I have lived all over the country, and moved to Georgia a little over a year ago.  I have to say that most of the people I have encountered are more willing to consider other viewpoints and opinions than people in Indiana, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arizona.

Indiana is hard core fundamentalist right wing conservative land. And most of them view you as a snob if you get good grades and go to college. (I was born and raised there, I know this for a fact)

Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee and Arizona aren’t much different.  Tennessee is more racist, sexist and closed minded than Georgia.
Arizona is so full of old, rich, white Republicans it’s not even funny.  I bet most of them vote in both states they live in. (They winter in AZ) Missouri is as ass backwards and bible beating fundie as Indiana.

Indiana is full of right wing freaks who want to kill anyone who is or thinks differently from them.  They have no idea that being like that is hateful and wrong.  That’s how damn stupid they are!

Georgia is waaaaaay more open to “outsiders”.  Mind you, I am talking about Atlanta, not Macon. I haven’t been down there, so I have no opinion as of yet.

There are right wing Republican assholes here, too. And they are the majority.  But, there at least SOME thinking people here, which is more than I can say about most of the Midwest (Chicago being the exception to the rule).

I fucking loathe and despise Indiana because it is so full of the people you describe.
Inbred and braindead!

The part about Georgia being more open might be right. Elton John does live in Atlanta.

In my opinion, if your experience in the south is limited to living in a big city, you haven’t truly lived in the south.  I grew up in the sticks and have lived in cities of varying in the south.  In the cities, as they get larger, you get more diverisity of opinion than you do in the rural areas. 

There are people born and raised here in the DFW metroplex that I would say are Texan only due to geographical technicality.  You could transplant them into any large suburb and they’d fit in. 

I don’t have experience in midwest cities, but I’d wager things are similar.

I totally agree. Like you sed A LOT of people in the South >>>LOVE<<< to shove their religions down people’s throats. They need to shove it up theirs and let people pick their own religions.