How To Survive The New South

This "southern" guy is one of the most annoying unwatchable douchebags I've seen in a very long time. What about his overly confident balding dumbass friend? I live in the south and these are the type of guys who regularly get their asses kicked for being complete assholes. Please never appear anywhere on tv ever again and I live in north carolina and if I see you I might punch you in the face, and i'm a girl, and I'm 98% sure I could take you out

I didnt say anyhting about Floridians hating gays or being conservative etc. I just said Floridians are trash. Not all, but many. They just lack culture and class. They love them some strip malls!

Florida is like New Jersey, straight up trash.

Are you sure that wasn't in western Pennsylvania?

I live in Raleigh and have been to that restaurant before :D

Also I am a democrat who was born and raised here. This is meant as a satirical and funny joke. There are people who act exactly the way that is described, but there are also people who are liberal and vegan. It's this way all over the country and I think it's naive to ever say that one area specifically houses only one type of people.

my favorite part was "what do you shoot with those" "democrats" hahah :)

Found_Avenue, Don't be silly, this type of "ignorance" you speak of exists everywhere. As someone who was raised in Florida, I experienced both totally educated, open-minded people and the opposite. Both "types" exist everywhere.

I enjoyed the hell out of this video. Lynette was ridiculous. "Do you geeeet it?"

Oh and by the way, Ryan's hot. There, I said it!

"when I die bury me at the wal-mart" CLASSIC!

shoot & gut your own food
make fun of the yankee northerners
ignore women unless they are serving you food
. . the only thing that was news to me was they ditched Levi jeans & Skynard T's & now dress like homosexual blockbuster employees going to play golf.

this is pretty amusing.
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"wow...but you would like something with your bisquit? see i'm talking slow..." now that was funny

"skeet skeet....pull!"

whaHAHAHAAha

from boston, grew up in GA. that's about right. the south is an odd place and i can't believe i'm going to miss it.

Okay... two of the biggest things I took away from this video are:1.) the "new" south isn't much different from the old south, or at least the south that most people stereotypically view the south and 2.) people in the south are pretty rude to people who seem or act differently from them.

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I am an Irish Catholic Kid from Boston or at least I was ten years ago when I went Fort Benning for the first time . Not only did I suffer the shock of being 19 and the torture of Basic and Advance Infantry School but the also being in the amazing and some time backwards state of Georgia. During the last decade, I have spent equal times in the south, upstate New York, Afghanistan and Iraq. A nomad for sure (but a strange sense of familiarity due to the fact that Army bases are same all over the world.) I have to agree with Found_Avenue about their being a hidden, strong unspoken culture of racism, sexism, homophobia (esp in the the Army)and a strange bizarre dependancy on religion. I have to disagree with Found_Avenue about the apathy and lack of personal honesty and honor among the southern people. I found they had a great sense of civic pride (if it might be a bit misplaced). The military also as a whole is extremely interested in politics and will send their overseas ballots from the most dangerous FOB's in the world. True we tend to vote GOP even if we don't agree with their policies but historically the GOP generally gives the most to military spending but I have to admit President Obama has been extremely supportive of today's army much ore so then the previous President. In the last year alone my unit the 1-89th(a calvary unit) has received new lighter personal body armor, brand new armour HMVAE, new BDU'S, gone are the ruck sacs replaced a new modular equipment system and even new mountain boots....(Christmas for us boyos in green). I think Found_Avenue's experience was different from mine due to the fact that Florida has so many residents from other states. I am rambling quite a bit so I will just end that the South as I found it is a strange mix of respectful culture and a history of bloody hatred.

I had the displeasure of living in "the south" - central florida, to be specific - for 18 months. I didn't know what to expect when I moved there to teach. I enjoyed it at first. I didn't even consider the fact that I was officially living "the south." The beaches, the palm trees, the laid back attitude.... all lovely!

Then, after living there for almost a year, it all suddenly became crystal clear to me. The terrifyingly strong underlying thread of racism, sexism, anti-semitism, and homophobia that strings through EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE. It was oppressive once I noticed everything that was going on. The apathy, the ignorance, the passively accepted tone of flakiness. Nobody kept appointments, nobody I met in any situation actually kept their word about ANYTHING. Integrity NEVER came into play. There was a HUGE resistance towards ALL things involving real art or culture. Ask someone about culture in Florida, and they suggest "goin' muddin." Ask the average Floridian who they're voting for a month before the election, and they say "Uh... I don't know... I don't think I'm registered... " Total ignorance, total apathy towards the world outside of the sunshine state. And believe me, I have no interest in making unwarranted blanket statements. I have nothing to gain from it. What I described above was chronic, not just based on one or two experiences. This is the way of the land there. I knew I wasn't imagining things when I asked Floridians about some of these things, and they nonchalantly confirmed "Yep, that's just Florida..."

Yep, I have never felt more out of place in my life. It was like living in bizzarro world. Had to get the hell out of Florida. It's not just sweet old folks and tourists. It is, in my opinion, the center of hell.