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will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:09 am

So, been seeing alot o' mention of the south lately. How many players can actually call themselves 'Southerners'?

Aus-RED-5 · Post by **Aus-RED-5** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:33 am

I'm a born Texan. So I was a Southerner...till I moved to Australia when I was 28. Though I still live in the South.... South Australia. heh

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:03 am

Northerner in my country of birth and here too.

roid · Post by **roid** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:04 am

few ppl are more south than me:
Brisbane Australia

(Aus-RED-5 beats me)

actually down here in OZ our north is kindof like USA's south.
i think it's just proximity to the equator, the closer europeans get to it the crazier they get

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:49 pm

I live in southern Illinois, does that count? Like more traditional Southerners, I find myself trying to distance myself from my pretentious neighbor to the north (Chicago)...

Dedman · Post by **Dedman** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 12:54 pm

Well, I was born in San Francisco, grew up in San Diego, and have lived in either Florida or Georgia the last 14 years.

Am I a southerner?

You be the judge.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:05 pm

Vindicator wrote:I live in southern Illinois, does that count? Like more traditional Southerners, I find myself trying to distance myself from my pretentious neighbor to the north (Chicago)...

not really (being north of the Mason-Dixon line) but I think we can make an exception...

Also, my son lives in So. IL...in Marion area...where u @?

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 1:07 pm

Dedman wrote:Well, I was born in San Francisco, grew up in San Diego, and have lived in either Florida or Georgia the last 14 years.

Am I a southerner?

You be the judge.

Technically speaking

I feel like the common law applys here...so I would have to say 'Yes'.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:49 pm

I am half way to Antarctica, from the equator, so I'm more SOUTH than any of you lot.

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 2:51 pm

I'm from Florida but am most certainly not a Southerner.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:01 pm

I understand Vander has dreams of becoming a redneck.

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:11 pm

Unix wrote:I'm from Florida but am most certainly not a Southerner.

x2

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:33 pm

How about I tell you where all I've lived, and you tell me what I am.

Charleston, WV
Charlotte, NC
Henderson, KY
Allentown, PA
Canton, OH
La Place, LA
Lafayette, IN

Vindicator · Post by **Vindicator** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 8:39 pm

will_kill wrote:
Vindicator wrote:I live in southern Illinois, does that count? Like more traditional Southerners, I find myself trying to distance myself from my pretentious neighbor to the north (Chicago)...
not really (being north of the Mason-Dixon line) but I think we can make an exception...

Also, my son lives in So. IL...in Marion area...where u @?

Carbondale, about 10 minutes away from Marion

DCrazy · Post by **DCrazy** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:32 pm

Just past week I moved to the middle of nowhere in Maryland, but I will never stop being a New Yorker.

TechPro · Post by **TechPro** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:47 pm

ccb056 wrote:How about I tell you where all I've lived, and you tell me what I am.

Charleston, WV
Charlotte, NC
Henderson, KY
Allentown, PA
Canton, OH
La Place, LA
Lafayette, IN

You're an "Easterner" (almost all east of the Mississippi).

ccb056 · Post by **ccb056** » Sat Aug 27, 2005 9:54 pm

I think all are east of The River.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:19 am

I'm from Austin Texas. So I guess I'm southern. But I hate that song. It's bs.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:46 am

Flatlander and Unix....whusrong with beena Suth'na?

Show me man ashamed of his heritage and I'll show ya' disinformation propaganda...

Battlebot · Post by **Battlebot** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:53 am

born in texas, raised in texas, alwasy be a texan (and southerner)

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 8:12 am

will_kill wrote:Flatlander and Unix....whusrong with beena Suth'na?
Show me man ashamed of his heritage and I'll show ya' disinformation propaganda...

Nothing wrong with being a southerner. But there's a misconseption that Floridians are Southerners because it's a Southern state. While there are some Southern Floridians, I for one, am not.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:12 am

Unix wrote:Nothing wrong with being a southerner. But there's a misconseption that Floridians are Southerners because it's a Southern state. While there are some Southern Floridians, I for one, am not.

hmmm...sounds like being a Southerner=ignorance?...

I'm really lost on that one...are you relating your statement to the Civil War because of Florida's disinvolvement of said war or are you just taking up the side of how you've been brought up??

BTW, just for the record...south of the Mason-Dixon line=Southerner

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:42 am

What I mean is, I was born and rasied in Florida, but I have nothing about me that would alude to that. I have no accent, I'm not into Nascar, I don't wear wrangler's or boots, and I don't own any firearms. That right there is the standard "Southern" Floridian and I don't fit into that category.

If you want to call me a Southerner due to the geographic location of my upbringing then sure, I'm a Southerner. But, if you go on the general idea (or maybe it's just my idea) of what a Southerner is, then I'm not.

It's just the way you look at it.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 10:43 am

that's what I was reaching for...pity you feel that way

I know a few people that feel the way you do tho', and where I come from (Mississippi) we call 'em...NM, that would'nt be

Unix · Post by **Unix** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 2:44 pm

You're not understanding me. I have nothing against "Southerners"

There are members of my family who I would consider to be as such. My whole point on this is I am not a Southerner.

Gooberman · Post by **Gooberman** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 3:13 pm

I guess AZ is south, but everyone here claims 'West'. South-western if you can stand teal.

Samuel Dravis · Post by **Samuel Dravis** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 6:58 pm

Pretty much the same with me - I'm from the south, but definitely do not act, look or sound anything remotely like a 'cowboy'. Or any variation thereof. I also don't like sports very much.

Flatlander · Post by **Flatlander** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 7:47 pm

Again, what Unix said. Also, a large percentage of the Florida population are transplants from elsewhere, so it's not really a "Southern" state - retirees from up North, for example, and a large number of seasonal residents in the winter, including Canadians. My parents moved here from northern states. Personally, I'm not really into Southern culture - doesn't do a thing for me.

will_kill · Post by **will_kill** » Sun Aug 28, 2005 9:12 pm