What is Southern Culture?

[Imran Siddiqui]

I'll tell you... wonderful food!

The best BBQ you'll ever eat, and lord, they've been hiding Sweet Tea from us Northerners! It's almost unfair that they've been hording that sweet ambrosia .

I also find Southerners generally more polite. However, the more *ahem* 'traditional' types have problems with women in positions of authority.

[Capt Dizle]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
I'll tell you... wonderful food!

The best BBQ you'll ever eat, and lord, they've been hiding Sweet Tea from us Northerners! It's almost unfair that they've been hording that sweet ambrosia .

I also find Southerners generally more polite. However, the more *ahem* 'traditional' types have problems with women in positions of authority.

[Capt Dizle]

I beg to disagree. We have always been pleased to allow our women to assume the top position and express their passions forcefully.

We just don't consider it polite to arm wanton women with dildos. Northern men may tend to enjoy having their femine side exploited thusly, or so the rumor goes, but in the South we do hold a more the traditional view on that subject.

[Winston]

[Ozz]

Double and Triple first names

Peggy Sue
Bubba Bo bob etc.

Zahamm!

[MosesPresley]

Southern culture is a way of life. Honor, family, love of country, southern heritage, genuine hospitality and southern cooking. At least that what it was when I was living in Tennessee, Florida, and Texas.

Yankees like point to the hillbillies and laugh in an effort to feel superior, all the while conveniently forgetting their own backwards relatives and latent racism. I like to say that Southerns may be hicks, but Yankees are a bunch of Icks.

[MrFun]

Jimmytrick -- I read that book twice, and found it good reading.

Racism was not exclusive to Southern states.

[chequita guevara]

Alright, the main difference I've noiced down here is the politeness, a genuine set of manners on folks. Women aren't necessarily more feminine, but they say hunny, sugar, sweetheart (and various diminutives of those), etc. Makes a Northern man right crazy.

As for food, well, it's not much different from MidWestern food, 'cept fer grits, homeny, okra, and greens. Best BBQ in the country comes from Southern Illinois (according to national BBQ cook-offs), which despite being the Southern part of the state is still technically part of the North (though you wouldn't know it by bein' there).

A sense of tradition? What the hell does that mean? Do you mean there are Southern traditions (aside from the obvious stereotypes) or rather that Southerners do things a certain way just cuz that's the way things have always been done.

I suspect the latter, cuz there's a definate weight of history down here. It's as oppressive as an August night. There's a mythological history, and there's a history of terrorism, and the former only barely covers the latter. This definately seperates them from the rest of Americans, who are always looking forward, not back. Southerners are kinda old world in this sense.

I want an answer more tangible than that. What is it that makes Southerners so proud of themselves? Why do they think of themselves as a distinct group at all? The rest of the nation doesn't. It's like there's America and the South, and sometimes you're with us and sometimes you aren't.

It's gotta be more than an accent and deep fried ham hocks, more than cotton and lynchings, more than the evil "lost cause."

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: What is Southern Culture?

Originally posted by chegitz guevara
Heck, just what the hell is "Southern Culture?"

Thrush.

[SlowwHand]

[Dinner]

Things definitely change more slowly there; it's a much more Anglo-Saxon society if you know what I mean. There have been fewer recent immigraints and fewer outside influences so the whole places has a much more WASP feel to it.

[Richelieu]

Stevie Ray Vaughn, the mint julep, "Yall".

All valuable contributions to civilization.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT
He lives in Florida, Dino. Jacksonville, even.

Che: If you live in Florida what were you doing in Chicago for New Years? Did you fly all the way to Illinois just to go to Ming's party?

[MosesPresley]

Originally posted by Richelieu
Stevie Ray Vaughn, the mint julep, "Yall".

All valuable contributions to civilization.

You forgot William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Tom Robbins, T. C. Boyle, John Kennedy Toole, Delta Blues, Jazz, Elvis.

edit: rock and roll

[JohnT]

And YOU forgot Monster Truck Rallies and the 1996 Olympics!