re: What are your geographic boundaries for the South?

Was in Western Maryland paddling some whitewater, they've got some really good steep, and these locals graciously took me to a restaurant specializing in vegetables which were like pintos, slaw, potato salad, and maybe green beans. I quipped to the waitress that down south this wasn't much for veggies. To which she quipped we're south of the Mason/Dixon.... so I asked her how she liked her okra? Her blank look was ensnared with me replying boiled or fired? We all laughed and I ordered slaw n'pinto beans and left a good southern tip for her humor.

Texas is a country all to itself and maybe even subdivided. Once had to tell some cowboys yelling Yankee, that my truck tag read 'Heart of Dixie' and then we all went for a drink. Although it was touch and go for a small moment.