Hello, I hope you are doing well. Please, let me explain the topic of this thread before I get attacked.

As a person living in California, it seems as if many people (not all, of course) who are raised and live in the Southern states of the US are still ignorant when it comes to a variety of issues, even though it is approximately a century and a half since the American Civil War. I am looking for an unbiased answer to this, because I really do not know much about the south and am really interested in finding out. This will be a starting point for much more research that I will conduct on my own.

Thank you.

George_1950

That is how Master Yoda talks, ain't it?

WVHiflyer

You mean Puppet Master Cheney.....

crisluvsu731

Ok, I live in California now, but I was born and raised in Oklahoma, a few years in Texas as well. We are not ignorant!! You sit there and talk about how you don't like people who stereotype, what are you doing? If you want to research that, than do it. But you need to watch how you phrase your questions. You are sounding like the ignorant one.

21boat

My approach as to why that thought still lives on.
I personally think the biggest reason as to why the north may think the south is "ignorant" is Solely based on the fact that many southerns do talk slower.. This by no means makes them ignorant.

If you flip the coin around the south could say the north is ignorant because they talk so fast and buy doing so, seem not to think it through well and may miss things.

If anything the biggest effect of north and south is the Climate itself causing the old saying Lower Slower ( state) I work outside all the time and I couldn't imagine working that fast in a much warmer climate. Just think how hard farming in the south is compared to the north.. That alone would make the human body physically want to slow down and as the body gets tired so does the speech speed.

Not that long ago Air conditioning was non existent. So think of the 100s of years of the south dealing with the heat just to sleep and wake up still tired. The " Slower" being confused with Ignorance. I've noticed all souther states has there own pace and for many physical reasons. But thats has nothing to do with lack of intelligence. Oops I see this is an old Thread and I'm laughing. ( Tongue and cheek) I must be ignorant and I'm form the North. Or maybe we should mention the body's brains loss by aging becoming slower in thought and speech. And at times I do feel ignorant or down right scared forgetting things.

I never heard where the Doctors in the south were ignorant. Arrogant I would believe there or here in the North.