Guidelines for the South

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » July 20, 2004 3:32 pm

RhumChum wrote:Been here, done it and have the t-shirt . . .

Southern is a state of mind, just like being a parrothead. And I'm glad I'm one! It sure make visiting up north fun. We give them a reason to be nice!

Psst Linda you're a Texan.

kurt · Post by **kurt** » July 20, 2004 3:35 pm

rednekkPH wrote:Don't forget the "Happy Birthday Uncle Daddy" section in the greeting card aisle at the Piggly Wiggly

Back in Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, NC, a friend of mine dated this girl... one night I was asked to come over for a BBQ and one of the family members said, "I'm going up to the Pig". We don't have Piggly Wiggly's in Maryland.

...Until it was explained to me, I didn't know what the hell she meant.

Buffett4ever · Post by **Buffett4ever** » July 20, 2004 3:38 pm

The first thing that stuck in my mind when I visited the South... Yes I am from the Nawth... was the grocery stores I saw every where by the name Winn Dixie. Can someone from the south clear that one up for me? I at that point knew the war was still not over down there. Winn Dixie??? I realize this will probably set some people on ends but it just blew me away when I saw this as a teenager.

OK... now my fireproof suit is in place and ready. Fire away.

mrmiata · Post by **mrmiata** » July 20, 2004 3:46 pm

Why? The South is Dixie. Are Brits blown away that some states still refer to themselves as "New England?"

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » July 20, 2004 3:59 pm

mrmiata wrote:I-95 goes both ways...

I love it! Reminds me of a bumber sticker I saw between Savannah and Hilton Head. "Teach a Yankee to drive then point them north."

CUparrot · Post by **CUparrot** » July 20, 2004 4:04 pm

kurt wrote:Back in Marine Corps at Camp Lejeune, NC, a friend of mine dated this girl... one night I was asked to come over for a BBQ and one of the family members said, "I'm going up to the Pig". We don't have Piggly Wiggly's in Maryland.

...Until it was explained to me, I didn't know what the hell she meant.

JB knows about "the Pig." He was wearing a Piggly Wiggly shirt in his concert in Columbia, SC last year.

Buffett4ever wrote:The first thing that stuck in my mind when I visited the South... Yes I am from the Nawth... was the grocery stores I saw every where by the name Winn Dixie. Can someone from the south clear that one up for me? I at that point knew the war was still not over down there. Winn Dixie??? I realize this will probably set some people on ends but it just blew me away when I saw this as a teenager.

OK... now my fireproof suit is in place and ready. Fire away.

From the Winn-Dixie web site--the grocery chain started out as Winn and Lovett, named for the two owners. They acquired Dixie Home Stores, and changed the name--thus, Winn-Dixie. Has nothing to do with the war being over....it's just the name of a store.

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » July 20, 2004 4:05 pm

CUparrot wrote: From the Winn-Dixie web site--the grocery chain started out as Winn and Lovett, named for the two owners. They acquired Dixie Home Stores, and changed the name--thus, Winn-Dixie. Has nothing to do with the war being over....it's just the name of a store.

What's the history of the Dixie Home Stores name?

rednekkPH · Post by **rednekkPH** » July 20, 2004 4:07 pm

PHBeerman wrote:What's the history of the Dixie Home Stores name?

It was named after Daisy Duke's Jeep.

CUparrot · Post by **CUparrot** » July 20, 2004 4:09 pm

PHBeerman wrote:What's the history of the Dixie Home Stores name?

Don't know about that one. Didn't take the time to Google it.

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » July 20, 2004 4:10 pm

mexcooker12 wrote:Being a proud Yankee it seems that whenever I have visted the south (Tennessee, Florida, New Orleans) it seems that people dont appreciate my prescence, the whole "The South will Rise Again" attitude seems prominent. Are you all (ya'll) still bitter about losing the Civil War because it almost seems like that to me. And what state still has the confederate flag on its state flag? Whats up with that?

No, we just hate Yankees.

As for the Civil War, read Rule #5 on the first page.

Also, keep in mind that there are many "Confederate Flags". I am assuming you are referring to the Army of Northern Virginia Battle Flag which later became the battle flag for many of the Confederate states. Many true Southerners prefer the Bonnie Blue (original flag of secession) or the Stars and Bars (First National Flag)

Buffett4ever · Post by **Buffett4ever** » July 20, 2004 4:11 pm

Thanks for clearing it up. Nice to know the history.

Buffett4ever wrote:The first thing that stuck in my mind when I visited the South... Yes I am from the Nawth... was the grocery stores I saw every where by the name Winn Dixie. Can someone from the south clear that one up for me? I at that point knew the war was still not over down there. Winn Dixie??? I realize this will probably set some people on ends but it just blew me away when I saw this as a teenager.

OK... now my fireproof suit is in place and ready. Fire away.

From the Winn-Dixie web site--the grocery chain started out as Winn and Lovett, named for the two owners. They acquired Dixie Home Stores, and changed the name--thus, Winn-Dixie. Has nothing to do with the war being over....it's just the name of a store.[/quote]

land_shark3 · Post by **land_shark3** » July 20, 2004 4:14 pm

Four Play wrote:"And on the 8th day, God made Sweet Tea..."

Cravin Melon ~ Sweet Tea

mexcooker12 · Post by **mexcooker12** » July 20, 2004 4:16 pm

Norther War of Aggression? So if it was up to you would we be two separate country's right now, becuase the way things were heading that would have been the result without the "Northern War of Aggression"

Coconuts · Post by **Coconuts** » July 20, 2004 4:35 pm

mexcooker12 wrote:Norther War of Aggression? So if it was up to you would we be two separate country's right now, becuase the way things were heading that would have been the result without the "Northern War of Aggression"

Would that really be such a bad thing?

mrmiata · Post by **mrmiata** » July 20, 2004 4:38 pm

mexcooker12 wrote:Norther War of Aggression? So if it was up to you would we be two separate country's right now, becuase the way things were heading that would have been the result without the "Northern War of Aggression"

You say that as if it were a bad thing... FWIW, they *were* two separate countries until the north decided to force the South back into the fold through aggression.

Mr Play · Post by **Mr Play** » July 20, 2004 4:44 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
Four Play wrote:"And on the 8th day, God made Sweet Tea..."
Cravin Melon ~ Sweet Tea

That's it! Now there's a band I haven't heard from in a while. I think I've still got an old CD of theirs somewhere. I think I'll pull it out for the drive east tomorrow.

Desdamona · Post by **Desdamona** » July 20, 2004 4:45 pm

land_shark3 wrote:
Cubbie Bear wrote:land_shark.....

I have not gotten past #1 on your rules. If, in fact you are to so boldly scold someone as to having "slept through history class" please do attempt to have your facts straight.

The Mason Dixon Line is the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland and then heading south it is the border between Maryland and Deleware. Commissioned by King Charles 1 in the mid 1700's after he gave what is now Maryland to the first Lord Baltimore, George Calvert. Surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon were sent to end a land dispute that arose from this gift. At no point in time has either the Mississippi River or the Ohio River been a part of the Mason-Dixon line.

btw, I did not sleep through history class
Thank the folks at About.com for this one:
Over fifty years later, the boundary between the two states came into the spotlight with the Missouri Compromise of 1820. The Compromise established a boundary between the slave states of the south and the free states of the north (however its separation of Maryland and Delaware is a bit confusing since Delaware was a slave state that stayed in the Union). This boundary became referred to as the Mason-Dixon line because it began in the east along the Mason-Dixon line and headed westward to the Ohio River and along the Ohio to its mouth at the Mississippi River and then west along 36° 30' North.

All well and good, I suppose. But I wonder if Mr. Buffett is aware that he is
not a southerner, being as the area of the Gulf that included Pascagoula
and Mobile was not part of the U.S. until the War of 1812.

land_shark3 wrote: 1.)...Typically, your state was also part of the US territory in the 18th Century.
(Sorry FL, but you are not part of the South as you weren't purchased
from Spain until 1819.)

Yes, folks! Florida ran all the way to the Mississippi!

PHBeerman · Post by **PHBeerman** » July 20, 2004 4:48 pm

Desdamona wrote:
Yes, folks! Florida ran all the way to the Mississippi!

And Texas had mountains.

Prthd119 · Post by **Prthd119** » July 20, 2004 5:01 pm

Ok....
Let me be real careful here..My mother was a History Professor at the College of Charleston and to the day she died was proud to be from the state that seceded FIRST...

....So, that is how I grew up....

She told me she did not know Damn and Yankee were two seperate words until she was 25..(Hmmmm , must have been my Daddy, from Long Island)

I love the South. Everything about it..good and bad. I love the authors, the accents (yes, there are different ones! Mom frequently lapsed in to Gullah)...the stories...the tea..the grits..the perfect BBQ..(and y'all? BBQ involves pork and sauce..NOT cooking burgers on the grill..That is "cookin out"...)

It means so many things...Yes, knowing where the Piggly Wiggly is..
No white shoes before Easter, or after Labor Day...

Never , ever, never put sugar or syrup on your grits....

It means having a strong sense of family and obligation..and learning to live up to it..(This can be difficult at times...as Dixie Carter so succintly put it..."In the South we don't ask if there are crazy people in your family; we ask what side are they on!!!")

It means wrap around porches with swings and a jogglin board...

It means Wisteria, Crepe Myrtle, Magnolia Trees, honeysuckle, Confederate Jasmine ....

It means always saying M'am or Yes Sir....
It means cooking and taking food to your neighbors house when someone dies, or is sick..even if you don't like them. You just do it. Oh, and be sure to put your name on the bottom of the dish so they know who to write a Thank You note to!..

It is the smell of the marsh at lowtide in South Carolina..The best thing in life!

It is simply who I am , and what defined me...It is all I have ever known..I do not make fun of anyone from up north, or anyone of other ethnic origins or religion, etc......It is who THEY are..and what makes life interesting!

Before I get it for this..I also had a house on a small island in Maine for 22 yrs...I went there every summer, and fell in love with the people and the towns..and they eventually opened up to me...I sometimes think it is a Coastal thing I have going on...I was born in the Peninsula of Charleston..Lived on A1A for 3 yrs as a small child..then back to Charleston for many years....and live on a small island that A1A wraps around now...

Pat Conroy said it best in "Prince of Tides".."My heart is a lowcountry heart..."

Thanks....

longlinergirl · Post by **longlinergirl** » July 20, 2004 7:14 pm

mexcooker12 wrote:Being a proud Yankee it seems that whenever I have visted the south (Tennessee, Florida, New Orleans) it seems that people dont appreciate my prescence, the whole "The South will Rise Again" attitude seems prominent. Are you all (ya'll) still bitter about losing the Civil War because it almost seems like that to me. And what state still has the confederate flag on its state flag? Whats up with that?

I believe this will be twice today I have called you an idiot

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