[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 [@shagbark_hick](/creator/twitter/shagbark_hick) on x 41.8K followers Created: 2025-07-21 14:21:28 UTC Correct: I simply don't think about, talk about, or visit the American South because it was never my thing. Humid heat is like hell to me, mostly. I always thought it was a shame they were prevented from seceding. No idea why XXXXXXX Americans had to die to keep them in. The South really is something different from the rest of America -- feels foreign to me in a way the West, the Midwest, the Plains, and New England just doesn't and never did. And there's basically no way for a non-Southerner to talk about, visit, or think about the South without making Southerners mad. If I move there, I'm a filthy carpetbagger; if I say I hate it (thereby advertising to fellow Yankees that they shouldn't move there to carpetbag it up there, which you'd think they'd see as a favor) they're offended. If I don't visit it or write about it, they're mad; but if I did visit and write about it they'd pretty well hate what I'd ever say about the place. So it's a topic better kept well enough out of mind. A region of the US a wise Yankee ought to leave well enough alone. After the last round of death threats over this subject, I learned to just not talk about it. I'm glad some people like the South, and I'm content to leave it to them. If I had to guess, even this mild and moderate view on the matter will probably make them mad, too.  XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [united states](/topic/united-states) [Post Link](https://x.com/shagbark_hick/status/1947300902278246768)
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𝙷𝚒𝚌𝚔𝚖𝚊𝚗 @shagbark_hick on x 41.8K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 14:21:28 UTC
Correct: I simply don't think about, talk about, or visit the American South because it was never my thing.
Humid heat is like hell to me, mostly.
I always thought it was a shame they were prevented from seceding. No idea why XXXXXXX Americans had to die to keep them in. The South really is something different from the rest of America -- feels foreign to me in a way the West, the Midwest, the Plains, and New England just doesn't and never did.
And there's basically no way for a non-Southerner to talk about, visit, or think about the South without making Southerners mad. If I move there, I'm a filthy carpetbagger; if I say I hate it (thereby advertising to fellow Yankees that they shouldn't move there to carpetbag it up there, which you'd think they'd see as a favor) they're offended. If I don't visit it or write about it, they're mad; but if I did visit and write about it they'd pretty well hate what I'd ever say about the place.
So it's a topic better kept well enough out of mind. A region of the US a wise Yankee ought to leave well enough alone. After the last round of death threats over this subject, I learned to just not talk about it.
I'm glad some people like the South, and I'm content to leave it to them. If I had to guess, even this mild and moderate view on the matter will probably make them mad, too.
XXXXXX engagements
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