English: A Palmetto Glade Near Palatka, Florida. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
This Sunday’s article will be from a Southern perspective. Mine. I am a Southerner who has spent 20 years in self-imposed exile. The first thing I learned about living in the north, is that there are plenty of people who treat you like you are stupid as soon as they find out you are a Southerner (not all northerners, just some). It does not matter how smart you are (my IQ is over 160) they still treat you like you are stupid. The first thing I did was work hard on losing the Southern accent (I didn’t know I had one until I moved north). Then I started to pull back on everything my family, neighbors, teachers, and other adults in Palatka, Florida taught me as a child growing up in the South, just so I would “fit in” with northerners.
There is a bible verse that says something to the effect “raise your child right and they will return to it when they are older.”
Official seal of Palatka, Florida (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
That is just what Palatka did, and I am returning too it. Of course, “you can take the Southerner out of the South, but you can never take ALL of the South out of the Southerner.” So, I didn’t hide from everything, and it will be easier for me to get back to who I am.
This Sunday’s article will be what that little Southern town taught me about being a man, and what my responsibilities are as man. In other words this Sunday’s article will be about Southern Chivalry.
Sunday Morning (Photo credit: jspaw)
So, until we meet Sunday, have a chivalrous day.
Joe
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Yeah, leave your South in there! I loved going to Kentucky for 2 weeks in the summer as a kid because I came home with an accent and I loved the people there.
Scott
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Regarding how Southerners are treated by Northerners—I had once read this had something to do with accents/dialects/manner of speaking. Supposedly because some Southerners spoke more slowly than Northerners they were considered dumb. I don’t think that way (boy would I be in trouble since the majority of my ancestors were Southerners), but found it curious.
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I agree with you, I think it is the slower speech. I know of a man with a PhD who is called “Bubba” in the office because of his Southern accent (He works in the mid-west).
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Can’t wait! Altho…I’m from Detroit and I left to come to SoCal when I was 14 and I NEVER want to go back, and never have! Looking forward to your words.
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I understand your thoughts on Detroit. I grew up in Florida and will only go back for visits. Right now I’m thinking about Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Tennesse.
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