[don-o]

In the south you don't ask if someone wants a soft drink, you ask if they want a coke.

In east Tennessee, they were known as dopes.

[yarddog]

It has been a long time since I have heard that term. No one where I grew up called them "dopes" but I used to work with a guy from Birmingham and he said they called cokes, dopes when he was a kid.

[des]

As a nursing student at the Greenville Public Health Dept.(ETSU) I just about freaked when a mountain lady proudly told me she didn't allow her child to "have no dope". I learned it came from the time when Coca-Cola REALLY had cocaine in it, and it became a moral/spiritual issue for some folks.