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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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The accent is not Southern.
The history is not Southern.
The culture is not Southern.
The food is not Southern.
Most of the original settlers were not Southern.
Most of the transplants are not Southern.
The general camaraderie and kinship is not Southern.
And, NM/AZ has its own identity, it's called Southwestern and we identify strongly with the West. Imagine that?
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Originally Posted by nigelp88
Lots of white people in New Mexico have southern Texas style accents so why arent they southern?
Uh, I live here and I can assure you, no they do not.
Last edited by Champ le monstre du lac; 02-22-2015 at 09:39 AM..
Humidity and terrain. Aside from that, the people are more in the interior west and west coast mold and attitude. The "south" started in the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia (Virginia was its own little world, somewhat related to the south, as was French Louisiana.) The South spread west into states that had similar soil and climate. The west has more in common with rugged outlaws and pioneers of the Appalachian region, since that was a huge element of its original settlement, from the original old west cowboys to the later "okies" in California after the dust bowl and industrial great migration.
Southernness is something developed in an era before those western states were settled. People who went west, mostly, were not southern, so southernness was not brought there by migrants.
Portions of Arizona, New Mexico and Nevada were claimed as Confederate territory, albeit in an unofficial capacity. The connection between the Southwest and Southeast pretty much ends there.
Having Lived in both southern California and Arizona where in the hell did anyone hear a southern accent that was indigenous to the population? If you heard a southern accent it was from someone who moved there from the south.
I am trying to figure out the logic behind this one. Pretty soon we'll be questioning why Panama isn't considered part of the south.
because they are southwestern, more or less mexican.
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