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re: What are your geographic boundaries for the South?
Posted on 11/22/19 at 10:02 am to ExtraSpecial
Posted on 11/22/19 at 10:02 am to ExtraSpecial
You live in the south if you are a 3 hour drive or less from the Gulf of Mexico. That’s it.
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Posted on 11/22/19 at 10:50 am to SpencerRob
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You live in the south if you are a 3 hour drive or less from the Gulf of Mexico.
Nope.
Posted on 11/23/19 at 2:28 am to Mountaineerfan7
quote:No doubt drive as straight as you can from Friendsville MD to Glen Jean WV to Elkhorn City KY to Pound VA and you'll find just wee differences in enunciation and the same intent as anywhere south to the coast (except maybe Atlanta).
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 11/24/19 at 11:43 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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Texas ain’t part of the south. frick that noise.
Nope.
Culturally, Texas is firmly part of Mexico.
Posted on 11/24/19 at 11:46 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 went to the North Forest Lights at Crystal Bridges last night. After dinner at Tavola and drinks at Fiamma. Bentonville is like a big city in small-town form. Crystal Bridges is a world-class museum (no, really), in a big city botanical garden setting, with mountain biking shooting off from it in a couple directions. It's hard to accurately describe what Bentonville has become. Homes downtown start around $500k now. There are streets that feel like Brooklyn, and parts that feel like you're in a ski-town. There really isn't anything else like Bentonville.
Seriously, the culture we get in NWA for a metro of 500k is pretty killer. Walmart money (and Tyson and JB Hunt) buys a lot of cool toys.
This post was edited on 11/24/19 at 11:54 pm
Posted on 12/3/19 at 11:12 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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If you're part of the original 11, you're Southern.
Thank you,
Florida was third to secede, behind South Carolina and Mississippi. My family has been here (NE Florida) and extreme Southeast Ga. (Camden CO.) since 1750. We are proud Southerners, and no one can deny us that.
Posted on 12/3/19 at 11:21 pm to PhilipMarlowe
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Texas ain’t part of the south. frick that noise.
Your lineage probably isn't.
Posted on 12/4/19 at 2:24 pm to KCM0Tiger
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the bootheel of Missouri is 100% Southern
As a native I can say that you are 100% correct.
I also lived in Alexandria, Virginia, for 14 years. There are small pockets of Southerners in Alexandria, but thanks in large to the Northerners who moved in it is as Yankee as can be.
Another interesting place is Cairo, Illinois. Fifty years ago Cairo was every bit as Southern as Selma, Alabama.
ETA: The oldest Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter in continuous existence is Sterling Price Camp No. 145 in St. Louis. It even predates Nathan Bedford Forrest Camp No. 215 in Memphis.
This post was edited on 12/4/19 at 2:35 pm
Posted on 12/6/19 at 9:31 am to PhilipMarlowe
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Texas ain’t part of the south. frick that noise.
Were you a Confederate state [X]YES [] NO
If yes, then you are part of the South.
Posted on 12/8/19 at 5:29 pm to ExtraSpecial
These days, I consider the south to have contracted. Only LA, AR, MS, AL, GA, TN, SC, FL count. frick Texas. Mostly Mexicans. Kentucky is yankee and North Carolina might as well be. frick Virginia as well.
Posted on 12/8/19 at 5:32 pm to ExtraSpecial
I would consider Oklahoma and Texas as part of the south.
Posted on 12/10/19 at 3:17 am to ExtraSpecial
Was stationed at Ft Knox in 95 and I swore that north Kentucky was not southern. I ordered a sweet tea at a waffle house and they laughed at me and proceeded to give me unsweetened tea and sugar packets.
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