What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
Feb 1st 2008, 8:11 pm
#76
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
In the North when you make an appointment for a cable guy to call they'll promise to be there tomorrow and will turn up the day after that. In the far south they'll promise to turn up tomorrow and then you have to phone them up a week later to find out where they are 
The Southern Company was Time Cable, maybe it was just them
The Southern Company was Time Cable, maybe it was just them
Feb 1st 2008, 8:15 pm
#77
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
Your list is incomplete. You neglected to list Mississippi
In my completely blinkered opinion:
Traditional South:
Tennessee
Southern Virginia
South Carolina
Southern North Carolina
Deep south, more stereotypically "southern":
Most of Alabama, excepting parts of the coast
Parts of Georgia, excepting parts of Atlanta
Northern Louisiana
Northern Florida, excepting Destin and parts of Pensacola
Southern Kentucky
Not really the south, but close:
Arkansas (very, very close to being "southern" in parts)
Northern Kentucky
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Northern North Carolina
Southern Missouri
Not really the south at all, but maybe depends on who you talk to:
Northern Virginia
Maryland
Creole, not "southern":
Southern Louisiana
Texas, not the "southern":
Texas
Definitely not the south, the Southwest:
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Parts of Colorado
Also, some of the most cosmopolitan, intelligent and open minded people I've ever met were from Alabama. Nashville can be amazingly cultured, people from New Orleans can be uptight assholes, etc. It's easy to generalize but it doesn't make it true.
Traditional South:
Tennessee
Southern Virginia
South Carolina
Southern North Carolina
Deep south, more stereotypically "southern":
Most of Alabama, excepting parts of the coast
Parts of Georgia, excepting parts of Atlanta
Northern Louisiana
Northern Florida, excepting Destin and parts of Pensacola
Southern Kentucky
Not really the south, but close:
Arkansas (very, very close to being "southern" in parts)
Northern Kentucky
West Virginia
Oklahoma
Northern North Carolina
Southern Missouri
Not really the south at all, but maybe depends on who you talk to:
Northern Virginia
Maryland
Creole, not "southern":
Southern Louisiana
Texas, not the "southern":
Texas
Definitely not the south, the Southwest:
Arizona
New Mexico
Utah
Nevada
Parts of Colorado
Also, some of the most cosmopolitan, intelligent and open minded people I've ever met were from Alabama. Nashville can be amazingly cultured, people from New Orleans can be uptight assholes, etc. It's easy to generalize but it doesn't make it true.
Feb 1st 2008, 8:41 pm
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Feb 1st 2008, 8:43 pm
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Feb 1st 2008, 8:52 pm
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
Difference in culture ?Mnnnnn.....not sure except Northerners are moving south by the droves.....not many southerners moving north.....says it all really
Feb 1st 2008, 8:55 pm
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
and PMSL - it's not the culture, it's the weather!
I'm not sure where you are but.... it's been -20 wind chill up here in the north. It is 78 degrees where my friend is in Florida. They aren't there for the culture
Feb 1st 2008, 9:00 pm
#87
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
Well you're talkin' to a southerner. You've got that right. It's a huge armpit down there. The whole south is. It gets me being down there. You've got 90 degree temperatures and a humidity index near the same. All I know is that you have to moooove reeeal slooooow.
Feb 1st 2008, 9:00 pm
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
Usually in caskets from Florida lol
Feb 1st 2008, 9:01 pm
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Re: What is the difference between the US North & South mentality?
eagerly anticipating the replies to that one...
