Why southerners hate northerners

They're our shared fingernails to the chalkboard, our collective white shoes after Labor Day. They remind us that, despite surface differences between, say, Texans and Georgians, we are virtually united when it comes to rude kids and other things we "just don't go along with. In some cases, we simply say a silent "bless your heart" and go about our business. For example, if you don't know how to make cornbread and actually put sugar in it, we'll force it down and move on.

Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Already subscribed? Log in. Forgotten your password? A night out in a northern city is frankly terrifying for southerners, because binge drinking somehow makes northerners both even more overbearingly friendly, and also significantly more likely to punch you for no reason. Is pease pudding still a thing? Poppy Logo. The insinuation here is that everyone from the South sounds the same and that you are lucky to not be cursed with that awful regional drawl.

Some southerners may take that as a compliment. Others will not. The South is full of plenty of dialects and no two people sound exactly the same. A southern accent is nothing to be ashamed of, so whether someone has one or not, this is not a welcome statement. You may have overheard someone from the South say it and made the assumption that it was a kind-hearted phrase of well-wishing, but it is usually the exact opposite.

The connotation depends on the person saying it, the situation, and the way it is said. Even if you have the purest intentions, the potential for misunderstanding is way too high to risk it. For some odd reason, there is still a common misconception mostly among the young and untraveled that there are no real cities below the Mason Dixon line. They believe that everyone walks to school, raises chickens, and has a dirt road leading up to their front porch.

That rural lifestyle still exists in some places, but the South has urban and suburban dwellers just like in every other part of the country. Despite the inflection and punctuation, the phrase "Y'all hungry?