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Originally Posted by JMintzer
Well, we are the "Red Headed Step Child"...
The north considers up "dumb southerners" and the south considers us "Yankees"...
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I am not for a minute insinuating that the author of the post quoted buys into them, but I think that those are stereotypes with little basis in fact. But how many of us just accept it as fact, and in so doing merely perpetuate the stereotypes? And even worse, how many of us use the stereotypes to avoid interactions with "the other side"?
We're from "the North"; i.e. Yankees. But we count some of our best friends among the "dumb Southerners". One couple, as an example, owns a farm about 45 minutes from TV. As southern as you can get. But besides being a "dumb southern farmer" the husband is also a published author and despite not having any kind of engineering background has designed and implemented automated systems for his farming operation that, in my opinion, are genius-level--AND dirt-cheap. He's a great scrounger!
Stereotypes can be roadblocks.