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if you have some medium where you could record your voice perhaps. maybe you can find a video or recording of people from your town. also prhaps you could show some local restaurants that serve southern cuisine, or other examples of the cuisine being present where you live. obviously there are staistics of your area is highly of german descent and does not have much of a baptist presence so demographically and ethnically that cant be proven, but you can try to find some examples of southern culture at least being somewhat present, right?
come on, you get the idea. what are some ways that really makes your area southern culturally, other than a grandma that you think sounds southern. im sure you can find some examples
I really don't take kind to your attitude. Why don't you come to Marietta and I will show you what type of culture we live in since obviously you have no idea. You can come out to a holler and drink some homeade wine with us. The majority of people around here are German and Scottish. As far as religion, there are alot of baptist and methodist and that is about it.
As far as food, I grew up eating everything fried pretty much, from fried steak to fried chicken, fried hamburgers. But we do not eat alot of grits.
I think your philposhy and idea sounds like you have no idea what your talking about as you have not seen first hand accounts of these places you describe.
I really don't take kind to your attitude. Why don't you come to Marietta and I will show you what type of culture we live in since obviously you have no idea. You can come out to a holler and drink some homeade wine with us. The majority of people around here are German and Scottish. As far as religion, there are alot of baptist and methodist and that is about it.
As far as food, I grew up eating everything fried pretty much, from fried steak to fried chicken, fried hamburgers. But we do not eat alot of grits.
i dont take to YOUR attitude, or the fact that you think i have an attitude for asking you to provide me with examples. that sounds perfectly reasonable to me, i even exemplified many ways in which you could do so. i asked for something quite simple and you refuse to show me. thats your fault. if you dont feel that you can convince me, then why did you even bother trying?
from data ive seen, i wouldnt say marrietta has "a lot of baptist", less than 10 percent actually.
as far as the diet goes, are you familiar with pimento cheese, chess pie, hushpuppies, fried green tomatoes, greens, cheese grits, pecan cobbler, blackberry cobbler, sweet potatoes, country ham, bread pudding, buscuits, country sausage, fried okra, etc...? these are the types of things ive always seen as "southern cuisine". ive never thought of hamburgers that way, and fried chicken has kind of become general american as well.
and by the way, marrietta is a 4 hour 15 minute drive from me and i dont even have a vehicle right now.
This map is spot on. Great job. I definitely agree with central FL, where I live, as being a transition zone as it is described.
Yeah, If I was to draw Florida as far as culture goes I'd use something like the map drawn on this post Tampa being in transition, there still is a decent amount of southern culture in the Tampa Bay area. I would cut the line of transition off right about at the end of Port St. Lucie on the East over to about the beginning of Fort Myers on the West. The line would pretty much split Lake Okeechobee in half.
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For the most part, really good map. Except I don't really agree with the Green "Upper South" Being one conglomeration. I think the culture of Arkansas through Western Tennessee differs significantly from the Carolinas. I almost think there should be a sub category called "Piedmont South" for Northern Georgia and The Carolinas east of the Appalachians.
For the most part, really good map. Except I don't really agree with the Green "Upper South" Being one conglomeration. I think the culture of Arkansas through Western Tennessee differs significantly from the Carolinas. I almost think there should be a sub category called "Piedmont South" for Northern Georgia and The Carolinas east of the Appalachians.
this is true, and in my more recent map where i mapped out americas culture regions as a whole i made that change and referred to it as "upper coastal south"
I don't know much about the regions within the South on this map, such as the Charleston region and the Cajun Country. But in my opinion, the northern boundary of the south and the transition zone between the north and south on this map is correct. Much better than some other maps that place the boundary between the north and south too far north. I think the boundary on this map is in the right place.
here is a map that i made of the south's different regions
I agree with the Appalachia map 100%. And The Deep South would be perfect if parts of NC were in it. Everything else seems fine 'cept....
Charleston-Savannah doesn't need a region. It'll be in Deep South.
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I definitely agree with central FL, where I live, as being a transition zone as it is described.
