Am I always late to the party? I’ve been in New Orleans for the past 8 years. Before that both South and North Carolina; before that college in Sewanee, Tennessee; before that formative years in North Little Rock, Arkansas. Sal-OOT!
Another Transplanted Yankee here. Originally from Taxachusetts.
I’ve lived in the Low Country for going on 12 years now.
Have also spent 2 years in Florida & 4 in VA.
So technically I’ve lived almost half of my 40 years in the South.
I’ve lived in Georgia all my life but I may be making a move very far away within a matter of weeks.
Houston, TX here…
Please see my sig-line. 
I’ve lived in West Virginia, Mississippi, Tennessee, North Carolina and Georgia, but mostly in Georgia, and my family roots are in northwest Georgia.
I joke around on the boards about being a hillbilly, and I do have some hillbilly kinfolk, but my family is mostly from the foothills of Appalachia – not too deep in the hollers, in other words.
(I have a lot of friends who went to Jax State, Nightingale. My high school has always sent a lot of folks in that direction.)
I meet a surprising number of South African transplants in Georgia. Used to date one of 'em as a matter of fact.
Another GA native here.
I’ll second spoke-'s observation about S. Africans. We must have gotten some good press down there somehow.
-rainy
Have ya heard of Grundy, VA? That’s where my Grandma lives. And she calls it the “holler.” 
I’ve lived in SC for 12 years now - I love it here.
I mostly lurk, but I live in Tuscaloosa. I’m from a small town in west Alabama.
Native Hoosier transplanted to Middle Tennessee…
One of my favorite writers is from Grundy, Lee Smith. I believe she teaches at Carolina. I’ve never been to Grundy, but one of my best friends has relatives there, who are Catholic if you can believe that. The church is so small you can stand in the vestibule and touch the altar.
I am of the aforementioned (earlier in the thread) rare native Atlantan status, still residing in his natural habitat.
Born and raised in Decatur for those familiar with the area.
Which reminds me, we need to get that Charlotte Dopefest up again.
Absolutely! I’ll be out of town the 4/26 - 5/2. Any other time works for me.
Hi y’all, Control-Z from rural Virginia checkin in.
That’s the girlhood home of one of my favorite writers, Lee Smith. She fictionalized it as Majestic in my favorite of her novels, Fair and Tender Ladies (which is the subject of an excellent bluegrass musical- I have a copy of the soundtrack if anybody would like one- only musical I’ve seen where “Granny took the rags from between my legs” and “the bloodsmell was not so bad/it was sweet somehow” are not only sung in the same song, but quite melodically. )
*ETA: I wonder the Lee Smith that I like who’s a writer from Grundy has ever met the Lee Smith that Ellen likes who’s a writer from Grundy. They must get each others mail and stuff all the time. (Sorry Ellen, will read thread first/post later next time. * :smack: )
I am no longer in the south, but I consider myself a southerner. I grew up in coastal South Carolina, and lived in Atlanta for 16 years.
Just another Damn Yankee. I’ve lived in Savannah and Awbenny, Ga., and Alexandria, Va., but have spent last 30+ years in the Hills of Tar (NC) after moving from Taxachusetts. I hope all y’all know the difference between a Yankee and a Damn Yankee, by now. Any one doesn’t?
There are song lyrics in there somewhere! Montgomery I love for sentimental reasons – a woman who read a library of books, a man full of questions and answers, a magnolia tree a block long, Dexter Avenue, Zelda and Scott and a country club.
Auburn – I made my husband drive me from Nashville to Auburn just so that I could see the damned place and buy my War Eagle T-shirt and go to the drugstore and breath the air and…and…
Huntsville – I’m going there Saturday to see my college roommate. I’m 64. She’s 63. She’ the mother of the Sugar Plum Fairy and of a rocket scientist. I once saw Von Braun at a test firing of an Atlas rocket. His kids wanted him to open a drugstore so that they would have something exciting to do. That’s been forty-five years or so.
Okay, Zeldar, I’ll bet your Mama is lookin’ for you! You’ve got some ‘splain’ to do!
Actually, if you will permit me to nitpick, Ricky Nelson was a star who took off in a plane from Guntersville, Alabama, but I believe that he actually fell on Texas or perhaps some other state. It is understandable that you might confuse this trivia since the plane went down in the early morning hours of the day that you married – January 1, 1986, and you were a mite distracted. To make matters worse, you took your bride to Monte Sano outside of Huntsville and danced with her to “Stars Fell on Alabama” while making crass Ricky Nelson jokes. So it is easy to understand why you have confused the entire matter.
And a good time was had by all.
– Mrs. Zeldar
And I forgot to officially check in.
Born in West Tennessee to a Gibson County family. Eleventh generation Southerner. My grandfather was a Civil War soldier and a prisoner of war. I’m interested in the history in general, not in arguing the issues.
I’ve lived in Nashville since the mid 1960s. (Welcome home, pprgrl!)
There’s something about the South that makes threads like this workable. Whatever it is, is really special. If you don’t get it, that’s okay. Be on you way. No harm done. If you do get it, it doesn’t matter if you are from South Africa or South-North Virginia. You are in.