You get a lot more random conversing and small talk in the South. I usually can't walk around in my town without at least 5 or 6 people stopping me to chat for a sec. Going to a brewery here is like going to a highschool, everyone's all cliqued up and knows each other.

That being said, there's still tons of weird asd dudes who think that just because a woman said "how's it going?" to them that it's okay to start stalking them. Luckily word spreads fast lol