DeanS Loc: Capital City area of North Carolina

Born and raised in middle-eastern GA, lived in many states, traveled much of the world, and while the accent has long since merged into a non-accented speech, much of the vernacular is still in my lexicon. I'm fixin to go fry me up some okra befo I take me a nap. 😎😎😎

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻😇

chevman Loc: Matthews, North Carolina

If your from ""nawlins" you can go to New York city and fit right in and no one is the wiser!😎

quagmire Loc: Greenwood,South Carolina

I was born and raised in S.C.and I don't eat okra or liver. Picked okta once for my uncle,had to go shower to help the itch.

ballsafire Loc: Lafayette, Louisiana

Don't you know that you must wash and wipe each okra with a washrag? LOL

10MPlayer Loc: California

Asbestos - A'hm doing asbestos I can.

BamaTexan Loc: Deep in the heart of Texas

While serving in Uncle Sam's Navy, I went to NYC, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia. Those pretty little yankee girls loved to hear my Alabama accent.

jaymatt Loc: Alexandria, Indiana

bobsisk Loc: Chandler, Arizona

You left out I'moan, gote'thu and y'onna, as in I'moan gote'thu store. Y'onna go too?

One of my favorite memories of being born and raised in small-town Texas was driving on two-lane roads. We'd meet someone coming the opposite way; they would wave and so would we, whether we knew them or not. It was almost a competition as to who would wave first: us or them. I remember one elderly fellow with a straight brim straw hat, the brim down just above his eyes, peering just over the steering wheel. As we approached him and waved he would raise one or the other index finger in acknowledgement and cruise on by, never looking right or left.

Driving in Texas you'll see signs on the highways that say, "Drive friendly." Texans were doing that decades before the signs went up, at least in the small-town areas.

Oh, and I can't forget - Granddaddy (Mother's father) would sometimes plant peanuts on part of the several sections of land that he owned. When they were ready for harvest Mother would boil several batches in salt water, lay them out to cool and those were our snack food. We kids loved it. About the only snack food in grocery stores at the time (remember them?) was potato chips, but we preferred the peanuts. You can now find (in season) locally grown and boiled peanuts in many convenience stores on highways all across the South now.

FrankR Loc: NYC

Thanks Mark. So tired of these clowns who are still fighting a war in their heads that they lost over 150 years ago. I wonder if it's all right to refer to them constantly as stupid crackers?

pendennis

The north won the War of Secession, 1861-1865, but the "economic war" being waged right now, gives a clear edge to the south. Things like right to work, make a very hospitable environment for companies not wanting to deal with unions and the accompanying baggage.

PS - The War of Secession is probably the most accurate descriptor of the conflict. It was not a war between states; Massachusetts did not declare war on Alabama, and neither did South Carolina declare war on Pennsylvania. It also was not a civil war, since the southern states did not change the types of existing governments.

South Carolina attempted to peacefully secede from the Union. However, when they believed their sovereignty was violated by the Federal government resupplying Fort Sumter, they took up arms.

Now, just how you believe the war started, and the reasoning behind it, makes for great arguments and discussions.

Me? I prefer to have my Very Old Barton with a splash of water. Next to that, Woodford Reserve!

bobsisk Loc: Chandler, Arizona

I must have skimmed over the responses too fast. I didn't see anything about a war except here. All I saw was some good-natured ribbing mainly about the Southern lingo.

BamaTexan Loc: Deep in the heart of Texas

There is one in every crowd

FrankR Loc: NYC

It was and is mostly about that. The war reference was part of a response to being called a DAMN Yankee. I don't appreciate being called a damn anything.

JCam Loc: MD Eastern Shore

Rearming or resupplying, or perhaps the U.S. Navy trying to sink old ship hulks as a blockade in the shipping channel? If there wasn't an agreement for the North to build the fort in the first place, perhaps their Sovereignty was violated. A blockade is still considered to be an act of war.

I have a cousin who has lived all (so far) of his adult life in Atlanta. He calls the fracas either "The Late, Great Unpleasantness" or "The War of Northern Aggression"