towns with good ol'southern culture? (live, moving, food)
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are there still any towns left with those small family carnivals, rodeos, country accents, cowboys and etc........where are they? im from the north and i LOVE that culture!! much funner than stupid, boring and liberal north
Sounds like you're looking for the set of the Andy Griffith show. Short answer is- no- not really. Also- cowboys aren't really a part of Southern culture. Texas would be more like it if you want Cowboys.
If you are looking for cowboys and rodeos head out west like Montana, Wyoming etc.
if you are looking for southern culture - front porches, friendly folks, going to church on sundays, southern accents and food you can't go wrong in any city in the deep south.
I would suggest my town, Baton Rouge, LA Shreveport, Louisiana Houston, Texas Savannah, GA or Nashville, TN. I can only comment on cities that I have been to.
You can find small towns somewhat like that throughout Tennessee, and I'd imagine much of the south. But substitute "cowboys and rodeos" with "rednecks and dirt track racing", though you may find a rodeo around here occasionally.
are there still any towns left with those small family carnivals, rodeos, country accents, cowboys and etc........where are they? im from the north and i LOVE that culture!! much funner than stupid, boring and liberal north
Small town Oklahoma fits the bill. We're a rowdier version of the South. We're much more westernized and Rednecky (Badge of Honor)......at least this ol' Indian/Cowboy is.
Oklahoma and many parts of Tejas have a lot more "cowboy" culture than other parts of the South. Just a thought.
Like others I think of Cowboys as more Western. The "Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame" is apparently in Colorado Springs. Oklahoma has a fair amount of Rodeo though if you consider it a Southern state. (I don't really, but the Eastern part is a related culture)
To go more into the South-proper I guess around Memorial Day Fort Smith, Arkansas has the "Old Fort Days Rodeo", which will have its 78th.
For old Southern stuff Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia (if you deem it Southern) seem possible. They all have a relatively low percent of their people be from other states. I get the sense you want white non-Cajun Southern culture so small-to-medium towns in Kentucky and West Virginia might be the best bet for you. Although "Mountain Southern" culture is different than "Lowland Southern culture" in many ways. (That thing of Southerners being overly polite and not saying stuff to your face? Yeah in my experience we Mountain Southerners aren't like that quite so much. I mean our people will say "Ma'am" and "Sir", but our culture often values being blunt and opinionated. The culture has a more Scotch-Irish ancestry with less pretenses of being aristocratic.) If you want old non-Cajun "Lowlands Southern white" culture I would guess Mississippi and non-coastal South Carolina.
Like others I think of Cowboys as more Western. The "Pro-Rodeo Hall of Fame" is apparently in Colorado Springs. Oklahoma has a fair amount of Rodeo though if you consider it a Southern state. (I don't really, but the Eastern part is a related culture)
To go more into the South-proper I guess around Memorial Day Fort Smith, Arkansas has the "Old Fort Days Rodeo", which will have its 78th.
For old Southern stuff Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, and West Virginia (if you deem it Southern) seem possible. They all have a relatively low percent of their people be from other states. I get the sense you want white non-Cajun Southern culture so small-to-medium towns in Kentucky and West Virginia might be the best bet for you. Although "Mountain Southern" culture is different than "Lowland Southern culture" in many ways. (That thing of Southerners being overly polite and not saying stuff to your face? Yeah in my experience we Mountain Southerners aren't like that quite so much. I mean our people will say "Ma'am" and "Sir", but our culture often values being blunt and opinionated. The culture has a more Scotch-Irish ancestry with less pretenses of being aristocratic.) If you want old non-Cajun "Lowlands Southern white" culture I would guess Mississippi and non-coastal South Carolina.
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Oklahoma has a fair amount of Rodeo though if you consider it a Southern state.
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Hence, the reason I underscored the "western" qualities of Oklahoma along with its Southern touches. For the OP, don't forget about the Cowboy Hall of Fame located in OK City.
Also, Fort Smith is very much culturally akin to the rest of Oklahoma. I have family from the Fort Smith area and it quite similar to the vast majority of Oklahoma culture. There is more of a significant cultural shift once you get deeper into central Arkansas and east of Little Rock and keep moving east....that's where you'll get more classically understood Deep South culture. Just FYI.
Just to elaborate a bit on what several others have said (including my good friend Bass&Catfish), if you want more of the "cowboy" culture. then Texas and/or Oklahoma is your best bet. It is definitely the South, but with a frontier/western flavor that is not so much found in the southeastern states. The "western South" as it is.
It is sometimes hard to exactly articulate and pinpoint it (either in description or where the boundaries are), but the term (western South) deliniates a sub-region of the larger South. A place where essential Southern culture and history and folkways are heavily flavored with many things thought of as "western."
It is absolutely not to be confused with the true "West" (as in the interior Southwest states of NM and AZ, or the Rocky Mountain states).
The "western South" has very little in common with those states above, either historically or culturally. It is, again, the classic South transplanted into a more "western" physical environment; and it sorta evolved into a unique sub-region of the South itself.
So, in a nutshell, if you want the best of the Old South along with some of the frontier western aspects, you might want to consider somewhere in eastern Texas or SE Oklahoma...or even parts of SW Arkansas or NE Louisiana. You will find some towns and small cities that offer the flavor of the ante-bellum Deep South along with a rodeo not far away!
Just to elaborate a bit on what several others have said (including my good friend Bass&Catfish), if you want more of the "cowboy" culture. then Texas and/or Oklahoma is your best bet. It is definitely the South, but with a frontier/western flavor that is not so much found in the southeastern states. The "western South" as it is.
It is sometimes hard to exactly articulate and pinpoint it (either in description or where the boundaries are), but the term (western South) deliniates a sub-region of the larger South. A place where essential Southern culture and history and folkways are heavily flavored with many things thought of as "western."
It is absolutely not to be confused with the true "West" (as in the interior Southwest states of NM and AZ, or the Rocky Mountain states).
The "western South" has very little in common with those states above, either historically or culturally. It is, again, the classic South transplanted into a more "western" physical environment; and it sorta evolved into a unique sub-region of the South itself.
So, in a nutshell, if you want the best of the Old South along with some of the frontier western aspects, you might want to consider somewhere in eastern Texas or SE Oklahoma...or even parts of SW Arkansas or NE Louisiana. You will find some towns and small cities that offer the flavor of the ante-bellum Deep South along with a rodeo not far away!
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The "western South" has very little in common with those states above, either historically or culturally. It is, again, the classic South transplanted into a more "western" physical environment; and it sorta evolved into a unique sub-region of the South itself.
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This is one of the best descriptions I've read describing the overarching culture of Texas/Oklahoma. Excellent thoughts ol' Buddy.
Breaux Bridge, Donaldsonville, and St. Francisville are all Louisiana towns with great Louisiana culture. No cowboy stuff though, although we do have them.
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