Topic: Are people more friendly in the south?
Jtevans's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:44 PM

I have also seen people smack their kids upside the head with their bible in the south...so I'm thinking that isn't very polite.




the parent is trying to help the child see Jesus....

Ladylid2012's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:47 PM


I have also seen people smack their kids upside the head with their bible in the south...so I'm thinking that isn't very polite.




the parent is trying to help the child see Jesus....


I think it's makes them see stars...

Jtevans's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:49 PM



I have also seen people smack their kids upside the head with their bible in the south...so I'm thinking that isn't very polite.




the parent is trying to help the child see Jesus....


I think it's makes them see stars...


and that turns them into great Astronomists

Ladylid2012's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:49 PM

smokin Come to Boston we will kick your azz & take your walletsmokin


I was in South Boston one year for Saint Patricks day...a friend of mine lived there. It was fricking scary. I thought I would get my azz kicked and wallet stolen..bunch of drunk Irishmen..laugh

TexasScoundrel's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:50 PM
I have traveled from coast to coast and border to border. The most friendly people I have found lived in New York City. They were great!

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Sat 10/31/09 02:53 PM
Absolutely not.K;let's cast aside that painting of broad strokes shall we?.I was born & raised in Mass where I have spent the majority of my life.However I've rented homes in Lorain,Ohio & Lakewood,Co. and I can tell U beyond a shadow of a doubt that this southern friendliness presumably exceeds the northern parts is nothing but a misconception.In regards to your comment of deep south I have found no difference in hospitality.I was stationed at Ft.Polk,LA for a year so I have enough experience,age & wisdom to draw from.I have been liked,disliked,accepted, & shunned equally on both sides of my beloved country.U are very young & apparently have much to learn & experience.Live,Love & Learn.Godspeed!Cy :smile:

lilott's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:59 PM

hmm, depends upon how one defines 'friendly'. They definitely seem to carry themselves with better manners... except the bigots (lol)
Bigots in the south?

Ladylid2012's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:59 PM

Absolutely not.K;let's cast aside that painting of broad strokes shall we?.I was born & raised in Mass where I have spent the majority of my life.However I've rented homes in Lorain,Ohio & Lakewood,Co. and I can tell U beyond a shadow of a doubt that this southern friendliness presumably exceeds the northern parts is nothing but a misconception.In regards to your comment of deep south I have found no difference in hospitality.I was stationed at Ft.Polk,LA for a year so I have enough experience,age & wisdom to draw from.I have been liked,disliked,accepted, & shunned equally on both sides of my beloved country.U are very young & apparently have much to learn & experience.Live,Love & Learn.Godspeed!Cy :smile:


drinker drinker

Youth..it's so well...wasted on the young!

msharmony's photo
Sat 10/31/09 02:59 PM
I guess it proves how much difference peoples personal experiences make on their opinions. I have probably traveled to 40 of the fifty states in my lifetime. for my personal experience, I honestly found manners to be a bigger deal to southerners. As far as a good slap to the head,, never did me a BIT of harm. Never expected my parents to be polite to me when I was being naughty.

PATSFAN's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:02 PM


smokin Come to Boston we will kick your azz & take your walletsmokin


I was in South Boston one year for Saint Patricks day...a friend of mine lived there. It was fricking scary. I thought I would get my azz kicked and wallet stolen..bunch of drunk Irishmen..laugh




Southie is trash but St. Patricks day is the best over there though

Ladylid2012's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:04 PM

I guess it proves how much difference peoples personal experiences make on their opinions. I have probably traveled to 40 of the fifty states in my lifetime. for my personal experience, I honestly found manners to be a bigger deal to southerners. As far as a good slap to the head,, never did me a BIT of harm. Never expected my parents to be polite to me when I was being naughty.


This particular incident I remember well was a 4 or 5 year old boy making car noises while playing with his little toy car in a laundry mat..guess he got to loud for mommy. Naughty little boy..playing and laughing so loud..
deserves a whack in the head with gods word for sure...drinker

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Sat 10/31/09 03:04 PM
Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island
Dolls by a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world

msharmony's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:05 PM


I guess it proves how much difference peoples personal experiences make on their opinions. I have probably traveled to 40 of the fifty states in my lifetime. for my personal experience, I honestly found manners to be a bigger deal to southerners. As far as a good slap to the head,, never did me a BIT of harm. Never expected my parents to be polite to me when I was being naughty.


This particular incident I remember well was a 4 or 5 year old boy making car noises while playing with his little toy car in a laundry mat..guess he got to loud for mommy. Naughty little boy..playing and laughing so loud..
deserves a whack in the head with gods word for sure...drinker

msharmony's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:05 PM
Edited by msharmony on Sat 10/31/09 03:10 PM


I guess it proves how much difference peoples personal experiences make on their opinions. I have probably traveled to 40 of the fifty states in my lifetime. for my personal experience, I honestly found manners to be a bigger deal to southerners. As far as a good slap to the head,, never did me a BIT of harm. Never expected my parents to be polite to me when I was being naughty.


This particular incident I remember well was a 4 or 5 year old boy making car noises while playing with his little toy car in a laundry mat..guess he got to loud for mommy. Naughty little boy..playing and laughing so loud..
deserves a whack in the head with gods word for sure...drinker


quite possibly other patrons of that laundromat may have disagreed. If the child had been given previous warnings and still not minding,,,seems reasonable. We were always given choices, really ended up helping me accept that principle as adult. Life is about choices and the lessons and consequences (or rewards) which result.

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Sat 10/31/09 03:06 PM

smokin Come to Boston we will kick your azz & take your walletsmokin


Damn, I :heart: Boston!! drinker

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Sat 10/31/09 03:07 PM
Hmmm, originally from Massachusetts, when we went to Louisiana we were greeted by some pulling my hair, taunting us because of our accent, spitting on my mother. How's that for hospitality? Now I know they are not all like that but that's my experience in the deep south.

msharmony's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:08 PM
Edited by msharmony on Sat 10/31/09 03:09 PM

Hmmm, originally from Massachusetts, when we went to Louisiana we were greeted by some pulling my hair, taunting us because of our accent, spitting on my mother. How's that for hospitality? Now I know they are not all like that but that's my experience in the deep south.



Well, one cant escape poor manners just because they are in the south. But my experience OVERALL is that manners is put higher up on the priorities there than other regions of the country.

Ladylid2012's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:10 PM

Well East coast girls are hip
I really dig those styles they wear
And the Southern girls with the way they talk
They knock me out when I'm down there

The Mid-West farmer's daughters really make you feel alright
And the Northern girls with the way they kiss
They keep their boyfriends warm at night

The West coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned
I dig a french bikini on Hawaii island
Dolls by a palm tree in the sand

I been all around this great big world
And I seen all kinds of girls
Yeah, but I couldn't wait to get back in the states
Back to the cutest girls in the world



I think you left out the intermountain west girls....what about us?

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Sat 10/31/09 03:10 PM
Last time I was in Alabamy, the Heart of Dixie, it was just as though the Civil War had just ended. Very strange indeed.

Jtevans's photo
Sat 10/31/09 03:10 PM

Hmmm, originally from Massachusetts, when we went to Louisiana we were greeted by some pulling my hair, taunting us because of our accent, spitting on my mother. How's that for hospitality? Now I know they are not all like that but that's my experience in the deep south.



southerners that go north get it just as bad if not worse with people saying something about our accent or calling us inbred hillbillies...etc