# Down South Dopers **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 24, 1999, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420 "1999-10-24T21:01:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![\_00\_The\_Fool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/_/ed655f/32.png) [@\_00\_The\_Fool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/_00_The_Fool)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 1999, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/1 "1999-10-24T21:01:00Z")
No, that’s not the newest No Limit Records compilation. This thread goes out to all members of the Teeming Millions who live in the Deep South. That is, if there are any. I don’t know of any posters here that live in Mississippi or Alabama or Georgia. Tennhippie’s in Tennessee, but that’s kinda far from where I live. ## ( I’m in Jefferson, LA. That’s a close suburb of New Orleans, so for all practical purposes let’s say I’m in the Big Easy. ) “Oh we were brought up on the Space-Race, now they expect us to clean toilets. When you have seen how big the world is how can you make do with this?” Pulp, “Glory Days” ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 1999, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/2 "1999-10-24T21:07:00Z")
There’s quite a few Texans who drop by. And a few from Florida. I’m pretty sure I’ve spotted another from Louisiana, but I can’t think of a name right now. ---
**Author:** ![Satan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Satan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Satan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 1999, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/3 "1999-10-24T21:46:00Z")
I’m, a caustic Noo Yarkah who currently has Raleigh, NC as his mailing address… Polycarp is here as well. * * * Yer pal, Satan ---
**Author:** ![SanibelMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e4f/32.png) [@SanibelMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanibelMan)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 1999, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/4 "1999-10-24T22:12:00Z")
I’m from Florida. So is TheRealBubba. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Raven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@The\_Raven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Raven)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/5 "1999-10-25T00:43:00Z")
Well, I used to live in Charlotte, North Carolina. Right now, I reside in Savannah, Georgia, so my name should be on that list. Anyone else here from Georgia? * * * Personally, I’d have no problem living in a country governed by an evil dictator. As long as **I** got to be that evil dictator. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/6 "1999-10-25T00:53:00Z")
I’m in Missippissi, originally from North Carolina. There might be more folks from MS, but it’s football season, & getting on to deer season, so they just might not be posting now… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/7 "1999-10-25T01:14:00Z")
I’ll be the first to admit Tennessee ain’t **Deep** South, but it’s South. Florida, on the other hand…c’mon, y’all. The Sunshine State is southern by geography only. Yankee through and through. The only time a Floridian has grits for breakfast is when he gets sand in his bagel. Just joshin’. I happen to be in love with a certain Florida gal. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/8 "1999-10-25T01:22:00Z")
I **live in** Tennessee. I’m **not from** Tennessee. People here won’t let me forget that. ---
**Author:** ![Ringo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/779978/32.png) [@Ringo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ringo)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/9 "1999-10-25T01:41:00Z")
This might show up again; I posted it once but it never appeared. elelle, Is that a local joke or just one of those things that I do a lot while typing a post? > [@](#): > > I’m in Missippissi ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/10 "1999-10-25T01:56:00Z")
Beatle; Well, to me it’s a “local” joke. But, don’t tell anyone, as I said, it’s almost “deer” hunting season…What I meant was Mississlopppy. TennHippie: Yeah, OK, but when that big New Madrid quake hits, yer gonna be down here in the mud with the rest of us! ---
**Author:** ![Sealemon88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c68b51/32.png) [@Sealemon88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sealemon88)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/11 "1999-10-25T02:39:00Z")
Houston, Texas, over here. I don’t know though, every time I hear the phrase “Deep South”, I think of places like Mississippi or Georgia. * * * You say “cheesy” like that’s a **BAD** thing. ---
**Author:** ![White\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f19dbf/32.png) [@White\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/White_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/12 "1999-10-25T04:11:00Z")
I’m with #00 in the Big Easy. (Actually Chalmette. Don’t laugh, Fool!) 🙂 * * * **White Wolf** “Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense.” “Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.” ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/13 "1999-10-25T13:20:00Z")
Columbia SC–but I’m a transplant. I was actually born and raised in Chicken Bone SC. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/14 "1999-10-25T14:40:00Z")
Spent most of my life in the South, including Shreveport and Baton Rouge, LA; Germantown (Memphis), TN; Wilmington, NC; and currently Silver Spring, MD. I am somewhat familiar with the Chalmette/Arabi sections outside New Orleans because of duty at Jackson Barracks. ---
**Author:** ![Strainger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/strainger/32/244_2.png) [@Strainger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Strainger)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/15 "1999-10-25T16:24:00Z")
I live in Gilbert, AZ now but there’s a good chance that I’ll be relocating to Huntsville, AL in the near future. Regardless, I do get back to Atlanta (where I grew up and where my parents and sister still live) on a fairly regular basis. Other Atlanta area Dopers (that I know of) include Doctor Jackson, StrTrkr777, GregAtlanta and TUBADIVA. I hope to set up a get together with the Atlanta Dopers (and anyone else who wants to make the trip) sometime soon. Gotta see how that Huntsville thing works out first. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/16 "1999-10-25T16:33:00Z")
Same as Satan, except he’s from Downstate NY and I’m Upstate (memo to Illinoians: just backwards of the way you use them). He also is my superior in the sardonism department. Okay, we’re not Deep South. So what do we call ourselves? Stir-fried South? ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/17 "1999-10-25T16:38:00Z")
Polycarp - I know Memphis calls itself the Mid-South…maybe y’all could use that! (Although, I always consider TN the South, being a Yankee myself…) ---
**Author:** ![smilingjaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@smilingjaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingjaws)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/18 "1999-10-25T16:47:00Z")
5th generation Mississippian (at least!) And, no, I don’t hunt! ---
**Author:** ![smilingjaws](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@smilingjaws](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/smilingjaws)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/19 "1999-10-25T16:48:00Z")
Forgot to say–I’ve got the drawl to prove it! ---
**Author:** ![StrTrkr777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@StrTrkr777](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StrTrkr777)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 1999, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420/20 "1999-10-25T18:44:00Z")
Yes, Strainger is correct I am from Atlanta, GA. Let me know if you guys in Atlanta do want to do a get together and if I can work it out I will be there. Though not likely as witty as the New York bunch. Jeffery [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/down-south-dopers/10420.md?page=2)