This time you just have to “vote” for you current Southern state to be counted.
If you choose to post more details, that’s fine. And if you moved to your current state from elsewhere, that’s also info that would be interesting to post.
Cool! I guess Middle Tennessee is more like my “area” and it’s one of the three grand divisions of the state – and why there are three stars on the flag. I always like to think it’s the music (more than the barbecue) that separates Tennesseans: blues near the river; bluegrass in the mountains, and Nashville in the middle.
When I was in Alabama as a youngster there were North and South for sure, but Central also figured in to the “what part?” question. I was Central.
It might make for some fun to the thread if the region (if not the community) could be identified.
I thought I had posted an additional comment that now appears to be gone to the ether, that a separate thread for “transplants” to The South might be fun. A poll would be unwieldy, but maybe there’s some other way to maintain some modicum of privacy and still get a feel for who has come to this area from elsewhere, as cmyk’s thread points out.
I grew up in Louisiana, but I moved to Texas more than 15 years ago. I’m not exactly a typical resident of either state, but Texas has big enough cities for me to find other oddballs who share my interests.
My brother now lives in Sarasota and he thinks the dividing line between “Southern” Floridians and “Northern” (transplant) Floridians is further north than where he lives. Surely the Panhandle is Southern, but where do you feel Florida starts being a Yankee state.
New Orleans all my life, save 4 years in Baton Rouge for college. No reason to leave, my wife and I have good jobs here and most importantly, both our families are here.
Agreed (about Florida). I don’t really consider Texas to be southern either. They kinda have their own thing going there, as I’m sure most Texans would concur. I’m native Tennessean, and we are culturally similar to Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina and Kentucky. I’m not even sure what Oklahoma is doing on the list. I have never considered it a southern state.
I refer you to the OP of that old thread for why I selected this list of states. I dropped Delaware and added Missouri (SEC!).
The “cross-pollination” of virtually all the states these days makes the issue at least fuzzy if not outright ridiculous. But it might be fun trivia, nonetheless.
In at least one of the other threads I’m listed as living in TN, but in July of last year we moved to SC. Now we’re just outside Columbia, smack in the middle of the hot zone.
