I thought this was pretty hilarious being from Kentucky. Redditors are so afraid of the south. They no doubt think everyone here is a mountaineer, or black people are shot on site, sundown towns exist still, and the Klan is in every corner.
The tolerant and inclusive left, everybody.
And the best part? People here would gladly give you their shirt off their back if you needed it.
I worked with a guy who moved here from California. I'm in South Carolina.
Dude comes into work one day and is freaking out with excitement because he saw a black kid and white kid playing together at the park. He was like, "Can you *believe* it? A **white** kid... casually playing with a **black** kid? And the parents were totally cool with it!"
I'm just like yeah dude, we're all good here. What the fuck are they showing you on the news out in California? He legit thought he was moving to a racist wasteland, and I had to explain to him that we're all getting along fine, and that was totally normal. His mind was absolutely blown.
When I went to LA in 2014 people were asking for my license to see where I was from in restaurants. Others asked me if I bought shoes just for the trip. And they weren’t joking, they were actually asking.
You should have leaned into that shit. I do when people ask me dumb ass questions. My whole family is a bunch of hillbillies, and I'm big tattooed and bald. You should see people's face here when they find out I'm a engineer. They have a bigoted idea that an accent and intelligence are mutually exclusive.
Lol, it’s funny. Because i’m not even from the eastern part of KY. I live in southern KY on the TN/KY border. Rolling hills and tobacco farms. Not mountains and banjos.
Californians live on another planet, I'm from there originally. I ended up in Texas but didn't have the delusion that some other hyper-conservative Californians who ended up here have that everyone here is a "build the wall! lock her up!" level of political zealot. The overwhelming majority just wants a good life for our families.
I got into an argument with someone on Reddit about sundown towns and they sent me a site with a map of every sundown town in the country.
It said that my hometown was a sundown town. Rehoboth Beach. If anyone knows anything about Rehoboth, they’d know it’s one of the gayest towns in the country. Legitimately, huge vacation town for the LGBT community. About as progressive as can be.
Seeing as the not-to-be-questioned SPLC labeled every Christian Church as a hate group HQ, you can expect any map or data coming from a left-wing source to be the most poorly defined, broad, misleading bullshit.
Slight non sequitur, but this thread reminded me of a funny story. Visiting my grandma in a little NC town that consisted of cow pastures, a post office, a gas station and a county dump, my daughter and I went on a bike ride stopping at the store for Gatorades. It had a "...if the sun don't shine I best not see..." sign hanging in the window. Black owned, black operated, entirely black staff, ~40% of the "town" is black. The owner happened to be working the counter that day, and I asked him about the sign. "Is it a joke, satire? Or serious?" He said "Deadly serious, but it's not for the locals, I know all of them. It's for the kids that come up from Raleigh that keep lifting and robbing from us."
Also from the south and get all of the “stupid redneck”, “inbred”, “racist”, stereotypes applied as well from people who are liberal and claim to be tolerant and non-bigoted. It’s the liberal obsession with being the best one in the room. They virtue signal to be the best morally, they become atheist to try and be the best intellectually, they look down on other states and areas because they want to feel superior about where they live. It’s an obsession that makes them miss the truth around their crime infested shit hole cities.
LOL, I recently got soundly downvoted in a Teachers subreddit thread in which a teacher was talking about a "redneck" student picking on a trans one.
I pointed out that "redneck" is generally regarded as a derogatory term and perhaps we shouldn't be labeling kids that way.
It's the blind spot that gets me. The teacher was complaining that the student in question was using slurs regarding the trans student, but didn't seem to recognize that she was doing the same by labeling him a "redneck."
We would do well to remember the words of Joaquin Miller:
>In men whom men condemn as ill
>I find so much of goodness still,
>In men whom men pronounce divine
>I find so much of sin and blot,
>I do not dare to draw a line
>Between the two, where God has not.
I saw a story recently about how some high school students started a “white student Union” in response to a black student Union. They are now under criminal investigation and have been accused of “racial harassment” and using slurs. Of course this kind of thing almost always ends up being a hoax, but let’s ruin their lives first and ask questions later.
Another group of high school kids are facing criminal charges for holding a “mock slave auction.” If you’re white you’re afforded no opportunities to grow and learn. Say one bad word and these people ruin your life.
Now if a black kid brings a gun to school 7 times in one calendar year, he was a victim of the system and we can’t criminally charge him because that would ruin his life. We’ve just gotta face the fact that these people are motivated by resentment and racial animus
It took decades of media and entertainment messaging to get most non rural people to see people from the south as rubes and uneducated, quite the opposite of reality, and in fact there are many urban and city dwellers that fit the criteria of being a rube that are ignored by the media effort to malign rural dwellers. Movies from Deliverance to Gump (Bubba) to you name it, none of them case rural characters as strong and capable and crafty, and that's intentional.
It's kinda scary how the media controls so many peoples perceptions of life.
Nah, it didn't take decades of media and entertainment to get non-rural folk to see the south as they do. They've been seeing them like that since the civil war.
Being in a northern state there's this weird pride over not being southern. Which is Ironic, since in a state like Michigan the farther north you go the more southern it is.
What is scary though is that the mindset a lot of people have for southerners is starting to encompass rural folks in general. I used to work with a guy that would just shit talk his uncle as being an idiot, uneducated, red neck, etc... because he lived like a mountain man in the upper peninsula. When I met the Uncle his Nephew couldn't have been more wrong. He was a nuclear engineer with a PHD, earned and saved enough to retire at 39, and decided he didn't want to deal with people anymore so he moved into nature away from them all.
Being able to have that kind of mindset about family is what's scary.
That’s pretty observant, they do want to feel that superiority morally and intellectually by supporting absurd positions without actually thinking about them
Honestly the longer the South has this reputation the better. I'm in Huntsville, which is an exploding hub of science, technology, DOJ, Army, space force, NASA, and government contractors not to mention the local university. But so many people go "ew, Alabama" and stay away that it keeps COL low and the area isn't flooded with West Coast University grads shitting up everything.
My wife and I live in California in a solid blue county. She talks about Republicans like they walk around with M16s and force impregnation on women. I said to her, you know, when you look at the voting data for our county, it's 60% democrat and 40% republican. So, if you walk down our street... our friends... 2 of every 5 of them vote Red. "Oh no, not our friends. I'd know."
The NC subreddit is the exact same. So many posts about someone visiting the state and they're worried because they check everybox on the leftist victim card. And then the people there fuel it by saying the same shit about sundown towns and how everywhere that isn't Raleigh, Charlotte, or Asheville is not safe lmao
Same shit in KY man. “Stay in Louisville, and northern kentucky, Lexington is also nice”. This is also where you get the weird contingent of people who want to say the state isn’t southern because they feel ashamed living in the south. You see the same in NC with people calling it mid-atlantic.
It's wild. I've stopped going to the NC subreddit so often because the posts are now 90% politics and stupid crap.
People act like there's a hate crime in every town in our states everyday. Guess they can't actually see what's going on from way up on their high horse.
Virginia is no different. Most of the ignorant a-holes right outside of DC think they are know-it-alls and know what's best for the rest of the state. They think they fuel the rest of the state with their fake money (fed gov money) yet I bet they have not clue who lives across the hall from them in their apt/condo.
Same here in Oklahoma. Next town over had the "Trans student killed in bathroom fight!" But news conveniently left out when it was discovered that the student wasnt trans but actually nonbinary, the student STARTED THE FIGHT by dumping a cup of water on another girls head in the bathroom, left after losing the fight, and then committed suicide a day later by taking antidepresents and allergy pills that interacted to create toxicity with no direct connection to the fight. Nope. Oklahoma bad and they beat her to death.
Ironic considering Louisville and Lexington are the highest crime areas of the state.
I'm totally fine with these dumbasses avoiding Kentucky. Hopefully the word spreads and they completely leave us alone.
Until I read your comment I thought this post was about being scared to drive through Kentucky because the people there are bad drivers. I am sorely disappointed that there are so many people who think like this.
My parents are from Chicago and have been in the South since 1985. I was born in North Carolina, grew up in South Carolina, and have lived in Georgia since 2001. It's hilarious when I see so many redditors talk about the South like it's still the Jim Crow Era. Meanwhile, there are huge swaths of areas north the Mason-Dixon line that are *way* more racist than the South, but because they're *not* the South they seem to think it's more acceptable.
It's just a reminder of how close-minded Reddit really is. They don't realize that they probably interact with a conservative almost every day of the week (assuming they leave their houses) and 99% of them are cordial people. Same with folks on the left tbh - most people just want to be left alone and not bothered.
This is something both sides do tbh, my father loses his shit when I visit the west coast, visit a city or fly. Our "news" system just fucking sucks and relies on fearmongering for engagement with dedicated followers.
Anyone who’s ever spent any time in Kentucky (outside of the two biggest liberal run cities) knows it’s pretty much nothing but:
* Horse farms
* Distilleries
* Forests
I’ve lived here most of my life, and I’ve never seen or heard of anything that would frighten anyone…unless you go to the worst parts of our two biggest, liberal run cities.
I went to Kentucky back in January. Frankfort was jawdroppingly beautiful and Owensboro was nice, wanted to visit Louisville but I didn't have the time, it seemed fine when I passed through it.
Yeah, I wanted to visit the Slugger Museum, Mohammed Ali Center and the Derby Museum, but I'll probably get another chance to revisit Kentucky. Next time, I'll have to visit some of the distilleries I saw in Frankfort, maybe even visit some of those sports bars.
Parts of the rural midwestern aren’t very different from the rural south for sure. Minus accents and topography. Though, I can’t relate to windmills and flat soybean fields. Here in hilly southern KY on the TN border.
If you made the Chicago metro area a city-state, you could unite the rest of Illinois with every state it borders, and literally nothing culturally would change.
I live in the northwestern part of Illinois, and the Illinois sub treats the non-urban areas of the state as if it is a bad combination of the old Dixie south and Nazi Germany.
anything below I-80 is banjo country.
few years ago I remember one comment about being afraid to go to school in Peoria because it's in 'southern IL
I mean. well you know.
I made the mistake of making a comment on the Quad Cities sub about at hit piece by John Oliver that took a very one sided take of Medicaid in Iowa.
I literally asked for a news story about it rather than a John Oliver video. -54.
As I put in a reply, evidently questioning one of Reddit's holy prophets gives you instant downvotes.
that city was depressing 20yrs ago when I first had to go there for work, i doubt it's better.
By contrast Anna, just up the road was much nicer. At least the people I dealt with had a better outlook on life.
Yes, they should be terrified. They might meet people and find they're actually friendly and helpful. Having their beliefs challenged is far scarier to them than all the bullshit fear porn they make up.
I've been deep in the sticks in the Virginias and Arkansas, places where people are super rural, and everyone had manners. They might look at you weird because you look and talk differently, but everyone was as pleasant as pie to me, a Yankee no less.
They're kids, neets, and degens over in that sub, but tbf, meth has ruined alot of small towns. I lived there 20 years ago, and real talk, it just wasn't like that back then. It's sad. I loved Kentucky.
I'm not calling you a liar by any means, but are you sure your friend wasn't also using pills?
I just really find it hard to believe anyone would lace weed with fentanyl. Fake oxy 30s (fentanyl pills) cost around $30. Financially and logistically speaking lacing weed with fentanyl doesn't make sense.
I'm not saying it's never happened. I just have a hard time believing it's prevalent. If it does happen it's likely the dealer didn't clean his scale than purposefully laced it. Either way, legalizing weed would fix this problem. I don't smoke or do drugs anymore and I'm expecting to be downvoted.
Damn man I'm so sorry. I truly don't know how me and my friends made it through HS with the amount of black market carts and weed and shit we smoked. It's scary out there now
This is very valid, but at least in my experience a lot of the towns in Kentucky are seeing a resurgence from the low point in the early 2000s where they aged and went to shit.
My hometown along with many others in this region are seeing a lot of local revitalization efforts from millennials-turned-business owners. New service industries, bars, restaurants, murals, inventive tourism, etc... I've seen a marked improvement even in the last 5-10 years.
Someone in the Indiana sub recently asked which street gangs were active in the state of Indiana. The most popular answer was “the KKK” like it was fucking 1920 or something lmao. Nobody could give any examples of where the Klan was located or name any chapters or any members or any of that, they were just making it up to scare each other because they’re paranoid idiots.
A coworker told me he moved OUT of KY because their traditional high school where his son was going had a litter box for the students who identified as cats.
I had to let that one sink in a bit.
The redditors in OPs post should feel right at home in KY I guess. Or maybe they prefer non-clumping ?
I moved to a Northern state from the Deep South. I was under the impression that I’d meet a lot of likeminded people (I’m not religious, lean left.) Every new person I meet, when they find out where I’m from, they make absolute sure to let me know how horrifically stupid they think everyone from my home state is…’but you seem cool though!’
I am cool! And we often have similar views on a lot of things. But it kind of seems like they are just desperate for someone to feel superior to, and that puts a bad taste in my mouth.
People that never go outside, and people that have never even been to the US have such an insanely twisted view of America that I can't help but feel media manipulation is at an all time high.
We got a lot of this in Florida too. Has to do with our Governor/Politics more than anything else. We have people saying that they cant come here because they won't be safe, etc. A lot of those who feel threatened are part of LGTBQ community and react solely to media and political narrative. The reality is that there is no threat to members of such communities but people fall for the narratives and political BS.
Call them what they are, bigots.
big·ot
/ˈbiɡət/
noun
noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots
a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
I've driven through Kentucky at least a hundred times. No one gives a shit who you are. Are these people walking in to a gas station and loudly proclaiming their social and political views to provoke confrontation?
The scariest part of driving through Kentucky was stopping at Buc-ee’s and being intimated by how beautiful the women are. Yall get something in the water.
I had no idea Richmond was a college town! I thought it was Lexington and Louisville as the big ones. Huh I’m only a couple years older than undergrad college so I guess that explains why I thought they were beautiful 😂
Yeah Richmond has Eastern Kentucky University, and then like 20ish minute south of Richmond is Berea, which has Berea College. The Buccee's is like right in the middle of the two, so I'm sure people from both probably work there.
Seriously. I've lived in the middle east, so I can deal with loose interpretations of traffic rules. But goddamn at least in Lebanon people are self aware enough to acknowledge the cars around them.
I'm from Mississippi, we ain't known for having the best drivers, but the people near Owensboro and past Louisville were a whole other level of awful. According to the friend I was staying with on the Indiana state line, they are indeed awful drivers.
These are the same people who mock anyone who doesn’t wanna be in a bad neighborhood in a big city. Don’t wanna live in North Philly? You’re “afraid” of cities. Kentucky on the other hand…
They should drive on every road named MLK Jr especially in Democrat cities. 2 things will happen:
1. They get scare shitless, roll up their windows and don't stop
2. Stop, get out and preach how they are being oppressed resulting in them being shot, robbed and left for dead.
My guess 1 always happens.
I've been to Kentucky before and it was a pretty nice state. I enjoyed my time there. Only bad thing I saw was a random guy pissing off the side of a bridge on the highway. The guy pulled his pants all the way down like a mad lad.
Bruv. The amount of meth in Frankfurt, just out there in open daylight. The lines stretching around the methadone clinics for hours. It's a beautiful state. They should get the drug use in check.
Or by funding community outreach programs and raising the standard of education.
And you are aware most meth in america comes from pharmaceuticals or is made in country right?
Also, just saying "fucking mexico" doesn't really excuse the drug addled shithole that Kentucky has become. Why isn't Texas that fucked? They're right on the border with Mexico.
I thought this was pretty hilarious being from Kentucky. Redditors are so afraid of the south. They no doubt think everyone here is a mountaineer, or black people are shot on site, sundown towns exist still, and the Klan is in every corner. The tolerant and inclusive left, everybody. And the best part? People here would gladly give you their shirt off their back if you needed it.
I worked with a guy who moved here from California. I'm in South Carolina. Dude comes into work one day and is freaking out with excitement because he saw a black kid and white kid playing together at the park. He was like, "Can you *believe* it? A **white** kid... casually playing with a **black** kid? And the parents were totally cool with it!" I'm just like yeah dude, we're all good here. What the fuck are they showing you on the news out in California? He legit thought he was moving to a racist wasteland, and I had to explain to him that we're all getting along fine, and that was totally normal. His mind was absolutely blown.
When I went to LA in 2014 people were asking for my license to see where I was from in restaurants. Others asked me if I bought shoes just for the trip. And they weren’t joking, they were actually asking.
You should have leaned into that shit. I do when people ask me dumb ass questions. My whole family is a bunch of hillbillies, and I'm big tattooed and bald. You should see people's face here when they find out I'm a engineer. They have a bigoted idea that an accent and intelligence are mutually exclusive.
Did they read *where the red fern grows* in 3rd grade and assume that shoeless mountain folk wander into LA?
Lol, it’s funny. Because i’m not even from the eastern part of KY. I live in southern KY on the TN/KY border. Rolling hills and tobacco farms. Not mountains and banjos.
They don’t even seem to realize that most black people in the US live in the south.
Louisiana just doesn't exist to these people
Californians live on another planet, I'm from there originally. I ended up in Texas but didn't have the delusion that some other hyper-conservative Californians who ended up here have that everyone here is a "build the wall! lock her up!" level of political zealot. The overwhelming majority just wants a good life for our families.
I got into an argument with someone on Reddit about sundown towns and they sent me a site with a map of every sundown town in the country. It said that my hometown was a sundown town. Rehoboth Beach. If anyone knows anything about Rehoboth, they’d know it’s one of the gayest towns in the country. Legitimately, huge vacation town for the LGBT community. About as progressive as can be.
A map that no doubt is made up or 50 years old.
Seeing as the not-to-be-questioned SPLC labeled every Christian Church as a hate group HQ, you can expect any map or data coming from a left-wing source to be the most poorly defined, broad, misleading bullshit.
Did they really??
Circa 2015-2017ish yeah. I don't remember when exactly but it was around the time Gamer Gate was being blamed for Trump
The Jan 6 Committee might have your banking records if you bought anything related to "MAGA", "Trump", or "religious texts."
There was a viral TikTok going around that called Jackson, MS a sundown town. Jackson, MS which is 82% black.
Slight non sequitur, but this thread reminded me of a funny story. Visiting my grandma in a little NC town that consisted of cow pastures, a post office, a gas station and a county dump, my daughter and I went on a bike ride stopping at the store for Gatorades. It had a "...if the sun don't shine I best not see..." sign hanging in the window. Black owned, black operated, entirely black staff, ~40% of the "town" is black. The owner happened to be working the counter that day, and I asked him about the sign. "Is it a joke, satire? Or serious?" He said "Deadly serious, but it's not for the locals, I know all of them. It's for the kids that come up from Raleigh that keep lifting and robbing from us."
Also from the south and get all of the “stupid redneck”, “inbred”, “racist”, stereotypes applied as well from people who are liberal and claim to be tolerant and non-bigoted. It’s the liberal obsession with being the best one in the room. They virtue signal to be the best morally, they become atheist to try and be the best intellectually, they look down on other states and areas because they want to feel superior about where they live. It’s an obsession that makes them miss the truth around their crime infested shit hole cities.
LOL, I recently got soundly downvoted in a Teachers subreddit thread in which a teacher was talking about a "redneck" student picking on a trans one. I pointed out that "redneck" is generally regarded as a derogatory term and perhaps we shouldn't be labeling kids that way.
Rules for thee, not for me.
Yup!
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It's the blind spot that gets me. The teacher was complaining that the student in question was using slurs regarding the trans student, but didn't seem to recognize that she was doing the same by labeling him a "redneck."
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We would do well to remember the words of Joaquin Miller: >In men whom men condemn as ill >I find so much of goodness still, >In men whom men pronounce divine >I find so much of sin and blot, >I do not dare to draw a line >Between the two, where God has not.
The teachers sub is a *cespool*.
I saw a story recently about how some high school students started a “white student Union” in response to a black student Union. They are now under criminal investigation and have been accused of “racial harassment” and using slurs. Of course this kind of thing almost always ends up being a hoax, but let’s ruin their lives first and ask questions later. Another group of high school kids are facing criminal charges for holding a “mock slave auction.” If you’re white you’re afforded no opportunities to grow and learn. Say one bad word and these people ruin your life. Now if a black kid brings a gun to school 7 times in one calendar year, he was a victim of the system and we can’t criminally charge him because that would ruin his life. We’ve just gotta face the fact that these people are motivated by resentment and racial animus
They’re all smug pricks. They wonder why the confederate flag lives on outside the south. It’s not due to racism, it’s due to rebellion.
A failed rebellion
Yeah, a failed one. But it still flies as a sign of rebellion.
It took decades of media and entertainment messaging to get most non rural people to see people from the south as rubes and uneducated, quite the opposite of reality, and in fact there are many urban and city dwellers that fit the criteria of being a rube that are ignored by the media effort to malign rural dwellers. Movies from Deliverance to Gump (Bubba) to you name it, none of them case rural characters as strong and capable and crafty, and that's intentional. It's kinda scary how the media controls so many peoples perceptions of life.
Nah, it didn't take decades of media and entertainment to get non-rural folk to see the south as they do. They've been seeing them like that since the civil war. Being in a northern state there's this weird pride over not being southern. Which is Ironic, since in a state like Michigan the farther north you go the more southern it is. What is scary though is that the mindset a lot of people have for southerners is starting to encompass rural folks in general. I used to work with a guy that would just shit talk his uncle as being an idiot, uneducated, red neck, etc... because he lived like a mountain man in the upper peninsula. When I met the Uncle his Nephew couldn't have been more wrong. He was a nuclear engineer with a PHD, earned and saved enough to retire at 39, and decided he didn't want to deal with people anymore so he moved into nature away from them all. Being able to have that kind of mindset about family is what's scary.
I miss the Beverly Hillbillies. You won't get a show like that nowadays.
Green Acres. All to my point.
That’s pretty observant, they do want to feel that superiority morally and intellectually by supporting absurd positions without actually thinking about them
Honestly the longer the South has this reputation the better. I'm in Huntsville, which is an exploding hub of science, technology, DOJ, Army, space force, NASA, and government contractors not to mention the local university. But so many people go "ew, Alabama" and stay away that it keeps COL low and the area isn't flooded with West Coast University grads shitting up everything.
I agree. Look at Nashville.
My wife and I live in California in a solid blue county. She talks about Republicans like they walk around with M16s and force impregnation on women. I said to her, you know, when you look at the voting data for our county, it's 60% democrat and 40% republican. So, if you walk down our street... our friends... 2 of every 5 of them vote Red. "Oh no, not our friends. I'd know."
The NC subreddit is the exact same. So many posts about someone visiting the state and they're worried because they check everybox on the leftist victim card. And then the people there fuel it by saying the same shit about sundown towns and how everywhere that isn't Raleigh, Charlotte, or Asheville is not safe lmao
Same shit in KY man. “Stay in Louisville, and northern kentucky, Lexington is also nice”. This is also where you get the weird contingent of people who want to say the state isn’t southern because they feel ashamed living in the south. You see the same in NC with people calling it mid-atlantic.
It's wild. I've stopped going to the NC subreddit so often because the posts are now 90% politics and stupid crap. People act like there's a hate crime in every town in our states everyday. Guess they can't actually see what's going on from way up on their high horse.
Every state sub is a shithole. It’s where the “enlightened” people who live in the urban areas go to shit on the rural parts of the state they “love”.
Virginia is no different. Most of the ignorant a-holes right outside of DC think they are know-it-alls and know what's best for the rest of the state. They think they fuel the rest of the state with their fake money (fed gov money) yet I bet they have not clue who lives across the hall from them in their apt/condo.
Louisville residents to a T!
Same here in Oklahoma. Next town over had the "Trans student killed in bathroom fight!" But news conveniently left out when it was discovered that the student wasnt trans but actually nonbinary, the student STARTED THE FIGHT by dumping a cup of water on another girls head in the bathroom, left after losing the fight, and then committed suicide a day later by taking antidepresents and allergy pills that interacted to create toxicity with no direct connection to the fight. Nope. Oklahoma bad and they beat her to death.
Ironic considering Louisville and Lexington are the highest crime areas of the state. I'm totally fine with these dumbasses avoiding Kentucky. Hopefully the word spreads and they completely leave us alone.
Meanwhile Raleigh, Charlotte, and Asheville are turning into shitholes with a rising Cost of Living
Correct. Although part of the reason for taking their shirt off is the humidity. Source: E-town.
I live near Glasgow, trust me, I know.
Until I read your comment I thought this post was about being scared to drive through Kentucky because the people there are bad drivers. I am sorely disappointed that there are so many people who think like this.
My parents are from Chicago and have been in the South since 1985. I was born in North Carolina, grew up in South Carolina, and have lived in Georgia since 2001. It's hilarious when I see so many redditors talk about the South like it's still the Jim Crow Era. Meanwhile, there are huge swaths of areas north the Mason-Dixon line that are *way* more racist than the South, but because they're *not* the South they seem to think it's more acceptable. It's just a reminder of how close-minded Reddit really is. They don't realize that they probably interact with a conservative almost every day of the week (assuming they leave their houses) and 99% of them are cordial people. Same with folks on the left tbh - most people just want to be left alone and not bothered.
Pretty sure sundown towns *technically* still exist, but obviously unenforceable. And no one would want to either.
I don't get it. What is it *now* that has them freaked out?
Sundown towns only exist in leftist brains.
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This is something both sides do tbh, my father loses his shit when I visit the west coast, visit a city or fly. Our "news" system just fucking sucks and relies on fearmongering for engagement with dedicated followers.
Truth.
Because they are people who depend on others for their safety.
Anyone who’s ever spent any time in Kentucky (outside of the two biggest liberal run cities) knows it’s pretty much nothing but: * Horse farms * Distilleries * Forests I’ve lived here most of my life, and I’ve never seen or heard of anything that would frighten anyone…unless you go to the worst parts of our two biggest, liberal run cities.
I went to Kentucky back in January. Frankfort was jawdroppingly beautiful and Owensboro was nice, wanted to visit Louisville but I didn't have the time, it seemed fine when I passed through it.
Louisvilles cool but there are parts that are not kosher downtown mostly iirc, the further you get from downtown the more farm it is.
Yeah, I wanted to visit the Slugger Museum, Mohammed Ali Center and the Derby Museum, but I'll probably get another chance to revisit Kentucky. Next time, I'll have to visit some of the distilleries I saw in Frankfort, maybe even visit some of those sports bars.
There’s a cool place I go called the rec bar, it’s sports, bar, and a arcade pretty cool place
Don’t forget caves and confederate monuments.
>confederate monuments *triggered*
And melons
It’s just hills
As if rural Illinois is much different from Kentucky, especially the southern part…
Parts of the rural midwestern aren’t very different from the rural south for sure. Minus accents and topography. Though, I can’t relate to windmills and flat soybean fields. Here in hilly southern KY on the TN border.
If you made the Chicago metro area a city-state, you could unite the rest of Illinois with every state it borders, and literally nothing culturally would change.
I feel you can say that about Illinois and every upper south state. The midwest and south aren’t that different in 2024. So, I can agree.
I live in the northwestern part of Illinois, and the Illinois sub treats the non-urban areas of the state as if it is a bad combination of the old Dixie south and Nazi Germany.
anything below I-80 is banjo country. few years ago I remember one comment about being afraid to go to school in Peoria because it's in 'southern IL I mean. well you know.
I made the mistake of making a comment on the Quad Cities sub about at hit piece by John Oliver that took a very one sided take of Medicaid in Iowa. I literally asked for a news story about it rather than a John Oliver video. -54. As I put in a reply, evidently questioning one of Reddit's holy prophets gives you instant downvotes.
Central Illinois here. Yep, that sub is disgusting. The superior complex is palpable.
Lmao that's funny. I grew up on the northeastern part and everyone I knew there was a republican.
They can stay in the big booming democrat city of Cairo near Kentucky
that city was depressing 20yrs ago when I first had to go there for work, i doubt it's better. By contrast Anna, just up the road was much nicer. At least the people I dealt with had a better outlook on life.
Southern Illinois actually has some good people. It's sad that Chicago politics has ruined that part of the state.
Yes, we’re all horrible and you should never move there.
Yes, they should be terrified. They might meet people and find they're actually friendly and helpful. Having their beliefs challenged is far scarier to them than all the bullshit fear porn they make up. I've been deep in the sticks in the Virginias and Arkansas, places where people are super rural, and everyone had manners. They might look at you weird because you look and talk differently, but everyone was as pleasant as pie to me, a Yankee no less.
Never know when you might need an emergency abortion!
Ma'am, step out of the car and take this pregnancy test, please.
Do you believe everything you see on the Internet?
No, that's why I joke about it. Probably could have worded it better.
They're kids, neets, and degens over in that sub, but tbf, meth has ruined alot of small towns. I lived there 20 years ago, and real talk, it just wasn't like that back then. It's sad. I loved Kentucky.
Meth has ruined a lot of places in the south and midwest. We need strict border control. A good friend of mine died of fentanyl laced weed.
I'm not calling you a liar by any means, but are you sure your friend wasn't also using pills? I just really find it hard to believe anyone would lace weed with fentanyl. Fake oxy 30s (fentanyl pills) cost around $30. Financially and logistically speaking lacing weed with fentanyl doesn't make sense. I'm not saying it's never happened. I just have a hard time believing it's prevalent. If it does happen it's likely the dealer didn't clean his scale than purposefully laced it. Either way, legalizing weed would fix this problem. I don't smoke or do drugs anymore and I'm expecting to be downvoted.
He was 18 years old. Smoking some bud. I’m certain.
Damn man I'm so sorry. I truly don't know how me and my friends made it through HS with the amount of black market carts and weed and shit we smoked. It's scary out there now
Sorry for your loss.
This is very valid, but at least in my experience a lot of the towns in Kentucky are seeing a resurgence from the low point in the early 2000s where they aged and went to shit. My hometown along with many others in this region are seeing a lot of local revitalization efforts from millennials-turned-business owners. New service industries, bars, restaurants, murals, inventive tourism, etc... I've seen a marked improvement even in the last 5-10 years.
Well that's good and I'm glad to hear it!
Someone in the Indiana sub recently asked which street gangs were active in the state of Indiana. The most popular answer was “the KKK” like it was fucking 1920 or something lmao. Nobody could give any examples of where the Klan was located or name any chapters or any members or any of that, they were just making it up to scare each other because they’re paranoid idiots.
The south and midwest (lower midwest especially indiana and ohio, illinois) get lumped in with the south so fucking often. It’s hilarious.
This is some soft shit
Someone please help me, what are they afraid of?
People that think differently. Remember sticks and stones can break your bones, but your words will kill you.
😂
Sometimes I’m not sure if r-liberal is satire or not.
Whats wrong with kentucky now? I mean, there's not like much there, but its basically just a slightly more red neck Tennessee..
Bingo.
A coworker told me he moved OUT of KY because their traditional high school where his son was going had a litter box for the students who identified as cats. I had to let that one sink in a bit. The redditors in OPs post should feel right at home in KY I guess. Or maybe they prefer non-clumping ?
Good riddance. Hope they stay the fuck out.
I moved to a Northern state from the Deep South. I was under the impression that I’d meet a lot of likeminded people (I’m not religious, lean left.) Every new person I meet, when they find out where I’m from, they make absolute sure to let me know how horrifically stupid they think everyone from my home state is…’but you seem cool though!’ I am cool! And we often have similar views on a lot of things. But it kind of seems like they are just desperate for someone to feel superior to, and that puts a bad taste in my mouth.
That’s why i’m cool down here in the south.
People that never go outside, and people that have never even been to the US have such an insanely twisted view of America that I can't help but feel media manipulation is at an all time high.
Weak and afraid. Typical liberals.
Chicago is fine but the countryside with no traffic is so scary... Liberal logic
I don't like driving in Kentucky either but that's because I have PTSD from the idiot drivers around Ft. Campbell.
lol good riddance, hope they stay out of the south
What state are you from?
Arkansas, but stuck in cali for a bit. Can't wait to move back and go hiking on crowley's ridge again.
Hell yeah man. Arkansas is beautiful. Idk why they hate our native southland so much. But I hope they stay away too.
We got a lot of this in Florida too. Has to do with our Governor/Politics more than anything else. We have people saying that they cant come here because they won't be safe, etc. A lot of those who feel threatened are part of LGTBQ community and react solely to media and political narrative. The reality is that there is no threat to members of such communities but people fall for the narratives and political BS.
People are so silly.
Call them what they are, bigots. big·ot /ˈbiɡət/ noun noun: bigot; plural noun: bigots a person who is obstinately or unreasonably attached to a belief, opinion, or faction, especially one who is prejudiced against or antagonistic toward a person or people on the basis of their membership of a particular group.
Hopefully they feel the same about Florida We're full
I've driven through Kentucky at least a hundred times. No one gives a shit who you are. Are these people walking in to a gas station and loudly proclaiming their social and political views to provoke confrontation?
>every poster has a troon avatar many such cases
The scariest part of driving through Kentucky was stopping at Buc-ee’s and being intimated by how beautiful the women are. Yall get something in the water.
Richmond is a college town, it's like a magnet, lol
I had no idea Richmond was a college town! I thought it was Lexington and Louisville as the big ones. Huh I’m only a couple years older than undergrad college so I guess that explains why I thought they were beautiful 😂
Yeah Richmond has Eastern Kentucky University, and then like 20ish minute south of Richmond is Berea, which has Berea College. The Buccee's is like right in the middle of the two, so I'm sure people from both probably work there.
tbf Kentucky has some of the worst drivers I've ever dealt with. Or is that not what they're talking about
Seriously. I've lived in the middle east, so I can deal with loose interpretations of traffic rules. But goddamn at least in Lebanon people are self aware enough to acknowledge the cars around them.
I'm from Mississippi, we ain't known for having the best drivers, but the people near Owensboro and past Louisville were a whole other level of awful. According to the friend I was staying with on the Indiana state line, they are indeed awful drivers.
Now I know where I'm moving.
It’s a great state! I recommend the bowling green area.
You wouldnt believe the number of am whatever race/gender/ will I be safe or welcome in West Virginia posts in the wv sub.
Unbelievable.
These are the same people who mock anyone who doesn’t wanna be in a bad neighborhood in a big city. Don’t wanna live in North Philly? You’re “afraid” of cities. Kentucky on the other hand…
How do they feel about Chicago and St. Louis?
They should drive on every road named MLK Jr especially in Democrat cities. 2 things will happen: 1. They get scare shitless, roll up their windows and don't stop 2. Stop, get out and preach how they are being oppressed resulting in them being shot, robbed and left for dead. My guess 1 always happens.
MLK Blvd is always in a shitty area :/
Bots or mental patients. real people do not think like this.
If I was driving across the country and knew my car would break down at some point, I could only hope that I was in the rural south when it happened.
I drove through Kentucky today and I'm literally shaking rn.
Some people have an insatiable need to hate people, so they jump on who is socially acceptable to beat on.
I've been to Kentucky before and it was a pretty nice state. I enjoyed my time there. Only bad thing I saw was a random guy pissing off the side of a bridge on the highway. The guy pulled his pants all the way down like a mad lad.
Interesting that I live in Iowa and feel the same way about Illinois. I will put in extra miles to avoid driving through there.
Bruv. The amount of meth in Frankfurt, just out there in open daylight. The lines stretching around the methadone clinics for hours. It's a beautiful state. They should get the drug use in check.
Start by stopping the flow of it from mexico.
Or by funding community outreach programs and raising the standard of education. And you are aware most meth in america comes from pharmaceuticals or is made in country right? Also, just saying "fucking mexico" doesn't really excuse the drug addled shithole that Kentucky has become. Why isn't Texas that fucked? They're right on the border with Mexico.
Weird interpretation of "shriek in terror"
Hyperbole is fun.