# 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:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![gytalf2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ac91a4/32.png) [@gytalf2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gytalf2000)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/101 "2014-09-26T15:01:35Z")
I was born in Knoxville, but I have lived in the Middle Tennessee area pretty much all my life. I grew up in Hendersonville, and then moved to Nashville in 1977. I have lived in South Nashville (Caldwell Hall area, near the Zoo) since then. ---
**Author:** ![Sauron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/102 "2014-09-26T20:34:24Z")
I’m in Birmingham, Alabama, and I’ve lived in Alabama all my life. Does that count as Southern? ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/103 "2014-09-26T20:35:47Z")
> [@Sauron](#): > > I’m in Birmingham, Alabama, and I’ve lived in Alabama all my life. Does that count as Southern? Not to folks in Montgomery and Mobile! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Labrador\_Deceiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Labrador\_Deceiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labrador_Deceiver)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2014, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/104 "2014-09-26T20:37:16Z")
> [@Knorf](#): > > What did I write in Post #38? > > And if you can’t tell Morgantown from Southern Appalachia, well you cultural awareness is probably beyond help. Bullshit. It’s a college town, a lot like Boone, Blacksburg, and countless other southern college towns that are more culturally liberal. > [@Knorf](#): > > What did I write in Post #38? Absolutely nothing that answers the question I asked. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2014, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/105 "2014-09-27T14:46:31Z")
Nothing all that startling to report yet, but here’s a bumping snapshot of how it is stacking up at the 138-Voter point. ```auto =============================================================================== View Poll Results: Which Southern USA state do you currently call home? This poll will close on 09-22-2015 at 09:28 AM Texas 27 19.57% Georgia 21 15.22% North Carolina 19 13.77% Tennessee 14 10.14% Virginia 11 7.97% Florida 10 7.25% Maryland 6 4.35% Missouri 6 4.35% South Carolina 5 3.62% Alabama 4 2.90% Louisiana 4 2.90% Arkansas 3 2.17% Kentucky 3 2.17% Oklahoma 3 2.17% Mississippi 2 1.45% West Virginia 0 0% Other (please specify) 0 0% Voters: 138 =============================================================================== ``` It might be fun to compare these voter counts with the ones copied from the old 2006 thread. (see Post #64). ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/106 "2014-09-30T14:17:20Z")
Updating: ```auto View Poll Results: Which Southern USA state do you currently call home? This poll will close on 09-22-2015 at 09:28 AM Texas 28 19.86% Georgia 21 14.89% North Carolina 20 14.18% Tennessee 14 9.93% Virginia 11 7.80% Florida 10 7.09% Maryland 7 4.96% Missouri 6 4.26% South Carolina 5 3.55% Alabama 4 2.84% Louisiana 4 2.84% Arkansas 3 2.13% Kentucky 3 2.13% Oklahoma 3 2.13% Mississippi 2 1.42% West Virginia 0 0% Other (please specify) 0 0% Voters: 141 ``` ---
**Author:** ![partypooper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/67e7ee/32.png) [@partypooper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/partypooper)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/107 "2014-09-30T18:56:24Z")
> [@Sir\_T-Cups](#): > > 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. Charlotte isn’t all that southern, but head a few miles out and it gets really southern. My parents live only 25 miles from the center of Charlotte, even closer to the city limits, and it is extremely country there. It’s a whole bunch of farmland, Baptist churches, and big trucks. It’s incredible the difference in peoples’ accents only a few miles outside of the city. ---
**Author:** ![Catamount](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/catamount/32/2840_2.png) [@Catamount](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Catamount)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/108 "2014-09-30T21:04:17Z")
> [@partypooper](#): > > Charlotte isn’t all that southern, but head a few miles out and it gets really southern. My parents live only 25 miles from the center of Charlotte, even closer to the city limits, and it is extremely country there. It’s a whole bunch of farmland, Baptist churches, and big trucks. It’s incredible the difference in peoples’ accents only a few miles outside of the city. I grew up thirty minutes north of Charlotte. I call it Redneck County for a reason. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 1, 2014, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/109 "2014-10-01T16:00:48Z")
Here’s a comparison summary: ```auto =============================================================================== View Poll Results: Which Southern USA state do you currently call home? This poll will close on 09-22-2015 at 09:28 AM (From Post #28) Texas 28 18.92% Texas 10 20.41% Georgia 21 14.19% Georgia 6 12.24% North Carolina 20 13.51% North Carolina 9 18.37% Tennessee 17 11.49% Tennessee 5 10.20% Florida 12 8.11% Florida 6 12.24% Virginia 11 7.43% Virginia 5 10.20% Maryland 7 4.73% Maryland 1 2.04% Missouri 6 4.05% Missouri 1 2.04% South Carolina 6 4.05% South Carolina 2 4.08% Alabama 4 2.70% Alabama 1 2.04% Arkansas 4 2.70% Arkansas 0 0% Louisiana 4 2.70% Louisiana 1 2.04% Kentucky 3 2.03% Kentucky 1 2.04% Oklahoma 3 2.03% Oklahoma 0 0% Mississippi 2 1.35% Mississippi 1 2.04% West Virginia 0 0% West Virginia 0 0% Other (please specify) 0 0% Other (please specify) 0 0% Voters: 148 Voters: 49 =============================================================================== ``` ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [October 3, 2014, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245/110 "2014-10-03T20:38:48Z")
Just so you’ll know – if you didn’t see already – I put a one-year closing date on the poll. So there’s no real hurry to vote. But I’m going to back off with the “bumping summaries” until some new milestone has been reached. So odds are this will fall out of view very soon. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dopers-currently-living-in-the-south-usa/699245.md?page=5)