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Serious question, and I hope that I don't offend anyone by asking, but I really want to know...
Why do some people here have a "thing" against people from the north?
When we first moved here, I told the woman at the DMV how pretty it was here and how much we liked it. She looked at my license (we are from New England) and said "it was until it was ruined by all the people moving here "from the north"." Not the warm southern welcome I was expecting...
I get that this used to be a little sleepy place and now it's not, but.... people "from the north" couldn't have moved here without the town planners approving all the building plans, the developers being allowed by the town to develop all the property, the workers building all the houses, the realtors in town selling all the land and houses, or the town officials issuing all the building permits.
It's not just people from the north that have moved here. My neighbors are from KY, GA, TN, IL, TX, CA, WA, MN and VA. So why aren't all these people told to go home too, just "Yankees"? Why is it all the "northerners" fault?
Could someone please explain what the undercurrent is behind this derisive "Yankee Go Home" sentiment?
Macalan, as a SC native, I apologize to you for what happened. That statement is rude and out of line.
There is a sense that Northerners are not as genteel as Southerners, but that clerk's rudeness shows that not to be the case.
I've lived in various places in "the North" and around the world, and having one's place of origin insulted just grates. I still remember a refugee from Nazi Germany (!) who taught me at school in "the North" and who told the class that there could be nothing worse than a Southern prison. Really?
“South Carolina is vastly different from the place I knew as a child. For the much better. ”
This. The ‘Southernness’ thing is dissolving. People are people. Nice people are better.
Emp mine...
Many natives don't want the 'Southernness' thing to dissolve, thus the push back. I don't feel anyone is fighting against change that reduces bigotry towards any race, gender, or orientation.
Many natives don't want the 'Southernness' thing to dissolve, thus the push back. I don't feel anyone is fighting against change that reduces bigotry towards any race, gender, or orientation.
There is a certainly a push to keep Charleston Southern. Losing that would remove any reason to remain. And, as noted, Southern does not equate the negative connotations some uninformed people choose to associate with it.
I am a Yankee in Dixie (Lexington and Mount Pleasant prior) since 2001. I believe the "dislike" of Yankees is that many are coming here with money to spend, especially on houses, and we are driving the economy crazy.
M1a1, I was at the Carolina Day observance last last week for the first time, maybe the most cheerful and courteous group of old codgers I’ve ever been among. I felt like on that day at least , I was accepted as one of them, such a wonderful tradition!
I am a Yankee in Dixie (Lexington and Mount Pleasant prior) since 2001. I believe the "dislike" of Yankees is that many are coming here with money to spend, especially on houses, and we are driving the economy crazy.
People from the north aren't the only ones coming here, and if the town planners or council or whoever approves these things had not approved all the sale of the land and all the new housing developments, then all the people would not be coming here.
So if there is someone to "blame" it should start with the town govt. It's on them because they opened the door.
Maybe. I personally find being called a "Yankee" derogatory and rude, and being told "Yankee Go Home" because I've echoed a comment someone else (a southerner) has made unfriendly and unnecessary, being told that "people from the north" have ruined this state or that "Yankees started the Civil War" (time for a review of history - SC attacked a federal govt facility and the PRESIDENT responded - which frankly has nothing to do with ME today).
There are plenty of people here from other states - TN, IL, KY, TX - why aren't they called names and told to go back home? Why this bias against and rudeness toward ALL northerners?
Mac
A Yankee broadly means anybody not from the original Confederate States of America especially those from states that fought against the CSA. They get confused if somebody from say Iowa is a Yankee...LOL
When someone says to me you are a Yankee, I reply yes and you are a Rebel. We usually become friends after that.
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