# Dopers currently living in "The South" (USA) **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 22, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245 "2014-09-22T14:24:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/1 "2014-09-22T14:24:51Z")
The current thread by **cmyk** – [One Year living in Memphis, TN. (an apology\* for “y’all”)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=734701) – has prompted me to revive an old idea with a new wrinkle. Both [Southern USA Dopers: Stand and be counted, please](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382597) from 08-04-2006 and [Tennessee Dopers Roll Call (Updated Feb/2012)](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=642048) requested posts to identify individuals in those areas. 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. Poll to follow this OP… ---
**Author:** ![Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Living\_Well\_Is\_Best\_Revenge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Living_Well_Is_Best_Revenge)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/2 "2014-09-22T14:50:24Z")
Memphian here ---
**Author:** ![Bill\_Door](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/50afbb/32.png) [@Bill\_Door](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bill_Door)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/3 "2014-09-22T15:13:13Z")
Technically East Carolina. It’s based on barbecue more than geography. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/4 "2014-09-22T15:44:02Z")
> [@Bill\_Door](#): > > Technically East Carolina. It’s based on barbecue more than geography. 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. Ideas, anybody? ---
**Author:** ![Balance](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ccd318/32.png) [@Balance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balance)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/5 "2014-09-22T15:56:51Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/6 "2014-09-22T16:02:14Z")
Charleston, SC. Moved here in 2011 when my ex got transferred here. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/7 "2014-09-22T16:13:13Z")
I’m in south Florida, which I’m not sure counts. Culturally, we’re not really “south”, despite being really far south, geographically. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/8 "2014-09-22T16:19:36Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > I’m in south Florida, which I’m not sure counts. Culturally, we’re not really “south”, despite being really far > south, geographically. 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. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Doyle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doyle/32/439_2.png) [@Doyle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doyle)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/9 "2014-09-22T16:25:04Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/10 "2014-09-22T16:25:39Z")
We live in the FL panhandle now but are originally from East TN. ---
**Author:** ![Velocity](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/velocity/32/18006_2.png) [@Velocity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Velocity)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/11 "2014-09-22T17:04:02Z")
Texas. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/12 "2014-09-22T17:10:48Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Surely the Panhandle is Southern, but where do you feel Florida starts being a Yankee state. 🙂 That’s a good question! I really don’t know, and may even start a new thread about it. ---
**Author:** ![Mclovin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8c91f0/32.png) [@Mclovin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mclovin)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/13 "2014-09-22T17:24:31Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/14 "2014-09-22T17:52:32Z")
> [@Mclovin](#): > > 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](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7644914&postcount=1) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/15 "2014-09-22T17:56:18Z")
> [@Revtim](#): > > That’s a good question! I really don’t know, and may even start a new thread about it. Sounds fun at least. I know Miami is a Northern city and so with on up the Atlantic Coast a way. The Gulf Coast (IMHO) is more of a hodgepodge mix. But it’s more for Floridians (natives and transplants alike) to pass judgment, I suspect. ---
**Author:** ![saje](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saje/32/3631_2.png) [@saje](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saje)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/16 "2014-09-22T18:27:07Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_T-Cups](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ed655f/32.png) [@Sir\_T-Cups](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_T-Cups)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/17 "2014-09-22T18:36:28Z")
I’m in Charlotte, and I can not for the life of me understand why people think North Carolina is south. To me, NC is east-coast, and “the south” starts in SOUTH Carolina. ---
**Author:** ![Abracadebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@Abracadebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abracadebra)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/18 "2014-09-22T18:37:32Z")
I’m from Atlanta, born and raised. I moved away once, then came to my senses and came home. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/19 "2014-09-22T18:38:34Z")
Originally from Louisiana, now living in Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![GrumpyBunny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bc8723/32.png) [@GrumpyBunny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrumpyBunny)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2014, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/20 "2014-09-22T18:52:51Z")
-1 for the South. I moved from Jacksonville, FL (which is culturally more like Georgia than Miami) to the metro west area of Boston. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245.md?page=2)