Of course, I'm not saying there's anything sinister behind it, just the pragmatic reason why NASA is more valued in the South. There are (for various reasons) more NASA facilities and therefore NASA jobs and NASA money in the South.Souplex said:
Is sci fi and fantasy less accepted in the American South?
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Generally no.
I know only a single person who thinks Harry Potter is devil worship[footnote] Everyone else goes, yeah, yeah you go ahead and think like that, we're going to keep watching the movie even when your kid is visiting and we're also taking him trick-or-treating for Halloween[/footnote]. The state I live in is home to every kind of geeky con you can imagine, including hentai and furries.
But I live in Florida, as south as the US gets but not really "southern", has voted blue for the past couple presidential elections, but is run by republicans.
I know only a single person who thinks Harry Potter is devil worship[footnote] Everyone else goes, yeah, yeah you go ahead and think like that, we're going to keep watching the movie even when your kid is visiting and we're also taking him trick-or-treating for Halloween[/footnote]. The state I live in is home to every kind of geeky con you can imagine, including hentai and furries.
But I live in Florida, as south as the US gets but not really "southern", has voted blue for the past couple presidential elections, but is run by republicans.
Although I'm pretty sure they'd be all over that. Make it a movie, rather than a TV show, have it directed by Michael Bay, add some American flags in there, instant Blockbuster.CaptJohnSheridan said:
I think when your thinking of the American South your picturing small towns, not big cities because that's what people normally picture when they think of the American South.
It's big cities where people will normally congregate to speak about hobbies like this, at cons, gaming conventions and even the odd bar, these places also exist in the south.
Like a lot of hobbies people in small towns people will normally talk about it with there friends or online, this would be true for Northern States as well.
It's big cities where people will normally congregate to speak about hobbies like this, at cons, gaming conventions and even the odd bar, these places also exist in the south.
Like a lot of hobbies people in small towns people will normally talk about it with there friends or online, this would be true for Northern States as well.
Heh, I live in the reverse -- as north as you can go and still be "southern" (literally - the Mason-Dixon line makes up part of our northern border), has voted red for the past couple presidential elections, but is (mostly) run by Democrats.Eclipse Dragon said:
The trick is that our Democrats tend to downplay the anti-gun and anti-coal stuff, because both would be poisonous to getting elected here.
Southern places may have a higher ratio of the ill defined jock stereotyoe who only cares about alcohol, sports and cars but they're definitely not the only kind of person there, as that is pretty much impossible in a free country.
I always enjoy the people who think fantasy is evil though, a teacher of mine from back when I lived in Greece once mentioned that my (white!) magic the gathering card was evil due to having the word magic on it and the only one able to use magic for good being god so by defition all other magic is satanic. I wonder if she secretly was afraid I would unleash my army of leonin weenies on the school and have them kill everyone. So yeah, totally amusing.
I always enjoy the people who think fantasy is evil though, a teacher of mine from back when I lived in Greece once mentioned that my (white!) magic the gathering card was evil due to having the word magic on it and the only one able to use magic for good being god so by defition all other magic is satanic. I wonder if she secretly was afraid I would unleash my army of leonin weenies on the school and have them kill everyone. So yeah, totally amusing.
Having grown up as a sci fi and fantasy loving geek in East Texas in the Nineties i can tell you from experience that while there are always people who will share your interests there were just as many who thought I was broken in some way because i didn't want to get up at 3 in the morning to hunt or who saw my disdain for football as blasphemy. I mean that as literally as possible. It's one of the few things that Kink of the Hill was absolutely right about in it's depiction of a small town in Texas.
the jocks and outdoor types were much more numerous (at least in my town) and were louder and their parents to back them up as it being "tradition".
I hated high school.
the jocks and outdoor types were much more numerous (at least in my town) and were louder and their parents to back them up as it being "tradition".
I hated high school.
Sorry for the doublepost but my phone won't let me edit for some reason. Clearly I meant KING of the Hill not KINK. Though to be fair that might have been a more interesting show. Lol
I really don't think so, from what I've heard pretty much everyone down there owns the rule book. I mean damn, they even put 'em in motel rooms for visitors!
Serios answer; I'm British. So, I don't know. Judging on the sterotype of the Southern American that we get told about in media though, I'd've thought so. Would think they'd say it was gay.
Serios answer; I'm British. So, I don't know. Judging on the sterotype of the Southern American that we get told about in media though, I'd've thought so. Would think they'd say it was gay.
Living in Missouri, again, Mason/Dixon line, I've seen my fair share of moms who thought that Harry Potter was evil because he talked to snakes. As soon as I hear those beliefs I slowly back away. Ignorance like that tends to be infectious and I don't need it rubbing off on me. My own mother thought RPGs like D&D were the work of the devil but she usually kept that to herself, me being very outspoken about the things I enjoyed. Reason tended to trump ignorance in my house on all days except holidays, when the ignorant would gather in groups. This is a rural home, the kind of place where you'd expect this sort of thing, though I am trying to change that.
Texas has "quite" a few big cities, including Houston (fourth largest in U.S., going on 3rd, with a lesbian mayor), Austin (very liberal for the most part), Dallas (or actually The DFW Metroplex [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas%E2%80%93Fort_Worth_metroplex/], not just Dallas), and San Antonio. We are the second largest state in size and population. Don't try to downplay that.Saelune said:
