What is Southern Culture?

[SlowwHand]

Originally posted by Oerdin


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?

Yeah, i was wondering some things in regard to that myself.

[chequita guevara]

I like monster truck rallies.

[MosesPresley]

YEEHAW! Big trucks slamming into one another!

I forgot the greatest culinary gift to the world: corndogs

[JohnT]

Coca-Cola, GWTW, MLK.

[The Mad Monk]

Che's got family in Chicago, IIRC.

[DuncanK]

I think that Southern cultural identity has developed so because they have been at odds politically with the rest of America since the revolution. Cultural unity encourages regional identity. Regional identity encourages people within the culture to conform to the beliefs of the majority or the beliefs or the elite.

I could, and very well maybe, completely wrong here, as I have not studied this at all. It's just an idea.

[Imran Siddiqui]

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

Really? So when law school career services recommend that women where skirts instead of pantsuits in order not to offend those lawyers that are the more 'traditional' that indicates to you that the South gives the same rights to women as the North?

[Richelieu]

Originally posted by MosesPresley




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

edit: rock and roll

I was serious.

SRV is one of my favorite musicians. Mint julep is delicious and refreshing. "Yall" characterizes the southern attitude, the laid back style etc... and i like that also.

The list isn't exhaustive and i'm not saying these three things are the best about southern culture. But i like these better than, say, the Bible belt.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by aaglo

Am I the only one that'd love a woman with a career?

If you live by the standards of 'Southern Culture', the answer is Yes.

Ha! In my experience the southern family is more likely to be a two or even three job family than its northern counterpart!

[Dr Strangelove]

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

Who needs more? That's the problem with you Yankees, you're soooooo greedy!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

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

Really? So when law school career services recommend that women where skirts instead of pantsuits in order not to offend those lawyers that are the more 'traditional' that indicates to you that the South gives the same rights to women as the North?

Dah-da-DAH!

Honestly, Imran, only someone with no perspective can take fashion advice and turn it into the biggest case of discrimination in the history of the Republic.

And you forgot to spell it "womyn"... which is an improvement over a few months ago. WTG!! You're making progress!

[JohnT]

Btw, my wife doesn't have a career*. Oppression just runs in my genes, I guess.

*You see, raising a child is EASY. It takes NO effort at all, and to even imply that what she does is honorable or needed is to cast aspersions on all good working women everywhere.

[Dinner]

Originally posted by JohnT
Btw, my wife doesn't have a career*. Oppression just runs in my genes, I guess.

Really? My Levis have never oppressed me.

[JohnT]

Ouch. My ears are ringing, dammit. That one HURT!

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Oerdin


Really? My Levis have never oppressed me.

Hmmm. Given the size of the frontal package, my Levi's are always o' pressin' on me!