5 Reasons to Stop Talking Sh*t About People From the South and Midwest

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128. I'm from the south. And I have no intent of ever returning

It's taken me well over a decade to shed most of the toxicity of southern "culture." I think my mother was permanently damaged by it, seeing as how she spent the better part of fifty-seven years in it. This culture that embraces - imagines, if need be (it usually needs to be) - victimhood, that makes misery a self-indulgence, that feeds a sense of superiority and all together creates the notion that the world is against you because you're better than everyone else and you are owed by the world for it?

That's why the south is the way it is. That's how it's been forever. and by every indication, that's how it's going to stay. This article is a shining example of how this cultural tapeworm infests even "progressives" - really, the writer thinks someone else judges a person's human worth by how "foofy" (dog whistle much?) a restaurant they dine at? No, that's her indulgently expressing hier superiority to all us "left coast liberals" while still insisting we're the ones being rude to her. it's a long-winded "bless y'all's little hearts."

That's southern "culture" in a nutshell, and it's been killing the south for over a century.