[sheltonmac]

Southern heritage BUMP!

[stainlessbanner]

Please continue to keep the secret....

By posting in on FR? Just kidding - good post Sheltonmac!

[razorback-bert]

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[Cleburne]

My South is camellias, azaleas, wisteria, and hydrangeas

Half of which are already in full bloom this time of year! Durn it's nice to live where winter lasts two weeks...

[jgrubbs]

Southern heritage BUMP!

[Amore]

Nicely said. Thanks for defending us.

[geaux]

Isn't Virginia considered a southern state?

[Happygal]

Dixie Ping! :-)

[Lorraine]

I was born and raised in Alabama. I've been lots of places, but there is no place like the South.

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[DETAILER]

I was born in Mobile, Alabama, then raised in Louisiana, where I still am today. I'll never leave it.

I once did a six month stint on a large construction site in Baltimore. People there actually ask you how high your house is off the ground, and how do you keep the alligators out of your yard! And they really do think we all run around barefoot, except on Sunday! I love it! It's hilarious! But I'll never go up North again- filthy, grey, depressing place.

[fish hawk]

Your South sounds real good to me. Can you post your Menu so we can see what the food of the South is like. Aloha from Maui...

[stboz]

Why would I try to win this woman over? She might move down here.

Got that right. We moved from Tampa to Vickburg fifteen years ago. Too dang many Yankees, too close together, with bad manners and attitudes, using up the water supply and then gripping about it. They took my home and ruined it.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

- In my South we Bar-B-Que in short sleeves between Christmas and New Years.

- In my South we remember that a White Christmas is a Northern European and Yankee myth! It snows here about as often as it does in the Holy Land.

[Junior]

Deo Vindice.

[DETAILER]

Here's a little test to find out if someone is actually from the South, not that you won't be able to tell in few minutes but this is fun anyway-

Take a piece of paper and just write "Boudin" on it. Hand it to the person and ask them what that is, how do you pronounce it, and if they like it. If they don't know, tell em to get back wherever they came from.

[cav68]

Being from Virginia of which I am proud as any Southern Gentleman could possibly be, but when you put to words Sunday Dinner at Grandmas you not only touched my heart but my actual spirit. For this I wish to say thank you, each Sunday at my Mothers we have lunch as a family, my youngest is just 12 and he gets upset if for any reason we don't attend( missed 1 since he's been born). I grew up up around Smithfield (Hog Capitol of World) we still kill hogs and smoke our own meat. Currently I work in Radiation Safety and have fun with that when the wife and travel back to her home in Ohio. My in-laws were down once and we had collards and butter beans, tomatoes and cornbread (Johnny Cakes,Ash Cakes) they had never had such and ate everything and left the table with grease on their chins. Each time we go up we take smoke house cured bacon, susage and fresh eggs, they truly love it. Well thanks again for the rememberance of times that haven't all gone bye.

[AUgrad]

Damn right!

[MrConfettiMan]

I thought this thread might interest you.

[andysandmikesmom]

I was born and raised in Chicago...but when my hubby went into the army, and we were stationed at Ft. Bragg, N.C., it was going to be a big move for us...

Well, we lived in there, in the rural areas on North Carolina, for five wonderful years, and it was like heaven...

It was so different from Chicago, and it took some getting used to, but oh my, what a glorious part of the country to live in...

I remember, my mom came down and spent the whole month of April with us...and she just could not get over the explosion of azaleas, wisteria, dogwoods, crepe myrtles, and all the other beautiful flowers, that painted the whole area like a wonderful picture...

The food, the people, the weather, the language with its wonderful southern accent, and the whole atmosphere of being in the south, is something I will remember and cherish for the rest of my life..

We were eventually transfered to Ft. Lewis, Washington, and so we are now in the Pacific Northwest, and have made it our permanent home...it too is a wonderful and beautiful place...

But living in the south, was one of the highlights of my life, and something to be cherished forever...people who speak ill of the south, obviously have never taken the time to go live there for a while, and soak it up...

[Bahbah]

I had the wonderful experience of living in the south (North Carolina) for two years. It is beautiful, but it is really the people who make the difference.