No I'm not talking about that per say. Southerners have always had this we love dixie can't ever leave, greatest place in the world, defend it til we die, attitude. Southern Pride. I've always wondered pride in what? Yeah the Confederate Flag issue is always comical.
Its a relationship they have with the land, not civil war stuff, but the land. But to me the land is ugly. Its just a bunch of low lying hills, broad leaf trees, and outside of Tennessee not much to look at in terms of scenery. I've just never 'got it' and I spent my whole life in this area, have family from this area and ties to the area. It's just utter confusion. You get pulled over in the South if you have a non dixie licence plate. Again strangeness. lol
A couple of my friends from the Island who ventured down to Memphis thinking it was the place to be saw racism first hand when they befriended a black guy who showed them around town. It changed them all, they just couldn't believe what they were seeing.
That said, Sweet Tea along with Soul and Creole food of Louisiana is awesome. Plus I always laugh when I take a bunch of friends on a trip who aren't used to Southern culture and look at me with puzzled stairs when I'm eating biscuits and gravy for breakfast at the hotel. lol
