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Southerners
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I know Texas isn't "southern" but technically, we're the most southern of all1
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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.5 -
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.1 -
wolverine66 wrote: »
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.2 -
NC here, born and raised in GA.1
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wolverine66 wrote: »
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)0 -
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.0 -
Motorsheen wrote: »
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.0 -
South Carolina!0
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Being from Houston, I think of anywhere that it snows as 'the North.'3
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Another Texan here...although I'm also British, so I kind of have no idea where I get to stand in this particular thread.2
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^ I didn't get that. Also, I was born in California haha, but I'm pretty much all the way a Texan1
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I still want to know who the OP is southern?0
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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...lol0
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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!0 -
wolverine66 wrote: »
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.1 -
Motorsheen wrote: »
My dad's favorite joke:
Him: "What part of Texas are you from?"
Them: "...I'm from Amsterdam."
Him: "So, east Texas!"4 -
Born and raised in south Louisiana; now living in the frigid north.0
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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.0
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Parts of Texas are culturally Southern and parts are culturally Northern. I'm in and of the culturally Southern part.0
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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.1
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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 me2
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Add me if yall want0
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Motorsheen wrote: »
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!0 -
Well, my dad was a Coonass.0
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