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re: Best and worst southern states
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:24 am to Saint Alfonzo
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:24 am to Saint Alfonzo
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West Virginia
Not the South. My wife if from WV and that place IS NOT southern.
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Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:27 am to fallguy_1978
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Once you get out of the major metros there are some straight up hillbillies in NC. I pulled over to ask one for directions a few years ago because my GPS wasn't working and I could barely understand that ole baw
Yeah - people who say NC isn't southern have no idea what they're talking about.
Go outside of the Charlotte or Raleigh areas to a place like Rockingham or Hickory. Your opinion will change instantly
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:31 am to fallguy_1978
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Once you get out of the major metros there are some straight up hillbillies in NC. I pulled over to ask one for directions a few years ago because my GPS wasn't working and I could barely understand that ole baw
Full blown Appalachia. Parts of Tennessee, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia have them. West Virginia is 99.9% Appalachia.
This post was edited on 2/24/20 at 10:33 am
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:33 am to VolsOut4Harambe
I used to have clients in Lexington, Rocky Mount and Wilson, NC. Plenty of baws in those areas.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:36 am to GentleJackJones
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Full blown Appalachia
People here like to talk about how unique Cajun culture is (and it is) compared to the rest of the country, but the hills and hollers running across the Appalachians are just as isolated (maybe more so) and foreign to the rest of America.
Hillbillies are usually either one of the worst or best people you'll come across.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 9:55 pm to Pettifogger
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Louisiana has a significant cultural/tourism/business hub
Very true
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Mississippi does absolutely nothing of the sort.
Very untrue. The MS coast draws more annual tourists than the Alabama coast and Pensacola, combined.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 10:12 pm to Reservoir dawg
quote:Truth but peel the onion.
The MS coast draws more annual tourists than the Alabama coast and Pensacola, combined.
99% of the Visitors to the Mississippi Gulf Coast fall into two overlapping categories:
A) Folks you would not enjoy being related to
B) Folks you would likely call the cops on
The wretched refuse who come to Biloxi to gamble/cruise the Coast/beach comb make Destin tourism folks thrilled there’s a Biloxi.
OP: There are parts and facets of every Southern State that are positive but probably the Land Mass has the worst overall average score to me.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 11:32 pm to soccerfüt
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The wretched refuse who come to Biloxi to gamble/cruise the Coast/beach comb make Destin tourism folks thrilled there’s a Biloxi.
Yeah there's an influx of LA/MS/AL weekenders, Northerners and Canadians. Much of the same crowd you see in Destin these days. CTC is getting bigger every year drawing more and more people from outside the region.
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OP: There are parts and facets of every Southern State that are positive but probably the Land Mass has the worst overall average score to me.
After Louisiana and the lower half of Arkansas I tend to agree.
Posted on 2/24/20 at 11:56 pm to Reservoir dawg
Tennessee nc, sc Mississippi Arkansas
Br for nolstalgia
Br for nolstalgia
Posted on 2/25/20 at 9:48 am to Reservoir dawg
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Very untrue. The MS coast draws more annual tourists than the Alabama coast and Pensacola, combined.
I don't think this renders my point untrue.
Louisiana's cultural/tourism/business hub is New Orleans. A historically significant convention city with some decent sized companies and everything that goes with them (professional services firms, etc.).
Alabama's are Birmingham and Huntsville, not Mobile.
That the Mississippi gulf coast draws a fair number of tourists isn't enough to sustain a state. Quite simply, Mississippi has no business city of any national (or arguably regional) importance, and that's probably the most driving factor. It probably holds back Ole Miss and MSU as well.
New Orleans isn't a true business city either, but it's a first tier tourism city and close to a first tier convention city, which makes it a solid economic engine when combined with being a middling business town.
Posted on 2/25/20 at 12:01 pm to Pettifogger
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Mississippi's primary job/economic engine is probably a 4th rate dump of a city in another state
Now MS is not some great economic engine, but this statement is inaccurate. We have the Nissan plant, Toyota plant, Ingalls ship building, Nucor steel, Raytheon, multiple industries in the Golden Triangle, and the soon to be Yokohama plant. There are quite a few others as well.
We are not dependent on an out of state area for our economy. Unless you count federal entitlement dollars for the delta
Posted on 2/25/20 at 3:08 pm to Cold Drink
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Alabama has by far the most topographic diversity in the South
North and South Carolina say hold my beer....
Posted on 2/25/20 at 4:25 pm to Pettifogger
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That the Mississippi gulf coast draws a fair number of tourists isn't enough to sustain a state.
The MS coast draws a ton of tourists annually.
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Alabama's are Birmingham and Huntsville, not Mobile
Jackson has a lot more industry than Huntville. It just doesn't have the high paying job market of Huntsville.
Posted on 2/25/20 at 4:29 pm to GoGators04
Four pages and no one has mentioned Virginia as the best?
Posted on 2/25/20 at 4:35 pm to GoGators04
I feel like you are missing South Carolina
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