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Southerners are some of the few remaining groups for which it’s still PC to stereotype and make fun of. TDS hasn’t helped things over the last 5 years or so.

I had a very eye opening experience a few years back.

I was in Vegas at a convention and my crew was getting plastered at the Cosmopolitan. I was one of the few sober ones. A bachelorette party rolls through and my crew starts buying them drinks. One girls kinda hangs back from the boisterous group and we talk for a bit. You could tell she was a raging liberal from the first appearance (obviously I’m stereotyping, but she literally looked like the yelling Mizzou professor.)

They’re from NYC and she figures out that I’m southern from the accent and politeness and rudely point blank asks “how did Trump fool you people into voting for him?” I didn’t vote for him in 2016 but was glad he won out of the two options. I got through a litany of reasons why Trump was a better option for the country including markets, foreign policy, culture, trade, etc. I didn’t vote for him that time but I understand why people did.

She let me go on for about 2 or 3 minutes and said “I had no idea that southerners understood any of those things or could even articulate a reason other than God and owning the libs. Hearing a southerner talk about markets and foreign policy with an understanding of how they work is the weirdest thing.”

We had a good talk as the rest of her party got hit on for an hour. She said “you completely changed my view of southerners. Don’t agree with you guys voting for Trump, but thank you for changing my opinion.”

Just an anecdote, but it was an interesting experience.