Thank you for the kind words. I’m a Carolinian born and bred. Proud of my southern heritage. I grew up in a small town, where we all worked together to be successful. I didn’t experience any discrimination until I left North Carolina and went north for a couple of years. I was so happy to move back home where there are friendly smiles and lots of family pig pickings. Small towns where everyone knows everyone. High school football games where all the family goes together. Small town parades and church functions. All with southern hospitality.
Jennifer | Dunn, NC | Report Abuse

I love your comment. My people were all from the South originally. I was born in San Diego CA. I always refer to myself as a Southerner since it's Southern California. I love the South and the people who live there. Yes they can be different. But so are the rest of us. Be kind be smart and stay away from religion and politics. Just smile and say.... I'm still work'n on that. Then laugh. Going to move to NC in 2 years.
DARLENE | Portland, OR | Report Abuse

There is NO "culture" in WNC. None. The so-called mountain culture is manufactured for marketing. The real culture of this area is poverty, ignorance, discrimination, abuse of the weaker, cruelty, religious intolerance and its extreme hypocrisy, and a still very backwards area with people who refuse to change. The typical comment heard is, "That's the way we always done it". Comments made against northerners trying to push and pull backwards communities forward are met with a slew of attacks and the usual, " Go back to where you came from". What these people don't realize is that the northerners are the ones bringing badly needed revenue. Northerners are paying high prices for services and products. Northerners are the only people doing the brunt of charitable work and proving large donations to these people. Northerners leave, so goes the money supporting the area. Who will do the community work badly needed? Most certainly Not the locals as they only take care of themselves and not even their close neighbors. Something terribly wrong with this area. Further, the "culture" is Appalachian poor, not southern. Real southerners bristle when I've called NC part of the south. NC is in the south but those from Atlanta and elsewhere look down their noses at NC and especially the poorest area of WNC.
Margaret | Asheville, NC | Report Abuse

I agree I from new england and love the south, I feel like I came home, thankful to get away from the liberal progressive, antichristian, anti- Constitional northeast. I too have fallen head over heels with southern culture. Their is such a spiritual and political oppression over the nanny states, that when many relocate, they find the "clinging to their religion and guns" offensive. If you find gun culture, church on every corner, Confederate flags, muddy jacked up trucks....then PLEASE do not move here and complain about all the things you e, there are many other states to choose from. I think I am disgusted with the northerners moving here who want to change the South, more than the native southerners! I moved south to get away from the liberal, progressive nonsense, and move too the great state of North Carolina
Paul | Monroe, NC | Report Abuse

This is the absolute truth. Appalachian culture is not southern. It’s just brutality and poverty and inbreeding actually. Pedos too. Crazy amount of Pedro files actually.
Renee | Hickory, NC | Report Abuse

looking to relocate from Los Angeles area, that sounds great to me. I don't pick my friends by the purse they carry or the car they drive, I value good manners and people who are "doers" gardeners, crafters, pride in their family and home, neighborhood... our LA neighborhood is four feet high in illegal dumping, graffiti and kept awake by loud car stereos, loud neighbors and street racing, when the helicopters are not chasing a felon... I want to see trees from my windows and listen to nature... how far out of a city do I have to love to not hear neighbors stereos or television loud all day long? Maybe not what this site if for, but, so difficult to gauge the "personality" of of a neighborhood and, how committed they are to keeping it that way. your review, sounds like what I am looking for... Thank you, cities? I had been looking, a friends recommendation, at New Bern... from CA, less heat and humid, the better, that is going to be the challenge... rain and winter, I think I would enjoy...
Gwen | Torrance, CA | Report Abuse