# Do we have a large Southern US contingent here on the Dope? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 1, 2008, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569 "2008-04-01T19:29:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/21 "2008-04-01T20:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] **This** OP drew you out of the steaming bayous for your second post in five years? Come out with us next time we go to Joe’s Crab Shack! 😛 [/QUOTE] Funniest post (and its object) I have seen in a long time. At least it might provide a hint as to how to get **Uglystick** blabbing away! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Uglystick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/87869e/32.png) [@Uglystick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uglystick)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/22 "2008-04-01T20:39:24Z")
[QUOTE=OneCentStamp] **This** OP drew you out of the steaming bayous for your second post in five years? Come out with us next time we go to Joe’s Crab Shack! 😛 [/QUOTE] Message boards are blocked on the Harris County Jail PCs. When do we eat? ---
**Author:** ![The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8797f3/32.png) [@The\_Universe\_Lashes\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Universe_Lashes_Out)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/23 "2008-04-01T20:39:56Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher] I think southern missouri counts as the northern edge of the south, so I’m here. 'course I was born 'n raised in Chicago. [/QUOTE] Missouri is in the south? Sounds like something someone from Chicago would say. Of course, I consider Tennessee to be way up north. I was born in Mobile, and I’ve only moved further south since. Gainesville, FL and now Austin. Yeah, this is definitely the latitude for me. I could never take those harsh northern winters they have in places like Atlanta, Birmingham, and Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![lizardling](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@lizardling](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lizardling)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/24 "2008-04-01T20:41:52Z")
PNW resident but raised Texan. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/25 "2008-04-01T20:43:03Z")
Southern Arkansas for **Pixilated** and myself. ---
**Author:** ![Telperien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/65b543/32.png) [@Telperien](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telperien)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/26 "2008-04-01T20:46:28Z")
Louisiana native here, though I lived in Pennsylvania for ten years. As a result, my accent and word choice is all screwed up. ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/27 "2008-04-01T20:47:00Z")
I was born in Houston, lived some time in WV and PA, but for the past 10 years I’ve been around NC and spent a year in Atlanta. So, kind of southern. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/28 "2008-04-01T20:47:23Z")
Memphis represent! ---
**Author:** ![ZebraShaSha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/eada6e/32.png) [@ZebraShaSha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZebraShaSha)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/29 "2008-04-01T20:48:48Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] There ain’t no such a thang. 😉 [/QUOTE] Every person in Atlanta lives, was born, or home is “about 20 to 30 minutes away by local roads.” Every single person. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/30 "2008-04-01T20:48:12Z")
South Carolina here, born and raised. Went to college in Atlanta, but I could only stand it for four years and then I came back home to Columbia. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MsFancyPlants](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b487fb/32.png) [@MsFancyPlants](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsFancyPlants)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/31 "2008-04-01T20:50:00Z")
Rocket City (aka, Huntsville, AL) ---
**Author:** ![OneCentStamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/13edae/32.png) [@OneCentStamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OneCentStamp)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/32 "2008-04-01T20:52:04Z")
[QUOTE=Uglystick] Message boards are blocked on the Harris County Jail PCs. **When do we eat?** [/QUOTE] As soon as you make bail? 😉 Seriously, though, **Clothahump** ’s movie (he acted, as well as doing martial arts consulting and choreography) is supposed to come out any [del]year[/del] day now, and I think there’s be a MiniHouDope around that. I, at the very least, will be buying a round for any Dopers who show up. ---
**Author:** ![peekercpa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@peekercpa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peekercpa)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/33 "2008-04-01T20:56:29Z")
48 years in the great country of Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/34 "2008-04-01T20:58:40Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] Probably not local to you, but I just went canoeing on the Wakulla (outside of Tallahassee) this weekend. Man, what a special place. We saw manatees, 10-foot alligators, bald eagles, osprey, cormorants, ibis, great blue and little blue herons, green herons, spotted gar, and a wide selection of the local rowdy redneck fauna (they were all nice folks, though.) 🙂 [/QUOTE] Oh, that sounds great. We sometimes canoe at Juniper Springs, near Ocala. Once we saw otters playing on the bank, and they jumped in the water and swam right along beside us. The high point of the run is the enormous gator that is almost always basking in the same spot. He’s the size of a car, and our wee boats have to pass far too closely. Then we always see a lot of smaller gators, and towards the end of the run it becomes the redneck Riviera. 🙂 A good time. ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/35 "2008-04-01T21:06:50Z")
Grew up in Houston, went to college in College Station, live in Dallas. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/36 "2008-04-01T21:08:27Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] Oh, that sounds great. We sometimes canoe at Juniper Springs, near Ocala. Once we saw otters playing on the bank, and they jumped in the water and swam right along beside us. The high point of the run is the enormous gator that is almost always basking in the same spot. He’s the size of a car, and our wee boats have to pass far too closely. Then we always see a lot of smaller gators, and towards the end of the run it becomes the redneck Riviera. 🙂 A good time. [/QUOTE] I’d love to see that gator. 🙂 I once floated the Ichetucknee, in that neck of the woods, and it was amazing as well. ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/37 "2008-04-01T21:14:36Z")
Ewww. An aggie. Dallasite attending school in Stillwater, Oklahoma. ---
**Author:** ![HazelNutCoffee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ac91a4/32.png) [@HazelNutCoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HazelNutCoffee)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/38 "2008-04-01T21:17:11Z")
[QUOTE=Doctor Jackson] Native Atlantan checking in. Well, native suburban Atlantan, anyways. We’re about as common as hen’s teeth nowadays. [/QUOTE] Hen’s tooth checking in. Well, kinda. I grew up in Doraville for half my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/39 "2008-04-01T21:18:57Z")
[QUOTE=Zeldar] Of the places you mention, what’s your favorite and why? Before you answer, let me say that the Huntsville/Guntersville/Scottsboro area has to be the best kept secret Alabama has to offer. That and Gulf Shores. I spent a summer boarding in B’ham while working a cushy job for the Highway Department between school years. An aunt lived in Ensley and we visited her a lot. So I know a bit about the Big City. What part of Montgomery? [/QUOTE] Yeah, I’d agree with you about that stretch of north Alabama. I was lucky enough to be working for the National Park Service when I lived up there, doing all kinds of species inventories and ecological monitoring. I was stationed at Russell Cave National Monument (way up in the corner of Alabama, Tennessee, and Georgia), and wow. The whole Cumberland Plateau area is just spectacularly gorgeous. It’s definitely (apart from some of the towns up there, which I could take or leave) been my favorite place to live in Alabama. When I first moved there, I moved in with my girlfriend, who was living in Huntsville, and I had to commute 75 miles each way to Russell Cave. It was a hell of a commute, but that drive along US72, with the Tennessee River, and all the highlands of the Cumberland around me made it a pleasure. After a while, we moved out to Scottsboro to cut down on the drive, and that made it even better. I really like Birmingham as well, though. I’m in a PhD program right now, which is going well, am married (to that same woman), and we bought a house in Roebuck Springs, which is a gorgeous historic district. I’ve mentioned this before, but Mary Badham, the actress who played Scout in _To Kill a Mockingbird_, had relatives who owned this house, so she used to play here all the time. 🙂 I grew up in a little suburb section of Montgomery that doesn’t even have a name, I don’t think. It’s way down on the southeastern edge of the city, and is now rapidly becoming a place you don’t want to be after the sun sets. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/40 "2008-04-01T21:19:29Z")
South Florida native. I’m pretty sure I’m too far south to be considered “the South”. I don’t speak with a funny accent either. 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569.md?page=3)