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Originally Posted by TheAlpineOracle
I'm seeing a lot of Lousiana, Alabama, Southern US dislike in this thread, which kind of perplexes me. Some of the nicest people I have met in my life are from the South. Just completely genuine people who will go out of your way to help you.
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Southerners are good at being fake nice. When we lived in South Carolina (and even when we tell people about it now) we would often hear from others about how nice the area was and how nice the people were. The issue was that when they visited they were tourists staying in nice hotels. So all of the service industry people they interacted with were paid to be nice; their livelihood depended on making the tourists happy.
Once you actually live and work there and interact with 'regular' people in completely normal circumstances, you quickly learn that racism is still alive and well, and that if your family hasn't been in that area for generations that you aren't really welcome.
Having grown up in the midwest, I would pick them as a nicer group of people 10 times out of 10.