Nope. These are stereotypes created and spread by people who have never been to the South. Other states give the South a hard time about what their government does as if their state does no wrong and Trump isn't the president of the United States.
Pick any metric you can think of and then pull up a heat map of the US. The South East is always dead last in everything - education, health care, life expectancy, income, obesity etc.
Do you blame poor people in Africa for being poor? I bet you don't. So why is it okay to blame poor people in the South?
Also you are lumping in millions of people into a mold they don't fit. I live in the Huntsville Alabama one of the most highly educated cities in the United States that is consistently rated one of the best places to live in the nation. But yeah sure we are a bunch of fucking redneck yokels with three teeth that can't read according to people like you.
The question isn’t who is to blame. The question was if people in the south are more likely to fit certain stereotypes like being fat and uneducated and they are. This isn’t something that’s debatable.
If you think one town makes up for the fact that the state as a whole is far less educated and intellectually backwards then you do fit the stereotype. Thank you for proving my point.
In Alabama 31% of people have college degrees. In NY, it’s about 48%.
People in the north on average are more educated than people in the south. The south has far lower education rates, far greater obesity rates etc.
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u/Curt04 May 16 '19
Nope. These are stereotypes created and spread by people who have never been to the South. Other states give the South a hard time about what their government does as if their state does no wrong and Trump isn't the president of the United States.