This is not a bash the North thread.

[djean111]

13. About 28 years ago I transferred from Illinois to North Carolina in order to keep my job.

I am originally from Philly.
The folks in Illinois actually made fun of my Philly accent.
My first day at work in NC, my cubicle mate, born in NC, told me a joke.

Why does South Carolina have more black people (he used the usual nasty word, actually) and North Carolina have more Yankees?
Because South Carolina got to pick first.
Also smugly told me, six months later, when we both applied for the same job in a different department, that I would not get the job because I was a Yankee and I was female. I got the job.

Anyway, all geographical regions have assholes.
Left NC after two years, transferred to Tampa, I did not like the politics and overt racism. Although a black woman I worked with in NC told me that at least people were open about racism in the South, up North she felt they were just sneakier about it.