# Southern USA Dopers: Stand and be counted, please **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 4, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315 "2006-08-04T13:02:52Z")\ **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:** [August 4, 2006, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/1 "2006-08-04T13:02:52Z")
With the remarkable success of the recent thread I started on Monday of this week, [Non-USA Dopers: Stand and be counted. Please.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=7644861#post7644861), I would love to see a similar accounting of Southern Dopers. Others may wish to take ownership of a separate thread to call for similar responses for some other geographical area. Perhaps someone could revive whatever older threads already exist on these and/or related topics. I’ll try to maintain a little Notepad summary file of the replies and post summaries from time to time. If you aren’t currently living (at least 51% of your time) in a Southern state, please don’t count yourself in this thread. Maybe you could start another thread to count “transplants” which might also be fun to see as a separate group. If you weren’t born in the South but do live here now, you can count yourself as a Southerner for the sake of this thread. If your location doesn’t reveal your state, please mention it, since I’d like the data to be able to be sorted by state. Town or city isn’t a requirement. Also, I’ll leave it to you to decide if your location is Southern or not. I saw a magnificent book yesterday at the dentist’s office that was about The South and even it had difficulty deciding which states to include. For my purposes, these states can be deemed Southern USA: Alabama Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia West Virginia Unless you know for sure that another person is an active member, whether regular poster or lurker, please don’t list others who qualify. I’d like this to be participatory. At last count, the non-USA Dopers list has grown to 120 unique names. I believe we ought to have at least that many Southern USA folks. What say you? ---
**Author:** ![VunderBob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/839c29/32.png) [@VunderBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VunderBob)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/2 "2006-08-04T13:06:05Z")
Indiana by birth; North Carolina by the grace of Og… ---
**Author:** ![DrunkOnion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/3ab097/32.png) [@DrunkOnion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrunkOnion)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/3 "2006-08-04T13:09:35Z")
Born and raised in Ohio. Transplanted myself to the FL panhandle…love it ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/4 "2006-08-04T13:10:34Z")
Born and raised in Arkansas, live in Virginia. ---
**Author:** ![ShibbOleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@ShibbOleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShibbOleth)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/5 "2006-08-04T13:11:35Z")
Born in California, but in and out of Florida since 1977. Also did a five year stint in Atlanta, and another five years in Charm City. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/6 "2006-08-04T13:12:24Z")
Born in Ontario, emigrated to the FL panhandle. ---
**Author:** ![burundi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3ec8ea/32.png) [@burundi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burundi)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/7 "2006-08-04T13:13:37Z")
North Carolinian here! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/8 "2006-08-04T13:26:54Z")
I live in west central Florida but I am _not_ southren 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/9 "2006-08-04T13:27:37Z")
Born in South Florida. Been living 38 miles from Toomer’s Corner since before the average doper was born. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/10 "2006-08-04T13:29:13Z")
Yo, Arkansan. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/11 "2006-08-04T13:36:08Z")
I live in Tennessee, but I am not a Southerner. Why? Just ask any Southerner. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/12 "2006-08-04T13:47:47Z")
> [@Bosda Di'Chi of Tricor](#): > > I live in Tennessee, but I am not a Southerner. Dude, the “Volunteer State”. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/13 "2006-08-04T13:52:27Z")
Native South Carolinian, born and bred. ---
**Author:** ![Foxy40](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a9a28c/32.png) [@Foxy40](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Foxy40)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/14 "2006-08-04T13:56:53Z")
Transplanted New Yorker currently residing in Florida. Geographically, Florida is the south, but as far as culture? I am not so sure we belong to that group as the majority are transplants from the North or PR. At least in Central Florida. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/15 "2006-08-04T14:03:35Z")
I’m in Alabama. I grew up in Phenix City, lived in Tuscaloosa for a few years, and now I’m in Huntsville (the Rocket City), which is a great place to live. ---
**Author:** ![Walkabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/46a35a/32.png) [@Walkabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walkabout)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/16 "2006-08-04T14:06:35Z")
Born and raised in West (by God!) Virginia, lived here all my life. No one’s sure how to classify WV, since it’s south of the Mason-Dixon line, but we were for the north in the Civil War, and we’re not on the coast but not in the middle either. If someone starts a poll for Northerners or Mid-westerners, I’ll probably answer those ones, too. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/17 "2006-08-04T14:07:16Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Dude, the “Volunteer State”. ¿Que? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/18 "2006-08-04T14:35:17Z")
Born in Calgary Alberta, living in Austin TX. ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/19 "2006-08-04T14:35:55Z")
Okay. In just over an hour we have these results: Alabama John Carter of Mars Charter Member Join Date: Sep 2001 Posts: 3,443 Location: Alabama, USA Eleanor of Aquitaine Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 343 Location: At court in Huntsville AL Arkansas carnivorousplant Charter Member Join Date: Apr 2000 Posts: 12,714 Location: South of the Mason-Dixon (AR) Delaware Florida DrunkOnion Guest Join Date: Jul 2006 (FL) ShibbOleth Charter Member Join Date: Jul 2001 Posts: 13,558 Location: Back in the USSA (FL?) fishbicycle Charter Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 3,732 Location: Florida WOOKINPANUB Member Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 756 Location: FL Foxy40 Member Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 78 Location: Central Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina VunderBob Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,022 Location: The VunderLair (NC) burundi Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 1,560 Location: North Carolina, USA Oklahoma South Carolina Zsofia Charter Member Join Date: Feb 2001 Posts: 3,862 Location: South Carolina Tennessee Zeldar Member Join Date: Jun 2003 Posts: 4,496 Location: Tennessee Bosda Di’Chi of Tricor Charter Member Join Date: Dec 1999 Posts: 16,328 Location: Dogpatch, USA (TN) Texas Virginia An Arky Charter Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 3,123 Location: Arlington, VA West Virginia WVmom Charter Member Join Date: Oct 2003 Posts: 375 Location: Almost Heaven (WV) ================================= At this rate we could catch the non-USA group today! This is mostly just to show how I will be summarizing things. I’ll try to get a summary up near the top of each new page (50 posts, more or less). Looks like Florida has jumped out to an early lead. Come on, y’all! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2006, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315/20 "2006-08-04T14:42:34Z")
I was born in Ohio, but have lived in Texas half my life. Still, I don’t consider myself either a southerner or a Texan. Of course, the demographics of Texas cities have changed so much in the last 30 years, because of influxes from the north and south, that the Texan identity is largely lost. You have to get out in the sticks to encounter genuine, old-fashioned Texans. They’re pretty cool, but I’m not one of them. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/southern-usa-dopers-stand-and-be-counted-please/367315.md?page=2)