I bet I’d have a different perspective on that. 
Heh, same here. I’m from Gainesville. Lived in Athens (GA) and Atlanta for a whiel and then moved to Austin 'cause I couldn’t take the winter. Brrrr…
Central Arkansas.
Ever make it to the Lost Luggage Dispensary there?
Okay. I know the area but from long ago. Places/areas I’m familiar with include Capitol Heights, Boylston, Pike Road, Snowdoun, Dalraida, Cloverdale, Normandale, Prattville, Wetumpka, Millbrook and others.
I’m assuming you know this, given your credentials, but that little parking area near Jasmine Hills is at or right near the southern terminus of the Appalachian Mountains. I used to sit there and look out over the flat lands toward Montgomery and marvel at how that could be.
I’m not sure I count (in this poll.) I’ve lived in Charlotte for the last 3 years, but the rest of my life was spent in NJ/NYC. I don’t consider myself “Southern,” but I’m willing to learn…
I’ve been in Houston for about three years, but grew up in Maryland. So I’m kind of like you, just with a 600 mile slouch. 
Yes indeed. We lived about half a mile from it. I bought more cheap guitars there than I care to think about. 
I know that area well. But believe it or not, it has nothing to do with the Appalachians (well, other than being part of the Piedmont foothills.) The locals in Wetumpka know that line of hills as Blue Ridge, but it was recently confirmed that it is actually a very large, very old meteor crater. The meteor crashed there when the whole area was under a shallow sea, instantly incinerated everything within 25 or so miles, and created that line of relatively high (and pretty) hills.
It’s now called the Wetumpka Astrobleme by edumacated types, and you can read about it here, among other places. Really neat stuff.
Good facts, Ogre. Ignorance fought. I’ll quit telling that lie now. Good to know it’s recent findings, too.
Puts yet another twist on Stars Fell On Alabama. For the longest I have told people that had to do with Ricky Nelson!
Sorry. I’m a biogeography type, and I do tend to go on about it.
Re: Ricky Nelson -
I was born in Little Rock and raised in Dardanelle, Arkansas. I live in Robert E. freakin Lee’s hometown, but you wouldn’t know it fom New Jersey hardly.
You mean it’s awesome?
I’ve lived in Arkansas for almost 9 years now, but from New Jersey. Loooooong way from home…
Maryland Native here. When I visit the in-laws in Vermont all the locals tell me I talk funny. Is that Southern enough? Oh, I use y’all for small groups only if that helps me cred any.
I grew up about 20 miles north of Jasmine HIll (which is closed now) and went to school in Wetumpka. Our farm on the border of Elmore/Coosa county had some of the first granite outcroppings of the Appalachians; we were on the tip of the spearpoint of the Piedmont. It made the land practically useless except for cattle (which is how we used it anyway), but came in handy when they paved the roads.
Mid-Georgia reporting in!
. . but Nawth Chucka and I are transplants, so we don’t count. (We intend to flee as soon as possible).
Tripler
“I say, ‘Go West, young man! Go West!’”. ::circles wagons:: [sub]“Wife says, CHARLESTON!” . . . and I obey.[/sub]
Jonesville, Louisiana here.
Just in case you’d like to compare notes with the 2006 version of the OP’s main issue, check http://208.100.26.199/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382597
I’ve lived in Kentucky for longer than I lived in my native Cleveland (I’ve done about 16 years split between two sentences here), so I guess that counts.
Piedmont NC born and bred.
I guess I’d be at the top half of the border. Don’t consider myself a “Southerner” fully, but at college, I was told I had the the Southern Accent, and certainly didn’t identify with the Northern Va people.
So just call me a Virginian, but with the addendum of being from Southern VA I suppose.
Born in Lynchburg, VA and raised in Yorktown.