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In reply to the discussion: 5 Reasons to Stop Talking Sh*t About People From the South and Midwest [View all]tularetom
(23,664 posts)Fortunately, my grandparents, who raised me until my parents came back from WWII, weren't two of them.
I now live in a very red part of a very blue state, and I think the percentage of dumbasses who live in my county is higher than it was in TN back in the late 40's/early 50's.
My two male cousins, both much younger than I and both well-to-do farmers there, are conservative republicans. Those boys aren't racists but they are very definitely classists. They have nothing but contempt for the tea party/redneck wing of the party who they regard as useful idiots who can be manipulated into voting for lower taxes for the wealthy. Their sister is a full professor of European history at a public university in KY and very leftist in her views on social and economic policy.
There are stupid people everywhere and I don't think the percentages vary all that much. But IMO the problem is that the stupid people who live in the remainder of the US are just stupid but the stupid people who live in the south are really really stupid, and in a way that makes it easy to stereotype them. Probably because of all the Jesus crap they mix in with their innate stupidity.