# 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:** 4
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@Sauron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sauron)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/21 "2016-03-23T20:08:35Z")
Alabama Dopers represent!
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/22 "2016-03-23T20:29:35Z")
Here’s a sorted snapshot:
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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
Texas 8 23.53%
Georgia 6 17.65%
North Carolina 4 11.76%
Arkansas 3 8.82%
Tennessee 3 8.82%
Florida 2 5.88%
Mississippi 2 5.88%
South Carolina 2 5.88%
Virginia 2 5.88%
Alabama 1 2.94%
Kentucky 1 2.94%
Louisiana 0 0%
Missouri 0 0%
Other Southern State (identify, please!) 0 0%
```
Voters: 34
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### Author:  [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/23 "2016-03-23T20:34:11Z")
> [@jtur88](#):
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> I have lived in seven of the states listed, but currently in Texas.
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> Is there a reason Missouri and Texas are southern states, but Oklahoma is not? Missouri, but not Illinois nor Kansas?
It’s a long and convoluted story. Clues above.
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### Author:  [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)
#### Post date: [March 23, 2016, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-dopers-id-yourselves/749785/24 "2016-03-23T23:42:02Z")
> [@WOOKINPANUB](#):
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> 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? 🙂
My.father-in-law, who lives in Central Florida, says there’s no such thing as northern Florida - it’s just further-south Georgia.
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