Ah do seem to recall that ya’ll were on the winning side during the Late Unpleasantness.
I was born in Dallas and I’m in Norman, Oklahoma for school. The wind/rain/ice/snow here feels too much like living in the North to me!
Technically I think Missouri was neutral, but Missourah was clearly secetionist (see Camp Jackson Affair). I must admit though, I’ve seen far fewer Battle Flags than I expected.
I was born and raised in Chapel Hill, NC. My mother is from Lenoir/Blowing Rock, NC, and my father was born in Durham and raised in Carrboro. Sometimes I feel like the only person in town who’s actually FROM there, what with all of the UNC students and retirees, but there you are.
The funny thing is, when I went to college, in the North, people would always remark, “oh, you don’t really have an accent!” They seemed very confused that I wasn’t swooning and exclaiming, “Oh, lawd, ah hayuv tha vaypahs!” all the time, like Scarlett O’Hara or whatever. 
Born in Kaufman County, Texas. Raised (for the most part) in Dallas.
I’m from Dallas, but left at 18 for college and only go back to visit family.
I was born a third-generation swamp rat on the southeastern edge of the everglades. Then the great beast that is Miami ate my homelands and the goddam gumment outlawed the hunting and orchid gathering my family had always done for a living. So I pulled up stakes, went to college at Auburn and have been in the piney backwoods of Alabama ever since.
Now the great beast that is Atlanta is steadily eating its way in this direction. In just another 30 years or so I’ll have to move again. My sister has already gone to some isolated place on the Oregon coast so maybe I’ll head out there when Atlanta runs me away. Oh, wait! In 30 years I’ll probably have ceased to exist. I guess it doesn’t hurt to have a plan, just in case…
Yes, but, surely that Mitzi wasn’t your mom! D & R 
Euthanasiast and I are from a smallish town south of Savannah, Georgia, and there is at least one other doper living here, too, Monkey with a Gun, but I don’t know if he’s from 'round these parts or not.
I was born in GA, have lived in Brunswick, Atlanta, Metter, Statesboro, Hinesville and Ludowici. I have also lived in Houston, Texas, and I don’t know of but maybe 3 members of my entire family that were born north of Georgia or west of Texas, going back to my great-grandparents (born in a rural Louisiana town close to Hodge, LA, that doesn’t exist anymore) and I haven’t even found an ancestor yet that wasn’t born in the Southern US (back to the late 1600’s).
I’m one of those retirees you mentioned. Born and raised in Chicago, and after my wife died I met someone online who lived near here. I came down a few times to visit her, and decided I liked the area enough to move here. I’m now looking for a house, and the other day when we were driving around checking out places my friend and I were talking about the damyankees whenever we saw cars with out of state plates.
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.
From here.
Interesting. Northern Arkansas was Union; the 1st Arkansas Cavalry USA was raised there, and fought the 1st Arkansas Cavalry in Fayetteville.
Ha! My first teaching job straight out of grad school was as a galley slave at Auburn University teaching 8 billion intro students per quarter. Luckily, I only had to do it for a year before getting a permanent position. But those blueberry milkshakes at the drugstore almost made it worth it…
Good lord man. How do I not know you? I am 10 minutes from you as we speak.
Birmingham girl here - Trussville to be exact. Heading back to Mississippi in a couple months though.
I’ll try to get over the massive culture shock.
Aw, I was just there this past weekend. Reception at the old train station. It was beautiful!
Livin’ in South FLA right now on the gulf coast. But my dad grew up on an NC tobacco farm and my mom is a Alabama coal miners’ daughter. So even growing up in DC didn’t stop me from saying y’all in my suburban surroundings. And I’ve spent my adult life in Greensboro and Boone NC before coming to Ft Myers. So I’m pretty southern.
Another one? Wow we’re close. Well, I’m going to lunch soon. Maybe I’ll start throwing the Pi hand signal around to see who notices…
Heh. 
Welcome back, Shellibean. We’ll then have some huge number (like 4 ! ) of Dopers here.
Hey, ShelliBean. I knew I remembered there was somebody else in Birmingham.
My pedigree is about as Southern as you can get. It starts at the First Colony at Jamestown and then there was a very slow migration of centuries to where I was born and raised right on the Louisiana/Texas border (tiny Logansport, LA). I was tricked into moving to the Northeast but I am still very Southern and always will be.
If we’re talking pedigrees, whereas my father was from California and his ancestors from the North, my mother was pure Arkansas hillbilly for many a generation.