I get posts deleted for less than this. "Stereotypes"....and most everyone knows what we are talking about. I live in Mexico, when I'm not up here in the Pacific Northwest taking care of business with my wife and family, and I have to say, I've met GREAT PEOPLE from all over the USA. I love my friends from Arkansas and Texas and Georgia and Virginia; but I also recognize that when I drive through those places, I reinforce my stereotype of "the South" from the people I see and meet on the street. It's a fact of life. Hell, the same is true for people from other parts of the country. Ever fly in or out of JFK? Rude and loud seems to be the norm. But that's NYC. What would you expect? Texas? They love this shit-hole, no matter how many flies it attracks. They firmly believe they have the most blessed piece of earth under their feet. Californians....well, I won't go there; but I remember way back in the 60's, traveling around Europe; you ALWAYS knew when you met kids backpacking around from CA. We are what we are.
I wanted to find something different when I drove through the South a few years ago; but I didn't. I found what I feared, and what I feared I felt was predominant in the whole region. Maybe in the big cities it's different; but in the country and small towns, it's downright scary to me. Wyoming is scary to me. Took my latina wife into a restaurant outside of Yellowstone Park and felt like eyeballs were going to come over and throw me out and covet my wife in a heartbeat. There were enough American flags in that one restaurant to supply every government office in the country with at least one. Red neck country.
So, the video was pretty self-evident to me. But we can't say that stuff out loud, because it may offend the good people of that region that don't fit the stereotype. God bless them. I feel sorry for them. But that's their home, and they know what they've got around them. I always remember that phrase when I was growing up, "It takes all kinds..." and I guess it does. Why, I'm not real certain, but it does.
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