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re: Nominations for The Most Country Areas of the south
Posted on 4/11/21 at 9:53 pm to Jack Ruby
Posted on 4/11/21 at 9:53 pm to Jack Ruby
I read the book called a painted house by John Grisham. The setting was in the early 50s in Northeast Arkansas. It was based on his life and family as cotton pickers.
They had hired help when picking time was ready. One of the helpers were hillbilies from the Eureka Springs area. The book described them as quite different from people of the Northeast area. They were very rough but the family didn't look down on them as they were more productive than the rest of the pickers.
One of them I forgot his name had fights with 3-4 sharecroper family members and beat them all easily.
They had hired help when picking time was ready. One of the helpers were hillbilies from the Eureka Springs area. The book described them as quite different from people of the Northeast area. They were very rough but the family didn't look down on them as they were more productive than the rest of the pickers.
One of them I forgot his name had fights with 3-4 sharecroper family members and beat them all easily.
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Posted on 4/11/21 at 10:15 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
As many of the responses are more about “remote” vs many other definitions of country, I will throw the section of Texas between Dallas and Houston into the ring. Specifically I45 between the two. For that chunk of land to be between two of the largest cities in the country it is just barren, especially south of Corsicana. It is amazing how different it is than the trip from Dallas to San Antonio which is pretty densely populated outside of the area north of Waco.
Posted on 4/11/21 at 10:22 pm to jdevers
I nominate Deep East Texas. It’s super hick back there. Way more than any other part of Texas per capita. Doesn’t even feel like Texas either.
Posted on 4/11/21 at 10:58 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
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My nomination is the 41 mile stretch from Winchester, Tennessee to Stevenson, Alabama
I'm not making fun. I love the people I know from that area. Best people on the planet? Maybe
That stretch does run through Sewanee btw..
Someone must have had dinner at High Point last night.
Posted on 4/12/21 at 7:50 am to Harry Rex Vonner
I can tell you baws never been through the WinnField, Georgetown, Olla, Urania, Jena, Nebo, Aimwell, Columbia, Deville, Jonesville, Harrisonburg, Sicily Island corridor. 
Posted on 4/12/21 at 7:52 am to BorrisMart
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I can tell you baws never been through the WinnField, Georgetown, Olla, Urania, Jena, Nebo, Aimwell, Columbia, Deville, Jonesville, Harrisonburg, Sicily Island corridor
Is that in Arkansas?
Posted on 4/12/21 at 8:38 am to CedarChest
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I didn't realize Dickeys was doing the strawberry thing now. I've been there so many times over the years. Everytime I come home during the summer I make damn sure I get there. BTW, Crawford County could easily make our list here. I went to elementary school in Milner and went to high school at Mary Persons, so I'm that area through and through. Only thing I miss here in Virginia right now is good hs football. Ain't no comparison to were we are from.
Griffin High, Class of '99. State football champs in 2013.
I called a 2nd rd.football playoff game at Mary Persons in 2018. Forsyth is a nice town.
Speaking of Crawford County, there is a great BBQ restaurant in downtown Roberta. Can't remember the name of it right now.
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I live about 30 miles east of Beckley
I go through Beckley on the way to Pittsburgh. That entire area is beautiful.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 9:06 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Anywhere east of I-75 in Laurel County to the Tennessee border and then along the Virginia border to Pikeville. That area is so country they have their own dialect of the southern accent.
The Pride of Pineville.
The Pride of Pineville.
Posted on 4/13/21 at 11:48 am to Harry Rex Vonner
Bradley County, AR
Posted on 4/13/21 at 8:02 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Two Egg, FL.
Stretch from Donalsonville,GA to Blountstown,FL.
Stretch from Donalsonville,GA to Blountstown,FL.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 5:09 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
I nominate Hollis Crossroads, AL thru Roanoke and ending at metro La Fayette, AL.
Posted on 4/16/21 at 5:37 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
Virginia west of I-95
The Panhandle
East Tennessee
The Panhandle
East Tennessee
Posted on 4/16/21 at 9:58 pm to KCM0Tiger
Maybe not the most country, but.....
My grandpa was a rural mail carrier when I was a little boy (late 50s early 60s). Riding with him on his route around Arab MO really opened my eyes. Neither Dad nor Mom's family had much (swampy 100 acre farms), but my young eyes were opened to a completely unseen level of backwardness & poverty stricken level of civilization in the hills around there.
I realized I had a pretty good life after that.
My grandpa was a rural mail carrier when I was a little boy (late 50s early 60s). Riding with him on his route around Arab MO really opened my eyes. Neither Dad nor Mom's family had much (swampy 100 acre farms), but my young eyes were opened to a completely unseen level of backwardness & poverty stricken level of civilization in the hills around there.
I realized I had a pretty good life after that.
This post was edited on 4/17/21 at 9:47 am
Posted on 4/17/21 at 9:36 am to mingoswamp
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Arab MO
My old hunting season stomping grounds.
There are some interesting folks in that area and in the bottoms on the Castor River. I spent a lot of time around there in my formative years.
This post was edited on 4/17/21 at 9:38 am
Posted on 4/17/21 at 2:35 pm to Harry Rex Vonner
This whole section of Alabama I've circled right here is damn near 3rd world in a lot of those towns
Posted on 4/17/21 at 9:36 pm to DownSouthJukin
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My old hunting season stomping grounds.
Kind of figured of retiring around there (Cape G) until my son met a KC girl and that's were my infant grandsons are. Life changes
Posted on 4/18/21 at 9:04 pm to mingoswamp
Some friends had a place on the Castor River north of Gipsy and we had a place a little further north of there that was surrounded by state forest. We always went through Arab to get there and usually stopped at the little store there. I spent a lot of time with a bow or rifle in my hands around there, but there was (and probably still is) a lot of trespassing and poaching that went on, so the hunting wasn't that great where we were.
The hunting got better down in the flat lands when we put some property into WRP, so I haven't been back that way since the early 2000's. I doubt much has changed.
The hunting got better down in the flat lands when we put some property into WRP, so I haven't been back that way since the early 2000's. I doubt much has changed.
Posted on 4/18/21 at 11:20 pm to DownSouthJukin
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We always went through Arab to get there and usually stopped at the little store there.
That little store/gas station at the 4 way was owned by my great uncle! Spent a lot of time there as a boy, plus threw many a hay bale around there as a teenager.
This post was edited on 4/19/21 at 9:24 am
Posted on 4/19/21 at 3:35 pm to PanhandleSlim
Section north of DeFuniak Springs to the Alabama state line does not have cell phone service, no internet. Stop by the Long Branch in Darlington, FL. You can get cut, shot, or both.
Posted on 4/19/21 at 3:50 pm to BowlJackson
Look at your Map, list Coffee Springs, but no Samson or Slocomb. 87 South to Elba them Samson, Ponce De Leon, FL is now the quickest way to Panama City. Friend of Mine is building a Mega-Marathon Center in Samson. Traffic is unreal through there now
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