OH NO THEY DIDN'T

Leila Shearon

Before I begin this blog I must "WOW". As I was researching and looking over the websites I noticed a common trait that they help. They stereotyped the south immensely www.alphadictionary.com realized a quiz that would "help" one find answer the question "Are you a Yankee or a Rebel". This quiz introduction questioned people of southern background saying" are y'all speaking Bubbaese". This is offensive. This phrase demotes southerners in society of intelligence. The south is full of scholars and successful business men. I take offense to the stereotype of the uneducated hillbilly redneck. http://vaiden.net/convert.html does the same of stereotyping the south and their dialect. The give the impression that every person below the mason Dixon line miss pronounces most words. Everyone does not say "Aigs" instead of "Eggs" This is rude. I believe Lippi Green jumped on the band wagon (as a few “southerners” would say) in this stereotyping. In his writing about southern dialect he titled it “Hillbillies,Rednecks, and Southern Belles” . Once again not all southernes fall under this category.Green redeems herself by arguing the fact that “There is a great deal of diversity in the south”(209). What is Southernese? Www.alphadictionary.com gives definetions to words and prnuciation that is said to only be heard in the south. Why would the call it southerenesse. The southeren dialect is not a different language. It is an accent just like the northern accent. We live in a America and we are not aliens we are normal people that are all unique in the way we speak and act. We are not “rednecks” or “southernbelles”(they do exist) but WE are American people.