I was born in Atlanta, moved to NC when I was 5. Spent my formative years on Lake Norman, just north of Charlotte, NC. I’ve lived in Phoenix for 5 years now, though. Damn I can’t believe it’s been 5 years! Can’t believe I’ve been posting on the dope for 8.
Add a Confederate flag (whether one of the official ones or the one that’s recognized) and that sentence would make a great bumper sticker (One that would probably sell especially well in battlefield giftshops and at reenactments). 
Do expatriates count? Grew up partly in Georgia, partly in New Mexico, and it’s the cuisine and the grammar that stuck.
Florida born, North Carolina bred. (My Father is from Winston-Salem. His mother is from Bladen County)
Lived in Boca Raton until I was eight. Lived in suburban Atlanta between eight and ten. Lived in Raleigh from ten until thirty-three. Lived in suburban Atlanta for two years before we managed an escape back to North Carolina.
ETA: I’m now a rarity: A resident of Union County who says “y’all”.
You mean instead of “youse”?
For quite some time the few direct flights from South Africa went to Atlanta, so maybe that has something to do with it. One good thing about it is the presence of a store that sells S.A. brands.
Native Houstonian checking in…
Native North Carolina here. Grew up in a Doobie Brothers song, currently live in Greenville: 77 Miles Away from Anywhere, hope to move to Asheville: Town of Pretentious Hippies.
Late to the party, but North Mississippi checking in.
Tell me about it! Avondale High School, class of '69. Was on the Popeye Club with Officer Don as a third-grader, and went to the old Bert Adams Boy Scout camp (where Cumberland Mall is located now). God, I’m old.
Born in Montgomery - left there at age 5 to move to Goergia. Other than a 5 year stint in Hawai’i I have been here all my life.
There are so many Huntsville Dopers! We need to have a HuntsDopefest next hockey season when I’m up there for a Huntsville Havoc/Columbus Cottonmouths hockey game.
Both sides of my family are from Kentucky. I (mostly) grew up there. We moved to Ohio, but we visited often. I consider myself from Kentucky: I use y’all, know how to behave around horses and dogs, and love my sweet tea. (Which is always a struggle in upstate NY. Why do these people insist on iced tea being unsweetened and vaguely lemon flavored? ;))
I hadn’t heard that. I will have to read some of Lee Smith’s work. Thank you both for the info. 
Born outside the South but raised in Texas from just before I turned 6.
Forever in Atlanta, GA.
Better late than never! Born and bred in Houston, TX. Lived here my whole life and gasp! liked it enough to stay for college.
Y’all went to Auburn? You must’ve been there the same time as my mama (a Huntsville native) who’s turning 63 this month. Did you know a Mitzi, by any chance?
Sorry y’all, I jes moved here, an it took some time to get my interwebs goin’. Holy crap! You mean there are more rednecks than this?! I’m pretty sure the real Deliverence took place someplace on my property.
Allright, I’m just making fun and don’t mean to offend. It is a pretty nice place overall, and if it weren’t we wouldn’t be here.
I still think you are underestimating how “southern” Springfield Missouri is.
I grew up on Long Island, but I’ve lived in Florida for almost 17 years (Hernando, Gainesville and West Palm Beach).
I grew up sixty miles south of Atlanta. I was on the Popeye Club when I was seven. I played “Ooey Gooey”. I got a goodie bag! 