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re: Spin Off from the Spin Off : What is the Deep South?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:55 pm to BigOrangeBri
Posted on 4/21/15 at 9:55 pm to BigOrangeBri
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Too far west, bro
We really need a sarcasta font
East Texas is part of the deep south but the rest of Texas isn't.
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 10:00 pm to Agforlife
And the rest of yall don't hesitate to remind us of it. I can't tell you how many time at school I had somebody ask me if I was from Alabama or georgia or Mississippi. All us east tx kids stuck out, so we all stuck together. Lol
Posted on 4/21/15 at 10:01 pm to Agforlife
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East Texas is part of the deep south but the rest of Texas isn't.
I agree. I included it on my definitive Deep South map
Posted on 4/22/15 at 12:08 am to SummerOfGeorge
Where the men are massively wide, the women are just massive, and your mother is your sister
Posted on 4/22/15 at 12:17 am to MIZ_COU
German midwesterners are wide, they're just taller. Optical illusion.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 4:15 am to SummerOfGeorge
If there is an explosion of seersucker and linen at your church on Easter Sunday, then you live in the Deep South.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 6:21 am to SummerOfGeorge
I think you should raise the line to the top of the Georgia state line. Lots of those hill folks still act like Deliverance.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 6:23 am to Agforlife
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East Texas is part of the deep south but the rest of Texas isn't.
Texans being all nonconformist and shite
Posted on 4/22/15 at 8:05 am to SummerOfGeorge
When I think truly Deep South, I'd go with South and West Georgia, south and central Alabama, Mississippi, the delta region of ark, north Louisiana, and west TN.
New Orleans and south LA are a unique culture.
N GA, E TN, upstate SC, W NC, and SW VA are very similar. Southern mountain culture.
Lowcountry SC up though Eastern/Central NC and VA are more similar to each other than they are to other "Deep Southern" areas to the west. You could almost throw Savannah in with this region as well. Different agricultural backgrounds, more colonial influence, different cultural influence in ports in Charleston, Richmond, etc. vs. New Orleans, Mobile.
New Orleans and south LA are a unique culture.
N GA, E TN, upstate SC, W NC, and SW VA are very similar. Southern mountain culture.
Lowcountry SC up though Eastern/Central NC and VA are more similar to each other than they are to other "Deep Southern" areas to the west. You could almost throw Savannah in with this region as well. Different agricultural backgrounds, more colonial influence, different cultural influence in ports in Charleston, Richmond, etc. vs. New Orleans, Mobile.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 8:12 am to Crowknowsbest
If you're going to include part of Florida...at least use the correct part's
Posted on 4/22/15 at 8:35 am to zou_keeper
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Memphis does not feel very different than some mid-western cities.
You're way off. Going to Beale Street and a few Redbird games doesn't give you a feel for the Memphis area and its culture. My entire Mothers side in my family is from Arlington/Lakeland, TN. and Hernando, MS. and they might be the most "southern" people I have ever met.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 9:08 am to SummerOfGeorge
Deep South includes all of Georgia and Tennessee. Florida as far down as Gainesville. Louisiana is also deep south.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 9:19 am to Pavoloco83
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Florida as far down as Gainesville.
Jump over the area around Orlando...but you have to include central Florida in the "Deep South"
Posted on 4/22/15 at 9:20 am to BigOrangeBri
You got it right this time around.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 9:21 am to SummerOfGeorge
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SummerOfGeorge
Yep - pretty much although I'm not sure I would go too far north of Huntsville and I would not include Charlotte but I would include Greenville, Liberty, Pickens County, etc.
Don't you just about have to make a little dingaling over to the west and include Shreveport?
And you just about have to make your Southern boundary include Ocala.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 9:55 am to SummerOfGeorge
Move over into Arkansas and North Louisiana and remove all of the Republic of West Florida and New Orleans.
Add in East Texas and North Georgia as well.
Add in East Texas and North Georgia as well.
This post was edited on 4/22/15 at 9:57 am
Posted on 4/22/15 at 10:04 am to AlaTiger
I think you exclude south La because of the Catholic influence. When I think of the deep south, I think of protestants. North La is definitely deep south. East Texas is too. I'd count Memphis but it quickly changes as you go north and east.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 11:08 am to Prof
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Looks accurate to me. East, TN is definitely not the Deep South. Nashville and Memphis are culturally Deep South but also have Upper South tendencies - they are what I'd consider a mish mash of the two.
If you kept the state together I'd say we were the Upper South. But it's also fair to divide us - we are called the Three States of Tennessee for a reason.
I think SE Tennessee qualifies as Deep South. That corridor from South Pittsburg->Chattanooga->Cleveland is definitely Deep South. Once you start heading around Sweetwater or so, you head into East Tennessee/Appalachia.
It's amazing to me how different Chattanooga and Knoxville are, considering that in terms of sheer distance, they're only ~100 miles away.
Also, and this isn't in reply to you, but Charlotte is not the Deep South. Hell, I'm not sure there's much of North Carolina (except that area near the Pee Dee of SC) that could qualify. North Carolina is weird.
This post was edited on 4/22/15 at 11:09 am
Posted on 4/22/15 at 11:25 am to CrimsonTideMD
quote:And ugly arse headgear worn by women...
If there is an explosion of seersucker and linen at your church on Easter Sunday, then you live in the Deep South.
Posted on 4/22/15 at 11:56 am to RoyalAir
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Also, and this isn't in reply to you, but Charlotte is not the Deep South. Hell, I'm not sure there's much of North Carolina (except that area near the Pee Dee of SC) that could qualify. North Carolina is weird.
I love part of NC but I agree that it is an odd southern state in several ways. First of all, obviously Charlotte and the Research Triangle area have a huge influx of people from all over so they don't feel southern in a similar way that Atlanta doesn't. But beyond that North Carolina has a lot of other different flavors of "southernness".
Western NC is very Appalachian, but has a much larger influx of wealth and retirees from all over the country than the rural parts of Appalachia in North Georgia and East Tennessee (also Asheville is its own thing altogether).
East of Raleigh to the coast you get into an agricultural flatland area that is more reminiscent of other deep south areas but still different in accent/food/etc. than South Georgia, the black belt of Alabama or the Mississippi Delta.
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