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That's especially weird: Rural people in the South typically hate New Yorkers who come around to "fleece the hicks", and pretty much everybody from New England (meaning everything Washington DC and North).

Yet many have embraced that orange con-man in chief.

That's how I look at it also. We were lucky enough to have Jimmy Carter as Governor who knew the state had to change when it came to civil rights. He changed it. Georgia never had the problems that Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas had. we moved on easily.

We had Zell Miller, Sam Nunn, Max Cleland, as governor/senators and the Republicans were also fairly moderate with Paul Coverdale and Johnny Isakson. Until Perdue and Lofler came around.

But that changing with the huge influx of folks from the northeast. Now we did have Cynthia McKinney for awhile. But as a representative only.

I was taught as a young man that the only man lower than a black man was a New York Yankee. And that phrase has absolutely nothing to do with baseball.

That's why this southern/confederate love for Trump eludes me more than most. These folks were raised better than that.

He's nowt but a carpetbagger.

When I was young, we were told to give people from the South a break. Their bigotry and ignorance wasn’t their fault. They were raised that way.

I think we've become comfortable with northerner's. There's probably more folks living down here from the Midwest and Northeast than native Georgian's.

Thus the marked improvement
My folks lived in sleazy heavily redneck Druid Hills Hotlanta. 3 minutes from govs mansion, but better when Gov was Democrat.

Along with those folks comes a certain wokeness. An acceptance of LGBT folks and people of color. Liberalism always wins, conservatism keeps it from happening too quickly but is destined always to lose in the end.
There are a few instances of conservatives winning...Hitler and Mussolini being among them, but even when they win they lose.

On a timely subject, snow and ice, someone had to go South to teach them that driving in snow is actually possible. Knowing how to do it properly, however, does not protect from collateral damage. It's best to just sit it out and enjoy watching the bumper-car show on TV, knowing you won't get where you want if you drive.

It, somehow, reminds me of the joke: Why did the chicken cross the road? To show the possum it could be done.

It's beginning to look a lot like Groundhog day... :sing :

As soon as the weatherman says a chance of snow or we see some snow flurries that don't stick, there's a run on the grocery stores. Give it an hour, no more milk and bread.

Funny how everyone buys the heck out of milk and bread and leaves all the can goods on the shelf. If one is to be stuck for awhile, it seems can goods is the way to go.

Our problem isn't so much the snow, it's ice storms. We usually get one or two a year. Snow, once every ten or so years in any amount that can be measured.

Snow fever does strange things to some southerners, foreshadowing Covid toilet paper madness.
One strange day in Durham NC, redbuds in full bloom, and it snowed. The trees were beautiful with the white background contrasting the hot pink.
Schools closed with the threat of snow, realistic considering the drivers.
Snowplows?
I asked a local how they cleared snow?
"God has always taken it away before."
And,he was right. It melted before I could photograph the trees, as we used cameras in the old days.

Atlanta traffic is terrible under the best conditions, and not too long ago snow and ice caused major disruptions, variously described as Snowpocalypse or Snowmageddon
I will look it up for fun.