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re: Spin Off from the Spin Off : What is the Deep South?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:08 pm to therick711
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:08 pm to therick711
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The 17 page thread on the topic wasn't good enough to host your ms paint and thoughts on what constitutes the proper definition of an ill-conceived, misdescriptive geographic area?
I used the Microsoft Snipping Tool thank you very much.
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Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:08 pm to SummerOfGeorge
I think if you cut the line off at the Tennessee border you will fit a lot of peoples definitions. Remember, you said "Deep South." Tennessee is the south, but not the Deep South
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:08 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Gotcha. I can agree with that.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Memphis is the damned definition of the Deep South
What characteristics of Memphis make it the definition of deep south? I've been to Memphis many times and do not find it to be that different than a city like St. Louis. I guess in my mind a large city does not represent my perception of deep south.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:09 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:10 pm to cardboardboxer
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Then why isn't Virginia/North Carolina in your circled area?
Isn't by definition the Deep South. Seceded later, not cotton producers, etc. Like Petti said earlier, I think an argument could be made the Lowcountry of SC/GA/NC are more like Virginia than they are Alabama and Mississippi.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:11 pm to zou_keeper
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What characteristics of Memphis make it the definition of deep south? I've been to Memphis many times and do not find it to be that different than a city like St. Louis. I guess in my mind a large city does not represent my perception of deep south.
Because Memphis, culture wise, should be in Mississippi.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:11 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Maybe my eyes are off, but you are saying part of northeast Alabama is not the Deep South?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:12 pm to zou_keeper
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What characteristics of Memphis make it the definition of deep south? I've been to Memphis many times and do not find it to be that different than a city like St. Louis. I guess in my mind a large city does not represent my perception of deep south.
what is your definition of the deep south?
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:12 pm to auburnphan23
Probably mountain south, like Rome GA and N. GA
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:13 pm to Volatile
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Shelby County in Tennessee is deep South. Maybe some border counties in West and Middle Tennessee, but other than that Tennessee is not Deep South.
I can agree with that. Taken as a whole we are a part of the Upper South. There's only certain areas that have more Deep South tendencies.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:13 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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Yea, I knew part of Eastern Arkansas was but wasn't sure exactly what that ended and the more Ozarkian area began.
I'm not really joking when I say downtown Little Rock is the dividing line. Travel west of downtown, it gets whiter, fast, and you start getting into the hills. Like within a mile or two.
Go east of downtown, and it starts getting blacker, fast. And the landscape moves to swamp and row-crops, within a couple of miles, literally.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:13 pm to auburnphan23
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you are saying part of northeast Alabama is not the Deep South?
Yes. Fort Payne is Appalachian.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:14 pm to Pettifogger
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Probably mountain south, like Rome GA and N. GA
Yep. Fort Payne, Rome, Dahlonega, Western NC, the upstate of South Carolina, East Tennessee, etc.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:15 pm to SummerOfGeorge
Northern Louisiana & the Arkansas Delta are 100% the Deep South.
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 4:28 pm
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:15 pm to Prof
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I can agree with that. Taken as a whole we are a part of the Upper South. There's only certain areas that have more Deep South tendencies.
Agree. Nashville probably fits more into the Upper South too. Most of the midstate does. West Tennessee is almost an extension of Mississippi. You could also argue northern Alabama is much like Nashville.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:16 pm to SummerOfGeorge
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I think an argument could be made the Lowcountry of SC/GA/NC
I think an argument could be made that the lowcountry sea islands plantation regions of SC and GA may be the most "southern" part of the US.
This post was edited on 4/21/15 at 4:17 pm
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:16 pm to GeorgeReymond
I agree George R.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:17 pm to TheGasMan
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I think an argument could be made that the lowcountry sea islands plantation regions of SC and GA may be the most southern part of the US.
Oh yea, exactly. The oldest, most Southern along with parts of coastal NC and Virginia. I think the culture, language and history of those areas is almost more colonial in nature than Alabama, Mississippi, Middle and West Georgia.
Personally it is my favorite part of the country.
Posted on 4/21/15 at 4:17 pm to Numberwang
This is a picture in the city limits of Little Rock, on the western side of town:
This is the Lorrance Creek swamp area, southeast of downtown Little Rock.
This is the Lorrance Creek swamp area, southeast of downtown Little Rock.
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