trip to Europe, great people with great guns.
Pump gas in your tank first, then go inside and tell the clerk what you pumped and pay that amount. There’s an honor system there from what I recalled.
UP Michigan – drive down a long deserted highway, then come across a stand with produce and a wooden drop box. You take what produce you want and drop cash in the box, no attendant. I really like high trust cultures.
Love unspoiled UP areas. Family friend had a beautiful setup on the chain o lakes in the UP and Northern Wisconsin. Would go up there for 2 months every summer and bang heiress daughters from my catamaran. Glory Days
I suppose this is accurate. Particularly the language/manners aspect. I find it weird that people from the north or east coast don’t have some type of equivalent for manners. I was in the midwest and held the door open for a gentlemen once, just walkin into a building, and the man just stood there perplexed as all hell. I think if gestures like that confuse you, yall are screwed.
I smiled at “Although church going isn’t the only religion you’ll find in the south. There are two others: food and college football.”
God, guns and country.
Manners exist in the North. You won’t find them at TGI Fridays or Applebees like you would in the South. Bless your heart
“Bless your heart” is the phrase Southern belles learn in charm school as a polite substitute for “fuck you”.
It means, “That is unfortunate.”
If you get soaked in the rain, a lady might say, “Bless your heart,” meaning how unfortunate you look like a drowned rat.
If your wife cheated on you and took all your possessions, a person might say, “Bless your/her heart,” meaning how unfortunate your wife is a terrible person.
If a person is drug addicted and has a bad reputation, a person will say, “Bless their heart,” meaning how unfortunate it is that person chooses to live such a lifestyle.
Broken bones, housefires, confusion, and so forth bring about, “Bless your heart.” It does not mean, “Fuck you.”
It spurs from religion. It’s kind of like saying may God bless someone with a better situation, better attitude, better sense of judgement, and so forth only the religious aspect is long lost.
If a little old lady says it, that is true. If a younger female says it, she means what I said it does.
Racism exists in the South. People are either racist or they are not. Regardless, most tend not to show it unless absolutely asked. (A man might peacefully work with black folk, but would raise hell if their daughter brought a black man home to date. My high school never had had a black person graduate because, while the majority are not racist, those that are racist send death threats.)
What we don’t have in the South is ‘privilege’. Racism is called racism, it isn’t sugarcoated and perpetuated into an issue that requires a degree to solve.
In many areas, the population is mostly white. I’ve lived in areas with over 99% white people. As such, bad areas often contain white people, there are no broad ghettos containing ethnic people. Therefore, profiling is less common. The black man idling on a staircase is no less suspicious then a white man. Since the majority of crime is committed by white people, this doesn’t happen in small cities, racial profiling.
More so, it discourages crime from ethnicities as if a black man commits a crime and is described, the police only have 10 people in the whole town to question if the offender wasn’t out of state.
Poverty affects both equally, so no person will run up to a white person and say, “Check your privilege.” Every year, the local colleges get a couple city slickers who tend to do this. It doesn’t last very long, most tend to see they are speaking to people who have no experience with such things as well as companies have little reason to cater to an ethnicity that barely exists in a region.
Cities like Nashville, Knoxville, Charlotte, and Birmingham are different, they are large cities and therefore more progressive.
Fighting is common among both women and men. This will be especially noticeable upon sending one’s kids to school. It’s quite common for both men and women to fight each other over the opposite sex.
On one hand, old values like “don’t hit a woman” are well known, on the other hand, the South is the one area one can hit a woman and be less likely to have the cops called on them. If they hit you first, chances are they won’t get cops involved if you hit them. I’ve known more then enough couples who regularly beat each other up on a weekly basis. This seems to be common in the South.
The south is likely the only place that talking to a lady at a nightclub will spur aggression. She can be single even. If you approach a lady who another man has his eye on, he may threaten you whether passive aggressively or outright.
Friends between sexes is somewhat a no-no. If a girl or guy says they are taken and extend the option of friendship, be careful if you are the opposite gender. Many couples enforce their s.o. not keeping friends of the opposite sex so speaking may lead to waking up to a nasty memo one day. Often they will say, “Don’t talk to her, stay away from my woman.” Sometimes, the lady does it on purpose because they enjoy the protective feeling.
However, this also means your ‘fuck buddy’ or casual g/f may outright flip if they catch you talking to another women. I myself have been threatened by woman after they had a one night stand with my only sex partner and found out the guy was living with me. So, be careful, Southern woman can be devious. Needless to say, my partner was highly upset to find out woman were messaging me about his interactions with them as it was none of my business. He’s dealt with countless woman trying to pry his business to others for the purpose of sabotaging sexual relationships.
So watch out. Cheating and juggling woman is much harder in the South. Woman will go out of their way to sabotage a man’s relationship with other woman, dating or casual. It’s, pardon my french, shitty. That is something that I don’t think is as common up North.
If you juggle woman, be extra careful to be private about your actions in small towns.
(Oh, men will too. They will spill the beans in effort to take another man’s lady, but they tend to respect committed relationships enough not to tattle. Only casual relationships and potential one night stands are their territory.)
You have perfectly described the North albeit with a Southern tone. White Knights and aggressive betas are not uncommon. Juggling women in any smaller town is asking for pain unless you are the local alpha. I do like the whole not having friends of opposite sex that I have witnessed in the South. It prevents the beta weeds from growing and also cuts down on dudes getting friendzoned who won’t ever get the pussy but bitch and moan about it. I live in Appalachia but am not native.
In the city, an aggressive beta won’t get laid, hence the beta term. That is where you are not catching my drift.
That behaviour gets a man laid in the Deep South and the Blue Ridge area. If you witness this, don’t doubt that man likely took that girl home. In the South, aggressive male behavior is considered attractive by many. The most popular men here are really assholes; it’s very bizarre. It’s not some feminine man threatening, they are often manly country boys, alternative pretty boys with stellar physiques, and handsome jock types with plenty of money. I use the terms to illustrate men that I suppose ‘alpha’ refers to in status, looks, and/or attitude.
There are many who prefer the idea of abstaining from friendships with the other sex. However, people get angry because it is hard in practice 100% of the time.
Only quibble I’d make is that many of us consider Yankeeland a rather odd and curious place. If we ask about things “up there” there’s a good chance we’re genuinely interested.
I live in Ohio now, but I grew up in South Carolina. I’ll say this:
Upsides- Women tend to be higher quality than other regions, and will occasionally approach -you-. People dress better, even in bi lo or harris teeter. Religion is still alive. Charleston has some of the best looking women in the United States; you’ll break your neck there. The weather.
Downsides- The regional snobbery is VERY strong in white communities. If your people haven’t lived there since 1748 then you aren’t good enough. Black folks are angry all the time and you will feel it. Women are higher maintenance. The weather.
That snobbery is something I experienced at 8 years old. My clan pushed northwest after Winthrop and escaped Appalachia after the Revolution. The worst snobs were technically still vassals or indentured to my family after my great grandmother did a few old world checks. “Either you play nice or I expose your lack of honor and enforce 17th century contract on my lands”. My grand mum was a mean SOB
I’m not sure that not wanting your white daughter to marry a black dude is racist. It’s really just kind of common sense. Racism is something like, all black people are inferior humans and stupid. That’s more racist than wanting your grandkids to look like you.
Where exactly did I say anything about racism or encouraging interracial relationships?
You didn’t. I was trying to reply to another comment where my reply was applicable, but accidentally replied to your interesting comment. Sorry for the confusion.
I love living in Ohio. It is a perfect mixture of Yankee Rebel and 100% redneck peoples. The only things that bother me are the pace and decisiveness of my community coming from an elite yankee area. Eventually you learn it just doesn’t matter. The only things that matter are family and close friends. Ohio has had the most casualties of any state in every war from the civil war on DYK?
What part? I’m just north of Columbus.
Appalachian Ohio
Ah, southern Ohio. If you’re ever up and around Columbus, give me a shout, my email is in my profile.
My son moved to Columbus in January. I will be visiting him sometime this summer.
I’m from Cincinnati & spend time in South Central Ohio along the Ohio River. Many people here actually consider themselves Southerners. Several weeks ago, you may have heard about the family that was murdered, execution style in Piketon. During the funeral services, they actually had the Stars & Bars flying along side Old Glory. Although, poverty stricken, this part of Ohio still retains much of its beauty & charm as it did when statehood came in 1803. Drive US 52 along the Ohio River and you’ll experience it first hand as it continues south into Kentucky. Cincinnati, on the other hand is a completely different story. Its Germanic heritage is losing out to the vestiges of multiculturalism. On the city streets you can hear Spanish being spoken while witnessing a woman wearing a full length burkha walking by with a small child. However, just some 100 miles east, a tragic incident along with the proliferation of drug use threatens to turn a peaceful way of life known for centuries in the direction of extinction.
Savannah’s like that as well. People like myself that weren’t from there had a running joke that “Who’s your daddy?” was a question on job applications since who you were related to was all that mattered there. I saw guys get jobs who were functionally retarded that would get a job merely because his family had been living there for a couple generations.
I lived in Charleston for years. You are mostly correct. I married a Charleston girl that was drop dead gorgeous. I found out later that she was also a dyed in the wool feminist bitch with a lot of mental hang ups. She was also emotionally, fiscally, and physically abusive. Her parents were just as you said as far as snobbery.
North of the 36/30 Parallel Midwest city slicker here. I’ve worked with both northerners and southerners in my field. Northerners are the college educated engineers that know every detail of the code book but are clueless about how the print meets the pavement. The southerners are the real builders/workers, they make shit happen and know what true work really means. Each have their own attributes, but I’m a simple man’s man and a southerner at heart who has more respect for one than the other.
A somewhat accurate article I suppose. Im from south carolina, charleston. the reality however is….women are just as batshit insane here and can be quite fat as well….there is of course the ever common problem of good bodies but fugly as sin faces. Im really not sure how that happens so often. the picture displayed in this article is terribly inaccurate to what you actually see. what’s worse is women will play on the “southern girl” thing because they know it is a fetish. “nothing finer than a carolina girl” or some variation of that slogan which is a spoof on “nothing finer than being carolina in the morning”. so that phrase and it’s mentality that everyone embraces gives the females down here free reign to enter bitch mode at will and God help you if you set one of these fine bitches off especially if she is black or a black/white hybrid.
your church thing is partially true….while church is big and even charleston is dubbed “the holy city” for its sheer amount of churches, the reality is these churches are largely just as beta and pussified as any other.
some white women and a large chunk of black women are some of the fattest ugliest land whales you’ll ever lay your eyes on and the fatter they are the more likely they are to be the biggest bitch you will ever come across in your entire life. in fact black women down here in general tend to have PHD’s in bitch mode. it’s like they only know how to bitch and stab you in the back. it should be noted the black/white hybrid fat landwhales are some of the most miserable sacks of shit cunty bitches you’ll find walking God’s green earth.
its completely true we will cook you dinner and kiss your ass and then kill you when you sleep. southern manners and hospitality and all. consider it our unique way of murdering you, we’ll at least spare doing it in front of the children. southern kindness you know.
also it’s south carolina…..we have cock roaches and humidity. cock roaches being our official state bug….do note our cock roaches will kick the ever loving shit out of any other breed of cock roach. so we do have that going for us.
but bad stuff aside….yes the guns are great and i do sincerely believe the south will be instrumental in saving and restoring america one day….but let’s not kid ourselves….liberalism and feminism has infected the south and it did it long ago. many of the big problems the red pill talks about still exist down here. fast food, beta churches, beta males, bitchy women, circumcision aka male genital mutilation, shitty schools, crime, drugs, etc. and contrary to popular opinion racism is still in full force with black and white neighborhoods. they are real and they do exist. straight up black and white streets and neighborhoods and that is our normal.
to the yankees? please stop coming down here. we don’t want you. you ruined new york….stop ruining the south.
others have said I am sure….freeing the slaves was a bad idea. the reason it was bad is because it took a bunch of uneducated illiterate folks and gave them freedom. these people knew how to do nothing. the south still feels the effects of this and then the KKK and then jim crow laws. the south will rise again is a very real slogan. the blacks are still pissed off at the whites for this despite having been granted every fucking opportunity in the world they still cry racism and spit out welfare babies. the two races 150 years later still cannot coexist and few white/black hybrid folks usually are worse off than the non-mixes.
my dad, one of the hardest working most honest souls i know…still can remember a time where you could call a black a negro or a nigger….and he says it with no hint of racism or hatred in him. its just the way things are.
if you are white down here….you will be a bit racist. why? because its a matter of fucking survival or you can take your dumb liberal white ass down some black only streets and I’ll laugh as they break your damn knee caps just for being the wrong color.
is it racist if I as a white man tell my child don’t go down that street theyll kill you because you arent black?
you cant apply philosophy to the south. I’ve had many liberal professors when i was in school in Utah tell me how racism is done away….they literally cannot respond to my story i just wrote in this post.
the song simple man sums up the south nicely.
Enjoyed your comment. I’ve spent a great deal of time in The Palmetto State. Charleston is a great city. I’m surprised this article didn’t really hit on the importance of “lineage” in the South.
thanks.
me thinks it is really hard to understand the importance of lineage and race unless you’ve grown up here. you won’t catch it through a passing glance of even a few years. you’ll only get it by going to the schools, talking to the old people you are related too and actually knowing the streets because southern hospitality tends to mask a lot of the shit to foreign folks.
in fact living in Utah to go to school for a few years….I had kind of pushed the southern racism a little more out of my brain as Utah is basically all white….when i was driving back to south carolina and stopped in Georgia somewhere for gas….It didnt dawn on me right then cause i was just out of it and tired from cross country traveling….but a white guy in the gas station gave me a quiet “I had to come to this one right???” and it took me a minute after i left to realize he was referring to the fact we were the only 2 white men out of like 40 blacks in the gas station. you just won’t see that if you only pass through the south and you wont get it unless you’ve lived down here from birth.
“is it racist if I as a white man tell my child don’t go down that street theyll kill you because you arent black?”
Apparently you’ve been to the “historic” district of Savannah as well. There’s a specific reason the trolley tours outline areas where you are absolutely NOT to go. But, you know…we’re racist if we point that out.
Yep, the South is the best!
So please stay away! Thanks 🙂
Florida especially is in dire need of Yankee repellent.
As a native Floridian, I can vouch for this 100%.
Good article. As a non-American I always felt more of a connection with the South than other parts of America. It’s probably an Aussie thing.. the Scots/Irish “larrikan” culture (as we call it) resonates, especially when it comes to sport and food/drink. Although sadly PC naziism is slowly taking over, and urban Aussies have more in common with Californians these days.
But the thing I’ll remember most about this article.. is wanting to give that dang squirrel a big scratch on the tummy =D
Like to see that people see the south like the last resort or real american heritage.
Actually I consider what used to be called the “old West” as more in line with real American heritage. They are not burdened with the awful “civil war guilt” that most in the South are and don’t spend their time trying to prove that they are “not racist”. They simply go about life doing hard work and not complaining. Wyoming girls can be *fucking hot*. I’m into the cowboy hat wearing girls though so ymmv.
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Most southerners who are carrying civil war guilt and are bending over backwards to prove they aren’t racist are also urban southerners.
That sir I will have to take your word on. I don’t frequent the south much, outside of Florida, which doesn’t seem to count much as it’s infested with northerners, heh.
All I know is that I love the “old West”, and can’t wait to ditch Ohio for Wyoming or Montana in a few years.
If I were going somewhere else I would be going there too. Always thought Montana would be nice if it wernt so damn cold.
Florida is a northern state now.
I lived in Florida most of my life, I can tell you that is absolutely true. My mother is from an “old Florida” family, but as a general rule Florida might just as well be called South New York.
What gets me about all the New Yawkahs there is how they honk on incessantly about how much better things are in New York. I’ve actually told a couple of them on more than one occasion “Then go back up there if it’s so awful here”, but they don’t notice and keep quacking as is their wont.
It’s basically hedonism. They think it’s better because there’s more debauchery( sorry, “culture”).
Reality is just a matter of preference. Do you like space and quiet or hustle and bustle? That and career. If you work in finance NYC, biglaw, or a couple other “ivy league” jobs is usually the best place to start a career, but in other jobs it would be horrible to live in.
I’ve said “go back” too, I must smile too much because they don’t take my point seriously.
Oh… You forgot another thing.. To the Southerner the Civil War is only a ceasefire ?? Damn Yankee !
Living in Knoxville is as far from the American mainstream as you can get and still live in a city. There’s also a very low percentage of pretty women… and most of them are transplants from other areas.
Eat hard. Weigh 400 lbs hard.
Amen, brother, praise the Lord and pass the biscuits! The US in general is paradise for chubby chasers, but the Southeast is heaven itself. Yet another reason I’m so grateful for being born here.
Heard good things about TN, and I enjoyed living in NC. GA, on the other hand, can die in a fire. I don’t care if I never go back to that shithole. All the negative stereotypes you see/hear about southerners can actually be experienced there.
Tennessee is great, but avoid Memphis, and be wary of Nashville. Also, Nashville spreads itself out like an octopus or Cthulu, and driving into town can be an all-day affair. There were times I’d get stuck out on the interstate around midnight and traffic was so thick you could get out and walk around without a problem. South Carolina is pretty good as well, And like you, I’d pass on GA.
I like South Carolina also. I’ve been to Charleston, Hilton Head, and I think it’s called Isle of Pearls (?), and had a good time at each of those.
Are you talking about all of Georgia or Atlanta? I’ve met hospitable and genuinely nice Georgians— they didn’t openly discuss their political views which means they were probably right leaning and therefore great Americans in my book:-)
I’m actually just going off personality, and I haven’t had a lot of great experiences with Atlanta or Savannah. I hate saying that because a lot of people I’ve met there are right leaning like myself, but they were largely some of the nastiest people I’ve ever met.
For all the trash talk about the south one thing I have noticed is; most every modern society problem that is mentioned on here such as feminism, progressivism,leftism,gun gun control, big government etc, NONE of that shit originated in the south it all came from the north or the far west.
Not that the south isn’t over run now with that foolishness like every where else.
More specifically, the north east, as in New England and the surrounding area. Those people are serious control freaks to the nth degree.
I still find it hard to believe the people of Vermont, a state with almost zero gun control elected a moron like Bernie Sanders the mad socialist as a senator.
One visit there would explain it. They don’t have gun control because basically they’re all too wacked out and lazy to bother with it. If they had even an ounce of ambition they’d clamp down, hard. They are all far leftist loons up there.
Just because they like guns doesn’t mean they don’t like Universal Health care…
After re-reading my post I had to change it as that really didn’t come out sounding the way I wanted. As a matter of fact I envy Vermonts permissive gun control and the fact they have one of the lowest crime rates in the country. Although the hippy trust fund vibe they are beginning to have along with having Bernie the mad socialist as a senator tends to give one a somewhat bad impression.
“That place is overrun with mouth foaming leftist liberals who hate guns” 45% of the population owns a gun in Vermont. That is a gun ownership rate 50% higher than than the United States as a whole.
“their forebears were smart enough to write it in the state constitution and made it very hard to change” Write what in?
“and as Mr Jefferson pointed out they are serious control freaks who long ago forgot what self reliance is.” Who? Vermonters? Liberals?
That’s right, liberals who live in Vermont, the same ones who elected Bernie the mad socialist as a senator. I suspect that over time Vermont has been occupied by people from other areas with leftist views that will eventually ruin the place. We have the same problem in Georgia that started in the Atlanta area and is now starting to infect the rest of the state.
That the people have a right to bear arms for for the defense of themselves and the State-Vermont constitution, I’m guessing they made it hard to change or that would be gone by now?
“That’s right, liberals who live in Vermont, the same ones who elected Bernie the mad socialist as a senator.” Apparently.
“That the people have a right to bear arms for for the defense of themselves and the State-Vermont constitution, I’m guessing they made it hard to change or that would be gone by now?” Based off that Gun ownership rate, which is WAY above average, it would be nearly impossible to change.
During the 60s/ 70s, there was a socialist equivalent of the Free State Project that wanted all the socialists to move into Vermont and establish a base, and branch out from there. Bernie Sanders, a native New Yorker, was a “pioneer” of this movement and set up there.
There’s a strong Republic of Vermont secessionist movement, and they scoff at Southerners for trying to do the same thing. The R of V people somehow think they’ll make a modern nation-state out of dot.com start-ups and organic farmers.
I read a book written by an organic farmer from Vermont named Andy Lee. How he does things is very interesting but, he definitely gives off a strange hippy vibe that’s not generally found among farmers in my area.
I was unaware of a secessionist movement there, the secessionist movement in the south is nothing like the media would have one believe, no one takes that stuff very seriously, at least in the Deep South.
The people of Vermont are some of the hardest working, hardscrabble people there are. You have no idea what you are talking about.
Progressivism originated in the North, I would say Massachusetts and Harvard starting with William James and other German-educated intellectuals. But one of the worst Progressives of the 20th century was a son of the South: Woodrow Wilson. After him we were invaded by the cultural Marxists of the Frankfurt Institute, on the run from Hitler and welcomed into Columbia University, where they repaid their host country by systematically attacking its culture and saddling us with most of the PC and SJW crap we are hip deep in these days.
So … all “yankees” are liberal atheists and all “southerners” are right-wing, Bible-totin’, gun-packin’, double-negative usin’, Confederate flag flyin’, tobacco chewin’, pick-up truck drivin’, sweet tea drinkin’, K-mart-shoppin’, “y’all” sayin’, passive-aggressive “friendly” down-to-earth people.
I blame the humidity.
Is that the squirrel from No You Shut Up?
The first and most impressionable thing you experience when going South is the respect that Southerners show for EVERYONE. This is true for southerners of all ages. It is a pleasure to visit. Hope to retire there if I am fortunate enough. I’ve just about had my fill of Chicago.
My parents lived in Chicago for a couple of years in the 50s when my father was in the army. He used to say they had two seasons in Chicago; winter and the Fourth of July.
Good article. The South is Dixie, the CSA, our home and God’s own country. Our national anthem is Dixie. Sweet tea the national drink, although coffee is close. The battle flag is dear to our hearts, as are our ancestors.
The two main lines are Scots-Irish and German, with some English. I’ve never seen anyone knock any of these. Mutual respect is big, and honoring “your people”, especially those who fought and died for the South.
Yankees, especially damn Yankees, are not liked and will never be liked unless and until such time as they become naturalized Southerners by adopting our honor and creeds and behave like a Southerner.
Question to you, and all reading it, what if you are an American with families who fought on both sides? Both grandfathers told me a few stories, but I was far removed from what they were talking about until I got older.
I have that situation myself. As the South was and is right in her battle against federal tyranny, you can honor your yankee ancestor if you choose, realizing that he must have been ignorant of the larger issue. Otherwise he, like many other Northerners, would have fought for the South as well.
The Southern ancestor(s) is to be honored as one upholding true Constitutional values, which the Confederate States stood for, as well as fighting a just war (which the North was not), fighting for his home, family and his State against invading foreign armies who destroyed our land and cities, raped our women, and stole everything they could get their hands on.
Funny how many yankees are up there dominating your political process: Trump, Bill O’Reilly, Hannity.
Trump is really far more Southern in his ideas than Yankee, though he be from the North.
His family values alone show that he is more Southern. The North is a wasteland for family. So I for one, do not hesitate to call him a naturalized Southerner.
Other Southerners must agree as we were the first to fill the stadiums for him and to launch him toward the nomination.
Why do today what you can do tomorrow? That’s the south. Yes…they are more laid back (which is good) BUT it’s only because they are lazy.
Most healthy cultures are the same; the Catholic culture is likewise to feast and fast in due season, honor God and cultivate virtue. Lively music and cheerful customs, plenty of food and beautiful services mark special occasions. Lots of prayer and fasting, and hard work, mark the regular times. It’s really this Puritan strain that turns everything dull and grey and joyless. God save us from it!
I’m ready to move.
This reminds me of a great NY Times article last week on Texas. Texas throughout American history has gotten a lot of attention nationally and even globally for a variety of reasons. However, Texas unique history really distinguishes it from other former states of the confederacy and many here has some common southern traits but DON’T view it as really similar.
Well,Southerners also enslaved folk like my great-grandparents (and MILLIONS of other African Americans,raped black women,lynched black men for LOOKING at white women,legally segregated us into the worst areas and the worst,lowest-paying,most menial jobs,and of course,denied us the franchise until about a half-century ago.
Should “Chump’s” “Re-Thuglicans” win the White House,they’ll attempt to rescins blacks’,women’s,LGBT,youth,labourers’ and other non-WEALTHY WASP MALES’ rights!!!!!
Baloney…there is plenty of evidence out there about the true number of Southern “lynchings”, and it barely reaches into the couple thousand range. And most of those were blacks that were criminals.
Also, there were plenty of whites lynched as well. Just like the Holocaust, it’s proven to be a big, exaggerated myth.
“Well, I hope Neil Young will remember
A Southern man don’t need him around anyhow…”
Skynyrdville, checking in.
DUUUUUUUVALLLLLL!
Having been the worst kind of Yankee, one that moved South, stayed, and married a local girl, Southerners will be very polite and social with you but you will always be an outsider. Unless your grandfather and their grandfather went to kindergarten together you will always be an other; never a friend. I lived there for a few decades and this is how it is. My first ex-wife and second wife were southern women. The first was a gorgeous bitch and the second an average looking sweet heart. The parents of the first wife were dead set against the marriage and did everything to undermine it from the start. Her father said, “He may be a Yankee, but I guess it could be worse, he could be a nigger.” Don’t think that the smiling faces mean you are in anyway accepted in society in the South.
Yeah, you’ll never be a considered a southerner if you’re not from here or can go back in your family tree and point to someone who lived here (my uncle has been here a good 35, maybe 40, years and still doesn’t count), but you can still make friends, date, and get into the social circles without much trouble.
Just have to adopt some southern ways and not do the typical northerner thing of saying it’s better up there than it is here.
I guess I’m on a bit different path than you are with the wife and kids thing as I see it from a dating perspective. Worst case you find another transplant or bring a wife with you.
Yes as others have said the women are no less slutty than other areas and there is a problem with obesity, but you still have some men’s men here, upheld values, milder winters, and attractive women who are friendly. Guys are able to “date up” without much trouble either.
Is it perfect? No. Without special issues and social ills? Certainly not, but it’s better than a number of places and unlike say Wyoming there are still enough people living in the area to make getting a date easy.
Hey guys, thanks for the warm welcome on my first article.
You had lots of good comments. Thanks.
On my end I will say a lot of stuff got left out due to length issues. Although I tried to get in things that mostly applied to the south and left out other things that aren’t unique to living here.
Left out Texas mostly because it’s just too big and should have its own article (some things still apply). Also left most of Florida out since its only southern in the smaller areas. Transplants have swarmed the cities changing the fabric forever (not that there aren’t worthwhile cities there too).
As to the changing south Nashville is probably your best bet for a place that’s good all around. Lots of talent comes out of Tennessee actually. Charlotte fits too, but I have issues with the layout. Charleston, SC is great for a smaller area if you’re into fit blondes and find Minneapolis too cold. SC as a whole is decent.
New Orleans and Richmond have talent, but I’m not sure I’d want to call either home. The Triangle’s pretty good. Louisville isn’t bad, but they’re trying to turn it into another Portland so the jury’s still out. If you’re talking GA then Athens (for girls) or the nicer parts of Savannah (for the architecture) are both better picks than Atlanta.
Liberals aren’t really the biggest issue changing the south, its Latinos legal and otherwise. And like anywhere else there are pros and cons to this.
A good way to handle the whole southern thing from a dating point of view is to set up in a central location for reasons other than the quality of women. Then you take little weekend trips to the cities and areas that have colleges.
It’s hard to go wrong sticking with college football. I’m not into racing, but NASCAR does have some stunners. Many places you don’t even have to go to church anymore if you don’t want to for meeting women.
“Honor.” Yeah, there were more honor duels in the American South than there were in all of Europe put together. Europeans turned dueling into a sham, with both sides working to save face. Americans picked up the concept of dueling for honor and got serious about the idea of killing each other. That aside, they’re pretty great people.
John,you racist,anti-Semitic liar,first of all,it’s been PROVEN 90% of the lynched African Americans were INNOCENT OF THE CRIMES (usually rape of white women) OF WHICH THEY WERE ACCUSED.Second,lynching is TERRORISM JUST AS MUCH AS ISIS,BLACK SEPTEMBER (which slew the 11 Israeli athletes in the ’72 Munich Olympics),Dylan Roof-the murderer of nine African American church goers in Charleston,S.C.,last June-Boko Harum,TIMOTHY MCVEIGH (likely one of your heroes with your “mindset”),those who killed 130 Parisians last autumn,and others who feel taking innocent lives justifies their usually nefarious ends (remember Sept.11,2001?) How about a criminal trial for
crime suspects?
Also,lynching and other hate crimes were then a way for the white power structure,with the approval of white lumpen “useful idiots” ( look in the mirror,John-Boy!!!) to sunder the white and black masses to keep them from overturning the-then feudal order of the Southern U.S.
Third,as for your stupid,horrifcally anti-Semtic Holocaust denial,as a lad here in Windsor,Ont.,my parents,sisters and I KNEW Jewish Holocaust refugees with NUMBERS TATTOED ON THEIR ARMS,ala the “branding” of prisoners by the Nazis as they were taken to concentration camps,and in the camps themselves.
Apart from this “sterling” example of 2016 humanity,it seems “Return of Kings” is increasingly infested with misanthropes who are detached from the most human emotion:COMPASSION!!!Lads,are THESE the people with whom you want to share a site,just because you believe certain aspects of male-female rules of engagement have gone awry?
John,two words (“forced integration”) told ALL I NEED TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR LIKE.”Forced integration” has ALWAYS been used by bigots to justify excluding African Americans from decent schools,jobs,etc.,TO WHICH THEY AS AMERICANS ARE ENTITLED. Your phony
hypothesis about “the best and brightest blacks’ leaving the ghetto for suburbia,leaving the dregs in the inner city” omits that MOBLIE MEMBERS OF EVERY GROUP DOES LIKEWISE.
but of course,because to you,ALL BLACKS ARE INFERIOR DESPITE BREEDING,EDUCATION AND WEALTH/INCOME,they should should remain in squalid areas to provide exemplar from their less-favoured brethren,as well as basically a separate “nation” away from the “real” (read”white”) America.Perhaps you and Little Louie Farr-a**-Clown (an avowed anti-Semite,homophobe,misogynist,and all-around sacumbag) should become buddies,because you are both HATE-FILLED POPINJAYS!!!!!!
Yeah,Lucas,I know.MUCH LESS INTELLIGENT,MUCH MORE BIGOTED,AND,OF COURSE,QUITE OFTEN FUGLY!!!!!!!!!
Yes, brave men all, but prone to an “Attack and Die” philosophy. Culloden, anyone? Franklin was probably the world’s last great Celtic charge. No accident that the only comparable event on the Union side was led by the Irish brigade, who got the furthest up Marye’s Heights. I’m glad they are on our side.