What Happened To The South?

Your notion of the “real south” is false. The South, like all regions of the world, evolves as time goes on. Who is to say the real South is more reflected today?

Yankees moved down here and tried their hardest to change the culture.

This government has worked tirelessly to kill all mom and pop operations, including the family run farm!

I’m 49 years old and I’m in the mountains of North Carolina right now . We still here . The country is still here get out of the city .

God bless you and yours, Young Man. This is the query of many a befuddled Southern minds, most endeavored from beyond the insular confines of our beloved Southland because of the loss of our identity to whoever it is we somehow voluntarily succumbed to.
Initially as we are notoriously known as being violently defiant, insular, cagey, outlaw, rapscallion etc etc…the industrial north and it's predominant Anglo norman culture in its insatiable need for our natural regional resources had to secure our participation in its revenue schemes by any means possible, such leading to tariffs which under the guide of righteous abolition of servitude endured by our colored Bruthas and sistas, they certainly achieved their objective and how they sustained it was via forced occupation by northern entities which was usually endeavored illegally and highly unattractively at that.
My father, a very Good Man indeed, retired now several years from Southern Railway (Norfolk) and residing in Charlotte, has himself a brilliant spread of land there locally and you'd be damn near a fool in trying to sway him away from it, it's the main thing I believe that's keeping him above ground and looking down at it beneath his feet and he glows with love anytime he speaks of it.
Between his quiet passion for that very good dirt, and your spoken passion for the threat of it, I am seeing something essentially American here and what others may seem as individual perspectives that could well turn into collective perspective and to sit here and tell you that you are not alone, which I am doing, simply is the offer of the man who knows not enough of himself much less the others for whom he should know it all.
Sir, we are ignorant at best, we live in a perpetual state of regret via hindsight . We don't know what we have til it's been woo'ed from us via our neglect, thus, we deserve the hit of the loss, but not as punishment, only because we do not learn from our mistakes and we commit to them as if its some kind of resolution of sorts tempered with redemption, it's most certainly not, but that doesn't stop us.
My 14 paternal great grandeddy and uncle fought Ferguson and the Torries on Kings Mountain N.C. to render ourselves individual of Britain back in that conflict.
Later that man, those men, William and Thomas Shipp, would have grandsons who both from N.C. and Ga. Would again fight on American soil against a perceived foreign oppressor, this time, that very Anglo Norman industrial semi socialist United States, and in no way whatsoever ever was there any mention of freeing slaves, and 40 acres and a mule, or none of that hogwash…understand that our culture at that time, had just about everyone who wasn't the owner of the farm was in some way indebted to the farmer and our survival was tantamount to share cropping and most farm owners were operators, in the field, chopping and picking along side the help, who did I fact get paid, as was the case with George Washingtons own farm help, when he died they were found to have more liquid money in their possessions than he did.
Which is only symbolic of the times and the situational fodder by which now so many false fires are aflame and enflame us accordingly.
So, I may openly convey ignorance and a willingness for our segregation toward the Yankee, which at one time would have been the nail.in the coffin of the dispossession of our beloved South by the Southern people, but it's now just a hokey pipedream that we are secretly obsessed with which with each generation becomes a degree separated from its righteous origins.
In our heritage organization we are proposed to greet by motto, this being Deo Vindice, meaning God Vindicates the South, which is befitting as we are the apparent defacto bounder for villainy to most any disorganization that now comes along and needs its immediate counter part to play off of and make righteous its own askew inclination, most being of a Marxist origin.
I wish I could offer you resolution, hell, even an answer or two, but I feel only to have provided more questions, but my grandeddy always told me, if you ever need an answer, study the question, it always lies with the question.
He was another very Good Man, I hope with all my heart you find some peace in the answers you may well earn from your queries.
You are a Good man, a Good American, and have a lot to teach even if only by way of learning, but that's life, and so long as we can endeavor, live the life well lived, we just may get out of this place that we are at alive.
God bless/ Deo Vindice, Brutha!!
Thank you for letting me speak to you openly like this.

You are correct. My family was from Kentucky, a border state. Once the "big roads" (Interstates) went through, EVERYTHING began to change. Even up into Ohio we grew our own food, and most families had gardens, with many having small animals. I miss those days, and try to live that way the best I can now.

MAN U R THE TRUTH.

I used to come from Chicago to Mississippi.
Living down here in Mississippi now.
It ain't the same.

Big government n free shyt happened. n Democrats.

They imported the 3rd world and it became the 3rd world

I'm 38 from Los Angeles. Even though LA is not the South, I remember how it was in the 90's up until the late 2000's. People generally were much more light-hearted and friendly. Now it seems that people from all walks of life have an underlying attitude. Nowadays you can't be very nice to people because they'll think you're crazy or take advantage of you. North, South, East or West, we're all dealing with this negative cultural shift in America.

The Yankees and Kali Karen's ruint Florida

You are angry..I live in a town 98% white we have no crime doors unlocked kids walk around without parents we work we pay our bills….the problem with the area you are at is the people

The reason corporations are so powerful is because the government is too big!!! It's not just the South. it's the entire country

BLACKS IN THE SOUTH HAVE BEEN SOCIALLY ENGINEERED JUST LIKE BLACKS IN THE NORTH TODAY.

WITHOUT KNOWLEDGE OF SELF THE SOUTH AND THE NORTH ARE HELPLESS.

If you want to KEEP your culture, you HAVE TO raise your kids in it. Family first. Public schools began raising kids for the gov't (& the big players rhat run it), not for families. "Leave 'em & your backwards community, get an education, & make a modern life FOR YOU somewhere else.
It's easier to control EVERYbody, when NObody has ANYbody.
THANK you for your heartfelt rant. I FEEL YA!

Ban air conditioning

Bro preach… I remember going to my great grandma's farm with my Grandparents and drinking fresh water out the natural spring. Eating real vegetables, slurpin down real watermelons…

I still maintain one of the main reasons they killed MLK was in his Dream speech talking about his dream of people growing their own food, making their own clothes and being self sufficient. Everything the corporations can't stand the thought of.

I was born yankee (Michigan) but married a man whose family lived in the south for 3 centuries (including POC). I raised my kids in the south and never tried to push my culture on people. I met other northerners who were not that way. They didn’t become part of the community, and they resisted understanding the southern culture.

As a Southerner, I do not know what happened. Our entire country is disappearing from us. Thank you for posting this I really needed this. It’s also happening everywhere, even southern accents are beginning to disappear as the new “Valley Accent” takes over the entire country.

Good speak. I enjoyed that while eating breakfast

I love you and the perspective.

I miss it too

Mississippi changed

The South is not the same! People out here are ruthless

Wasn't just the South man. I'm from Upstate New York. Back in the days you're talking about we lived the same way your grandparents did then too. Grew up on a farm. Exactly same way man. No joke. It's the day we in now. In my opinion it's got nothin to do with North and South. It all went to shit when my grandparents died too. Take care. Peace