To start off, every stereotype you see about the south is true, especially when you get into more rural areas. Most people drive pick ups with freshly killed deer thrown in the back, gun racks above the seat, a beer in one hand, and a john deer trucker hat perched upon their head. And Southern Baptist. Every last one of them. If you've ever seen Gummo, you know exactly what the south is like. That movie creeped me out it was so accurate.

I'm not religious, nor spiritual really. Which is a shock considering I grew up in rural Georgia. It's not a big part of my life, because I generally just don't think about religion, except when ranting about people trying to legislate their religious morality. I consider myself moral, I know that it's wrong to lie, cheat, steal, kill, etc. and I don't. I think i'm probably more moral than a lot of the people i grew up around because i don't believe in being able to be an awful person and then praying and being forgiven for it. I think if you're an awful person, it'll come back to bite you in the ass eventually. So I suppose i sort of believe in karma.

Sorry, tangent. The funny thing about southern baptists is, if you're not a southern baptist, they think you worship the devil. I have, no shit, heard someone call a catholic a satan worshipper. Of course, that was too dumb of a statement for me not to correct, but i never got them to believe that protestantism is a branch of christianity that was reactionary against catholicism, thus making catholics christians as well. I hate to say this, but I think that the average southerner hates Catholics because a majority of Catholics in the southern US are hispanic. The smaller the town, the more "good ol boy" and racist the people are.

Southerners are really interested in geneology. If you tell someone your last name and their second cousin had the same last name, you'll be stuck there for hours as they run through thier entire family tree seeing if/how you fit into it. The only stereotype that I've never really seen is the incest thing, granted, everyone is related to everyone, so I'm sure it is/has been going on. I've just never actually seen it first hand.

A Southern person can pinpoint exactly where another person with a southern accent came from, down to the state regional level. There's a profound difference even between a north georgia/south georgia accent, which are both vastly different from alabama, or tennessee, or florida. I know it sounds the same to people outside of the region, but you guys also think the atrocious southern accents that most actors put on are believable. :P

I grew up in a tiny city that's biggest store was a walmart, and there was nothing even hinting at civilization for 2 hours of highway driving in any direction. I lived really close to the beach though, about an hour away. Everything in south Georgia is farm land. It's an extremely boring place to grow up. There's really nothing there at all, just corn and tobacco, and cattle. You're so removed from culture that you're at very least 5 years behind the rest of the country. And for chissakes, people drive tractors on the highway there.

Atlanta isn't a part of the south. It's nothing like anything I've said up there. It exists in a little bubble of culture, and is a tolerable place to live. The people here aren't slack jawed hicks (for the most part). It's very bizarre, because if you drive 40 miles in any direction outside of Atlanta, you're back in the corn fields. What I hate about Atlanta (aside from people calling it "hotlanta". I swear to god, nothing makes me want to punch someone in the face quite like that) is the suffocating pervalence of rap/hip hop culture here. This wouldn't bother me if any of it were good musically, but a vast majority of it is crap, and it's everywhere. Some of the record companies have bought out the channels on the weekends and instead of infomercials all night, you're accosted by awful music. I would really like a place that's slightly more multicultural.