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Reading through the comments in response to my question, I am always blown away at the stereotyping, arrogance, and general disdain for the south coming out of

Reading through the comments in response to my question, I am always blown away at the stereotyping, arrogance, and general disdain for the south coming out of these sorts of discussions. “The average tech worker” can get along absolutely fine in the south. I don’t know if it’s elitism, ignorance, or just the reverberating sounding board of popular media, but the south is actually quite nice, and I am confident that tech companies could save serious money moving workers out of incredibly high cost areas into better value areas in the south.

c3534l 8y ago
What an amazing coincidence that all the most racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and religious fundamentalists in the House and Senate happen to be from the south. The same people who supported segregation, poll taxes, and the generation that still lynched black people are still alive and voting. That wasn't ancient history, that was something my parents and grandparents remember watching on TV growing up. It beggars belief that all places in America should be equally as bigoted despite the fact not even a single generation has passed since the rest of the country had to send the national guard into the south to prevent mob justice against black children attending a white school. Strom Thurmond was still getting elected into the Bush years. Weird how the south is just like any place else now despite doing nothing to change and giving no indication that they have changed.
NotSammyHagar 8y ago
I'm from the south, in that it's a state that lost the civil war, had active kkk presence when I was a kid, had the national guard called out to protect black people, had racist governor in living memory, just had an article in the nytimes about racist police. Yes there are many good people there. But the public schools I went to have really changed as most of the white people went to private schools. There aren't many minorities, there's lots of implicit racism. I guess country clubs let black people in now (unlike when I was a kid). It's really a different world.

c3534l 8y ago

What an amazing coincidence that all the most racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, and religious fundamentalists in the House and Senate happen to be from the south. The same people who supported segregation, poll taxes, and the generation that still lynched black people are still alive and voting. That wasn't ancient history, that was something my parents and grandparents remember watching on TV growing up. It beggars belief that all places in America should be equally as bigoted despite the fact not even a single generation has passed since the rest of the country had to send the national guard into the south to prevent mob justice against black children attending a white school. Strom Thurmond was still getting elected into the Bush years. Weird how the south is just like any place else now despite doing nothing to change and giving no indication that they have changed.

NotSammyHagar 8y ago

I'm from the south, in that it's a state that lost the civil war, had active kkk presence when I was a kid, had the national guard called out to protect black people, had racist governor in living memory, just had an article in the nytimes about racist police. Yes there are many good people there. But the public schools I went to have really changed as most of the white people went to private schools. There aren't many minorities, there's lots of implicit racism. I guess country clubs let black people in now (unlike when I was a kid). It's really a different world.