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You just have to learn to ignore folks like that. I've even had to do it in this very thread, watching people say false stuff about my hometown and region like it's fact when I lived there most of my life and go back several times a year every year.
Google search bar users turned message board travel experts is what they are.
You just have to learn to ignore folks like that. I've even had to do it in this very thread, watching people say false stuff about my hometown and region like it's fact when I lived there most of my life and go back several times a year every year.
Google search bar users turned message board travel experts is what they are.
This issue is bizaree though because there is no real 'Deep South'. They capitalize something that is not a formal tangible entity and the definition of it varies from person to person.
And they can't explain why it is important to label some southern states as 'Deep South'.
This issue is bizaree though because there is no real 'Deep South'. They capitalize something that is not a formal tangible entity and the definition of it varies from person to person.
And they can't explain why it is important to label some southern states as 'Deep South'.
So these regions are just a figament of my imagination? Yeah right. I think you just cant stand to lose a debate. So far I'm winning this one. Go home.
the people who say SC is 'Deep South' but not NC cannot articulate how SC is more like LA and MS than NC.
I have not been able to find one SC oriented website that refers to the state as part of the 'Deep South'.
Maybe you haven't looked hard enough. You're the only one on city-data who thinks SC isn't the Deep South so your method is to say not only does the Deep South not exist but that all of us on here are idiots and you're the only one who knows anything. Pathetic.
region SE United States —usually considered to include Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and all or part of the adjacent states of Florida, Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Texas
Maybe you haven't looked hard enough. You're the only one on city-data who thinks SC isn't the Deep South so your method is to say not only does the Deep South not exist but that all of us on here are idiots and you're the only one who knows anything. Pathetic.
i don' think there is a 'Deep SOuth' period. it makes no sense to add Deep in front of South.
but you are missing the nuance of my argument, and thast is how are NC and VA so different from SC and the other states you thrwo into the Deep South bucket, given these states of NC and Va were much more similar to the 'deep south' states when the expression was first used.
you have not explained how you excluded two states htat were in the confederacy and had plnatations with slave labor, in the cotton belt, etc from the 'Deep South' label.
Richmdon has more confederate monuments it is downtown than any other southern city that I've seen, and it was the capital of the Conederacy, and VA is where our country's most proimnent slaveholders, Jefferson, Washigont, and Madison and MOnroe lived.
NC's state flag is a derivation of the confederate flag.
I"ve also pointed out that Nixon an integrationist and civil rights leader, won SC, NC, VA, and TN but lost the other states you call the 'Deep South' to the racist Democrat governor of AL, George Wallace. That seems to indicate SC was more like Va and NC than those other states.
I think most people in SC think of Al and MS when they hear the Deep South expression.
Last edited by ClemVegas; 05-28-2016 at 04:44 PM..
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