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Look, if you don’t have a dessert, you’re just playing at it. Hummingbird cake, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, Mississippi mud cake. There's more to being southern than just signing a secession article. So what if you had a few plantations? So did Delaware and they weren't a southern state. It’s not enough. North Carolina doesn’t feel like the other southern states. It’s very bland here, from the dialect to the art to the food. Sorry if you don't like Northerner's opinions of your native state, but North Carolina just doesn't have the same complexity of culture or deep roots as the other states.
So funny how a Northerner thinks she knows better than southerners what constitutes "southern." And if you think North Carolina "doesn't have the same complexity of culture or deep roots at the other states," you're ignorant in the extreme. The Triangle is not North Carolina, which has some of the most interesting people I've ever met (and I'm talking about natives here, not transplants), as well as an incredible diversity of regions, each with their own fascinating "southern" history.
So, I'm from the North (but lived abroad for many years) and some of the things that are being called Southern are Southern only from a very specific point of view.
Confederate flags and statues: there are a lot of them, and there are a lot of locals, not only African-American locals, who are offended by them.
Accents: there are heavy accents, yes, especially among the less educated, to the point that I can hardly understand some of what is being said. But that's true all over the States, and even all over the world among less-educated people (i.e. that they deviate from national standard accents). (Now if you want me to suggest that due to the educational situation, that there are higher proportions of uneducated people in this state, I could, but then you'll call me a Northern liberal. And the latter part of that is true.)
Overall culture of friendliness, and more graciousness than in the Northeast: This I have found very present here. In general, in church, in stores; I've commented a few times in this forum that one of the very pleasant culture shocks I've had here is in driving, where people more often than not let you in their lane when you put a signal on.
Finally, here are some foods that I never found elsewhere but that I have been offered or encountered often in my 2.5 years here in the Triangle
Barbeque. East North Carolina style
Hush puppies
Sweet, and "unsweet" iced tea
Hoppin John
Biscuits and gravy
Grits
Shrimp and grits
sweet potato pie
Plenty of educated people in North Carolina have heavy accents.
Look, if you don’t have a dessert, you’re just playing at it. Hummingbird cake, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, Mississippi mud cake. There's more to being southern than just signing a secession article. So what if you had a few plantations? So did Delaware and they weren't a southern state. It’s not enough. North Carolina doesn’t feel like the other southern states. It’s very bland here, from the dialect to the art to the food. Sorry if you don't like Northerner's opinions of your native state, but North Carolina just doesn't have the same complexity of culture or deep roots as the other states.
LOL, your ignorance is on full display once again. Hummingbird Cake is an NC invention! Plus, NC has lots of "native" desserts:
Pig Pickin' Cake
Atlantic Beach Pie
Moravian Cookies and Sugar Cake
Strawberry or Blueberry Sonker
Maybe you need to learn more about your adopted state?
Ouch.
17 years and 3 natives? Time for an intervention to get someone out of the house.
Just over 20 years here, and I meet natives and "Southerners" nearly daily. It is pretty easy, and I live in the Containment Area.
And, Pig Pickin' Cake?
Wooooooooooooooooo...
I know a slew of Raleigh natives who moved to Cary in the 70's. They're still there too.
I never ate Pig Pickin' Cake at a pig picking, but it is some mighty good stuff There was always plenty of coconut cake and brownies at our family reunion-pig picking.
My father in Franklin County always stated that he voted for the "most ultra conservative" candidate in any election.
Not a surprise since that ideology or "view of the world" is tightly aligned with a white, heterosexual male.
A lover of all things female, and therefore homosexual men must be the anti-Christ, it was perfect poetic justice that he give birth to a gay son (genetic, not by choice).
Just remember before dismissing other's actions as unworthy of a conservative, assess whether the in-congruency is by choice or whether caused by different circumstances, in which case should never hold any exclusionary weight.
And I hope you're intelligent enough to realize that other groups of people are dealt different circumstances that preclude from ever being one of you (conservatives), even though they subscribe to all of the higher ideals that are ostensibly why people feel that a mindset or outlook is so all encompassing in everything they do that it's an appropriate label.
And shrimp and grits (Not something I like, but definitely a southern dish)
I always figured shrimp and grits to be more of a touristy dish.
Especially when the butter pools up because there is too much for the grits to contain.
Good stuff, either way...
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