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Old 04-01-2012, 11:51 PM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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When I see that map that depicts the areas where soft drinks are generally called "soda," "pop," "coke," etc., I'm generally surprised that there are areas of the South where people call them "coke." I have never, ever heard that before and where I was born and raised (SC), everybody calls them sodas.
Pop pop pop. :-) Tho I've been soda-ized since living down here...
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Old 04-02-2012, 12:56 AM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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It isn't directly calling another brand coke (except for my nephew as reported earlier), but more on a conversational level like this: "Let's go get a coke" and then when you get there you might choose a sprite and your friend a diet coke or an RC or Dr. Pepper and an out and out coke was never purchased. When you got home and your mother asked where had you gone, you would say "we went to the store and got a coke, that's all" and nothing odd would have been thought of it.

Oh, and forget Pepsi, true southerners despise that Yankee concoction.

"Pop" is a definite giveaway for non southerness. "Sodas" is used sometimes, but I would use the term "soft drink" before soda if forced to go generic.
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Old 04-02-2012, 01:52 AM
 
Location: Mableton, GA USA (NW Atlanta suburb, 4 miles OTP)
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Oh, and forget Pepsi, true southerners despise that Yankee concoction.
North Carolina is Yankee?
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Old 04-02-2012, 06:53 AM
 
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North Carolina is Yankee?
Saintmarks doesn't likely realize that is was formulated in North Carolina before the company was sold and moved to New York.
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Old 04-02-2012, 07:11 AM
 
Location: St Simons Island, GA
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Within the northern triangle formed by 75 on the left and 85 on the right, would say you would have your greatest dilution of southern culture, from the core outward, at least until you pass Cobb,Fulton and Gwinett.
My impression as well.
I had an old friend visit me here on SSI last week; she grew up on the south side (Hapeville) and has a VERY heavy accent. I, on the other hand, grew up in Druid Hills and have barely a trace of one.
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Old 04-02-2012, 09:14 AM
 
Location: Atlanta ,GA
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I'm going to give it a shot!

Least southern: (Not necessarily in this order)
East Cobb, and the immediate Cumberland Galleria area
Downtown
Midtown
Buckhead
Dunwoody
All of North Fulton except for the Roswell Town Square area and Milton
Gwinnett along the I-85 corridor out to the Gwinnett Place Area, Gwinnett along the Peachtree Parkway and Peachtree Industrial Corridors
Smokerise area of Tucker, a good chunk of Zip Code 30087 straddling the DeKalb/Gwinnett line, especially the Park Place commercial and office district

Most Southern: (Not necessarily in this order)
Douglas, Paulding, some parts of West Cobb
Clayton
Fayette, outside of Peachtree City
Rockdale
Newton
Walton
Henry, south of McDonough
Spalding, City of Griffin
Coweta, south of Newnan
How is Henry Co South of McDonough Southern,but all of Clayton is Southern?
I disagree.Clayton County is very diverse.People just dont realize it because of the lesser amounts of whites.It has very large Nigerian,African Nations,Jamaican and other Carribean people.
Also has the largest concentration of Vietnamese in the metro area.Indians,and dont forget Hispanics from Central America.
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:11 AM
 
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Pop pop pop. :-) Tho I've been soda-ized since living down here...
I've been living in Georgia since the 1990's and I say pop. Blame it on my Wisconsin father
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Georgia native in McKinney, TX
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Saintmarks doesn't likely realize that is was formulated in North Carolina before the company was sold and moved to New York.
Traitors. That makes it worse.
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Old 04-02-2012, 10:54 AM
 
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In rural Meriwether, it was all Coke. We laughed at my nephew, who as a child would refer to Fanta as "Purple Coke" or "Orange Coke." Dr. Pepper = Pepper Coke, etc....
Heh! My country cousins would say "Co-Coler" but it was still limited to actual Coke. We called grape and orange sodas Nehi's, and Dr. Pepper was just Dr. Pepper, as was 7 Up. There was also the much prized Chocolate Soldier, although I think the version we had was actually made by Nehi. Although a lot of folks liked RC's, I never became a fan.

I don't know whether this is a Southernism, but my grandpa had a little store for a while and the soft drinks were kept in what he called "the drink box." Just a big cooler, actually, and you'd reach in and pull out what you wanted (assuming he'd let you). It had a bottle opener on the side and I loved letting it fill up and then dumping out a treasure trove of bottle tops.

That's what I learned to play checkers with. You'd either be ups or downs, and the serrated edges made it easy to stack them up to crown your kings.
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Old 04-02-2012, 11:09 AM
 
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The most southern part of Atlanta is probably I-75 and N Central. THe least southern is definitely that jag that sticks up near Mt Paran Rd and Powers Ferry.
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