why does everyonre think poeple in the south are stupid rednecks?

I am wondering, why would such a smart girl thinks that Everyone assumes you are Stupid because of origin? As for the RedNeck part… well, lets not go there…

Probably because it was made a stereotype in movies and people just liked the movie so much that they started to think of the south that way.

The human brain tends to form mental catagories to place related information into generalized subdivisions to refer back to; folks are too lazy to properly define these subcategories, resulting in socioeconomic stereotypes.

Because people are taught to look down on people from the South in school for the following reasons:
1) Since people in the South talk slow they are somehow stupid (FALSE)
2) Since the South lost the civil war they are somehow less intelligent (FALSE)

Also the way the South is portrayed by the media gives it a negative image. The South is reported as rural and backwards. (ex. presenting it like everybody lives in trailers and cities are non-existent) Atlanta is a modern city, so is Charlotte, the list goes on and on.

Last but not least is the fact that people always want to life themselves up and as a result, must push someone else down. Northerners try to boost their self-esteem by bashing the South.

NOTE: I’m also from the South and have received the bunt of prejudice. I have always tested in the 99th percentile and I’m a Southerner. (Seems like a contradiction) My parents and my siblings are all college graduates.

With all the notherners migrating to the south, it won’t be long till the Red and for that matter the white is bred out of your rebel butts? Just our little thankyou for trying to overthrow the union.

Rednecks are associated with drunken rowdiness and general hedonistic behavior. I don’t think that all people think southern=redneck. Northern New Hampshire and Maine are the redneck areas on New England.

Anyway, if a guy has a southern drawl, no one is going to think redneck. Now if you see some cocky kid in a cowboy hat, can’t spell the word “everyone”, and has a confederate flag in the window of his truck (next to the nascar sticker)… Yup country bumkin.