I'm so old I Remember when:

People are definitely more polite in the South. Before I moved to Louisiana I rarely heard Sir/Ma’am. When I got down there I was amazed to be addressed as such. Here on the Middle East Coast it depends on who you talk to.
That's for sure! I went to college down South. Even at church in Sunday School or Children's Church the little ones were taught to call us "Miss First Name", etc. They never called us by just our first names. Up here, my parents taught us to always call adults "Mr. or Mrs. Jones", etc., (with the exception of close family friends) but not common with most people. Some of my cousins didn't even use Aunt or Uncle. We would never have gotten away with that.
 

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