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I would love to go around the world. Sometimes, I really do think I was a 16th century European explorer in a past lifetime (without the killing, raping, and pillaging aspects of it), since I always go really far out of my way to find hidden gems. My passport is starting to collect dust, and it needs to be used soon! It's been a full 13 years since I've been overseas (and even then, it was only to see relatives in the Philippines!)
I'm planning a cross country road trip for next March/April. I'm pretty stoked for that! I really do think people underrate America, since no matter where I go I always find something good about a place. Hell, it took me not living in LA to appreciate how much I actually loved LA!
Yes. Texas isn't southern? Maybe not OK city...but what is Texas considered then? I'm in northern Illinois so maybe that's why I think that? accents, country music, fried chicken?
I'm from Georgia which is definitely in the South and most people here don't consider Texas to be the South. When we think Texas we think out West. It does have a few Southern traits but it's culturally alot different from the old South.
Kind of like ranches and tacos and cowboys compared to plantations and fried chicken and farmers.
I'm from Georgia which is definitely in the South and most people here don't consider Texas to be the South. When we think Texas we think out West. It does have a few Southern traits but it's culturally alot different from the old South.
Kind of like ranches and tacos and cowboys compared to plantations and fried chicken and farmers.
When I moved to NC from Texas, people had the same mentality. They said Texas is OUT WEST, or OUT there, in the same sense as California, Arizona, Nevada, etc. People hardly ever say DOWN there when referring to Texas(like when they mention GA, NC, VA, and the rest of the South they say down there), it's always OUT there. But Texas is Texas, it can be BOTH Southern AND Southwestern depending on where you are in that LARGE state.
When I moved to NC from Texas, people had the same mentality. They said Texas is OUT WEST, or OUT there, in the same sense as California, Arizona, Nevada, etc. People hardly ever say DOWN there when referring to Texas(like when they mention GA, NC, VA, and the rest of the South they say down there), it's always OUT there. But Texas is Texas, it can be BOTH Southern AND Southwestern depending on where you are in that LARGE state.
Yeah; I've always said people from the deep south don't consider Texas southern.
I think people in NC say "down there" no matter what your talking about. They might say "out there" when referring to Texas like polo89 said, but when I said I was from NJ they were like "whats it like down there?" This happened multiple times.
I think people in NC say "down there" no matter what your talking about. They might say "out there" when referring to Texas like polo89 said, but when I said I was from NJ they were like "whats it like down there?" This happened multiple times.
Yeah, I've heard that numerous times here in NC. Down there for places that are NORTH of here.
Yeah; I've always said people from the deep south don't consider Texas southern.
They really don't, and I don't blame them, considering how far it is. I FEEL really far from Texas as I'm typing right now. Texas FEELS so far and foreign from here, like CA or AZ does.
I think people in NC say "down there" no matter what your talking about. They might say "out there" when referring to Texas like polo89 said, but when I said I was from NJ they were like "whats it like down there?" This happened multiple times.
they do in the northeast too. if i visit a friend in Hartford, CT, i'd usually say "i'm coming down this weekend"
they do in the northeast too. if i visit a friend in Hartford, CT, i'd usually say "i'm coming down this weekend"
I actually have heard it in the northeast too, just not as much as in North Carolina. Why would you say "I'm coming down this weekend" you live in Philly your friend lives in Hartford, you should say "I'm going up there this weekend."
I agree about Texas. I'm from the Northeast but for the past five years have lived between Dallas and Charlotte. Dallas, and Texas in genral, had a vey different feel and vibe than the traditional South. I really could not understand why Texas was considered southern when I was there--except for parts of south Dallas, that look and feel somewhat southern--but in the Louisiana, Arkansas way.
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