Southern Identity on Decline, Study Says

[mrmitchell]

And shotguns. Lots and lots of shotguns.

YEEHAW! *shoots into sky*

[Whaleboy]

I feel Drogues old quote is most appropriate here:

"If you get a thousand Texans in a thousand pick-up trucks with a thousand shotguns shooting at a thousand roadsigns, you will eventually get all of Shakespeares works in braille."

[Theben]

Originally posted by elijah
I feel Drogues old quote is most appropriate here:

"If you get a thousand Texans in a thousand pick-up trucks with a thousand shotguns shooting at a thousand roadsigns, you will eventually get all of Shakespeares works in braille."

[Theben]

Unfortunately, a lot of non-southern states are showing an influx of southern "culture". States like Indiana, Wyoming, Montana, etc.

[Dr Strangelove]

I'm willing to bet that the majority of Southerners today either weren't born here or were born to parents who weren't born here because IIRC the population has more than doubled since 1960, while the population of the rest of the country has grown only by 50%. Since 1970 the South has had the largest internal immigration of all the regions of the US. When you consider this then the biggest surprise is that still about 3/4 of the population considers itself Southern.

[Verto]

Beh. This is pure rubbish.

Save your Dixie cups, the South will rise again!

[mrmitchell]

me: born in arkansas

mom: born in arkansas
dad: born in ohio

So I've got my superior northern skills and my superior southern...uh...drawl

[MrFun]

So in other words, an increasing number of enlightened Southerners are finally realizing that the Civil War is over.

[Verto]

The Civil War ain't over. We simply let you guys have a breather.

[Lefty Scaevola]

I though you were a Texican, Slowwhand, not a 'southern boy'.

[SKILORD]

Yeah, it's kinda depressing. I'm not a Southerner, though I live amongst a few and am fascinated by their in(breeding)sight.

It's almost enough to make me wave a Confederate flag about myself, just to see if I can rally any spirit anymore. (My family's from Wisconsin).

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
We've decided to finally destroy the South by colonizing it.

We need to reinstitute having neighborhood parties for carpetbaggers. Someplace nice, under the shade. Formal dress so to speak, though you can skip the tails part.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
I'm willing to bet that the majority of Southerners today either weren't born here or were born to parents who weren't born here because IIRC the population has more than doubled since 1960, while the population of the rest of the country has grown only by 50%. Since 1970 the South has had the largest internal immigration of all the regions of the US. When you consider this then the biggest surprise is that still about 3/4 of the population considers itself Southern.

I wasn't born in the south (though Butternut country ain't that far away) due to economic migration. At that time, my dad was scrambling to make ends meet with a kid on the way, so he took whatever jobs he could find that would pay better.

I still spent most of my childhood in the south (though all over it), and both learned to speak and learned to catch crawdads there, but precious little of my first two years was in the south. Most of my cousins (not counting the yankee twig of my family tree - taken collectively, if their brains were powder they couldn't blow even one of their noses) that were born from 1960 on were in similar circumtances, though most of them have moved back south long ago. Up until that time, virtually everyone in my family was born more or less in the same place as their parents.

[Ramo]

To hell with Southern identity, Austinite identity is far more important. Keep Austin weird.

[Lincoln]

I am a westerner by birth and a southerner by choice. Tennessee is tops. I have lived in California, Texas, the north, east and several places in between but I think the south is best overall. I did kind of like Alpena, Michigan though.