and considers themselves as Southerners?

11/11/2008 6:40:26 PM

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11/11/2008 6:40:51 PM

not I

11/11/2008 6:40:55 PM

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11/11/2008 6:41:12 PM

i grew up in NC


what do you mean by "southerners"? i guess i do, but what's your definition?

11/11/2008 6:41:18 PM

me

and i want to move back really badly

11/11/2008 6:41:33 PM

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11/11/2008 6:41:35 PM

i grew up in NC. i don't really consider myself a true southerner because i am looking forward to getting out of the south for awhile

no offense.

i mean i'm southern because i'm from here but that is about as far as it goes.

11/11/2008 6:41:49 PM

me. there are no carpetbaggers in my family.

11/11/2008 6:41:57 PM

Isn't that kinda the default, living in the South?

I was born in NC and have spent most of my life here; I consider myself a southerner.

11/11/2008 6:42:43 PM

i grew up in NC, but i'm not sure if i consider myself a southerner. there are some connotations to that label, most of which don't fit me (although i do love sweet tea).

11/11/2008 6:43:58 PM

grew up in NC, but I was born in NYC so no, i don't consider myself a southerner

11/11/2008 6:45:01 PM

lol that's why i asked what she meant...like southerner as in "living in the south", yeah, duh.

11/11/2008 6:45:17 PM

what the fuck ever people

if you were born in the south and raised in the south then you are a southerner



my god...this isn't hard


she didn't ask if you considered yourself a hill billy or a red neck or trailer trash

11/11/2008 6:45:48 PM

I guess I am a southerner, since my grandma's side has been here since 1756.
but I wouldn't say I was a southern belle.

11/11/2008 6:46:01 PM

i split my time in alabama and nc, but i consider myself norwegian

11/11/2008 6:46:46 PM

I've been primarily here since 1990 but I don't consider myself a southerner mainly because Chapel Hill wasn't really southern compared to the majority of the state.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 6:48 PM. Reason : plus I was born in CA and lived in CA for a bit so ...]

11/11/2008 6:47:11 PM

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11/11/2008 6:47:25 PM

then why does it say grown up in NC and considers themselves a southerner?

it seems like that means that living in the south doesn't necessarily = southerner

people def hav different definitions of what it means to be a southerner. there is the obvious you grew up in the south therefore you are southern. but then there are like the southern pride southerners, etc.

11/11/2008 6:47:41 PM

I did, and do, but not by choice, i AM a southerner relative to northerners, there's nothing I can do about it.

I have a slight southern accent, I hate big cities, and I drink iced tea.

11/11/2008 6:48:05 PM

born in MA, moved to NC when I was 9

i'm a southerner

11/11/2008 6:48:18 PM

Iredell county, born and raised

11/11/2008 6:48:19 PM

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Guilty on all counts.

11/11/2008 6:49:09 PM

Quote :

"people def have different definitions of what it means to be a southerner. there is the obvious you grew up in the south therefore you are southern. but then there are like the southern pride southerners, etc. "

I was curious on the latter.

11/11/2008 6:49:17 PM

in on page 1

11/11/2008 6:49:53 PM

gravel granville county here

11/11/2008 6:50:14 PM

i grew up in the Shenandoah Valley in Virginia

and i consider myself a Southerner

11/11/2008 6:50:45 PM

I remember when my grandmother had a fit that my freshman roomate was from, NJ and that "they let yankees into this fine school"
she was horrified.
she was the lolz. R.I.P.

11/11/2008 6:51:33 PM

im growing down in ShenanDOHah Valley right now

i gotta gtfo of the 'zet

11/11/2008 6:52:32 PM

you can be a southerner (even culturally, not just by virtue of growing up in the south) without being a redneck. you can be a redneck without being a southerner.

i grew up out in the country, surrounded by a bunch of tobacco farms. i learned to drive on a john deere tractor when i was a kid. helped plow fields (and many hours of my childhood, and somewhat as a teenager, picking beans/shucking corn/digging potatoes/etc). After that, I moved on to the farm truck, where I'd drive around near my house when I was like 13-14.

I listen to country music (along with everything else from Wagner to Metallica, and everything in between). I like pork bbq, sweet tea, etc. I've shot a bunch of deer over the years.

I think that I'd be classified as a southerner by any measure, but it's not like I'm a dumb redneck. I've also lived in NoVa, FL, and the Puget Sound area of WA, and let me tell you--there are rednecks everywhere.

11/11/2008 6:53:01 PM

I guess I just never saw NC as the south. maybe b/c of where I grew up and the fact that we knew no one nor had family that lived here.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 6:54 PM. Reason : Ya no don't get me wrong I am not asking or saying if you are southern that you're a red neck]

11/11/2008 6:53:16 PM

I grew up in NC mostly.


But I only consider myself half a southerner.

I also try not to say things that are too southern or to have too much of a drawl.

11/11/2008 6:54:09 PM

i grew up in chapel hill. and i'm only a southerner when i go up north and people talk shit. down here i don't really identify with other southerners...


I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 6:55 PM. Reason : i guess i feel southern pride when other people don't have it, but not when they do]

11/11/2008 6:54:45 PM

present!

grew up in Kinston, NC. my granddaddy owned a gas station, and is known around town by his peers by a nickname. they were farmers before moving to "the city." our family reunions are recorded, and have been for 47 years. we trace our lineage to my great great great grandfather, Josiah Whitley. we have BBQ, lots of sweet tea, and all the fixins etc are brought by family. there are over 100 in attendance. i didn't farm, i don't hunt, and i don't like country music, but i'm a southerner. i love beach music.

[Edited on November 11, 2008 at 7:01 PM. Reason : ]

11/11/2008 6:55:32 PM

i spent the first 18 years of my life in wilmington, and have lived other places in nc since then.

i like sweet tea, country music, boots, big trucks, muddin', bbq, bonfires, etc...but that's not all i like

i consider myself a southerner in the way you mean, but that's not all i consider myself.

11/11/2008 6:55:35 PM

signed, hell yea!!

11/11/2008 7:04:26 PM

OH, WORD, PRESENT

11/11/2008 7:09:35 PM

The South isn't some monolithic block of conformity. Unfortunately, it is easier to play it on TV as all Scarlett O'Hara's and Geo. Wallaces but I've got vegetarian friends who majored in environmental studies that wear nothing but organic cotton and still consider themselves Southern.

I consider myself Southern even if I am an agnostic pseudo-libertarian who has to fight the urge to roll his eyes at the Geneva County Alabama Baptist Association's "Keep Geneva Dry" commercials.

11/11/2008 7:09:53 PM

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11/11/2008 7:18:13 PM

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11/11/2008 7:18:57 PM

I never lived outside Wake county.

11/11/2008 7:20:34 PM

^ i hadn't until this past summer when i moved to boone

but yeah, born and raised in nc

cary though

although my dads side of the family are natives of cary since before the town was established

11/11/2008 7:30:50 PM

i guess i am southern by way of growing up here and DEFINITELY (more so) by my family

clinton w. toms was my great great grandfather (i think just two greats). he was first general manager of american tobacco company. then after it got broken up by the s. ct. for being a monopoly, he was vp and then pres of liggett and meyers. he was apparently the really influential and powerful one in both companies even though you only ever hear about james b. duke.

we are all over NC (on my mom's side that is. my dad is from the north/midwest). durham was the home base (after clinton toms). my great grandfather built the michael/kathleen peterson house and that is where my grandmother grew up. we even have lots of old pictures with her and her sisters on THE staircase

but still not like southern pride (by that i just mean i don't SEEK to be classified southern. like NCSUGirl said, i might be southern but that isn't all i am). but i do think my family history on my mother's side is pretty darn cool.

11/11/2008 7:31:14 PM

never lived anywhere else, im a child of the coastal plains


we are a special kind of southerner

11/11/2008 7:32:10 PM

Quote :

"you can be a redneck without being a southerner."

Nah, redneck is a term meant for southerners. They are hicks everywhere else...

11/11/2008 7:32:18 PM

just because you were born in the south does not make you a southerner

if a cat had kittens in the oven, you wouldn't call them biscuits

11/11/2008 7:59:54 PM

born in raleigh...mother's family from nyc...father's from clevo...i prefer not to claim to be a southerner

11/11/2008 8:01:44 PM

Depends on your definition of 'grew up'.

I moved to NC the summer after my 4th grade year. I didn't leave until I graduated from NCSU.

11/11/2008 8:04:31 PM

lived in NC all my 27 years but don't count myself as southern nor grown up...

11/11/2008 8:09:53 PM

Quote :

"just because you were born in the south does not make you a southerner if a cat had kittens in the oven, you wouldn't call them biscuits"

SEE this is what i was talking about. these kind of definitions.

11/11/2008 8:19:31 PM