The difference between me and (white) Southerners is that they fear confrontation and I do not.
(All you Confederates are bound to lose, and you know it. I realize this is a cheap shot but it’s just so easy, I cannot resist.)
The reason they fear confrontation and I do not, is that they are utterly dishonest, lying, conniving bastards and I am not.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
Thanks for the warning! I’m going to meet my oldest daughter’s boyfriend’s family in Vancouver at the end of May and they’re from the mountains in the west part of North Carolina.
Hmmmm…. seems like a mass generalization to me…. are you speaking specifically of actual Confederates? As in, people who still wave Confederate flags, carry racist beliefs, act accordingly, etc? Because, as a Northerner recently transplanted to the South in New Orleans for the past 6+ years, I have found, frankly, that Southerners here are actually friendlier on a general daily acquaintance basis…. meaning, they are more likely to say hello first, even if they don’t know you. I have experience this from all ethnicities here. I find Northerners tend to be more preoccupied with where they are going and/or more afraid to speak to someone they don’t know taht they meet on the street… unless of course, by “confrontation” you mean actually directly challenging someone on a specific issue…? I find Southerners here to be st in their ways, but that goes for those that are not “Confederates” as well… folks that just roll with the tide, won’t be rushed, can’t be rushed, and EXPECT that everyone greets on the street, etc… just ingrained lifestyle in general, I’ve observed this from most folks and most ethnicities here… how long ago did you move here?
Ah – on specifics here – I’m not terribly familiar with the north. I know the stereotype is that people there don’t say hello, but they do to me. I have only visited, though.
In the second paragraph I am being arch and riffing on an old Guthrie song, it’s a throwaway line and that is why it is in parentheses.
I’m not talking here about superficial habits, what people are like on the street and so on. See the post itself, and see below.
Shifty eyed creeps.
Good one, Hattie!
NG that sounds actually sort of Appalachian and potentially sweet.
Jocelynne, thanks for coming by! In LA since the 80s and I work here and have a lot of civic ties and political activities. I also have a copy of my family’s 1837 deed to their land in Mississippi, and I have major southern cred going back to the 17th century. Otherwise I’m mostly Mexican, not a person from the northern U.S.
Rural Louisiana is about the most authoritarian society I’ve lived in and my background includes Franco’s Spain and northern Brazil. The post, if I developed it, would be about feigned mildness and fear of confrontation as mask for iron fisted authoritarianism, corrupton and so on. Look at the first sentence – that is what is about and that is what I mean.
…here’s an example – the Jindalesque behavior.
Don’t know what to say but today I visited the Nativity Church in Bethelem. It is ran by catholic orthodox priests who first of all ordered us to uncross our legs in a very rude way. Then two of them started talking loud so much so that we could not hear our instructor. I said: ssssshhhhhhhh and a young priest shouted me: GO, GO…. I said: Thank you very much and I left.
I don’t need to visit churches ran by rude, machists, fundamentalists people. Even if the Holy Spirit were in there, I would certainly be more than happy to leave.
Traveler, how did you get to Bethlehem so fast?! Weren’t you in South America just a couple of days ago???
Simple. I am a fast traveler!