Is there such a thing as a Yankee-free town in the
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9/3/2015
I live in Raleigh. I grew up in NC but I served in the Army for several years and subsequently lived in the DC area for several more years. During my time away, I became acutely aware of the not-so-subtle differences between Yankees and those of us whose families are nothing but Southern, for better or for worse. I've finally made my way back to my home state to find that even here, I still cannot escape the Yankees and their arrogance, hypocrisy, and wild sense of entitlement. Every forum I see devolves into someone from the northern states who is thinking of moving to NC seeking information on where they can find, and live with, all the other Yankees who have already made the move. There is no effort to integrate or respect the lifestyle of the people who have lived here for generations and I see it reflected everywhere. From local political elections, where Yankees seem to feel like they have some obligation to impose their values on everyone else, everywhere else until they ruin the whole world, to huge groups of sports fans wearing NY Giants or Boston Red Sox gear congregating at every Buffalo Wild Wings from Waynesville to New Bern. Anyway, Raleigh is lost. I don't know where to begin to combat cultural imperialism, but I do have a few questions.
If it's so great in the north, why are you in NC?
Don't you realize that you're recreating all the phenomenon that caused you to leave in the first place by refusing to be at all introspective, refusing to exercise any critical thought, and refusing to seek to embrace, or god-forbid learn, from those of us who live in a desirable place?
And finally... is there anywhere left where you won't eventually take over and I won't have to constantly hear about all the exaggerated and usually historically inaccurate qualities of Yankees every time I'm introduced to a new neighbor? If such a place exists, and if it's in the Carolinas especially, I'd very much like to hear about it.
Sincerely,
Desperately seeking some peace of mind
P.S. For those of you scrambling to find some grammatical or spelling errors with which to character assassinate me, don't look too hard, because you'll probably find some. For that matter, I'll bet you could probably even cook-up some injustice, based on my short rant, that requires immediate media attention to be followed by some new law or regulation that has long been in place in the Yankee north... FML.
Vicious | Raleigh, NC