Embrace it, MSH. Embrace the grievances and consider secession. You know it makes sense.
No, it doesn't. A house divided against itself cannot stand, and all that. All Americans should strive for a mutual society, in my view, and that means no secession. And as I said before, secession=racism around here.
But I think the whole "the South are inbred redneck bible thumping gun loving far-right hillbillies" attitude is pretty disgraceful. Very, very unhelpful and I can only see scenarios where, joking aside, some groups of Southerners will feel even more distant and alienated from the North. I do view the attitude some people have towards the South (you know, the ones that cringe when they hear a Southern accent) as out and out prejudice.
It's a problem. And it doesn't just stop with good ol' boys. A lot of the stereotypes the former applies to black southerners I've seen expressed by non-southerners too. There's a lot of racism that goes on in the near-uniformly white parts of the US that goes unchallenged, and not many of those are in the South.
Being a Southern progressive has long been the shittiest political position in the country. Because you get vilified from both sides.
Our day will come. If it could be done in during the Reconstruction, it can most certainly be done in 201X. We just have to crack the Southern Strategy and make sure the racism inherent to it is known by everybody. Fortunately, the Republicans seem very intensely determined to help us with undoing their political viability.
And seasons.
That's, uh....technically correct. The issue is that our seasons aren't in order. North Carolina weather is schizophrenic, and it only gets worse the further away you get from Raleigh, in either direction.
I was under the impression that being overly-religious was a stereotype of the southern states?
Irreligion is the second largest religious grouping in North Carolina at 10-15%, obviously after Christianity. This gets more complicated if you split it into its components, but we have a large and growing element of people who don't care for religion in the South. Like me.