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re: Which States Are in the South?
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:45 pm to AbitaFan08
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:45 pm to AbitaFan08
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It’s like Beetlejuice, say “Arizona” three times and nurse will show up and talk about how happy she is that Scottsdale isn’t the “South” because anything associated with Baton Rouge is shitty.
If I hated LA and BR that much I'd join the Arizona St OT and learn about better rock yard leveling techniques
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:46 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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That thread breaks up dramatically in the state of Texas
Texas is Texas. It's nothing like the south.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:46 pm to TbirdSpur2010
"American historians often write of a contrast between the South, a closed reactionary society, and the West, free and open and characteristically American. The dichotomy thus presented is a false one. The West is the South. That is, to the extent that the West is a theatre for heroic action, rather than just a place to start a new business, it is the Old South transmitted to a new environment. The cowboy, to the degree that he represents the embodiment of a code of life rather than just a person who tends animals, is nothing more or less than the Virginia gentleman on the plains.
It is no accident that the most famous Western novel, written by a Pennsylvanian, Owen Wister, and set in Wyoming, was called The Virginian; nor that the most memorable character in Robert Service’s Alaska poems was from Tennessee; nor that John Wayne’s best Western movie, The Searchers, begins in 1865 with the hero riding up to his prairie home in tattered gray.
But the Southernness of the American West is not just in the realm of romance. The romance in this case merely reflects the facts. Boone, Crockett, Lewis and Clark, the heroes of the Alamo, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Jesse James, nearly all the epic heroes of the frontier were Southerners. The “cowboy humorist” Will Rogers was the son of a captain in the Confederacy’s Cherokee brigade. You will hear nothing except Southern accents today on America’s only remaining frontier, the North
Shore oil fields.
We repeat: The West is only Western because it is Southern, because it bears the impress of the culture of the Old South rather than the Old North. That is why Oklahoma produces cowboys, oil wildcatters, country music singers, writers and scholars, evangelists and outlaws, and Kansas produces wheat and an occasional communist."
It is no accident that the most famous Western novel, written by a Pennsylvanian, Owen Wister, and set in Wyoming, was called The Virginian; nor that the most memorable character in Robert Service’s Alaska poems was from Tennessee; nor that John Wayne’s best Western movie, The Searchers, begins in 1865 with the hero riding up to his prairie home in tattered gray.
But the Southernness of the American West is not just in the realm of romance. The romance in this case merely reflects the facts. Boone, Crockett, Lewis and Clark, the heroes of the Alamo, Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, Jesse James, nearly all the epic heroes of the frontier were Southerners. The “cowboy humorist” Will Rogers was the son of a captain in the Confederacy’s Cherokee brigade. You will hear nothing except Southern accents today on America’s only remaining frontier, the North
Shore oil fields.
We repeat: The West is only Western because it is Southern, because it bears the impress of the culture of the Old South rather than the Old North. That is why Oklahoma produces cowboys, oil wildcatters, country music singers, writers and scholars, evangelists and outlaws, and Kansas produces wheat and an occasional communist."
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:47 pm to TH03
Virginia is Virginia. Virginia is nothing like the South.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:47 pm to TH03
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Texas is Texas. It's nothing like the south.
I've been trying to tell this man for like 3 pages now
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:47 pm to Collegedropout
Virginia is in no way "southern". maybe in the 1800's, but certainly not now. there's really no southern culture there.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:49 pm to monsterballads
Welp, if Virginia isn't the South, then I will concur that Texas isn't the South. I laugh at whoever groups the South in this way though. Apparently in 50 years there will be no more South. I wonder what you guys will call it.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:49 pm to Collegedropout
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The West is the South.
That entire quote is the author trying so desperately and pathetically to convince himself that his fantasy is real
Your fantasy too, apparently.
This post was edited on 11/16/17 at 9:50 pm
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:50 pm to Collegedropout
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Apparently in 50 years there will be no more South. I wonder what you guys will call it.
New Afrika. I'll be in Idaho if I'm still alive
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:50 pm to monsterballads
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Virginia is in no way "southern". maybe in the 1800's, but certainly not now. there's really no southern culture there.
Go to southside VA around the Emporia area. Might as well be the Mississippi Delta.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:50 pm to Collegedropout
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Apparently in 50 years there will be no more South. I wonder what you guys will call it.
You care about this way too much.
Talmbout your grandpappys and shite
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:51 pm to LSUTigersVCURams
Go to east Texas. Same thing.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:51 pm to TbirdSpur2010
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The West is the South.
I'm so confused right now.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:52 pm to Mike da Tigah
Texas > the South > other parts
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:52 pm to northshorebamaman
Leave it to a guy who lives in the Northwest and a guy who lives in a suburb that was open fields 10 years ago to tell me what Texas is.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:53 pm to Collegedropout
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Leave it to a guy who lives in the Northwest and a guy who lives in a suburb that was open fields 10 years ago to tell me what Texas is.
I haven't commented on Texas but nice try.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:54 pm to Collegedropout
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east Texas.
Doesn't define Texas. Sorry.
For frick's sake, we have crazy strong German and Czech influences/communities smack dab in the middle of our state. Second biggest city in the state is majority latino. And we haven't even gotten to west Texas or the panhandle
But yeah, basically the same as Birmingham when you really get down to brass tacks
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:54 pm to AbitaFan08
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The frick is wrong with y’all talking about Arizona? It’s like Beetlejuice, say “Arizona” three times and nurse will show up and talk about how happy she is that Scottsdale isn’t the “South” because anything associated with Baton Rouge is shitty.
And how she constantly reminds her parents that hooking up the trailer and moving it to her trailer park in Arizona was the best decision they ever made.
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:54 pm to northshorebamaman
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I haven't commented on Texas but nice try.
Damn he whiffed again
Posted on 11/16/17 at 9:55 pm to Collegedropout
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Go to east Texas. Same thing.
East Texas is just main Street cities devoid of any culture.
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