Born in Alabama. Have lived in New Orleans, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi. In-laws are native New-Yorkers who have lived in the south for about 15 years now.
We currently live in Florida.
I desperately hope to be residing in Iceland within 10 years.
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**NinetyWt ** & **Mississippienne ** are MS I believe, but I’ll let them say for sure (I may be misremembering or they may have transplanted out by now). Evil Captor - if you come to the Atlanta Dopefest I’ll bite you for that.
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Y’all are exactly right, Shelli, tho I think Mississippienne is living out of state, at the moment.
whole bean, Atlanta’s not Southern because no one in Atlanta is from Atlanta. I lived there for four years and met exactly one person who was from Atlanta.
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Right. I’m guessing your address contained one the following words" Alpharetta, Marietta, Suwanee, Buford, Roswell, Dunwoody," etc. etc. A huge number of my friends are native Atlantans, and 99% were born and raised in the South. Atlanta is a very southern city.
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Right. I’m guessing your address contained one the following words" Alpharetta, Marietta, Suwanee, Buford, Roswell, Dunwoody," etc. etc. A huge number of my friends are native Atlantans, and 99% were born and raised in the South. Atlanta is a very southern city.
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Nope - my address was Atlanta - I lived one block from Little 5 Points.
Rather than continue to hijack Zeldar’s thread, I have begun another: What Makes Us Southern? Those of you who are interested are invited to comment.
Thanks!
Most certainly! Know thee of another Toomer’s Corner in Alabama? I helped roll Toomer’s four times this year, for the four National Championships:
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Equestrian
Women’s Track and Field.
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Most certainly! Know thee of another Toomer’s Corner in Alabama? I helped roll Toomer’s four times this year, for the four National Championships:
Women’s Swimming and Diving
Men’s Swimming and Diving
Equestrian
Women’s Track and Field.
I was born in Birmingham, but have been truly blessed by the Almighty in that I have had the opportunity… nay the privilege to have lived most of my life in that Mecca of higher learning… that utopian example of the zenith of human civilization… the center of the known universe… Verbena, Alabama.
dammit, i was so happy being cute that I forgot to say:
Toomer’s is one of the greatest spots in Alabama. Even though I hated the collegiate culture, I couldn’t help but grin when driving past a well-rolled Toomer’s Corner on a Monday morning (though I felt badly for the poor guys doing the clean-up with the pressure hoses…)
I miss Auburn intensely, even though I no longer have RV’s fucking up my Thursday night Astronomy labs nor trapping me in my student trailer park for hours on end during the weekend …
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I was born in Birmingham, but have been truly blessed by the Almighty in that I have had the opportunity… nay the privilege to have lived most of my life in that Mecca of higher learning… that utopian example of the zenith of human civilization… the center of the known universe… Verbena, Alabama.
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Um, are you being facetious? I don’t know WTF a Vebena is and I’ve live in Alabama more than anywhere else during my life!
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If most residents of Florida refer to themselves as “Floridians,” then why is there a Media General publication called The FLORIDAN ??
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Cause Jackson County (home of this “Floridan”) might as well be Alabama. They don’t know what they’re talking about.
The only Floridan we have is the aquifer. Those of us who live here are Floridians.