Southerners

la7789
la7789 Posts: 10 Member
edited November 14 in Chit-Chat
Hey guys where are all my southern people at
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  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    Well, don't forget Florida for the 48 and Hawaii for the win.
  • _dixiana_
    _dixiana_ Posts: 3,262 Member
    Cutaway_Collar wrote: »
    Why do southern folk have two names together?!

    MaryAnn. GingerLynn. SarahBeth. RickyBobby.

    Not all of us do. I go by one name.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    how is Texas not southern?

    I'm from WV which is technically southern, though we seceded from VA because of the Civil War and wanting to be a member of the Union... so... I don't know about us. I wouldn't consider myself southern, but I know plenty of people in this state who would.

    I'm not sure what I am trying to say.

    Texas is Tejas

    Just because it lands south on the map, dont make it Dixie.

    Hawaii is further south than any other state but it's hardly Southern.
  • Suzeq66
    Suzeq66 Posts: 28 Member
    NC here, born and raised in GA.
  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    how is Texas not southern?

    I'm from WV which is technically southern, though we seceded from VA because of the Civil War and wanting to be a member of the Union... so... I don't know about us. I wouldn't consider myself southern, but I know plenty of people in this state who would.

    I'm not sure what I am trying to say.

    People seem to think Southern is like southeast (Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, etc)
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    angelxsss wrote: »
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    how is Texas not southern?

    I'm from WV which is technically southern, though we seceded from VA because of the Civil War and wanting to be a member of the Union... so... I don't know about us. I wouldn't consider myself southern, but I know plenty of people in this state who would.

    I'm not sure what I am trying to say.

    People seem to think Southern is like southeast (Louisiana, Mississippi, Tennessee, Georgia, etc)

    Add:

    North and South Carolina
    Alabama
    Arkansas (?)

    Missouri was the south in 1860 too.
  • wolverine66
    wolverine66 Posts: 3,779 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    how is Texas not southern?

    I'm from WV which is technically southern, though we seceded from VA because of the Civil War and wanting to be a member of the Union... so... I don't know about us. I wouldn't consider myself southern, but I know plenty of people in this state who would.

    I'm not sure what I am trying to say.

    Texas is Tejas

    Just because it lands south on the map, dont make it Dixie.

    Hawaii is further south than any other state but it's hardly Southern.

    I get that.

    I always used the Civil War as the definer, and if a state was part of the Confederacy, then, to me, it is considered southern. I can kind of see it as being "southwest" from a regional standpoint. but at the same time, it has south in the name.
  • shanae727
    shanae727 Posts: 546 Member
    South Carolina!
  • mattdhall
    mattdhall Posts: 85 Member
    Being from Houston, I think of anywhere that it snows as 'the North.'
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    mattdhall wrote: »
    Being from Houston, I think of anywhere that it snows as 'the North.'

    It snows in Hawaii.

    Just sayin'
  • garygse
    garygse Posts: 896 Member
    Another Texan here...although I'm also British, so I kind of have no idea where I get to stand in this particular thread.
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    garygse wrote: »
    Another Texan here...although I'm also British, so I kind of have no idea where I get to stand in this particular thread.

    Wait.

    What?

    You weren't born in Texas ???

    * texans will understand this.
  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    edited December 2016
    ^ I didn't get that. Also, I was born in California haha, but I'm pretty much all the way a Texan
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    angelxsss wrote: »
    ^ I didn't get that. Also, I was born in California haha, but I'm pretty much all the way a Texan

    You just said it.

    You were born in California.

    Add that with 'pretty much ' and we figure you for a Damn Yankee .
  • cee134
    cee134 Posts: 33,711 Member
    I still want to know who the OP is southern?
  • sturgeonml2017
    sturgeonml2017 Posts: 46 Member
    I'm in west Virginia also. I consider myself southern. For us its kindof a way of life... Oh and the accent i swear I don't have until I visit my dad in Indiana...lol
  • Motorsheen
    Motorsheen Posts: 20,508 Member
    sturgeonml2017 wrote: »
    I'm in west Virginia also. I consider myself southern. For us its kindof a way of life... Oh and the accent i swear I don't have until I visit my dad in Indiana...lol

    By God!
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    wolverine66 wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all

    how is Texas not southern?

    I'm from WV which is technically southern, though we seceded from VA because of the Civil War and wanting to be a member of the Union... so... I don't know about us. I wouldn't consider myself southern, but I know plenty of people in this state who would.

    I'm not sure what I am trying to say.

    Texans don't consider themselves Southern; they consider themselves Texans.
  • chocolate_owl
    chocolate_owl Posts: 1,695 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    garygse wrote: »
    Another Texan here...although I'm also British, so I kind of have no idea where I get to stand in this particular thread.

    Wait.

    What?

    You weren't born in Texas ???

    * texans will understand this.

    My dad's favorite joke:

    Him: "What part of Texas are you from?"
    Them: "...I'm from Amsterdam."
    Him: "So, east Texas!"
  • jnichel
    jnichel Posts: 4,553 Member
    Born and raised in south Louisiana; now living in the frigid north.
  • texasleahgirl
    texasleahgirl Posts: 96 Member
    I'm from the very Northeast corner of Texas, right on the tri-state line. Back in the days of the railroad Northeast TX was called "The Gateway to the West", but the Western state label always seems to start with New Mexico. Maybe that is why Texas is just Texas who knows? I can see Arkansas from my back yard, and being a state line city most of the identity of the town is Arkansan, woo pig sooie and all that stuff. You really have to get 100 miles west before you lose that image. We have pecans, so Texas is southern (in the Dixie sense). We have avocados, citrus and desert so Texas is western too.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Parts of Texas are culturally Southern and parts are culturally Northern. I'm in and of the culturally Southern part.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Once on glocktalk a discussion was speculating on Texas seceding from the Union. Individuals from all across the country were certain that if Texas did secede, their states would join Texas in abandoning the East and West coasts. I recall we were also able to get assurances from half of Canada, also.
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    garygse wrote: »
    Another Texan here...although I'm also British, so I kind of have no idea where I get to stand in this particular thread.
    Growing up in Irving we had neighbors who were emigrants from Great Britain, and I had a piano teacher who was an Australian war bride.

  • la7789
    la7789 Posts: 10 Member
    Lol I think maybe after this debate I should have just asked for country. Idc what state. Just looking for rednecks southern bells hillbillys backwoods barbies idc what you call yourself. I'm just trying to find more like me
  • la7789
    la7789 Posts: 10 Member
    Add me if yall want
  • angelxsss
    angelxsss Posts: 2,402 Member
    Motorsheen wrote: »
    angelxsss wrote: »
    ^ I didn't get that. Also, I was born in California haha, but I'm pretty much all the way a Texan

    You just said it.

    You were born in California.

    Add that with 'pretty much ' and we figure you for a Damn Yankee .

    But I moved here when I was 4 and all my parents/grandparents are Texan born and raised. I just forewent the "born" part. It's not my fault my parents were navy brats!
  • JeromeBarry1
    JeromeBarry1 Posts: 10,179 Member
    Well, my dad was a Coonass.
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