# 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:** 4
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/61 "2008-04-02T00:22:26Z")
I’m in Japan until 2010, but then it’s back home to Little Rock. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Rhosis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Sir\_Rhosis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Rhosis)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/62 "2008-04-02T00:24:49Z")
Native of Hyden, Kentucky, pop. 500 in my day, about 295 now, I think. Sir Rhosis ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/63 "2008-04-02T00:28:25Z")
I may have been born and raised in California, but it was by Gawd **Southern** California! (Ok, the family is from Texas, Arkansas and the like, having landed in the Carolinas back in the early 1600s.) ---
**Author:** ![This\_ll\_Do](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/this_ll_do/32/3023_2.png) [@This\_ll\_Do](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/This_ll_Do)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/64 "2008-04-02T00:35:44Z")
I was born in Florida and currently reside here. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is _home_, though, and I miss it terribly. \ ---
**Author:** ![Renee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/renee/32/287_2.png) [@Renee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Renee)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/65 "2008-04-02T00:43:04Z")
I’m in Japan until 2010, but then it’s back home to Little Rock. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/66 "2008-04-02T01:03:54Z")
4th generation Californian, escaped to NC at 13, and assimilated; but, Great Grandfather was born in Mississippi during Cherokee exodus, and Grandmother was raised in Shreveport, LA, then went to CA, so, hell if I really know. Came to the South as an adolescent, moved to Mississippi for 13 years. I know how to cook proper grits and excellent biscuits and cornbread, but, can’t answer the ? where does your Daddy hunt? with any aplomb. But, am here to stay, and love it with all my heart. ---
**Author:** ![Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Bambi\_Hassenpfeffer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bambi_Hassenpfeffer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/67 "2008-04-02T01:08:42Z")
[QUOTE=Dung Beetle] I’ve always lived in Florida…Fort Lauderdale, Ocala, Tampa, Palatka, and Gainesville. [/QUOTE] The fun thing about Florida? Three of those are Southern and two of them are not, and the two that aren’t are south of the three that are. I’ve spent 27 of my 29 years in Florida. Within 5 miles of my current house, actually. My part is south of the South, so I don’t count as a Southern Doper. But that’s okay, cause I can still get the food around here. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/68 "2008-04-02T01:14:42Z")
I’m originally a southerner, I’ve just been away for a few years. Born 'n raised in Chattanooga, also lived in Murfreesboro, Nashville, Jackson (well, Ridgeland) MS, Atlanta and Knoxville. I’ve been away since September of 2004 - first 3 years in Ohio and right now I’m AZ. There was a job opening in Tuscaloosa recently that I was very tempted by, but I decided not to apply - because I’m holding out for a similar position in Knoxville, and I don’t want to change jobs too many times before it comes open. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/69 "2008-04-02T01:26:39Z")
I was born in Dallas, Texas and lived there for 23 years. I now live in Florida and don’t know if I’m Southern or not. I think I am, though. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/70 "2008-04-02T01:27:44Z")
[QUOTE=Ogre] It always seems as if we have a great amount of participation whenever we have a Southern-oriented thread around here. I know **Sampiro** , **spoke** , **Liberal** , **Tuckerfan** , and several others are Southerners. Who else? Speak up, and let us know where you’re from. I’m from Montgomery, Alabama, and currently live in Birmingham. In the state of Alabama, I’ve lived in Montgomery, Auburn, Tuscaloosa, Birmingham, Huntsville, and Scottsboro. I haven’t always been in Bama, but I’m happy to be back. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Been living in S. Louisiana for 30 years. Yes, I am still a newcomer here (you are native in this part of the country only when your grandparents are still living in the house next to yours where they were born). But both my children went to Auburn and one is finishing school in Birmingham. ---
**Author:** ![rbroome](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/838e76/32.png) [@rbroome](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rbroome)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/71 "2008-04-02T01:33:30Z")
[QUOTE=HowieReynolds] 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. [/QUOTE] I know what you mean! Northerner is defined as anyone living north of the I-10. 🙂 For our non-american friends, Interstate-10 is the southernmost east-west interstate in the country. Being south of it means, in many parts, you are either on the coast or living on a boat. Except Texas and west of course, but I don’t know what to make of Texas. Is it a southern state or just a state of mind? ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/72 "2008-04-02T01:39:02Z")
36 years in NC - born and bred. Actually I’m one of the rare natives in the Cary area. Cary = Containment Area for Relocated Yankees. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Vox\_Imperatoris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Vox\_Imperatoris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vox_Imperatoris)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/73 "2008-04-02T01:46:00Z")
I’m from Tuscaloosa, but I don’t plan on staying here for the rest of my life, not that it’s a bad place to live or anything. However, I just went skiing in Colorado for spring break, and I can say that I much prefer the cold weather to the Alabama Three Season Summer™. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/74 "2008-04-02T01:53:47Z")
[QUOTE=Vox Imperatoris] I’m from Tuscaloosa, but I don’t plan on staying here for the rest of my life, not that it’s a bad place to live or anything. However, I just went skiing in Colorado for spring break, and I can say that I much prefer the cold weather to the Alabama Three Season Summer™. [/QUOTE] If Tuscaloosa (where I lived for several years) has been anything like Montgomery this year, the weather’s been freaking insane even by Alabama standards. I’ve already had to run the air conditioning AND the heat on the same day and it’s only April 1; usually that doesn’t start until May. Last week we had a freeze warning one night and it reached 80 degrees the next afternoon. [QUOTE=rbroome] I know what you mean! Northerner is defined as anyone living north of the I-10. 🙂 For our non-american friends, Interstate-10 is the southernmost east-west interstate in the country. Being south of it means, in many parts, you are either on the coast or living on a boat. Except Texas and west of course, but I don’t know what to make of Texas. Is it a southern state or just a state of mind? [/QUOTE] I count Texas and parts of Missouri as southern in that they were both predominantly Confederate states. (Arizona/New Mexico were also Confederate but were sparsely populated and only territories at the time.) I count Texas and Louisiana both as ultimately more Texas and Louisiana (and New Orleans as New Orleans) than as components of the rest of the south though (which is neither an insult nor a compliment). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/75 "2008-04-02T02:00:10Z")
RickQ and I live in middle TN. I am from here, he is a happy transplant. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/76 "2008-04-02T02:10:44Z")
I’ve lived in Alabama, Nebraska, and Oregon but was born, raised, and still live in Cleveland, Tennessee, which is about twenty miles outside Chattanooga. I think I’m the only Doper in the immediate vicinity. ---
**Author:** ![Stana\_Claus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stana_claus/32/13874_2.png) [@Stana\_Claus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stana_Claus)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/77 "2008-04-02T02:11:25Z")
I spent the first 35 years of my life within 30 miles of I-10, ranging from Baton Rouge, LA to Mobile, AL to Houston, TX. I then moved to East TN and am now surrounded by Half-Backs. That would be Michiganders who moved to Florida, couldn’t take the heat, humidity, and mosquitos, got half back to Michigan and stopped. Oh, well! ---
**Author:** ![feppytweed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/feppytweed/32/4280_2.png) [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/78 "2008-04-02T02:25:21Z")
Like **NinetyWt** mentioned, I’m from Mississippi. Natchez, to be exact. But now I halve my time between there and Starkville, MS, home to Mississippi State University. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/79 "2008-04-02T02:27:33Z")
[QUOTE=Stana Claus] Icouldn’t take the heat, humidity, and mosquitos [/QUOTE] When I took the job in Americus, Georgia, one of the incentives was that unlike Albany [all-Benny] where I was then living it was “above the gnat line”. ---
**Author:** ![tremorviolet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47774/32.png) [@tremorviolet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tremorviolet)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2008, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/80 "2008-04-02T02:43:31Z")
[QUOTE=Sampiro] I count Texas and parts of Missouri as southern in that they were both predominantly Confederate states. (Arizona/New Mexico were also Confederate but were sparsely populated and only territories at the time.) I count Texas and Louisiana both as ultimately more Texas and Louisiana (and New Orleans as New Orleans) than as components of the rest of the south though (which is neither an insult nor a compliment). 😉 [/QUOTE] That’s pretty much dead on. Texas is closer to Southern than say, Colorado, but it’s mostly just Texan. I had a bit of a culture shock moving here from Atlanta. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569.md?page=5)