<p>Hello!</p>
<p>I`m a student of geography from Slovenia, Europe. This semester I am working on the problem of humangeographical aspects of Deep South at the subject Geography of North America.</p>
<p>I have one request for you...Could you write down few associations of your ideas about the word SOUTH. </p>
<p>The results of this "poll" would be very interesting for my case study, so help me! :)</p>
<p>Just one another thing. Could you also write down in which US state do you live or you were born?</p>
<p>thanks in advance,</p>
<p>Freigeist;)</p>
<p>dirty, drawl, fried chicken, incest, sweet potato pie, hospitality...I live in Florida</p>
<p>Thanks a lot. Interesting. What about others?</p>
<p>football, humid, fried chicken, white superiority, old school, football again, booze, heat from Illinois</p>
<p>home, slow-paced, friendly, hospitable, hot</p>
<p>All of the above+stupid people+gun toting southern baptists+women are treated like crap.....NY, CA, then NY again.</p>
<p>polite, football, civil rights, dirt roads, hot, middle of nowhere, racism, crazy christians, confederate flags. </p>
<p>I'm from the south, Alabama.</p>
<p>My suspicions were correct, more or less :)... for people from North, but not for Southern people. Just few of you connected it with friendliness or hospitality...but othewise you wrote down mostly negative characteristics. How so? Don<code>t you think your answers are a little bit stereotypic?
Why am I asking? Couse in books and articles, etc. available in Europe everybody talks about Sunbelt, rapid economic growth, biomedical research institutions, aerospace industry, Walt Disney Worlds (don</code>t smile :)). What` s the truth?</p>
<p>Redneck and banjo. And yes, these are in fact based on stereotypes. </p>
<p>I'm sure most people just list these words due to the existing stereotypes, but there are certainly many positive aspects about the south.</p>
<p>Most people think we're all crazy southern baptist racist gun toting *******s, but that's just the very small but very loud minority.</p>
<p>i think that stereotype encompasses a larger portion than a minority in many areas...the reason is that people won't move to the area or the "normal" ones moved out...add obesity too as mississippi is the fattest state</p>
<p>"the reason is that people won't move to the area or the "normal" ones moved out"</p>
<p>Oh, come on! Black middle class moves to the south once again...probably to the metropolitan areas...but they move back</p>
<p>i think of a map with an arrow pointing south. im from NY</p>