Southerners

[rosco rathbone]

Born at Duke U., grew up in VA.

 

[arctic-stranger]

Born at Duke U., grew up in VA.

Academic Career

UNCC undergrad
UNC-Chapel Hill graduate school
Duke Divnity School

Lived in NC until i moved to alaska at the age of 38

Tar Heel born and Tar Heel bred, but when i die i will be alaskan dead

 

[jasonlf]

If I owned Heaven and Chapel Hill, I would rent out Heaven and life in Chapel Hill.

Gah!

/me smacks Chapel Hill

East triangle... Knightdale, Zebulon... that's the ticket.

GO MUDCATS!

 

[arctic-stranger]

Gah!

/me smacks Chapel Hill

East triangle... Knightdale, Zebulon... that's the ticket.

GO MUDCATS!

GO BULLS!!!!

 

[CutieMouse]

*****

 

[arctic-stranger]

I do believe I am about to get *more* Southern. I've been in Texas for 25 years and shall be moving to Memphis in August... my new boss has a sweet accent that makes mine more pronounced. (Y'all know how it gets when a couple of Southerners get together! LOL)

I wonder what you get when you cross a North Carolina drawl with a quebecer lilt?

 

[petboy]

Ive been in SC all my life!

 

[TaintedB]

Born at Duke U., grew up in VA.

So you are technically a Southerner. Hmm. I think you are the most un-Southern Southerner I have ever met.

 

[laurel-marie]

So you are technically a Southerner. Hmm. I think you are the most un-Southern Southerner I have ever met.

If you would have ended that with Sir...it would have been perfectly southern sounding.

 

[jasonlf]

GO BULLS!!!!

The Mudcats brought their MLB franchise .... Dontrelle Willis & Miguel Cabrera.

*nuff said.

 

[TaintedB]

If you would have ended that with Sir...it would have been perfectly southern sounding.

LOL, that could be...accurate. Preceding "I think" with a "Sir," would also have worked. But I am not perfectly Southern. Only 85% of the way there, at the moment. So how come _you_ know so much about Southerners? (very suspicious look). Oh, I know! You probably watched "Gone With The Wind."

 

[TaintedB]

The Mudcats brought their MLB franchise .... Dontrelle Willis & Miguel Cabrera.

*nuff said.

What in the heck are you *Males* talking about?

 

[laurel-marie]

LOL, that could be...accurate. Preceding "I think" with a "Sir," would also have worked. But I am not perfectly Southern. Only 85% of the way there, at the moment. So how come _you_ know so much about Southerners? (very suspicious look). Oh, I know! You probably watched "Gone With The Wind."

Mmm Rhett Butler.

Ok, I confess, I am from the South.
Bayous and sugarcane fields.
Seafood and spice.
Sir and Ma'am.

 

[arctic-stranger]

What in the heck are you *Males* talking about?

Baseball....

Of course!

 

[graceanne]

K was born in NJ, the moved to Texas when he was 9. He lived their till he was 24, so as far as I'm concerned he's a Texan. He's got the accent and all, but it sure gets worse when he's around his aunt. She was born and raised in Mississippi, and she's got an accent that belongs on the porch of a plantation. It's really cool.

I was born in Colorado, then we moved to Minnesota, then Texas, then back to Minnesota, then Missouri, then here in Oregon. I don't really consider myself anything, But the interesting thing is that, since I've moved around so much, I pick up accents real quick. Gimme a week or two, and I'll sound like a native.

 

[graceanne]

So you are technically a Southerner. Hmm. I think you are the most un-Southern Southerner I have ever met.

That's odd. I wasn't at all surprised to read that he was raised in the south. I dunno, maybe the southerners I've met are different than the norm, but I think he probably fits right in.

 

[TaintedB]

That's odd. I wasn't at all surprised to read that he was raised in the south. I dunno, maybe the southerners I've met are different than the norm, but I think he probably fits right in.

I'm probably just judging by superficial characteristics. To me a Southern man is... let's see, like Tom Petty? Hmm... harder than I thought to define this. Only thing I came up with is a soft-spoken, very polite gentleman who manages to get away with calling every woman he meets by some diminuitive or another, often "honey." And even the feminists among us lap that shit up.

 

[DustyWolfe]

i was born in west texas and live around dallas currently (never in dallas, always around it... that should change sooon though)

the hair thing was f unny..though i know some texas women who's hair i wouldn't want to touch for fear that the hair spray would perminantly adhere to me

I was born in west Texas as well, and am now in the Austin area but hopefully this will change soon. Not that I dont like Austin, it's just not right for me personally.

 

[Liana26]

Roll Tide, Roll

 

[TaintedB]

Roll Tide, Roll

They call me Decon Blues?

 

[DaPup]

Roll Tide?

LOL! Not quite!

Geaux Tigers!

 

[Masters_aphrodite]

waves from Georgia

i am from the south

 

[TaintedB]

Long live the land of cotton.

 

[greyhawk]

i was born in indiana but moved to memphis as a kid and have been stuck here ever since

 

[Jay Davis]

Lived in Austin, TX from 13 to 26, so it's the city I always think of as home. But I don't think of myself as a Southerner. Texas is distinct from the "true south," with a separate identity and attitude. And in Texas, Austin is distinct from the rest of the state--a blue city lost in the middle of a red state, if you will.

When I was living in Austin, through the 80s, it rated #2 in the nation on what I feel is one of the best indicators of hipness--per capita gay population. Only San Francisco had a higher percentage of the population identifying as gay at that time. Oh, and Austin has one of the last surviving, continually-active hippy populations, too.

Very much a blue city in a red state, unless it's changed a LOT since I moved away a decade a go.