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STRANGE THINGS I LEARNED LIVING IN THE SOUTH...
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Jul 21, 2017 11:29:50   #
samantha90 Loc: Fort Worth,Texas
 
A possum is a flat animal that sleeps in the middle of the road.

There are 5,000 types of snakes and 4,998 of them live in the South.

There are 10,000 types of spiders.. All 10,000 of them live in the South, plus a couple of kinds that no one's seen before.

If it grows, it'll stick ya. If it crawls, it'll bite cha.

Onced and Twiced are words.



Jawl-P? Means, Did you all go to the bathroom?

People actually grow, eat and like okra.

Fixinto is one word. It means I'm going to do that.

There is no such thing as lunch. There is only dinner and then there's supper.

Iced tea is appropriate for all meals and you start drinking it when you're two.
We do like a little tea without sugar. It is referred to as the Wine of the South.

Backwards and forwards means I know everything about you.

The word jeet is actually a question meaning, 'Did you eat?'



You don't PUSH buttons, you MASH em.

Ya'll is singular. All ya'll is plural.

All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit, vegetable, grain, insect, or animal.

You carry jumper cables in your car - for your OWN car.

You only own six spices: salt, pepper, garlic, mustard, Tabasco and ketchup.

The local papers cover national and international news on one page, but require 6 pages for local high school sports, the motor sports, and gossip.

You believe that the first day of deer season is a national holiday.

You know what a hissyfit is.

Fried catfish is the other white meat.

We don't need no dang Driver's Ed. If our mama says we can drive, we can drive!!!

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Jul 21, 2017 11:40:39   #
No1Shutterbug Loc: Greencastle, PA Live in The Villages, FL
 
Ya hante rong.

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Jul 21, 2017 11:41:40   #
jack schade Loc: La Pine Oregon
 
Ya'll got that right.

Jack

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Jul 21, 2017 11:44:51   #
goofybruce
 
...and despite what the label on the bottle says, it's all moonshine....

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Jul 21, 2017 11:53:57   #
FrankR Loc: NYC
 
HEY, you can't fool me, jeet is a Brooklyn word!

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Jul 21, 2017 12:01:35   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.

There is still a small grain of truth here, that perhaps applies to natives in some rural areas of the Deep South, except in Florida, which is a true melting pot.

However, there are plenty of Northern and Midwestern transplants here, who are a bit more typically American. We even (gasp!) (yay!) have many people from all over the friggin' world, right here in High Point! And it is quite hard to find a true native Charlottean. Average residency in Charlotte is about 2.5 years.

The largest BMW plant in the world is in Greer, SC. With some of the cheapest labor in America, Southern states are magnets for rust belt companies who still want to manufacture in America. Boeing has a huge plant in Charleston, SC.

So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.

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Jul 21, 2017 12:07:32   #
I.A.Teacher
 
I learned the first day of Wild Turkey season was the beginning of Thanksgiving.

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Jul 21, 2017 12:10:44   #
samantha90 Loc: Fort Worth,Texas
 
This was meant as humor sorry if I offended you
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.

There is still a small grain of truth here, that perhaps applies to natives in some rural areas of the Deep South, except in Florida, which is a true melting pot.

However, there are plenty of Northern and Midwestern transplants here, who are a bit more typically American. We even (gasp!) (yay!) have many people from all over the friggin' world, right here in High Point! And it is quite hard to find a true native Charlottean. Average residency in Charlotte is about 2.5 years.

The largest BMW plant in the world is in Greer, SC. With some of the cheapest labor in America, Southern states are magnets for rust belt companies who still want to manufacture in America. Boeing has a huge plant in Charleston, SC.

So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017. b... (show quote)

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Jul 21, 2017 12:11:02   #
I.A.Teacher
 
"Jeet" may mean did you eat in Brooklyn, one might answer, "no Jew"?

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Jul 21, 2017 12:43:40   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
samantha90 wrote:
This was meant as humor sorry if I offended you


No offense taken. I got a good laugh.

It's just that I've been here 57 years. I've seen a lot of late comers to the party make the mistake of underestimating how smart and shrewd the natives are. I've seen some folks with "way down South out-in-the-sticks" heritage do amazing things, at the very dear expense of outsiders who doubted them or poked fun. "Bless their hearts" is NOT a compliment, believe me!

The formation of Bank of America is a good example. A UNC-CH-educated, ex-marine Southerner from a small town in SC built NC National Bank into NationsBank and then into Bank of America, through mergers and acquisitions. There are many in San Francisco who still wonder what the hell happened to their bank...

My comments were merely meant as a warning to those who would believe the old stereotype of the ignorant Southerner.

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Jul 21, 2017 13:34:21   #
SteveR Loc: Michigan
 
Having been in Dallas I know exactly what Samantha...and even Burkphoto are talking about. Dallas is a very cosmopolitan city but get to east or west Texas or other rural areas and y'all will come across much of Samantha's post. Now, as far as okra goes, this transplanted Michiganian has come to like it. Iced Tea? The nat'l drink of Texas...that must be served with a lemon. Y'all? Covers a multitude of sinners (this from a former student for the ministry.....y'all gonna burn in Hell, y'hear?? :) )
What Samantha missed was armadillos....I can't tell you how many armadillos I've hit crossing two lane roads in the country, esp. at night, only to watch them in the rear view mirror rolling down the highway. I always had to give 'em a score. Have a good 'un y'all.

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Jul 21, 2017 15:59:29   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
SteveR wrote:
Having been in Dallas I know exactly what Samantha...and even Burkphoto are talking about. Dallas is a very cosmopolitan city but get to east or west Texas or other rural areas and y'all will come across much of Samantha's post. Now, as far as okra goes, this transplanted Michiganian has come to like it. Iced Tea? The nat'l drink of Texas...that must be served with a lemon. Y'all? Covers a multitude of sinners (this from a former student for the ministry.....y'all gonna burn in Hell, y'hear?? :) )
What Samantha missed was armadillos....I can't tell you how many armadillos I've hit crossing two lane roads in the country, esp. at night, only to watch them in the rear view mirror rolling down the highway. I always had to give 'em a score. Have a good 'un y'all.
Having been in Dallas I know exactly what Samantha... (show quote)




Armadillos are common in Texas, but not here in the Carolinas.

I live in a suburban High Point neighborhood, 1/4 mile from a big city lake park. We own a vacant lot next door. It backs up to a power transmission line. The power line corridor is commonly used by deer, coyotes, beavers, rabbits, squirrels, birds, feral cats, foxes, opossum, and other animals. So we see our share of critters in our back and side yards.

My heritage is Midwestern, but I married a Southern woman. I'm still learning about the South from her and her family. Okra is great if breaded and fried. Boiled, it turns to slime! Of course, Southerners consider all breaded-and-fried foods to be delicacies:

Pickle chips
Okra
Squash
Green beans
Tomatoes, especially green ones
Catfish and shrimp
Frozen Oreos...

We like to say that North Carolina has a hundred counties, and ten thousand sub-cultures. Travel across the State, stop in the big cities and small towns, and you'll see what we mean. And South Carolina? THAT is like a foreign country to us! I lived there (Greenville) for 11 years. Just going from Charlotte, over the border to Fort Mill or Rock Hill, can be culture shock.

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Jul 21, 2017 17:09:38   #
luvmypets Loc: Born & raised Texan living in Fayetteville NC
 
burkphoto wrote:
This was much more typical in 1960 than in 2017.
So... The quaint charm of the stereotypical cracker Southern lifestyle is getting harder to notice.


I totally disagree with you on this. I live in Fayetteville, NC but I was born and raised in west Texas and when the Army transferred my husband and I to Alabama, I thought I was on the wrong planet. I could hardly understand what they were saying. When we were later transferred to Fayetteville I found that even though it is a melting pot due to the military bases there are still enough native North Carolineans to prove the quotes as accurate. I hear several of these (especially "fixinto") from several "educated" and well to do locals.

The Southerners may have left High Point but they are still here in Fayetteville.

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Jul 21, 2017 17:51:15   #
burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC
 
luvmypets wrote:
I totally disagree with you on this. I live in Fayetteville, NC but I was born and raised in west Texas and when the Army transferred my husband and I to Alabama, I thought I was on the wrong planet. I could hardly understand what they were saying. When we were later transferred to Fayetteville I found that even though it is a melting pot due to the military bases there are still enough native North Carolineans to prove the quotes as accurate. I hear several of these (especially "fixinto") from several "educated" and well to do locals.

The Southerners may have left High Point but they are still here in Fayetteville.
I totally disagree with you on this. I live in Fa... (show quote)


I didn't say they left. I said they're getting harder to find.

Fayetteville IS in the boonies, when compared to Raleigh-Durham, Greensboro, High-Point, Winston-Salem, or the Great State of Mecklenburg County (metropolitan Charlotte). But it's not all Southern, and neither is much of the state. This used to be a pure red state, 40 years ago. Now it's purple. Parts of it (Char-Meck) are decidedly blue. That's indicative of the influx of migrating urbanites from the North and Midwest.

My Mother-In-Law says twiced and fixes Okra. But her kids don't!

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Jul 21, 2017 21:25:15   #
nicksr1125 Loc: Mesa, AZ
 
FrankR wrote:
HEY, you can't fool me, jeet is a Brooklyn word!


Bunch of DAMN Yankees trying to claim a word that is clearly Southern!!!

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