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You have a right to live wherever you want, north or south, and I wish you luck on your journey, but your example of northern and southerners concern me
I mean, Paula Deen or Fran Drescher? Accent aside, Paula Deen's a racist old bat and Fran Drescher is a rape and cancer survivor, and one of the funniest women there are! Shoulda used Joy Behar and Dolly Parton instead!
I personally don't think she is a racist.I just think she got caught saying something many people say but never get caught.If Justin Beiber can get away with it then I dont see any difference.
Atlanta strikes me as more southern than Raleigh/Durham, at least. Some people like to call Raleigh "Mid-Atlantic" if they don't want to call it "southern." Atlanta has no choice, it's undeniably southern being in Georgia. Look at Stone Mountain, or the "Y'all come back now!" at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Olympics which basically reminded the world that Atlanta is in the South. It's just the best example of "New South" as opposed to being "Old South" like Montgomery, Memphis, Jackson, etc. I have a hard time calling Atlanta anything but southern, the "northern city that happens to be in the South" assumption doesn't make a ton of sense IMO.
Very true and it's going to stay just like that. Every hotel I stayed in Atlanta served lemonade and sweet tea as soon as I walked in. The breakfast bars always have biscuits and gravy. Even if the inner core areas are saturated with transplants, you still have several small towns and communities surrounding Atlanta that have retained plenty of Southern charm (that is a good thing). I think the rural/urban divide has grown so much in Atlanta that people are confusing and even conflating urban = Northern/transplant and rural = Southern/uneducated.
To someone who grew up in bayou country, Atlanta felt very "southern-lite". Unmistakingly southern, of course, just not as southern as it gets.
Georgia towns like Augusta and Savannah are a different story, and these places felt much more like home.
It's more "southern 2015" than southern-lite. People seem to be looking for Gone with the Wind and are disappointed when they don't find it in Atlanta. What constitutes southern is different today than it was 100 years ago.
Atlanta is different from some other areas of the South (deeper South) but that doesn't make it less southern - just different southern.
It's more "southern 2015" than southern-lite. People seem to be looking for Gone with the Wind and are disappointed when they don't find it in Atlanta. What constitutes southern is different today than it was 100 years ago.
Atlanta is different from some other areas of the South (deeper South) but that doesn't make it less southern - just different southern.
I don't agree completely. Augusta and Savannah are still "southern 2015" but the landscape, historic relics, and the existing culture are still more characteristic of the Deep South, which is what I was focusing on.
I do believe that the Deep South is more southern than the Upper South, but I understand that everyone doesn't feel that way. Fried chicken gets better the further south you go.
I personally don't think she is a racist.I just think she got caught saying something many people say but never get caught.If Justin Beiber can get away with it then I dont see any difference.
The difference is that Justin Bieber is a young Canadian, and Paula Deen is an old Southerner, and the media would rather run over an old Southerner than a young Canadian.
The difference is that Justin Bieber is a young Canadian, and Paula Deen is an old Southerner, and the media would rather run over an old Southerner than a young Canadian.
Sensationalist news.It plays better to showcase racism in the South STILL than anywhere else.People fall right for it.
I don't agree completely. Augusta and Savannah are still "southern 2015" but the landscape, historic relics, and the existing culture are still more characteristic of the Deep South, which is what I was focusing on.
I do believe that the Deep South is more southern than the Upper South, but I understand that everyone doesn't feel that way. Fried chicken gets better the further south you go.
No, fried chicken doesn't necessarily get better the further south you go from Atlanta. That is a total fallacy, and you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
No, fried chicken doesn't necessarily get better the further south you go from Atlanta. That is a total fallacy, and you couldn't be more wrong if you tried.
Watershed is one of Atlanta's many overrated southern food establishments, right along with Paschal's and that Gladys place. It takes more than that to please me, but if that's your thing then go for it.
Now this will be my one and only reply to this ridiculous debate about my opinion.
Watershed is one of Atlanta's many overrated southern food establishments, right along with Paschal's and that Gladys place. It takes more than that to please me, but if that's your thing then go for it.
Now this will be my one and only reply to this ridiculous debate about my opinion.
Whatever, and duck out if you wish. When proven wrong, that's the easy way out isn't it? Stomp off and take your toys home.
You are more than obviously wrong, and can't deal with the reality that happens to be the opposite of your personal opinion. Which is totally fine. We are all entitled to our opinions.
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What? The "Gone With The Wind" city has never been deeply Southern?
