# Southern Dopers ID Yourselves
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion
**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785 "2016-03-21T17:51:28Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/1 "2016-03-21T17:51:28Z")
If you are currently living (more than half the year) in one of these states
please check that option.
If you want to say **Other** , that’s cool, too.
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### Author:  [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/2 "2016-03-21T17:57:08Z")
Do to the “Recent Unpleasantness” I decline to say exactly WHAT state…but we eat grits and okra around these here parts and like em.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/3 "2016-03-21T18:09:50Z")
> [@billfish678](#):
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> Do to the “Recent Unpleasantness” I decline to say exactly WHAT state…but we eat grits and okra around these here parts and like em.
How recent we talking? No matter, y’all have to be good people with a diet like that.
You into chitlins or mountain oysters much?
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### Author:  [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/4 "2016-03-21T18:18:02Z")
Seems slightly odd to count Missouri as a “Southern” state but leave out Oklahoma.
(Voted Georgia–wasn’t actually born here, but grew up here and have lived here most of my life.)
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 21, 2016, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/5 "2016-03-21T18:44:18Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#):
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> Seems slightly odd to count Missouri as a “Southern” state but leave out Oklahoma.
That’s why I said Other. There are too many versions of _The South_ these days, so I went with the SEC plus two Confederate States.
There can be no doubt about Georgia! 😃
ETA: Anybody want to predict which state will be the first to 10 Votes?
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/6 "2016-03-22T01:22:35Z")
If you would like to see how things have changed in the past 10 years in terms of where some (Southern) Dopers live, check out:
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> **[Southern USA Dopers: Stand and be counted, please](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=382597)**
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> With the remarkable success of the recent thread I started on Monday of this week, Non-USA Dopers: Stand and be counted. Please., I would love to see a similar accounting of Southern Dopers. Others may wish to take ownership of a separate thread to...
Southern USA Dopers: Stand and be counted, please
08-04-2006, 08:02 AM
Zeldar
#208 09-25-2014, 07:30 PM
seal\_cleaner
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Only the last six or so posts there are as recent as 2014. The rest are older.
A monster summary is [in this post.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=7682524&postcount=201)
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### Author:  [@feppytweed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/feppytweed)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/7 "2016-03-22T23:09:26Z")
guess I didn’t see the old one.
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### Author:  [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)
#### Post date: [March 22, 2016, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/8 "2016-03-22T23:29:52Z")
Arkansas _was_ part of the Confederacy but we folded like a cheap suit.
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### Author:  [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/9 "2016-03-23T01:41:15Z")
I was about to say, “Define Southern,” but I should have known you’d have a list of states.
Arkansas is the upper South, and I’m on the northern end of it–to the point that I’ve been told I sound like I’m from southern Missouri more than Arkansas–but I’m also in the Ozarks, where the Southern-ness is more concentrated.
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/10 "2016-03-23T02:17:51Z")
## It should be fun to see how these rankings change as we go along:
View Poll Results:
Do you currently live in one of these states?
This poll will close on 06-19-2016 at 12:54 PM
```auto
Georgia 4 20.00%
North Carolina 3 15.00%
Tennessee 3 15.00%
Texas 3 15.00%
South Carolina 2 10.00%
Arkansas 2 10.00%
Mississippi 2 10.00%
Virginia 1 5.00%
Alabama 0 0%
Florida 0 0%
Kentucky 0 0%
Louisiana 0 0%
Missouri 0 0%
Other Southern State (identify, please!) 0 0%
```
Voters: 20
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 2:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/11 "2016-03-23T02:57:55Z")
> [@BigT](#):
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> I was about to say, “Define Southern,” but I should have known you’d have a list of states.
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> Arkansas is the upper South, and I’m on the northern end of it–to the point that I’ve been told I sound like I’m from southern Missouri more than Arkansas–but I’m also in the Ozarks, where the Southern-ness is more concentrated.
If you want visual evidence of how loosely defined The South is check out [these maps.](https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVzwGBfJW3gIAz_RXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTE0aGgwa3JwBGNvbG8DYmYxBHBvcwMxBHZ0aWQDQjE1NjNfMQRzZWMDcGl2cw--?p=southern+usa+map&fr=yfp-t-201-s&fr2=piv-web)
(Due to some malfunction in my setup or to something I have yet to find, I can’t even see this link!) I hope it’s what I can see at Yahoo! Image Search for Maps of “The South USA”)
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### Author:  [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/12 "2016-03-23T03:20:15Z")
I’m in South Brooklyn, and I love okra and grits. We tend to call it “polenta,” though, because goombahs live here. And I panfry mean chicken.
Henry Ward Beecher lived here, too! Brooklyn was the second biggest Intellectual Abolitionist center after Boston! Ha ha! Suck Dead Lincoln’s balls!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 3:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/13 "2016-03-23T03:50:24Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#):
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> I’m in South Brooklyn, and I love okra and grits. We tend to call it “polenta,” though, because goombahs live here. And I panfry mean chicken.
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> Henry Ward Beecher lived here, too! Brooklyn was the second biggest Intellectual Abolitionist center after Boston! Ha ha! Suck Dead Lincoln’s balls!
As Bartles and Jaymes proclaim, “Thank you for your support!”😉
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### Author:  [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/14 "2016-03-23T04:04:12Z")
I wasn’t born in Georgia, but I’ve been furthering the reconstruction here for the last 32 years.
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### Author:  [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/15 "2016-03-23T04:13:52Z")
It’s been 26 years since I last lived in Texas, but I did live there for 24 years. During my formative years. Also lived in Arkansas for almost four years as a tyke but can barely remember that. So that’s about 28 years in the South under my belt.
The last two states I lived in were outside the South and more than 22 years ago, so I wouldn’t have voted in the poll even if it was a closed one (the only kind I vote in).
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### Author:  [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/16 "2016-03-23T17:53:02Z")
I have lived in seven of the states listed, but currently in Texas.
Is there a reason Missouri and Texas are southern states, but Oklahoma is not? Missouri, but not Illinois nor Kansas?
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### Author:  [@FairyChatMom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FairyChatMom)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/17 "2016-03-23T18:13:52Z")
I lived in NE Florida for about 18 years, but I never considered myself to be a southerner. So I didn’t vote. Still, I felt compelled to post. 😃
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### Author:  [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/18 "2016-03-23T19:01:17Z")
Another Florida resident checking in. Oddly enough, even though it’s the southernmost state in the contiguous forty-eight, only the northern most part is really what you’d call “southern”, if we’re speaking politically and culturally. I am from Southern CA though; does that count? 🙂
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### Author:  [@Precambrianmollusc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Precambrianmollusc)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/19 "2016-03-23T19:13:05Z")
Now living in Houston Texas
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### Author:  [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/20 "2016-03-23T19:46:14Z")
Originally from Louisiana, now living in Virginia.
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