# Tell me you're southern w/o telling me your southern **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 24, 2023, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690 "2023-01-24T01:19:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Cardigan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardigan/32/187_2.png) [@Cardigan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardigan)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/181 "2023-01-30T16:03:04Z")
No jew? ---
**Author:** ![MagicEyes](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@MagicEyes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MagicEyes)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/182 "2023-01-30T16:07:41Z")
Three (maybe more) of the biscuit places in the town I live in have been on top-ten lists of the best biscuits in the US. šŸ•¶ ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/183 "2023-01-30T16:20:28Z")
A few weeks back I spoke to a gentlemen in the Wegmans. He was looking sad because they were out of the ribs he wanted. He said he was serious about his ribs being from \*\*\*\*\*\* and named a town two over from the one my Mother grew up in. Tiny places, both, in Southern Georgia. Instead of saying ā€œMy Momā€™s from near thereā€ without a thought I said ā€œWell, we might be kin!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/184 "2023-01-30T16:41:37Z")
> [@Tibby](#): > > I worked with a doc named Heywood Was his last name ā€˜Jablomeā€™ by any chance? šŸ˜® šŸ™ƒ šŸ˜‰ ---
**Author:** ![Tibby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tibby/32/17030_2.png) [@Tibby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tibby)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/185 "2023-01-30T16:45:08Z")
No, but if youā€™re offeringā€¦ šŸ˜€ ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/186 "2023-01-30T16:47:37Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > Bristol. 1987 graduate of King College. One of the few who didnā€™t support Reagan. That wouldā€™ve certainly put you in the minority! When I was teaching there, there were a handful of left-of-center students, but not many. There was a College Republicans group with a large membership, but no College Democrats group. (If thereā€™d been one, the trustees would have probably gone apoplectic.) It always amused me that the ā€œBristol VA-TN, A Good Place To Liveā€ sign just said ā€˜goodā€™ rather than their having the confidence to say ā€˜great.ā€™ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/187 "2023-01-30T16:59:33Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > No jew? No, Iā€™m not going into a Woody Allen routine with you rat now. Iā€™ll post it, instead. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPBhxXhprg&ab\_channel=JohnTuckerJr](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaPBhxXhprg&ab_channel=JohnTuckerJr). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/188 "2023-01-30T17:00:43Z")
Iā€™ve heard ā€œ_nervous_ as a cat in a room full of rockersā€ but not _busy_. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/189 "2023-01-30T17:02:36Z")
Yeah, itā€™s, ā€œBusy as a one-armed paper hanger.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/190 "2023-01-30T17:04:26Z")
ā€œBusy as a one-legged man in an %##-kicking contest.ā€ ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/191 "2023-01-30T21:38:05Z")
ā€œJeet?ā€ Or maybe ā€œJeat?ā€ ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/192 "2023-01-30T22:47:41Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Yeah, itā€™s, ā€œBusy as a one-armed paper hanger.ā€ With hives.(or a rash) ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/193 "2023-01-30T22:52:09Z")
Slower than a fat lady in a cactus garden , ā€¦ Barefootā€¦ ā€¦ Blindfolded ā€¦ ā€¦ Nekkid ā€¦ ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/194 "2023-01-30T23:07:09Z")
(Youā€™re so dumbā€¦) Yā€™couldnā€™t find yā€™backside with a six-man search team. ---
**Author:** ![Pardel-Lux](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pardel-lux/32/20182_2.png) [@Pardel-Lux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pardel-Lux)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2023, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/195 "2023-01-30T23:29:43Z")
You bark up that tree too?!?!? šŸ˜² Sorry to bring this news to you, but it is the wrong one. ---
**Author:** ![Mama\_Zappa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/71e660/32.png) [@Mama\_Zappa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mama_Zappa)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2023, 8:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/196 "2023-01-31T08:21:42Z")
> [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](#): > > Iā€™ve heard it expressed that when youā€™re traveling on I-95, Baltimore is the first Northern city you hit, Richmond the first Southern one, and in between is the weird hybrid agglomeration of Washington. Apt! And the two are only about 12 hours away by car. Oh, sure, Google Maps says theyā€™re more like 3 or so, but I have a great deal of experience with that highway. 5-6 hours is probably a reasonable average. Culturally, itā€™s more like several decades than several hours. > [@Jaycat.again](#): > > Alexandria was certainly a southern town when I grew up there in the 1950s. I donā€™t think I ever saw a black kid, they went to different schools than we did. If you donā€™t think it was southern, you never drove down Lee Highway to Jeb Stuart High School. True enough. We moved here in the late 1980s - things have changed, a lot. Theyā€™ve renamed Jeb Stuart High School and Lee High School, in the past few years. The Fairfax High School team is no longer the Rebels. Go south and a bit west and thereā€™s still some Confederate culture. Largest flag Iā€™ve ever seen is a huge Confederate flag flying proudly along the state highway between Richmond and Farmville; Farmville was one of the towns that shut down its public schools a few decades back rather than let THOSE kids go to school with OUR kids. ---
**Author:** ![Lsura](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7993a0/32.png) [@Lsura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lsura)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2023, 12:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/197 "2023-02-01T12:51:15Z")
Nah, Iā€™d disagree. Outside of folks from California, Iā€™ve never heard it referred to as ā€œthe I-10ā€. Theyā€™ll call it ā€œI-10ā€ or ā€œInterstate 10ā€ but never THE I-10. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2023, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/198 "2023-02-02T19:53:24Z")
Iā€™ve got a hankerin fer sum BBQ. ---
**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:** [February 3, 2023, 2:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/199 "2023-02-03T14:51:01Z")
ā€œIā€™d like ta innerduce you! This here is ma wife, ma half-seester, ma cuzzzzzin, and my aint!ā€ ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tell-me-youre-southern-w-o-telling-me-your-southern/978690/200 "2023-02-04T15:15:18Z")
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