<p>I live in the Northeast and have heard from alot of people that college students in the south don't necessarily like northerners. Is there any truth to this?</p>
<p>I’ve found that a lot of native Floridians do not like those from NY/NJ that live down here. But being a transplanted NYer, I don’t have much of an issue. Maybe it’s a sports thing. </p>
<p>…and that’s only if you consider Florida to be part of the south.</p>
<p>Uh no?</p>
<p>I know so many people who WANT to move north.</p>
<p>I’m from The Great White North (Canada) and haven’t had any problems making friends and being accepted at my southern university. I know of other students down here from New York state and MA and they’re doing fine down here too. There’s one exception I know of but he transferred back home to one of the SUNYs.</p>
<p>From what I’ve experienced, if non-southerners come down here with a good attitude, they will be accepted and treated like anyone else.</p>
<p>I’ve actually heard it the other way around. Northerners “hate” people from the south. I’m from TX, and even here on CC people assume southerners are redneck illiterate inbreds. I’ve traveled all over the country and all over the planet, and personally, I have no problem with people from the north unless they assume that of me.</p>
<p>yeah i thought it was the other way around.</p>
<p>Don’t know how it is now, but 30 years ago at the University of Virginia, there were some who didn’t care for those of us from the Washington DC area - didn’t think we were “real” Virginians. Also, I lived in Georgia and was called a “damn yankee” and was considered a northerner (I was from the Virginia suburbs of DC). It was my first introduction to the flip side of southern hospitality!</p>
<p>My sweet magnolia blossoms of the American South surely do not mind y’all Northerners attending our fine institutes of higher education and fraternizing with us locals at all, darlings.</p>
<p>I’m just playing (^_^)</p>
<p>In all seriousness I have always thought it the other way around, but that’s just me.</p>
<p>In my humble opinion- and obviously there are exceptions to this rule- when people say stuff like that, I think they’re just making excuses for the fact that they didn’t do well socially. </p>
<p>“I HAVE NO FRIENDS BECAUSE IM A YANK!” or “NO ONE LIKES ME BECAUSE THEY ASSUME I’M A REDNECK!!” are just excuses.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard of anyone making either of those excuses.<br>
There are people (from the north or south) who make assumptions of others based on their geographic location.</p>
<p>I have heard native Georgians complain that Duke was too much of Yankee school. And heard NEasterners declare Duke was too southern to even apply to. Close-minded people will complain about anyone different.</p>
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<li><p>NoVA (D.C. suburbs) is not the South. It’s the suburbs of the Bost-Wash area.</p></li>
<li><p>Nobody’s gonna murder any Northerners who come to the South as long as they are nice.</p></li>
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<p>If you come to the South, don’t be an overly blunt Yank and expect to be loved. If you go to the North, don’t act like an illiterate hillbilly and expect to be loved.</p>
<p>It has nothing to do with the fact that they dislike where you come from, it’s just there can be a personality clash. It all depends on how you deal with that.</p>
<p>I am from the north and have always wanted a southern accent. Does that help?</p>
<p>Theviolinist-LOL. Good advice for NYers and NJers.</p>
<p>I suppose charlie. If you come down here, don’t deliberately try and talk like a southerner though. If you get the accent, great, if not, well, fine. Just don’t try and get it, because then it’ll really be annoying.</p>
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<p>To me, as a Northerner, NoVA is the South. The northern part of the South, but still the South. It’s interesting how different perspectives can be based on where you live.</p>
<p>It’s all relative. When I graduated from the University of Virginia, I moved to California. They thought I was very southern/conservative. Then I moved back to Richmond for graduate school. They thought I was very liberal/a radical feminist. My thoughts/opinions didn’t change, just my location!</p>
<p>Yeah, you know, 'cause they’re still a little ****ed about that War Against Northern Aggression business…</p>
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<li><p>I’ve always wanted to know what it means when a southern calls someone a “damn Yankee”. Seriously, I don’t get it. Are there certain qualities that it would represent.</p></li>
<li><p>Northern Virginia is definitely part of the North. If we were simply splitting the East Coast into North and South, the line would be drawn just south of NOVA.</p></li>
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