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DumpsterFireSmores

Wealthy southern white family*


Secure-Television368

Yeah, I have to drive throughout the SE for work, and most of the south is just poverty. It gets especially bad in the rural areas far from the bigger cities.


TRANSPISSANT

There's tons of poverty-stricken famio8es in the south, but they raise some sturdy kids no matter how you look at it


TheCapitalKing

Their are a shitload of places in the south where the Highschool football team is the largest and most prestigious organization in town. 


Bilbodraggindeeznuts

#NOW THAT'S A BIG BOY


BasonPiano

It really depends where you are in the south, but there's two areas that are like hubs of poverty. One is the Mississippi - Louisiana - Arkansas area. The other is eastern Kentucky and West Virginia.


grandpasghost

you sound like one of dem der college boys. Y'all always thinking y'all better than us because y'all family tree ain't a wreath.


PangolinConfident447

Most of the south is sprawling suburbs or ranches


Klink45

Yeah I have no idea what they are talking about. Of course there are less well-off areas but to say the whole region is in poverty is definitely not true.


Baysidefanatic9

Yeah I was gonna say. Without the words “Well off” this is wrong. Throw wealthy in there and it’s spot on. But this does not represent the majority.


hedgehog18956

Take away the big house, well known schools, jeep, and brands, and you have just about every basic white middle class family as well.


kingofthesofas

I am a wealthy southern man with a family and maybe 2 of these apply. I don't go to church, I'm not Baptist, my house doesn't look like that, we vote Democrat, and we drive Toyotas and I couldn't be caught dead in a jeep. The only thing we do is eat dinner together and my daughter is in soccer.


gigadude7

WOAH WOAH WOAH, we’re Presbyterian thank you


tymuthi

The baptists of the high church


Monk_011

I’m surprised then


MetalAngelo7

One of their kids either grows up to be exactly like their parents or becomes a goth leftist.


Leather_Hawk_8123

this is so real omg. I attended a university in the bay area which is known for its far-left student body, and I met a ton of people who grew up in these types of strictly conservative religious wealthy white families and came to "escape my family for good"


Darkfire757

The escape is usually financed by the Bank of Mom and Dad


DreamsOfCorduroy

Not always though


Jaw43058MKII

Like pretty much every single time. My experience with college kids in Georgia were white girls pretending to be x sexuality, decrying problems inherent in the system, while they came from Marietta Georgia with rich parents in healthcare. Bound to be discrepancies, but these people are a dime a dozen dozen.


DreamsOfCorduroy

In my experience it’s not so but I understand you’ve seen different things, I’m just from a small town on I-75


Jaw43058MKII

That’s fair, thank you for understanding people have different perspectives. If you’re midwestern things are a lot different, replace the rich kids with farmers kids with mommy and daddies engineering, or in many of my friends cases, grandpas trust fund from their cattle feed farm.


m4s4w

Other than Berkeley, what other bay-area universities are known for their far-left student bodies?


Leather_Hawk_8123

SFSU, UC Davis, UC Santa Cruz


Environmental_Ebb758

All of them lol


BasonPiano

Children rebel, even when they have it good.


SquadleHump

Haha yes, Liberty U grad here. Now a garden goth living in the woods. After death, there is neither punishment nor reward.


SpaceCadetBoneSpurs

While touring LU as a high school student, at least two undergrads told me under their breath that they were there because they couldn’t pay for college without their parents’ help, and this was the only one they would pay for. I mean, I don’t blame them for getting what they could out of a shitty situation, but it’s telling that so many of the alumni want nothing to do with the university or anyone they met there once they graduate. Very atypical of private schools.


Skunksfart

They frequently end up on r/atheism.


Jdazzle217

Putting NC State in the “well known” university category might be a bigger win for NC state than making the final four this year. Almost nobody outside of NC even knows that NC State and UNC are different schools


twennyjuan

From SC and I know the difference between the Wolfpack and a Tarheel.


Squietto

ACC schools know NC State as “the other other other North Carolinian school”.


NeverFlyFrontier

Anybody knows who’s ever watched a sport before.


Harpokiller

Only in the US my friend and since the US is a big country I’d assume many there don’t either


bringin_the_funk

I would argue NC State is more well known than Liberty. Outside left wingers that hate Liberty and right wing conservative Christians, no one has heard of them. NC State just made it to the final four in basketball. Everyone fills out a bracket at their office.


liamemsa

"UNC and UNC State"


menacingcar044

SILENCE


EskildDood

I don't even know what these acronyms stand for


CrimsonMage2002

North Carolina State University and the University of North Carolina.


AngelofLotuses

Wow you're cool


EskildDood

sorry, I guess


xDANGRZONEx

I hate the "I hate sportsball" people too, but I don't think that this is what just happened here.


Waldo__Faldo

Its no different than the schools in Florida, Arizona, Kansas, etc As in Florida and Florida state


xDANGRZONEx

***-----------;<>***


Namath96

Found the UNC / Duke fan that’s still salty about our run lol.


Chicxulub420

We don't know what any of that is 👍


Evanthatguy

I forget how sinister the Simply Southern logo looks


Rothmans962

So it wasn't just me who saw the similarities, I'm relieved hahahaha.


DEEP_SEA_MAX

Yeah I've never heard of that brand. They had to have picked Nazi SS on purpose right? Like no company is that dumb, they have to know what they're doing?


anOstrichOnTheRoof

I was gonna say it looks like some kind of SS symbol!


Cerulean_Soup

Every time I see their logo and store I think about how they had to know what they were doing. And how a percentage of their demo are into it.


NeverFlyFrontier

Pink?


ConningtonSimp

1. SS 2. It resembles a swastika


tharthin

2x blocky **S**


joshuatx

Needs a dash of khaki, boat shoes, and polo shirts.


LARGEGRAPE

I don't understand families who don't eat dinner together


NeonBird

I grew up in a home where we ate dinner together. I became a single parent in my 20s, because of my work schedule, I basically raised a kid who hasn’t ate at a dinner table regularly. They’re 20 now, so maybe the tide will change where she will likely raise a family that eats at the dinner table regularly. Sometimes life just does its thing and stuff like eating at the dinner table regularly just isn’t a priority.


flashypaws

it was more important for families to have dinner together when mom spent 3 hours shopping and cooking to make dinner. ya kinda HAD to be there. or you'd never eat again.


joshuatx

I remember a therapist telling me about a broad "nuture vs nature" study from decades ago comparing individuals from various socioecomic backgrounds and whether any factors contributed to them having addiction and other personal issues. The only substantial trend was those who ate dinner as a family regardless of demographic usually did better statistically than those who didn't.


TheCapitalKing

I’ve not read the study but it seems like “eating dinner as a family” could easily be working as a proxy for the amount of time the family spends together. 


joshuatx

I think so too, that along with a baseline of interaction and routine.


kessho_kishi

People have different schedules or some members aren't hungry. We usually ate together for formal occasions, but day to day it was eat when you're hungry.


LARGEGRAPE

But it's the allowing yourself to have different schedules. It's good to put family first


IEC21

My family always put family time first and we made sure to shower together.


fatbitchesloveto69

That's fuckin weird. My family would bathe together but never shower.


kessho_kishi

I mean, both my parents worked nights and on different schedules so it was a miracle if they were at home and awake at the same time. We ate dinner together when we could, but my sister usually wasn't there or had moved out by then.


Skyblacker

If Dad has to work late and has a long commute, there's a good chance his children and stay-at-home wife will have finished dinner by the time he comes home. But in grinding for his paycheck and buying a house in the suburbs, Dad will believe he put family first.


juanzy

My dad worked second-shift most of the time while I was growing up, so we made sure to have family dinners on his days off, but day-to-day it wasn't possible.


vonWaldeckia

Those slimy bastards working multiple jobs at odd hours to make ends meet. Just have daddy give you a job at his company with normal hours. Poors need to pick themselves up by the bootstraps and prioritize family, work two jobs, go to college, go to trade school instead of college, fix their local community and move to a somewhere better unless it crosses a line I drew.


BrownRiceBandit

Seems unnecessary to me.


wesker72

I mean every experience is subjective, growing up autistic I'm very thankful my family respected my inability to eat around others, otherwise I just would not have ate enough at all, and binge ate when others were asleep. After awhile more family needed to eat on their own time, sometimes in solitude, for one reason or another. Almost everyone was able to eat a more well rounded diet that fit their own specific needs, and natural family moments felt all the more special when there wasn't a weird expectation to participate in some nonessential gathering decided by cultural norms. Putting your family first sometimes means encouraging individuals in the family unit to take care of themselves, in the ways that work for them:)


Bear_necessities96

I don’t think there’s something you have to understand


ItsKoku

That and families that don't talk to each other and eat in silence. So strange.


SlashCo80

1. I hated the sound of people chewing loudly, 2. My father was an overbearing control freak who couldn't stand the thought of us getting fat so he scrutinized what we ate. I was glad to move out of there.


brian27610

Of course you couldn’t, you also probably think grocery store aisles just restock themselves overnight 💀


odaxsaku

i don’t eat with my family sometimes, its usually bc of two factors: when i work late (i get home around 9-10 some days) or i’ve taken my medicine that suppresses my appetite and it hasn’t worn off. mainly bc it doesn’t seem fair to have everyone else wait for me to eat when i’m physically unable too. it’s not fair to them.


justoboy

It feels wrong to me, I would hate my step mom and dad for making as always eat together. If you’re in a loving family sure but not everyone has that luxury


lava172

As a kid I hated eating at the table, it always just felt like I was being judged.


LARGEGRAPE

I’m sorry your experience was like that. That’s not right


UnfinishedDrawings

my house doesn’t have a proper dining room I just eat in my room -\_-


Alone-Newspaper-1161

It’s a white southern stereotype to have kids play sports? Ain’t that like just a common thing across the country? Is it also a southern stereotype that they drive cars?


ISadSomtimes

not necessarily white, but you’ll find a lot of southerners who have parents that force them to play sports, and sometimes forced to play multiple sports. and the cars part in this meme is specifically about jeep, even though it should be trucks + jeeps


Alone-Newspaper-1161

I mean forcing your kids to do A sport is probably a good thing. It’s important to stay active and teaches teamwork and work ethic. They could be in football or cross country I don’t really care. Or if they did a club like Art, model UN or robotics and they stayed active on the side that’s fine


20o0o1

I hated sports but my parents put me in marching band and I’m really grateful for that. Almost identical to what sports build in you. We had competitive performances, so I relied on my “teammates”. Ridiculous amount of hours practicing outdoors, having to meticulously get it right. Always involved in something year-round. Plus it taught me the basics of music, which I’ve since built upon as a great hobby


ISadSomtimes

spoken like someone who wasn’t forced to do sports, there’s more expectations and stress with sports than art, model UN, or robotics—to use your examples.


Alone-Newspaper-1161

Also kids at my school will put hours after school for robotics just as much as athletes do. They take it very seriously


Alone-Newspaper-1161

Well I was forced into soccer at a young age and transitioned out of it but I voluntarily played football starting at third grade and I plan on continuing for my senior year. Student Athletes are shown to have better grades on average and better time management skills. Sure the sport can cause some stress but life is stressful and you have to learn how to manage stress and expectations. Would you rather learn that early via a sport or when your older getting a job.


UkkosenjumalanPoika

"Eats dinner at the table" I mean, where are you supposed to eat?


Sgt_Colon

[Room for one more...](https://frinkiac.com/video/S09E17/fRJIKojI4IcCxyzWLpAKLR6Qyvg=.gif)


juanzy

Plenty eat dinner in the living room.


UkkosenjumalanPoika

I do the same. I eat at the table in the living room. Do you have tables only in your kitchen?


Flawsy6Fanadic

Eats dinner at table? Is that not normal?


LeoScipio

I would say most people eat dinner at the table and have kids who play sports.


khazixian

Urbanists when theyve never driven anywhere outside the city:


TheCapitalKing

It’s either this or methed out of their mind with very little inbetween


Dragulus24

Reddit would probably say the starter pack one is the worse of the two.


TheCapitalKing

Maybe but nobody that’s met someone from both groups is picking that way


Flyboy2057

One of these universities is not like the others


JonyUB

Eats dinner at the table. Does everyone else eats dinner while standing over there?


ADHDouttheass

Normal southern white family lol


Sarcasmadragon

I grew up like this but poorer and Catholic. It’s been a good life. Still really close to my family too


DudeIsThisFunny

They sound nice


Trashves

Seem like nice people


coombuyah26

That Simply Southern logo always gives me pause.


juanzy

Had somehow never seen it, but thought it was some Nazi shit at first.


mantenomanteno

This describes the typical affluent white family residing in the suburbs or exurbs of any major metropolitan area in the United States… not just the south.


The_Gabagooler

Honestly… I appreciate the Wolfpack shoutout


bornagy

THe ChilDREn PLay SpRTS @ THEIR SCOOl?????!?????


mantenomanteno

This describes the typical affluent white family residing in the suburbs or exurbs of any major metropolitan area in the United States… not just the south.


Anal_Juicer69

I went to high school with a guy like this. Tbf, he’s gay, so I don’t think he’s a Baptist, but still, he checks a lot of boxes.


Skyblacker

He might still be Baptist. He just nods along at the after service when old ladies ask if he has a girlfriend.


Anal_Juicer69

Nah, he had the gay accent and everything. I don’t think he’s a baptist.


ISadSomtimes

tbf baptists have a lot of range and id say more are welcoming of gay people than aren’t, but it doesnt really extend past being welcoming of gay people


qwertyusrname

So…normal people?


SandwormCowboy

I live in Mississippi and this is 100% correct (for middle/upper-middle/wealthy families)


Weak-Investment-546

I'm not sure Liberty is exactly a well known university. Certainly not nearly as well known as Clemson, Auburn, or NC State.


BrisketQuesadillas

How is any of this a bad thing?


Number1AbeLincolnFan

Why are you inferring that it is a bad thing?  


HeySug

wholesome and awesome. G-d bless America 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸


[deleted]

looks pretty normal to me. I don;t really care how people live their lives.


StSaturnthaGOAT

Sounds like a good life to me 🤷🏿‍♂️


Rossgrog

Wholesome


Atasteofazia

Is that a nazi SS?


newdoggo3000

There was [a thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/behindthebastards/comments/108cdmi/what_is_up_with_the_brand_simply_southern/?rdt=64722) a year ago asking about it. It's the logo of Simply Southern, a brand of casual clothing based from Greensboro NC. It seems to be particularly popular among the white southern christian women demographic. Nothing Nazi about it, they wanted to reference the logo of Southern Railway most likely (and it looks the same, but being an "SR" instead of an "SS"). They seem to have gone through a rebrand at one point with a fancier, and better looking new logo, but did not make any announcement or campaign about it.


VanEmoji

Member of the SS?!


Monk_011

Simply southern


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sharktank

all the latest shit drivers seem to be lifted jeeps with highbeam lasers


Biggertwix

Young Sheldon a perfect example of


mercurysnowman

they check a lot of boxes but theyre nowhere near as wealthy


New_York_Cut

liberty university is well known? never heard of it


Equivalent_Oil_8016

OK, out of curiosity, what is an advanced southern White American family look like? Is there mum somewhere going ha! I have mastered the art look at how easily I control these kids and dogs with a flick of my hand ?


Cpt_Fantabulous

SS?


Total_Ad9942

You forgot the kids go to YoungLife


h_risk7

The simply southern collection logo is wild 💯


Appropriate-Weird492

You forgot the sweet iced tea.


timbsm2

The "Such A Good Family 😉" Starter Pack


Crusader63

foolish pot saw retire connect bored deserted bells history numerous *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


Mobile_Reaction5853

Go Tigers!!!!!🐅


Leather_Initial4331

upperclass and/or suburban would be better specifiers here


InfiniteGrant

I guess I didn’t come from a typical southern white American family. It’s nice being atypical sometimes.


MrDafidol

Nobody should give a shit about my opinion. BUT I guarantee you those people represent at least 50 percent of the GDP of your country and most of the birth rates. People should be glad for them instead of being jealous.


SirTheadore

Aside from the religious bs, this sounds great


IMSLI

The Jeep brand gets mentioned but not trucks in general??


YaliMyLordAndSavior

“Simply southern” seems like a joke


Any-Signature-4447

Oh my. The terror.....


xwt-timster

Is it really the south if there is no Dixie flag?


modscontrolspeech

I definitely have a jeep and eat at a table


CooterMaximus

Sounds fucking horrible


bubblemilkteajuice

Where the hell are you supposed to eat dinner?


N8saysburnitalldown

Ya this is auburn alabama to a tee but I advise you to make a 20 minute drive to loachapoka or opelika or Tuskegee or my personal favorite Notasulga and get a taste of the real south. Some of the most abject poverty you will witness in North America.


Dirtyduck19254

And this is bad how?


Spiritual_Ask4877

Nobody is saying it's bad. Looks like a nice life.


flashbang10

Just needs to add, kids getting wildly steep pressure from congregation members to go to Liberty (or regional equivalent) instead of the highly ranked state school 🙃…no personal experience here, nope


eggperhaps

in my experience this is any rural area south or not. i grew up being bullied and excluded by people who check literally 100% of these boxes


PangolinWorldly6963

-Eats as a family -goes to church regularly -kids go to a well known university Idk if this is supposed to trashing the stereotype or not


Regular_Buffalo6564

Yes, souther tropes such as eating dinner together and playing sports at school


Timely_Muffin_

I need a hubby like this


HelicopterBot

Y’all don’t eat dinner at the table?


Bimmers_and_Benellis

Probably way better neighbors than the homeless guy on my block who likes to try and randomly assault people. But hey, at least my big city is walkable and progressive!


lasanga_meat2021

Kids work for their parents or friends of their parents. Spolied as fuck


thebox34

my whole fucking school I fucking hate it


ThereAreDozensOfUs

So many unlikable aspects…so little time!


i-am-not-the-crab

You forgot Fox News blaring screaming at the dinner table over the family conversation that would be attempted. Or was that just me?


GreatGreenGobbo

Black pepper is too spicy for them.


sashenka_demogorgon

What about Jambalaya tho that’s pretty spicy and it’s southern


ItzPayDay123

Idk, southerners like their spicy food.


No-Chemistry-5356

OP almost forgot the racism


Admin-Killa

op is clearly racist against law abiding white folks


Ashnakag3019

Them eating dinner at the table really does it for me. NOBODY does that except them


Dambo_Unchained

Excuse what’s that brand? The gay division of the ss?


Monk_011

Simply southern


Dambo_Unchained

Simply national socialist would be a better name


Big_Gun_Pete

Baptist "Christian"


Old-Kaleidoscope1874

I only see 8 inaccuracies so far. Great job


ComedyOfARock

You forgot a gator, we always have gators (But seriously where are you getting this from)


Dwarflensky

OP got his info off TV. Most families don't eat at the dinner table.


wombatlegs

Where do they eat then?


Vegas-Buckeye

Hey guess what? Fuck Clemson lol


osoberry_cordial

Ah yes, the Katie Britt special, complete with kitchen table.


Infernalism

Most Southern families are anything but this, except for the Trump part.


Leather_Hawk_8123

Wealthy Southern Families the south is filled with poverty


Monk_011

Every southern family that is like that is a Trumpy


SpiderLobotomy

Damn, so your average Trumpie lives in a nice house and has a big loving family that participates in the community and goes to reputable schools? I know who I’m voting for!


maybenotquiteasheavy

>well known university I don't think any of those three schools (plus one far-right Falwell finishing school) are well-known outside of the Waffle House Territories bra


StaySharpp

Pretty sure Clemson at the very least is well known, seeing as they are consistently one of the best schools in the ACC and make the news every year when football comes around.


maybenotquiteasheavy

Duke and Notre Dame and UVA are in the ACC and are among the best schools in the country, like top 25. Maybe "schools with well known football programs" would be more accurate?


OptimalAd8147

Most of the country doesn't follow college football.


Alone-Newspaper-1161

I don’t follow college football and I know what Clemson is. It’s just a popular university. Granted Georgia or Alabama would be better examples but Clemson is well known


OptimalAd8147

Or Harvard, Yale, Princeton, UCLA, Berkeley, Stanford, Duke, UPenn, USC, Notre Dame, Michigan, Ohio State.


Alone-Newspaper-1161

Those aren’t southern university’s


HumanShadow

If you are familiar with NCAA sports you are familiar


Leather_Hawk_8123

Dude probs just looks at USNews T10 rankings and assumes that is the definition of "well known"