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So now the South has extended up past D.C. into Baltimore. I thought the furthest General Lee made it before he got stopped was the outskirts of D.C. . Please for the sake of this thread don't try and say D.C. or Baltimore are in the South. The place will quickly be flooded with a gang of East Coasters that hate the South writing page after page of insulting remarks about how D.C. is not part of the South because they can read, actually take baths everyday, etc. etc. It will get real ugly real fast trust me.
It's not me, I've been saying Baltimore isnt the south for the longest. People keep telling me different, Im tired of arguing about it. So, Baltimore is the South.
I don't and thats coming from an Asian person who has seen Mississippi, Arkansas, Alabama, North Florida, among other Southern states and areas.
I live in one of those cities that you think is southern, no one there talks like this:
No one talks like that. No one dresses like that. No one around me even listens to country music, I know only a few people who like country, but they all like another genre of music more.
What Matt said ^. I entirely agree with his statement.
TexasReb we've been through this like 842934 times haha, you know I'm not going to change my perception!
In all actuality when Asian & Hispanic people come to Texas they come for Texas, not the South. Lol, if that makes any sense?
I guess it depends on who you are and what you like, to me at age 20, its a lot of fun. So for me the hype is met, I suppose I could put it that way. Lol!
Anyways I think I've derailed this thread enough here!
Honestly, I think Austin And San Antonio are the odd men out, when it comes to "Southernness" in Texas. My GOD is Austin different from areas in East Texas.
I have been fortunate enough to travel the Caribbean pretty extensively, and almost all of the locals (no mattter what island/Country) think of Miami as their "Big City."
It's almost surreal at times.
It's crazy, but when you REALLY think about how close Fort Lauderdale and Miami are to The Bahamas, then it seems pretty logical. I don't think people realize how close they are, so when people here a term like "Caribbean North" and Tropical, they kinda roll there eyes in sarcasm. Freeport really isn't that far from Fort Lauderdale, and Miami isn't that far from Nassau.
Hollywood has been Jacking up Southern accents forever. So often you'll see someone supposed to be from Atlanta speaking as if they are a cajun from Louisiana or cowboy from Texas I guess it all sounds the same to Northern ears.
Unless you're a true Southern actor like Matthew MacConaughey. He's actually from Longview, Texas which is about 40 miles East of where I live in Tyler, Texas. East Texans tend to have a deeper Southern accent than anywhere else in Texas.
Unless you're a true Southern actor like Matthew MacConaughey. He's actually from Longview, Texas which is about 40 miles East of where I live in Tyler, Texas. East Texans tend to have a deeper Southern accent than anywhere else in Texas.
Metro Matt? I don't want to always seem to be arguing/disupting you (because I respect your points of view for one thing), but I have to quibble a bit.
East Texans tend to have more of that classic "drawl" of the Deep South for sure. But on the other hand, that "twang" of the Upper/Mountain South is well entrenched in rural West Texas, from which it is directly decended (the dialect heard in eastern Tennesse and north Alabama are first cousins at the least). In fact, I would say
Southern American English involves quite a range of speech sub-patterns across the southeastern and south-central parts of the country, so I would respectfully suggest that "deeper" isn't quite the right qualifier. IMHO, twang and drawl would better fit in terms of "division" amongst Southerners.
Last edited by TexasReb; 08-27-2010 at 08:41 PM..
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