A friend from law school attended college in Vermont though she hails from Savannah. This is not just any college in Vermont and the students there are exceptionally bright. One of these bright students once asked this friend if they had yet aquired paved roads in Savannah. Doesn't seem too bright to me but that's for another day. People everywhere face challenging sterotypes. This, however, is a blog about a Southerner in New York and thus the focus of my posting. Do you face sterotypes? How do you confront the issue? I once had someone say to me "how can I explain my job in a way that you can relate? As a southerner, why don't you think of new ventures as animals in a barn?" I was shocked by such a comment. How is one to react ? This is the same person that said to me "I like knowing Southerners because they know the best bar-b-que." More on 'que at a later date. Back to sterotypes, though challenged by a flawed (and I don't pretend there were not MANY flaws) and economically poor history, many great leaders, ideas, and inventions came from the South. The ignorance I see is in not recognizing it's cultural value. What do you think? Do Southerners deserve to be assumed idiots?
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