Southern stereotypes — I’m fed up, y’all!

This is for anyone who’s said fixin’ to, tumped over a glass, or rurnt something. This is for the person who agrees with a statement by saying, “I heard that!”, calls every soft drink a Coke, and eats grits without sugar. This is for married couples that think dinner at Waffle House is a perfect date night. For guys who call their friends “Bubba”. For parents who pick up their kid from school at noon because a half inch of snow is forecast. This is for grandmothers who make tea so sweet that it’s almost brown glucose, and for her grandkids who wear a Panama City Beach tee shirt to school on picture day. A word to the rest of the country: these are not stereotypes. These are just things that Southerners do - and we have no problem with them.

I’ve been all over the country, so I know that every region has its own peculiarities. But we seem to get hammered especially hard in the south for ours. And, I’ve personally experienced that, y’all. When I travel, and people find out I’m from Alabama, some of them look at me with pity, or start with the same tired jokes. It gets old. I’m amazed that so many people in other parts of America believe most southerners resemble Ernest T. Bass and behave like the Clampetts.