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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Freeman][quote=Anonymous]I guess I am a Southerner?? Texan here, and when referring to the geographic area, I prefer to say Texan vs South or Southerner, etc.[/quote]

Yep, Texan is definitely different from Southern. Of course, I grew up in south Alabama, and we didn't think those idiots in north Alabama really qualified as Southerners either. And don't even get me started on Florida...  :D [/quote]

Tennessee here- Just have to say, Amen on Florida![/quote]

Geography according to a Southerner:

Florida doesn't count. It's an annex of the North.
Texas doesn't count either. It counts more than Florida, but really, it's just its own entity and should be treated as such. Texas is basically just its own distinct region.
Virginia as the south is pushing it; NoVa does NOT count. I'd say Richmond is as high north as you can get and still be considered "South." 
Rednecks live in such places as Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, and Mississippi. In Louisiana, you have swamp trash. In Tennessee and Kentucky and North Carolina, you have hillbillies. They're all very distinct groups, so please get your pejoratives correct when you use them! 
Missouri is the Midwest, not the South, do not make us laugh. Same with Indiana. I don't care if that shit borders Kentucky; Kentucky barely gets a pass itself. If you are from Indiana, you are a Midwesterner. [/quote]

I mostly agree with this.  As a Texan, I would say that Texas is its own region, but folks from East Texas identify as Southern, and those from West Texas as southwestern.  I think its because most of the east Texans are descended from people who migrated there from Alabama and Mississippi, and other Southern states, so they are more "culturally" Southern.

I don't know what Kentucky is, but it is NOT the South.  The Florida panhandle is Southern.  Agree about Richmond being the Northern limit in Virginia, but there are a few old families in Alexandria who are still holding on.  When I was a kid, my family was visiting this area, and we saw a sign that said something along the lines of "the greatest xxx in the South" and everyone in my family thought it was hysterically funny.  [/quote]

Kentucky is a border state. It is the South; it's just not the deep South. Same thing with Missouri, Delaware and Maryland. They were slave states that did not secede.   I count the border states as "Southern" because they were slave states at the time of the Civil War.  These states are south of the Mason-Dixon line. There are regional differences, but they are Southern states. [/quote]

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