My dad's family spent several years living in Tennessee after they immigrated from England to the USA. I came within a hair's breadth of talking just like her.
Oh I believe you, when I flew to Ireland and laid over at Newark New Jersey, the customers didn't seem to come first with the airport staff. How much different would it be just 218 miles away?
This lady plays the "southern bell" card, in much the same way that a member of a minority mite play the race card. It's all and well in a joke, but who would not be irritated if they met this kind of person in real life? The kind of person who acts in what ever manor is more convenient. But i must admit, i would be just the same if i were in their shoes. Is it perhaps that most men who criticise those who play what ever card, are only envious? It would seem so, if i am a typical man. But who ever said that?