Shouldn’t there also be a reference to “turning down the road just past where the hound dog is lying”?
Alexandria was certainly a southern town when I grew up there in the 1950s. I don’t think I ever saw a black kid, they went to different schools than we did. If you don’t think it was southern, you never drove down Lee Highway to Jeb Stuart High School.
It could also be boilt t’death
Being from Chattanooga, I would always say upper east TN, not NE TN. On the other hand, it’s definitely NE and NW GA.
“Ah need some motor uhl.”
“How many quarts, sir?”
“Foe-wer.”
Mrs. J. just texted me a short video titled “Possum eating something in the back yard.”
I mostly saw “upper east Tennessee” in the sports section. I’ve also heard “Mountain Empire” used for upper east TN and SW Virginia.
Y’might have a flat tar.
I’m not sure if this is Southern, country or both. (I have lived in cities most of my life, then a Southern City,
then out in the country in the south - this is new to me).
It is a requirement for people in cars and pedestrians to wave at each other when passing.
They have the same requirement in New York City, except you can only wave one finger.
I live south of the I-10.
I can’t wait for spring to make up a mess of poke salad.
Here’s what a hillbilly sounds like. Pro wrassler Ron Wright was unknown outside a fairly small area, but where I’m from he’s legendary.
Do they call it “the” I-10 down south (like in southern California)?
Ah’ve bin doin’ that since I was knee high to a grasshopper!
A coworker from TN had a good idiom:
I’m as busy as a dog with nine tails
We’re goin’ out for some Eye-talian food tonight.
Or the famous “busy as cat in a room full of rockers”
absolutely. The I-10 isn’t just another interstate. For large stretches along the gulf coast it separates the “low” areas from the higher elevations. It is shorthand for the risk of flooding from hurricanes and storms. Or at least from more dangerous conditions from less. In large part because the entire rest of the country is north of the I-10 and there is a relatively narrow stretch of land south. So of course there is more safe land north than south. It is mostly a joke. No one would claim that anyone in Mississippi or Louisiana is not from the south, but for us south of the I-10 there are a lot of northerners up there.
Do you need a safety pin or a writin’ pin?
NORTHampton would like a word.