General Discussion

It was the 80's and early 90's so things may be different now, but my experience was that the "natives" really only had friends within their particular church or neighborhood, unless they were a neighbor from the North. They were civil and friendly on the surface but not very accepting of yankees. Being a lifelong optimist I didn't believe it when other northerners who had moved there told me this was true, but it certainly turned out to be true. When I left to move to another northern state, I looked back and realized that I had not made even one good friend, and that had never happened to me in my life.