re: Does anyone really have "Southern Pride"?

Kappa Alpha Order do

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then why dont you just say what is so unique about fricking Mississippi?

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This will take forever but lets just start with music.

Rock 'n' Roll's roots are in Mississippi. It was around in the state decades before it became mainstream

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Rock and roll is rooted in the blues of Mississippi. The Mississippi Jook Band (brothers Roosevelt and Uaroy Graves and pianist Cooney Vaughan) earned a niche in the annals of rock after they recorded in Hattiesburg in 1936, nearly two decades before rock and roll exploded in the 1950s. The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll noted that their blues recordings “featured fully formed rock and roll guitar riffs and a stomping rock and roll beat.”

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B.B. King

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Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known by his stage name B.B. King, was an American blues singer, songwriter, and guitarist.

Rolling Stone ranked King number 6 on its 2011 list of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[2] King introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending and shimmering vibrato that influenced many later electric blues guitarists.[3] King was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and is considered one of the most influential blues musicians of all time, earning the nickname "The King of the Blues", and one of the "Three Kings of the Blues Guitar" along with Albert and Freddie.[4][5][6] King was known for performing tirelessly throughout his musical career, appearing at more than 200 concerts per year on average into his 70s.[7] In 1956, he reportedly appeared at 342 shows.[8]

King died at the age of 89 in Las Vegas, Nevada on May 14, 2015.

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Elvis:

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Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, and when he was 13 years old, he and his family relocated to Memphis, Tennessee. His music career began there in 1954, when he recorded a song with producer Sam Phillips at Sun Records. Accompanied by guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley was an early popularizer of rockabilly, an uptempo, backbeat-driven fusion of country music and rhythm and blues. RCA Victor acquired his contract in a deal arranged by Colonel Tom Parker, who managed the singer for more than two decades. Presley's first RCA single, "Heartbreak Hotel", was released in January 1956 and became a number-one hit in the United States. He was regarded as the leading figure of rock and roll after a series of successful network television appearances and chart-topping records. His energized interpretations of songs and sexually provocative performance style, combined with a singularly potent mix of influences across color lines that coincided with the dawn of the Civil Rights Movement, made him enormously popular—and controversial.

In November 1956, he made his film debut in Love Me Tender. In 1958, he was drafted into military service. He resumed his recording career two years later, producing some of his most commercially successful work before devoting much of the 1960s to making Hollywood movies and their accompanying soundtrack albums, most of which were critically derided. In 1968, following a seven-year break from live performances, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special Elvis, which led to an extended Las Vegas concert residency and a string of highly profitable tours. In 1973, Presley was featured in the first globally broadcast concert via satellite, Aloha from Hawaii. Several years of prescription drug abuse severely damaged his health, and he died in 1977 at the age of 42.

Presley is one of the most celebrated and influential musicians of the 20th century. Commercially successful in many genres, including pop, blues and gospel, he is the best-selling solo artist in the history of recorded music,[5][6][7][8] with estimated record sales of around 600 million units worldwide.[9] He won three Grammys, also receiving the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award at age 36, and has been inducted into multiple music halls of fame. Forbes named Elvis Presley as the 2nd top earning dead celebrity with $55 million as of 2011.[10][11]

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Mississippi Delta Blues:

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The Delta blues is one of the earliest styles of blues music. It originated in the Mississippi Delta, a region of the United States that stretches from Memphis, Tennessee in the north to Vicksburg, Mississippi in the south, Helena, Arkansas in the west to the Yazoo River on the east. The Mississippi Delta area is famous both for its fertile soil and its poverty. Guitar, harmonica and cigar box guitar are the dominant instruments used, with slide guitar (usually on the steel guitar) being a hallmark of the style. The vocal styles range from introspective and soulful to passionate and fiery. Delta blues is also regarded as a regional variation of country blues.

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There's waaaaaaay more music history in Mississippi than this post and that's just one piece that makes the state unique. But nah. It's just a poor state that was mean to the North in the Civil War. Don't bother learning anything else about it.

People from the Midwest like Ohio Indiana and Iowa take pride in being corny naive simpletons. It's weird.

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Does anyone really have "Southern Pride"?

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What kind of self respecting southerner even asks such a thing?

You can visit any country in the world, and there will be a distinct difference between the northerners and the southerners.

What I'm trying to say is that the way the north views the south here in the U.S., is the same way that most northern parts of countries view the southern parts. And vice versa.

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The only people I know who talk about where they're from all the time (city or state) like they have a sense of pride about something that happened by chance are rappers, trashy people, and inmates in a prison.

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I think blue-bloods do this too (as in "of the Boston Cabots").

But yeah. I don't get it. But even asking the question is enough to arouse emotion.

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"Southern Pride" is a massive joke.

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Great argument, love all the details

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Flying back into New Orleans made me realize how much I wanted to move to Finland.

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Finland, is that the country where its illegal for a man to piss standing up? Or is that Sweden? Anyway close enough.

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Well, the South is constantly, and often untruthfully, shite on by the North.

Scruffy believes it has become a defensive response more than anything.

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This. I remember when I was a freshman in high school and went to the National Scout Jamboree in Virginia. There were people there from all over the world. I didn't realize how bad the kids from outside the south treated me until I took off my hat that read "Istrouma Area Council, Baton Rouge, LA" and put on one that said "Connecticut Rivers Council". Suddenly, everyone was so much more friendly. Kids stopped treating me as if they assumed I was just some ignorant, dumb, hick. Black kids from up north were suddenly friendly. The ones from the South still treated me the same besides them stopping from asking me for the mini Tabasco bottles we often handed out.

The next day, I took that hat off and put the Baton Rouge one back on, and the switch flipped. Everyone outside of the north either avoided eye-contact or just outwardly hated me. I even had a kid from bumf*^k Utah call me a redneck hick. It was absolutely eye-opening. I never realized that people really hated the South until that moment. Most of the people involved in that incident are now in their mid 20's. These are your millennials. It would have been one thing if these were isolated incidents, but it was widespread, damn near every random person I met. That's when I learned that although my southern accent isn't very thick, when I go north of Richmond, it's best to dial it back.

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i remember watching the Missing Rings episode of America's Game of the 1998 Vikings.

the amount of hate mail Dennis Green got was sick. There is a small part that shows a few lines of some letters he received.

some damning things said in there. Those fellas up north are pretty harsh it seems like.

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Yeah, I used to think we had too many people who took football way too seriously down here, but then I read about what it's like to play for or coach the Bears, Vikings, Red Sox and the hell those guys go from the fans.

Red Sox fans and media are currently hating on Pablo Sandoval and saying he "doesn't have what it takes to be a champion" because he liked a few Instagram pics in the bathroom. LULZ. The guy has won 3 of the last 5 World Series. People up there are miserable.