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Latina_wi
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Username: Latina_wi
Post Number: 352
Registered: 08-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 12:59 pm: | 
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This question has been bothering me for some time and I think this is the best place to get it answered.
I have been to America many times and often over long periods. However, I personally don't believe that I have been there long enough to witness the supposed differences between the 'north and south'.
I have been to both the north and southern areas of America. But is 'southern hospitality' a reality? Are they really more old fashioned down south? And are they actually a lot more ruder, feistier and forward thinking up north?
And where does that leave the midwest?!
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Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4708
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 01:19 pm: |
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Different areas are different, it is true. Some places are fast paced and some are very laid back. And people tend to behave differently in different cities. But my own experience has always been that if I treat others in a cordial manner, they tend to recriprocate regardless of location, and most people are really very nice 
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4342
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, May 08, 2007 - 01:26 pm: |
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For the most part it is true. It is less true in the more urban areas in each part of the city, but more so in the small towns and rural areas.
People in the south tend to be more friendly and hospitable. They also tend to be more suspicious of outsiders and more violent. The more pronounced "Northern" behavior is on the East Coast, especially in the corridor stretching from Boston to Washington DC.
On the whole people from the Eastern Seaboard are more tolerant and cosmopolitan. On the other hand some of the most racist areas in the nation are in South Boston.
The Midwest. The Midwest is very big. That takes in a lot of area. That is Chicago, where they can be more Northern, and St. Louis, which is really part of the South though they try to go for midwestern, and lots of parts in between.
I would say that though you might make generalizations it is very difficult to type people by location. For instance Columbia Missouri is a college town. On the campus it is more liberal. In the town and surrounding it is not.
Then it depends upon the ethnic background. Jews in these areas are more cosmopolitan. I'd say Germans are not--
But you get some Southern Jews whose views are reactionary and some liberal Germans that are not. |
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