The South

[Neinrein]

I think we have to come up with a definition for Southern culture.
So what makes a state Southern?

People with a southern accent?
High percentage of african americans?
Whites and blacks with extremely different voting habits?
Large % of Christians?

What?

Southern accent. Something benconstine admittedly doesn't have, and I bet no one else in Arlington has either unless they are a transplant from the actual South.

Southern accent doesn't define one as Southern and what do you call a Southern accent anyway. We talk a different way here than they do in Tupelo and folks in Charleston talk different than say folks from Nashville. I am becoming convinced that only Southerners get to decide what is Southern and that people who do not like in a state that was in someway tied to the Confederacy or Confederate sympathies just shouldn't be talking

[they don't love you like i love you]

What I'm saying is that DC suburbia that has more in common with New Jersey than rural Georgia and has no real semblance of Southern culture remaining (No, barbecues and fried chicken being popular does not mean somewhere is full of Southern culture) is not part of the south.

[Filuwaúrdjan]

What I'm saying is that DC suburbia that has more in common with New Jersey than rural Georgia and has no real semblance of Southern culture remaining (No, barbecues and fried chicken being popular does not mean somewhere is full of Southern culture) is not part of the south.

Haha, yeah. You can find cheap fried chicken outlets everywhere these days.

[they don't love you like i love you]

Minnesota and North Dakota are as Southern as hell by a certain poster's definition of Southern culture.

[Fmr. Pres. Duke]

I think we have to come up with a definition for Southern culture.
So what makes a state Southern?

People with a southern accent?
High percentage of african americans?
Whites and blacks with extremely different voting habits?
Large % of Christians?

What?

Southern accent. Something benconstine admittedly doesn't have, and I bet no one else in Arlington has either unless they are a transplant from the actual South.

While I agree that Ben doesn't live in a community that is southern, he still is in the geographic south. Arlington is not southern, and I can almost guarantee that its culture is not southern. That doesn't mean Ben doesn't have southern heritage. Arlington just isn't a hotbed of southern culture. I just don't understand why it matters.

That being said, you can't base accents as defining the south. A lot of Charlestonians do not have accents, but that doesn't mean Charleston is not a southern city.

[SUSAN CRUSHBONE]

Enough trolling.

Enough overreaction to the trolling.

Enough of threads with "South" in the title.

I was going to post a thread titled "Stop Harassing the South."
I guess I won't then.

[specific_name]

This is the definition of flogging a dead horse now.

I don't like it when people with no perspective (don't know history and don't care) give kneejerk statements about a region or people in any country. But, we can't talk about it forever. The 'south sucks' comments are in the same league as 'all arabs are terrorists' or social comments like 'all men are rapists,' 'jews are all greedy' etc... etc...

It's all good to call people out but we don't need to go on and on in a specific thread dedicated to it. And this belongs in US general! 2008 is not the first time Americans ever discussed sectional conflict.