re: What states do you consider to actually be the South?

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You are the one saying Catholics can't be southern.

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You are an idiot

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Honorable mention as a southern state: South Carolina since they were first to tell the northerners to frick off

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How in the frick is South Carolina not a southern state?

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Not really. South La is Catholic, which is not southern. Our cuisine is not southern either. Our accent is not southern. We are our own d

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We are a subset of southern culture. You think everyone from the rest of the south has the same food,accent, or religion. The low country culture is different from hillbilly culture
People from the piney woods and hills are different from folks from the delta
There's a bunch of Catholics in Greenville and Natchez and they sure are southern
A old money family from Charleston probably has more in common with a creole from New Orleans than an old money family from upstate SC

Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida?


List is shite.

As a cultural stereotype, the south is Protestant

South la is catholic

As a cultural stereotype, southerners eat a different diet than south la

As a cultural stereotype, southerners have a completely different accent than south la


Yes, there are individuals that are exceptions, but in 3 of the main cultural buckets of "being southern" we in south La are in another bucket

Are we closer to the south than the north? Absolutely. But I think we shift away from the cultural definition of the south as a whole

According to the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB):


SREB Member States

Alabama

Arkansas

Delaware

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana

Maryland

Mississippi

North Carolina

Oklahoma

South Carolina

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

West Virginia

These are the "southern" states the Louisiana Teacher Unions use to determine a fair average salary....

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Not Texas

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East Texas, which is a larger area than some southern states, is the south.

Why do we have a fricking thread like this every damn week?

Does Chicken need to sticky a thread where this is discussed?

Louisiana from I-10 South is quite different from I-10 going North...which I consider to be part of the common south. East Texas is part of the south in my book as is the southern fringe of Missouri and southern Kentucky. The Florida panhandle is southern but not the rest of that state. South Carolina. Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas are card carrying members. West Virginia and the rural rust belt wish they were part of the south. Large cities like Atlanta, Dallas, and Houston are also excluded as they are soulless "International cities" that will one day practice Sharia law.