Upper South or Deep South...Which kicks more ass?

[MrJester]

Originally Posted by Mutiny77

How exactly are you defining "atmosphere" here?????

Palmettos, live oaks with spanish moss, white-sand beaches, barrier islands, jungle-like heat and humidity, 85 degree waters of the Gulf/South Atlantic, Waffle Houses on every street corner, bayous/subtropical creeks lined with thick woods filled with pine trees, all served up on a pancake-flat coastal plain, sprinkled willy-nilly with haphazard development: Waffle Houses, condos, and plantation-style houses.

In other words, a scene straight out of Forrest Gump (which took place in fictional Greenbow, Alabama, near Mobile, but was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina.)

[Mutiny77]

Originally Posted by MrJester

Palmettos, live oaks with spanish moss, white-sand beaches, barrier islands, jungle-like heat and humidity, 85 degree waters of the Gulf/South Atlantic, Waffle Houses on every street corner, bayous/subtropical creeks lined with thick woods filled with pine trees, all served up on a pancake-flat coastal plain, sprinkled willy-nilly with haphazard development: Waffle Houses, condos, and plantation-style houses.

In other words, a scene straight out of Forrest Gump (which took place in fictional Greenbow, Alabama, near Mobile, but was filmed in Beaufort, South Carolina.)

That just sounds like a general description of most of the developed parts of the coastal South. At a minimum, almost all have those things .

You're missing several of the most striking differences that would make a reasonable casual observing visitor think to themselves that Myrtle Beach is at least a different version of the South, including the lack of historical architecture, the greater amount of oceanfront development, the lack of industry and abundance of service-sector jobs, the preponderance of tourists (at least during tourism season) and commercial tourist-oriented establishments, the significantly larger amount of transplants, and very little cultural and physical vestiges of the Old South. And if they drove to Myrtle Beach, they'd also note how it sits far from the interstate and is thus not as well-connected to the rest of the state.

I'd say other than size, the major differences between HR and Biloxi/Mobile are similar in number as those between MB and Biloxi/Mobile.