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re: Ranking the SEC states in terms of "Southernness"
Posted on 4/6/14 at 9:24 pm to BigOrangeBri
Posted on 4/6/14 at 9:24 pm to BigOrangeBri
We don't.
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Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:20 pm to BigOrangeBri
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Ha, ne arky is more southern than west Tennessee/ Memphis? You can't be serious.
Yes...Very serious. Like I said, I work for the City of Memphis and live in Jonesboro...I know what I'm talking about. Don't get me wrong, Downtown and Midtown Memphis is Southern as anything but once you get out of those parts you have Jewish East Memphis, Cordova, and the rest of Memphis is a Hood.(Memphis proper).... The Memphis suburbs of W. Memphis, Marion, Germantown, Millington, Bartlett, Collierville, and of course Olive Branch and Southaven have a Southern feel also. But, I am basically saying that Northeast Arkansas is more Southern than most of Tennessee's most southern city/region. NE Arkansas grows a lot of RICE and COTTON...Many "salt of the earth" folks live in NE Arkansas.... Tennessee feels less "Southern" as you travel East.
Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:33 pm to BigOrangeBri
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I consider Texas to be Southern
That'll be a negative on that.
Posted on 4/6/14 at 11:44 pm to TheSwineAssault
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Arkansas grows some of the biggest Gators in the world...We have some deep south in us ...much more than Tennessee does.
Ya think maybe because Tennessee is located in the Upper South?
We're Old South but we're not Deep South. Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:01 am to Prof
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Ya think maybe because Tennessee is located in the Upper South? We're Old South but we're not Deep South.
Old South?? Almost half of Tennessee didn't want to succeed from the Union.. Tennessee was the last state to succeed and the first state to rejoin the Union. I will give you that TN is an old state (1796) ..But, when I think of "Old South" I think of South Carolina, Georgia, or even Virginia before I do TN. I view Tennessee as follows.... West TN is definitely Southern..(Memphis has deep south culture) ...Middle Tennessee feels like Kentucky, and East TN is Appalachian Hill folks who historically did not want to be part of the South during the Civil War. Like I said earlier, TN feels less southern as you travel east.
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 12:03 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:04 am to TheSwineAssault
^^The Confederacy is NOT the South.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:16 am to Prof
That's hilarious.
Also anybody that thinks Texas isn't southern has never set foot in East Texas. It doesn't get much more southern than that.
Also anybody that thinks Texas isn't southern has never set foot in East Texas. It doesn't get much more southern than that.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:27 am to Captain Rumbeard
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Also anybody that thinks Texas isn't southern has never set foot in East Texas. It doesn't get much more southern than that.
As a whole, Texas is not southern. Don't kid yourself.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 12:28 am to Captain Rumbeard
Agreed on East Texas.
To me, "Texas" starts once you cross an invisible line that runs through Houston and Tyler.
To me, "Texas" starts once you cross an invisible line that runs through Houston and Tyler.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 7:38 am to TheSwineAssault
How can you prove that East Tennessee is truly southern. Just look at the number of NASCAR tracks that were abandoned by the France family in their push to spread North and West.
Chattanooga International - Last Race - 1964
Kingsport Speedway - Last Race - 1971
Smokey Mountain Raceway - Last Race - 1971
Tennessee-Carolina Speedway - Last Race - 1957
You can't be more Southern than being abandoned by NASCAR.
Chattanooga International - Last Race - 1964
Kingsport Speedway - Last Race - 1971
Smokey Mountain Raceway - Last Race - 1971
Tennessee-Carolina Speedway - Last Race - 1957
You can't be more Southern than being abandoned by NASCAR.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 8:05 am to TheSwineAssault
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THESWINEASSAULT
Ranking the SEC states in terms of "Southernness"
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Ya think maybe because Tennessee is located in the Upper South? We're Old South but we're not Deep South.
Old South?? Almost half of Tennessee didn't want to succeed from the Union.. Tennessee was the last state to succeed and the first state to rejoin the Union.
secede.....
Posted on 4/7/14 at 8:32 am to TbirdSpur2010
There's parts of Texas that are Mexico. There's parts that are West Coast. There's parts that are pretty much everything. But ALL of east Texas is southern as hell. Which makes them about ten times more southern than Florida or Missouri or Kentucky.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:36 am to CockInYourEar
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9. Most Famous SC Politician, John C Calhoun -Vice President
Wasn't Andrew Jackson born in South Carolina?
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 9:37 am
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:46 am to SammyTiger
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Mountain People Tier Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky Ozarks, Appalachians, Smokeys whatever i don't know mountains
You do realize like half the state of Arkansas is flat as shite, right? Both of my grandfathers were cotton farmers and lived on opposite sides of the state.
People somehow think that because they went to Fayetteville once for a game and it's in the middle of the mountains that somehow the state as a whole must be mountainous as frick.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 9:58 am to Feral
Arkansas is about 1/2 mountains or hills, and half rowcrops and delta.
East to SE of Little Rock 5 miles and you are in cropland and bottomlands. West Little Rock looks like this:
Its a rapid transition.
East to SE of Little Rock 5 miles and you are in cropland and bottomlands. West Little Rock looks like this:
Its a rapid transition.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:04 am to wmr
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rapid transition
Dibs on the band name.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:10 am to TbirdSpur2010
Its yours. Any future endeavors of mine will be named Holly Rowe's FUPA. See previous dibs.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 10:49 am to wmr
I was born and raised in the cotton fields of the Delta, just 30 mins from Memphis. I never saw a "mountain" until I hit Little Rock, and never saw mountainous terrain until the first time I ever went up 540.
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:01 am to DocHog
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I agree with this. There is no Yankee influence in W Texas whatsoever.
Go to Odessa, compare those folks to Florida, and get back to us.
This is perhaps the most idiotic thing I've seen posted on the Rant, which is quite an accomplishment
Really, where in West Texas did you live?
This post was edited on 4/7/14 at 10:09 pm
Posted on 4/7/14 at 11:07 am to MetryTyger
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secede.....
Thank you for the correction...my bad.
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