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re: What are your geographic boundaries for the South?
Posted on 11/13/19 at 11:24 am to wmr
Posted on 11/13/19 at 11:24 am to wmr
Benton County could still be considered Southern. It's like being in the suburbs of Atlanta or something....
Nah, it really isn't. Bentonville has to be one of the nicest towns in the "south", and it's getting better by the day.
Nah, it really isn't. Bentonville has to be one of the nicest towns in the "south", and it's getting better by the day.
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Posted on 11/13/19 at 1:15 pm to ExtraSpecial
I'm American that is closer to the most southern point of the united states than the most northern part.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 1:45 pm to ExtraSpecial
frick this map. Texas isn't the south. I want nothing to do with the south, same as the midwest or west. Texas is Texas.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 1:55 pm to ExtraSpecial
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I think we can cross off any parts of Missouri
At a bare minimum, the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern. You can argue the rest of the southern portion of the state/Ozarks, but the bootheel is definitely the South.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:19 pm to wmr
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They have fricking mesas in western Oklahoma.
Yep! I remember driving westbound on 40 through Oklahoma. The farther west I traveled, the more scenic it became. I enjoyed looking at the canyons and wind-swept plains. It was so different from the rolling green hills of Middle Tennessee that it captivated me.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:20 pm to BoerneAg
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Texas is Texas.
Agree.
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I want nothing to do with the south,
Sorry bud, but your state was founded and settled by Southerners.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:22 pm to KCM0Tiger
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At a bare minimum, the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern
Having been there, I would agree. I tried to minimize severing certain states to include them in the South (you notice I only chopped off FL and VA.)
Do some Missourians call themselves Southerners? The residents of KC and STL are steadfast Midwesterners, as are those in Columbia, but how about towns like Branson and Cape Girardeau?
This post was edited on 11/13/19 at 4:23 pm
Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:25 pm to Numberwang
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Nah, it really isn't. Bentonville has to be one of the nicest towns in the "south", and it's getting better by the day
I'd like to visit. I keep hearing great things about your neck of the woods.
I would like to nominate my hometown of Franklin, Tennessee as being one of the South's best small cities.
Posted on 11/13/19 at 4:58 pm to ExtraSpecial
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Do some Missourians call themselves Southerners?
Yes. Basically draw a line around the Missouri delta, which includes all of the Bootheel, and the population considers themselves Southerners. People outside of that area, such as in St. Louis, make fun of the way they talk.
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but how about towns like Branson and Cape Girardeau?
The above-mentioned line does not include Cape Girardeau, which is a hill town. Branson is probably Midwestern based on not only the fact that it is western MO, but also the snowbirds from the north that have flocked there.
This post was edited on 11/13/19 at 4:59 pm
Posted on 11/13/19 at 5:02 pm to Arksulli
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Arksulli
Are you buying the Big John's this Friday when I pass through?
I'd stop if I wasn't in a hurry.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 12:47 pm to ExtraSpecial
The Southwest portion of Virginia is definitely the South. Northern VA is yankee. Coastal Virginia is southern, but not like the deep south.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:45 pm to ExtraSpecial
You have never been to Maryland if you say it’s not southern. The back waters of the Maryland coast are home to some of the redneckiess people you will ever meet.
Posted on 11/14/19 at 8:49 pm to DownSouthJukin
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remember when I first started going fishing up there and was shocked by the way many of the people talked. It was clear they were Midwest/Rust Belt transplants.
You cannot get sweet tea north of Hot Springs and they eat rice for breakfast. That’s where I draw the line in Arkansas
Posted on 11/15/19 at 2:24 am to MaroonNation
I would consider WV southern overall. I grew up in southern WV and it is very similar culturally to the rest of the south. You could take any place in east TN, eastern KY, southwest VA or WV and not know which was from which state. I never considered myself to be a northerner and still don't and never will, for that matter. Maryland and VA are the same in that the closer you get to DC, the less southern they get. Western MD and WV are basically the same place. VA is still very southern overall I think, just not NOVA.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 6:11 am to thatguy45
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Ohio River is a big dividing line
Ohio Ocean
True southern folks recognize the full size of this body of water as a buffer zone between the yankee hordes and the genteel southern folks.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 11:39 am to ExtraSpecial
If you're part of the original 11, you're Southern.
Posted on 11/15/19 at 6:14 pm to MaroonNation
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You cannot get sweet tea north of Hot Springs and they eat rice for breakfast.
I dont know about the rice thing but there is definitely sweet tea north of Hot springs...
Posted on 11/18/19 at 12:01 pm to MeatCleaverWeaver
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I’ve met some people from northern KY who don’t seem very southern either, but I don’t know enough about the area to rule it out.
Florence, KY sits across the river from Cincinnati. The accents may be different but the culture is decidedly southern.
Posted on 11/18/19 at 6:13 pm to ExtraSpecial
Texas ain’t part of the south. frick that noise.
Posted on 11/19/19 at 8:44 am to ExtraSpecial
quote:The DelMarVa peninsula* (the land east of the Chesapeake Bay) is as Southern as Alabama.
Maryland and Delaware are not Southern at all
*DelMarVa, south of Dover Delaware
This post was edited on 11/19/19 at 8:47 am
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