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Southern Heritage

A young lady who described herself as Texan asked this question on Yahoo Q & A :

Southern Peoplez? I don't know what catagory this gose in but do yall think southern people are weird or somthin speak your mind i dont care even though i am texan

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26 minutes ago p.s im spellin wrong on purpose but i do use bad grammer and im proud

(There is is, people; exactly as she spelled it. So I'm throwing or laying, no hell -- I'm slapping down the gauntlet, and opening the floor to you all. Let's here whatch'all have to say).


  • What's great about being Dixie

    People from the South have an infinite variety, as do almost any people from a highly developed culture. In the South, we have the best and the worst of all types. As Celestia S. at Yahoo wrote: "We are not weird, dear. We are unique. We are more than the redneck and Cajun jokes make us out to be. We are kind; we are passionate; we are vehement; and we are forgiving. There's a book about southern women called, "We're Just Like You, Only Prettier" by Celia Rivenbark. Get it; read it; laugh like no one's watching. And be reassured, darling. This is God's country."

    From the eastern half of Texas to the District of Columbia, to the Florida Keys, to southern Illinois and Missouri, southern Indiana and Ohio, the South has an amazing variety of peoples, interesting peoples, people with a marvellous array of skills, talents, knowledge. I will not lie to you; I love the South. No, I'm not born in the South, I am from northern Illinois. However, I've lived over half my forty-five years in the South, from the bootheel of Arkansas through Memphis and the Mississippi Delta to Christian County, Kentucky to Liberty and Tattnall Counties in Lowland South Georgia. Let me tell you that no place has anything over the South. Pina Colada Sue testified "Southern people are people. We all have our own lingo and cultures depending on geography, history, and trade. Some one from California may have a different culture and outlook as opposed to someone from Georgia. I'm sure people from the North seem just as strange to Southerners as Southerners appear to Northern folk."

    We still have chivalry, we still have hospitality. we still cherish tradition, our history, our geneology, our customs and courtesies. We have coon hunting, noodling (searching for catfish by hand and arm, wading in the water). We have a love of hunting, fishing, gathering berries and wild herbs. We have one of the most highly developed literatures in the world. In the South people still learn Latin and Greek. In the South Sequoia invented and developed a language and literature for the Cherokees. In the South we had the Five Civilized Tribes: the Cherokees, Creeks, Choctaw, Seminole, and Chickasaw. The South had a superior military in the Civil War. If it had not been for the North's industry and higher population, and the moral cause of fighting against slavery, the South would have won the Civil War and who knows what would have developed-- two nations, or three, instead of one? The South has a more forgiving winter, but a harsher summer. It has swamps, Southern Appalachies, pine forests and plantations which seem to go on forever. But I digress...

    Strange? There are strange people anywhere you go in the world. Weird? You tell me. In what way?

    In New Orleans we have vampires and voodoo. In Savannah we have root magic and remnants of ancient European witchcraft. We've got NASCAR, cow pattie bingo, and Georgia Bulldog tailgate parties. We've still got moonshine, but now we've got crystal meth. One thing I've found is that if you go by the stereotypes you will never understand the South. That's true of anything. But I know. Here we have everything -- highly techno-savvy nerds, cultivated European and Cosmopolitan types, Asians, Africans, Moslems, Bahais, Buddhists, atheists, agnostics, Quakers. You cannot rule out ANYTHING. Why??? Because everyone wants to be here, that's why! This place has some place or something for anybody. So, wierd? Yeh, we've got weird. But we've got everything else too, so honey, ya'll can just let go of that complex. Don't be ashamed of bein' Southern or Texan. Y'all just be who you wanna be! Jesus loves you, ya know! (So does Buddha, Mohamed, and Madeleine O'Hare, but they're all dead).

    One thing I didn't touch on when I had first finished the original draft of this was our reputed "slowness." As LT put it on Yahoo,"Southern people aren't any weirder than Northern, Eastern, or Western people....we are simply differently; and as a Texan I take pride in being a southerner and a little on the weird side...being normal is so highly overrated. Also... it seems as if a majority of the responses say that southerners are slow....did anyone ever think that we like to take time to enjoy the beauty of the world around us and appreciate all that God has given us?"

    Wierd? Maybe. But our wierd is the bestest wierd there is, honey. Ain't nothin' like it. Y'all come on, we'll throw a bah-be-que, an' we'll even supply the booze.

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    http://csunmod.blogspot.com/2005/03/that...

    http://officespam.chattablogs.com/archiv...

    http://intellectualize.org/archives/0008...

    http://www.hateyourdaddy.com/b-side/jan6...

    http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-c...

    http://www.sff.net/people/diana/journal/...

    http://forums.thegaminguniverse.com/show

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