I'll start a big icebreaker. Any country boys or belles on this board [besides me ] Anyone here from the south? [I don't mean moved down there, i mean born&raised etcetc.] And what part? I'm from NC... I'm fascinated with cajun and LA culture, though.

Ace

I'm from Texas, kinda southwest, I guess. But I am in the south east part. Does that count???

Northern, but bred in the South with Southern manners.
It's all about hospitality.

Uhh....I'm a yankee but I kinda wish I had a southern accent, and of course I've the mannerisms of a true southern gentleman.

It's what is in the heart, right?? Speaking of accents. I lived in Colorado for a year and one day at work I was telling a story. Well, my story lasted a minute or two and at the end I asked, "you know what I mean?" One of my co-workers smiled and said she had no idea what I was saying, she just like hearing me talk. How embrassing!! There were a few times I had to spelling a word for them to understand.

southern all the way.

I'm from the south. Deep south Texas to be exact.

Thats just about as south as you can get...

I'm from Australia..... I'm more southern than the rest of you

Born in Tennessee, moved to Texas after a year, stayed their for 7 years then moved to Ohio. But I'm always going down their for vacation to visit family and friends. Once when I was visiting my cousins, we were getting a pizza and there was a really rude guy. When we leave, I hear my older cousin lean over and say "He must be from the North"

Yeahh lol we crack jokes like that all the time where i live [No offense yanks!] Like you can roll down the window in the car to the person in the next lane and ask for directions and they'll tell you, but once when one of me friends was northboundish she said they asked fr directions and the people gave them a dirtylook and drove off.

lol Goes to show yah... ;]

HaHa hey! yeahh i know what you mean... this past Halloween i was walking mah little brother around the neighborhood for trick or treatin' and when we got to this one lady's house i was out of breathe and she saw how thirsty i looked and said, "Would you like some water honey?" and i told her it was OkK but she was like "I won't take no for an answer. Come on in before you dehydrate." and she made me come inside and got me some icewater. lol Then she introduced me to her whole family.

Southern hospitality much, brothers?

Cool story! I live in southern Texas. Speaking of hosptality, I am in a wheelchair and can tell straight away if someone has been brought up properly. I'm not asking people to go out of their way to help me, I just expect people to be a little more considerate. My biggest pet peeve is when there is only one handicap space left and someone gets to it before me and then they run (!) into the store. What's up with that???

lol But then they're too small to show themselves when they make their mark. Wussies, i presume? I have another story. I dunno if yall have carrowinds or not [last time i told this story the person gave me a "huh?" and said "whats carrowinds?" lol so just fyi...]

Anywayszs, we were at the waterpark section and there's this one swimming upstream ride? [i think its called?] Its where you gotta grab a float and swim off and its got a current going so you don't need to paddle but it goes so fast that you'll lose your group, and i did lol mah family didn't know where i went!! So i met this one family from reedsville [which was closeby to the carrowinds] and i talked to them and they were all forming some chain-link group thingie so they wouldn't be drifted away, and two of them grabbed mah hands and everyone introduced themselves. One guy was tryin' to hit on me, lol but he was really friendly so it wasn't rude or corny like most guys. [HaHa sorry boyyys] And they offered to show me around but i knew mah parents wouldn't ever let me run off with strangers HaHa [listen to momma and daddy, guys] so i had to leave them but they came looking for me on this other ride! =D HaHa

Those are the kinds of people I like to meet. They just want to have a good time and enjoy themselves. Sounds like good people to me.

Aww HaHa

Definitely. HaHa Its cute, there's country boys at mah school that will open doors for me, or when they're in front of me they'll let me pass first.

Call me old-fashioned, but that is what they should do.

Exactly! HaHa its a lot sexier thann when a guy in front of you opens the door just enough for himself to creep through and thenn leaves it behind to slam in your face! *whammo*!

Sometimes the cutesy nicknames can be a bit much though, i have one friend- he's on the fball team, he's a big guy. He always picks me up and goes, "hey babydoll" lol

That's funny. When I was in high school my nickname was Cindy Lou Lee Cottonpicker. I got the name becasue I wore a beltbuckle that my Uncle recieved when he retired from pig ranching. It said Hogs are Beautiful. I guess maybe I was country when country wasn't cool.

lol We like our unCooLness...

coolness never mattered to me, and still doesn't. I'm just who I am.

Amen to that. I Yam what i Yam.

Viva chivalry.

Born and raised in Arkansas, live in Oklahoma at the moment but about to move back home. Funny how I always hated living here when I was younger and now that I am older I don't think I would want to live anywhere else. For instance, when my car broke down just yesterday, it wasn't two minutes before a very nice woman stopped and gave me and my girls a ride home. That doesn't happen just anywhere...

I am descended from Jon Williams one of the colonists of Jamestown, Virginia and also from the Shawnees. My Euro descended side has been southern for around 400 years. My family fought in the Revolutionary War and in the War of Northern Agression.

I do not like country music, country crafts, country gospel, NASCAR, rodeos, or pickup trucks.

I do like barbeques, decorative gardening, smooth Tennesee whiskey, scratch caramel cakes, grits, smoked sausage, raw oysters with tobasco, and a lot of other Southern foods.

Actually I dislike everything of the country music culture being equated as everything that is Southern USA as that attitude has helped to wipe out other types of Southern cultures.

Hard to believe now that at one time the great Southern cities were known to have more style and refinement than anywhere else in the USA except for the Boston and New York areas which were considered their equal.

I think country culture is charming in many ways and quite gross in other ways (like virtually all cultures), but to have ignored the culture of the Southern cities as worth nothing was a very wrong thing for the people to have done and now much that has been lost will never be recovered. The country culture now seems to be going downhill in many ways itself now, as seen by all the Redneck jokes that imply this is what country people are really like.

Maybe a lot of this has happened in the rest of the USA as well. I have have heard of the coarsening of culture coming from other people speaking from various places. It is almost as if good manners and good hospitality is being seen as wimpy and nerdy and that being a total ass towards others is showing what a strong person to be feared and respected you are.

I <3 JAMBALAYA

True. That's what I like about some Southern people. Kewyord, some.
I open doors for ladies, things like that.
However, I don't say "bless your heart". I'll be blunt with you.

I'm a southerner! Born in DEEP texas, raised in NC, and now I live in Alabama. I worked so hard to get rid of my Texas accent when I lived in NC cause no one could ever understand what I was saying (hehe), then when I moved to alabama a few years ago, it got really bad again. . . All my friends in NC always say "Man, we're country, but you sound like you're a straight up redneck" hahahaha.

I love southern hospitality! It's nice to be around people that do nice things for no reason. This winter when I was at the laundry mat, and I had my son with me, I had forgot his little blanky and I was talking to myself and I said "I wish I wouldn't have forgotten your blanky!" and then like ten minutes later, a guy that had been next to me dropped a wal-mart bag next to me and said "There you go, that might help!" And then he just disappeared, and I opened it up, and he had gone to wal-mart (Which is right by the laundry mat) and bought a really expensive blanket, a jacket, and some nice, warm, fuzzy pj's for my son! That was the sweetest thing anyone's ever done for me! People are so willing to help each other out down here!

I am an OKIE.

HaHa That's a cute story, a lil over the top though, haven't had someone be that nice in a while, but a couple years back mah mom bought a tylenol for her migraine and she saw a woman with a screaming baby who needed it more, so she just gave the woman the whole package! :] But other than that not too much lately...

We can get pretty redneck, just depends on where you are. Virtually its just the farther you are from the city, the countrier it gets and the less people from outside of state you encounter. The yanks only move into the wealthier parts of the cities and such. There isn't anything they desire in the country. But hey, if thats what you're raised with, you don't know anything better so you don't feel like you're missing out on anything. :]

Cute kittie, bTw.

Me Me!!!!

I live in East Tennessee... but I lived in Eastern NC for most of my life... 30 years!

I am from Texas. I used to be in FFA and I married a bull rider, but we both have since changed our ways. I guess we grew up and formed our own opinions. I do love NASCAR, gardening, I sew my own clothes and I enjoy country music (though classic rock is my favorite). I am following my own path and consider myself a Pagan/Wiccan. My huband is reading a lot on Budda lately. My son plays baseball and my daughter is a drama queen, no literally...she is in drama and modern dance.

Wow...

A Buddhist Red Neck...

There have been stranger things


LOL.. just joking wid ya!!...

Yes, my husband is a bull riding Buadda and I am a Texas witch. I know it sounds funny, but we both feel that we have found the right paths. I don't think moving to a part of the country that is more tolerant is the answer. I just think people need to be more open minded!!

You're right. Why should you have to move somewhere you've lived all your life because of a few closed minded individuals who aren't open to the idea of trying new things? There's a *lot* of ignorance and a lot of closed minds where i live, i hate to admit. But the people are like that innocently. Its truely their beliefs, they aren't against gays because they hate them, its because its something that they're not exposed to- they'd typically see it on t.v. or in a movie but when it comes to real life its like a shock to them.

At least their hearts are in the right place... Nova, have you ever been to Emerald Isle beach? Because i used to go there all of the time... and its pretty closeby to wilmington.

Heyy! What part of NC in the east? You mean the coastal areas?

I will PM You

Oh Hokay. =D

I haven't heard of Emerald Isle. I'm from Houston.

I've been to Emerald Isle many times.

It's beautiful!

Where is it???

Off the cost of North Carolina... here's the their website..

Emerald Isle, NC

WOW! Looks nice. I love NC. I'm a huge NASCAR fan!!

i live in north alabama, i was born in new hampshire, but i moved down here when i was about 8 so ive been down here a while (im 22 almost 23 now)

um...Im in FL

if that counts.

What do Y'all think of your ya very own "Anna Nicole Smith"

lol Sorry nopes... maybe 10 years ago but the Yankees took over ;P

Not that i dislike them or anything but over the past decade Florida seems to have lost its southern element.

and gained old people....

Why do you like her..???