I’m in Japan until 2010, but then it’s back home to Little Rock.
Native of Hyden, Kentucky, pop. 500 in my day, about 295 now, I think.
Sir Rhosis
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.)
I was born in Florida and currently reside here. Tuscaloosa, Alabama is home, though, and I miss it terribly. <sniffle>
I’m in Japan until 2010, but then it’s back home to Little Rock.
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.
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.
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. 
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.
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.
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?
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. 
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™.
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.
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). 
RickQ and I live in middle TN. I am from here, he is a happy transplant.
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.
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!
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.
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”.
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.