DescentBB

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

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

Northerner in my country of birth and here too.

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

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)...

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.

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 @?

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'.

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

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

I understand Vander has dreams of becoming a redneck.

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

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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

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

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

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).

I think all are east of The River.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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