The Image Problem With Atheism in America

[Polaris]

I studied at a university for three years in Washington D.C. beginning in 2006, lived just outside the city for another two years. I visited the NASA center in Huntsville, Alabama including the control room for the ISS, visited Virginia (as far south as Norfolk, even if I drove further south on a trip) many times as it was across the river (best spot in America is Williamsburg), visited North Carolina and thought the food was great and the people were less crazy than the Virginians (a surprise to me), went down to Florida to see Disney World (was not a fan of the rain down there). I also visited West Virginia a few times, a state I wasn't including earlier but then realized that it as well is south of the Mason-Dixon line.

Well, we can throw your three years in DC out the window, because while that may be south of the Mason-Dixon line, it is not really part of the American South, as any redneck will tell you.

And I'd argue that your perceptions are filtered by your biases anyway, and your virulent anti-Americanism may well have kept you from seeing any of the better qualities people have here.

And -- the nature of this answer tells me that you don't really know what the South is, and that you're looking at it as solely a geographical construct. It's not.

Pretty sure Alabama is the South....you're just mad because where you live is the laughing stock of the United States and for good reason as well. I only had to go one mile out of the DC to see "The South Will Rise Again," but even that area was much less like the South than Washington D.C.. Anyone who's been to all parts of the city knows just how awful it truly is...basically 3rd World nations have better statistics than Washington D.C.

I saw those better qualities, which was why I stated good things about Williamsburg and the region of North Carolina I visited. Your stereotypical pro-American BS keeps you focusing on the worst of perceptions people have about you.

You are correct, more often than not, the definitions due change. But words change as well...many words are spelled and pronounced completely differently between the English spoken in Commonwealth nations and the English spoken in the United States.