What is the most SOUTHERN state? (sales, palm trees, coastal)
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I voted my kansaw cause I truly believe I gave my honest opinion I only lived in Savannah GA a few months I've worked in South Haven Ms for few weeks and Oxford Ms for a couple months done the Florida thing ... Texas yup lived there a year Oklahoma yup Tulsa for a year in a half Northcarilna for 2week Kentucky for a couple weeks ... I've lived in Arkansas most ofy life 20 years I'm 28 now so .... On the flip side nobody goes to Arkansas for work so nobody from other parts of the South have a clue . Pointless poll
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I voted my kansaw cause I truly believe I gave my honest opinion I only lived in Savannah GA a few months I've worked in South Haven Ms for few weeks and Oxford Ms for a couple months done the Florida thing ... Texas yup lived there a year Oklahoma yup Tulsa for a year in a half Northcarilna for 2week Kentucky for a couple weeks ... I've lived in Arkansas most ofy life 20 years I'm 28 now so .... On the flip side nobody goes to Arkansas for work so nobody from other parts of the South have a clue . Pointless poll
Not sure somebody with grammar like yours should have a say in what's pointless or not.
If you hate the South, it’s Mississippi. If you love the South, it’s Georgia. If you are confused by the South, it’s Florida. In actuality, it’s probably South Carolina.
If you hate the South, it’s Mississippi. If you love the South, it’s Georgia. If you are confused by the South, it’s Florida. In actuality, it’s probably South Carolina.
Interesting viewpoint. I think it's Mississippi because pretty much the entire state still has elements of the old south that are getting lost in the big cities and suburbs.
I love going to Mississippi and just slowing down the pace. Granted there are rough patches in Mississippi but for the most part it's old home week. Mac McAnally, a Mississippian who is one of the greatest singer song writers of the last 40 years likes to say that Mississippi's largest export is "spare time".
Obviously if your measuring the south by what places are the most cosmopolitan and match up with the large cities in other parts of the country Mississippi ain't it.
Unfortunately Mississippi has become shorthand for all that is wrong in the South, and it has few of the positives. If you think the South is stuck in 1930, then you’d likely choose it as your ideal Southern state (though obviously you can choose it for non-negative reasons).
Georgia is obviously how much of the South wants to be seen. Atlanta is the template for any number of cities like Birmingham and Charlotte.
Florida is truly the most southern state in the continental US, you can’t go further south than Key West. So if you misread Southern as a lower-case word, that’s your answer.
But South Carolina still probably remains the best answer in my mind. It has the old (Charleston) and the new (Greenville), with a large smattering of the best and worst of the South in-between.
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If you hate the South, it’s Mississippi. If you love the South, it’s Georgia. If you are confused by the South, it’s Florida. In actuality, it’s probably South Carolina.
If you hate the South, it’s Mississippi. If you love the South, it’s Georgia. If you are confused by the South, it’s Florida. In actuality, it’s probably South Carolina.
Florida is interesting. Miami is pretty far south yet they don't seem to have the same southern culture as other southern states and they don't have those annoying twangs either. Always wondered why that was … if this was already mentioned, sorry, I did not read the whole thread
Florida is interesting. Miami is pretty far south yet they don't seem to have the same southern culture as other southern states and they don't have those annoying twangs either. Always wondered why that was … if this was already mentioned, sorry, I did not read the whole thread
Because Miami was founded well after the Civil War and settled largely by snowbirds from New York and the Midwest, along with Cubans.
The Panhandle of Florida, though, is very Southern.
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