I have an intense hatred for Atlanta stemming entirely from the fact that it takes, like, 4 hours to get around it because the traffic is hell and everyone drives 100mph and they cut you off and they just smash into each other like no big deal and it SUCKS SO BAD I HATE IT SO MUCH.

Lived in the south for 40 years....have had more hospitality in NYC than anywhere south of the Mason Dixon. Unless, hospitality means entertaining visitors with food...in that case, the south has some damn fine comfort food.

Exactly! It is only ever permissible to speak to strangers on two subjects: whether it will rain today (it will), and how the football is going. There are no other situations, short of someone literally being on fire, in which it is appropriate to bother your fellow human beings. And no conversation on either of these…

You’ll get a kick out of this. The traditional Dixie flag is the battleflag of the Army of North Virginia, not the flag. The Confederacy kept changing their actual flag because no one could come to a real consensus on what it should be. One of the iterations was the Dixie flag on a white field which they then had to…

But hey, if you’re white, straight, the Right Kind (TM) of Christian, Wealthy from Family Money Not New Money, not an outsider, and male... I bet it’s the most hospitable place on Earth.

Same. Born and raised in Georgia, live here now, wouldn’t want to live anywhere else (and I have lived many, many other places). I love the same things you love, but “Southern Pride” like this flag shit can get fucked. Goddamn I’m glad Georgia changed its flag.

Also could have done without the faux kindness the times I’ve been in SC. I did meet some genuinely lovely people. Funny, but it was the “classier” folk who tended to put on the act. I don't find it charming in the slightest. And it's not hospitable to expect your atheist guests to pray with you. :|

Bless your heart.

War of Northern Aggression #amirite

I live in the South at the moment and could not agree more. I never thought I’d say that New Yorkers are more hospitable than Atlantans, but they sure as shit are.

That man was a fucking treasure.

Wow, you actually listened for more than 10 seconds of this drivel? You’re a more patient person than I.

Yeah, GA used the official confederate flag to make an end-run around criticism (but keep the neo-confederates happy, wink wink) when they changed their flag.

“Here’s the thing. I’m a white person from the South. There are plenty of aspects of Southern culture that I am actually pretty proud of: the food, the hospitality, the (albeit superficial) kindness toward strangers and guests in your home”

Yes! The South is my home and very dear to me, but you know what? Among the things I love about it is not *that time when it fired on the US military and started a terrible, violent war in defense of slavery.* Fellow Southerners — let’s just admit, it wasn’t our *best* four years. We’ve had better.

“You know, the Confederate flag is just a symbol of States’ Rights.

Here’s the thing. I’m a white person from the South. There are plenty of aspects of Southern culture that I am actually pretty proud of: the food, the hospitality, the (albeit superficial) kindness toward strangers and guests in your home. Here’s one I’m not proud of: racism! And you know what the BIGGEST MOST OBVIOUS…

The thing that trips me out, the flag that Southern people seem so enamored with isn’t even the confederate flag (at least not the official one). The flag most people think of when they hear confederate flag is the southern rebel flag flown by a group of masked pro-slavery confederates who eventually became the KKK…

The only Confederate flag that mattered. I never get tired of that joke.