Southern Living
A summary of Southern attitudes- Paula, feel free to add to this.
*We complain when it drops below 60 that it's freezing out.
*When it snows half an inch, schools shut down, the state shuts down, and you can't find milk and bread to save your life.
*It was the War of Northern Aggression. Really.
*When you learn about your state in the eighth grade, they tell you about how some people ate dirt and dress up like mamas and offer you clay for breakfast. At least my teacher did.
*You are never going to get a Democratic presidential candidate to win the state. It just ain't happening.
*There are tons of little towns called Denmark and Cameron and Clover that you have to go 30 miles off the interstate to find.
*College campuses are just about the only place you are going to find liberals- loud ones, anyway.
*We still have blue laws.
*We get boycotted because people don't like our flags.
*Sweet tea is the drink of choice. Real sweet tea.
*If you're a Yankee, we may love you, but you will never hear the end of it.
Look beyond what you see...
posted by Nettie @ 3/17/2005 12:01:00 AM
6 Comments:
Well...from a Yank to a Southerner: thanks for the history lessons and the warnings. and hey: thanks for the CONGRATS: it means a lot.
Nettie,
You asked if you could put a link to my site on yours.....that would be AWESOME! Thanks so much! Being a true southerner myself (Paula's my sis-in-law...*grin*), I wholeheartedly agree with you there! We should also probably explain that there are some southern words and phrases that you will never see in any dictionary.... like "fixin' to" and "doo what?" :)
Oh the shame of being a yankee!
As for the snow shutting your state down, in California all it takes is some rain to bring everything to a halt.
Kalifornia schools call it the Civil War and think you Southrons should be thankful the North won.
If Kalifornia teaches about the state, it's always about the time period before the territory was part of the US. Evil Spanish missions and poor downtrodden native americans.
In Kalifornia liberals are a dime a dozen. If I could only find the guy who's given the dimes and give him the whuppin he deserves!
We have "blue" laws of sorts. You can't smoke anywhere. I actually don't like smoking myself, but Kalifornia is obsessed with it. And the state loves tobacco taxes.
If you want your ice tea sweetened, that's what the packets of sugar on the table are for.
And the liberals don't like Southerners. Isn't tolerance grand?
Excellent additions, all of y'all! I think I feel a sequel coming on...
In Canada we throw on a toque and walk through a blizzard to get a slurpee, but of course that is why Winnipeg is the Slupee capital of the world. If you don't have a toque, a bunny hug will do just fine.
There is nothing quite like a side of bacon and a big slurpee, eh, hoser?
I'm a bit confused, but it''s always good to get your perspective.
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