# Do we have a large Southern US contingent here on the Dope?

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**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")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\
**Post date:** [April 11, 2008, 7:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/161 "2008-04-11T19:20:47Z")

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I was born in Virginia, and grew up in Mississippi and Alabama. My parents still live in Auburn. I was there last week. 70 degrees, and flowering trees everywhere. It’s snowing here.

Tell me again why I moved north?

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**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/162 "2008-04-12T00:09:56Z")

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Jacksonville, Atlanta, Athens (GA), and now 11 years in Memphis. I’ve lived other places (Tokyo, Kansas City, Boulder, Ames IA), but never been away from the South for more than a year or two.

Actually, come to think of it, I’m another Atlanta suburbanite; I spent about six formative years in Roswell. And my brother is still in Alpharetta.

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**Author:** ![Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Intravenus\_De\_Milo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intravenus_De_Milo)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2008, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-we-have-a-large-southern-us-contingent-here-on-the-dope/443569/163 "2008-04-12T05:12:10Z")

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> [@bannerrefugee](#):
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> I when I tell people where I am from I get the same thing. My Mom who was a lawyer in SC turns her accent on and off, depending on whether it’s a good old boy she’s talking to or not.

Heheh, I have a pretty decent imitation of a North Carolina foothills dialect (and imitating’s all I CAN do since I grew up speaking a “neutral” dialect) that I will occasionally slip into if the occasion calls for it, like, if I’m ordering barbecue or something - what can I say, it’s a habit. This upsets my mother sometimes because she thinks I will talk my way into becoming some ignorant backwoods hick, you know, like the kind that was lampooned in _Deliverance_. :rolleyes:

Whatever, I suppose it’s her version of the old wives tale, “if you keep making that face it will freeze like that!”

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