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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rel" data-source="post: 2720946" data-attributes="member: 99">MW, I don't think Shemeska meant any harm by his comment.  I think I read the word "intellectual" in the same manner he did at first but I understand better now that you've explained it.I don't know if this will be helpful to your brother or not but it occurs to me that most of the differences between north and south can be attributed to one thing:  Space.I've travelled through the New England area only a little but it always strikes me how close everything is and how concentrated the population is.  This is a huge influence on attitudes and culture.The south has pretty much all the same stuff as they do up there but it's spread over a much bigger area, just like the population.  So I've heard a lot of comments from northerners saying, "I've got to drive an HOUR and a HALF to get to the Art Museum?!"  It's the same with a lot of stuff like that and it's hard to wrap your brain around at first.The other thing is how people always talk about "southern hospitality".  I think this is largely a product of people living in small communities where they know all thier neighbors and the population is far less transient than in the north where there are more people to get to know and they move around (especially in places with big apartment buildings).  If everybody knows your name then you're accountable and since you know their then they are too.  When southerners encounter northerners they are often more guarded than the folks they're used to dealing with and they interpret this as rudeness.Another product of southern lifestyle and geography is that, with more isolated communities, people had to learn more self reliance.  Fixing things that were broken or making things from scratch were more necessary when it was a long way into "town" to have such things done by a professional.  As such, people tended to focus on the practical rather than the theoretical.  With more people moving into larger cities and away from farm life this attitude is shifting but it is deeply entrenched and often criticized which puts folks on the defensive.Anyway, I hope that perhaps some of that might help your brother sort out the "why" of some of the attitudes and personalities he encounters.  I find that that can be a big step toward getting along better with people.</blockquote>

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