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Old 02-14-2014, 08:07 PM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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Well, there are a few lines, as a current Mississippi resident.

There's the south, which is anything south of the mason-dixon line.

Then there's the deep south, which includes Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

Southerners don't really claim Atlanta as southern, as it has a ton of migrants and is very urban, which draws a stark contrast to most of the south.

Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia are not quite as southern as the deep south. Main reason being they didn't have the major plantations that the deep south did.
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Old 02-14-2014, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Alabama!
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Southerners don't really claim Atlanta as southern...Tennessee, Kentucky, North Carolina, and Virginia are not quite as southern as the deep south. Main reason being they didn't have the major plantations that the deep south did.
Two statements with incredible amounts of misinformation.
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Old 02-14-2014, 10:32 PM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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Two statements with incredible amounts of misinformation.
Prove me wrong.
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Old 02-15-2014, 01:17 AM
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Prove me wrong.
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas and Virginia had extensive plantation country tidewater and river deltas, cotton barons and was the seat of most of the action during the Civil War, and was the seat for a very hefty amount of the Reconstruction era violence afterward.
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Old 02-15-2014, 02:30 AM
 
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Any state with a collectively "Southern" state of mind!
That would exclude "Florida then! We are "Floridians" first not " Southerners"! We don't want your "grits"! We don't wan't your "Honey Boo Boo"!"
Just come and "spend" your money in Orlando and Miami then go home!
We are "rude"? "prude"? and with a "attitude"! (just kidding!)

PS: I am serious about us being Floridians first though!
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Old 02-15-2014, 08:14 AM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, Arkansas and Virginia had extensive plantation country tidewater and river deltas, cotton barons and was the seat of most of the action during the Civil War, and was the seat for a very hefty amount of the Reconstruction era violence afterward.
Of course they all had plantations, they all sided on the confederacy due to keeping slavery around. My point is that the appalachian states did not have near the amount of plantations and cotton production that the south did. It's pretty evident that Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia all led in cotton production during that time period.

It's also evident by the high numbers of African Americans still residing int he deep south states. The Appalachian states have a much higher white population than compared with the deep south states.

The largest and most fertile delta was the Mississippi delta along the Louisiana and Mississippi side. Memphis was more of a port town than a plantation town.
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Old 02-15-2014, 08:16 AM
 
Location: Mishawaka, Indiana
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That would exclude "Florida then! We are "Floridians" first not " Southerners"! We don't want your "grits"! We don't wan't your "Honey Boo Boo"!"
Just come and "spend" your money in Orlando and Miami then go home!
We are "rude"? "prude"? and with a "attitude"! (just kidding!)

PS: I am serious about us being Floridians first though!
I know a few native Floridians who claim they are southern. They did fight for the confederacy and all. I think it goes both ways.

Florida panhandle and most of central Florida is pretty southern. You get the southern politics, southern accents, southern mentality, southern pace of life, etc. Coastal Florida and southern Florida are decidedly more beach themed, urban, full of transient residents, mostly snowbirds from Ohio and Michigan.

This mix of people and politics explains a lot of why Florida is such a divided state, especially when it comes to election time.
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Old 02-15-2014, 09:16 AM
 
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Antebellum Texas was also a thoroughly southern state, with 30% of the population enslaved. There were scattered large plantations in the Delta of Mississippi before the war but most of it was not cleared until afterwards. Most of the state's cotton was produced in the southwestern part and the hill counties east of the Delta.
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Old 02-15-2014, 09:19 AM
 
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coldaliment's posts are about as informative as grandview gloria's. they are usually full of hot air.
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Old 02-15-2014, 10:40 AM
 
Location: The South
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i know a few native floridians who claim they are southern. They did fight for the confederacy and all.
wow.
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