Ranking the Most Southern States
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2024
- Remember, this is just one man's opinion. But also remember that man is almost always right.
Ranking the most Southern states from LEAST Southern to the MOST Southern. Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Virginia make the list! Kentucky and Tennessee are put on notice. Texas remains it's own thing. North and South Carolina stay heated about BBQ. South Florida could care less about this video. Louisiana is probably too busy with Mardi Gras to care. Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia battle for the top spot. 
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Saw you in the Southwest gate area in Orlando airport on the 15th (MLK Day) - didn't want to cause a scene but was tempted to go get a selfie with you 😆
you know boiled okra is just fine with some field peas and white unsweet corn bread...
thanks for doing the panhandle justice, 850strong
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West Virginia is more southern than Alabama and Mississippi combined. I said what I said.
The reason why Georgia was ranked so low, Atlanta, was spot on. I'm not mad cause I agree.
We sure as hell don't claim Atlanta-ANYONE want it???
@@rocker555555 as someone who lives in Atlanta, that's fine. We largely don't consider ourselves part of the south nor do we want others to.
@@rocker555555Atlanta doesn't claim Atlanta😂🤣
Sherman can keep it
And more and more- Savannah. It's becoming yankee also.
This invasion is worse than the first one. Bac k then they may have burned, killed, and destroyed everything, but they at least had the decency to go back home after they stole all they could carry away
“It’s just New Jersey with alligators”is the most Florida thing I’ve ever heard
🤣
As an Alabamian with a Jersey boyfriend whose sister lives in FL... yeah. He laughed hard.
you must be a yankee
Even the smell is similar .
As a south Floridian who used to live in New Jersey… yeah pretty much.
As an Alabamian, I can confirm my grandmother put sweet tea in my baby bottle
Yes this really happened
We got Coke in our baby bottles. Graduated to sweet tea at about 5.
I had a few friends growing up in the 80’s that had silver capped teeth, I was told it was from Mountain Dew in their bottles when they were babies, still not sure if that was 100% true or not, but never really questioned it either. Oneonta, Alabama
@@dolphinbear661coke and sweet tea will forever be my 2 favorite drinks
@@dolphinbear661 can confirm. I drank Pepsi in mine. I have a crippling cola/caffeine addiction now.
i got coke at 5 months old... and sweet tea around the same time
As an Oklahomie i am very glad to be apart of the list Thank you!
Oklahomie cracked me up. Not going to lie, I like that better than Okie. I was cheering that we weren't last. 😂
Na okie all the way. Oklahoman is ridiculous and oklahomie isn’t the worst but okie is southern as hell.
@@clv2015 I'll admit that Okie will always be what we call ourselves, but I really did enjoy laughing at Oklahomie.
A part
@@charlottecunningham2141 1) this is the internet not a scientific paper where grammar matters. 2) down here that’s what we say so they spelt it how they say it kinda like worsh or ool.
Everywhere you go there will always be words said differently
As a West Virginian, we are left out of every division. The South thinks we’re Northern, the North thinks we’re Southern, the East thinks we’re the Midwest, and the Midwest ignores us 🤷🏼♀️
You’re almost Heaven, though.
😂 exactly the same with Missouri! The North thinks we’re southern and the south thinks we’re northern. we are definitely in the Midwest though. We’re like a huge mixture of everything. Oh and I ABSOLUTELY love West Virginia,I have family there, my grandma was born and raised in Iaeger. My fiancé, and I are honeymooning there this year and I hope to one day own some property out there ❤ this midwesterner is definitely not ignoring you❤
@@Itsabeautifulday3201 We will welcome you!
@@Itsabeautifulday3201The southern half of Missouri might as well be the South, because that is what it is, culturally, for all intensive purposes. Northern Missouri is not southern at all, however.
@@willp.8120 oh yes definitely 😁 we had the battle of pilot knob. Great little museum to go too if you’re ever in the area.
*Sees Georgia at #4*
Matt - "Atlanta"
Me - "Understandable. Have a nice day"
It's hard to argue with that lol
28 reasons against, 3 reasons for.
Why is Atlanta not "southern"?
@@waltonsmith7210 lots of transplants from around the country so there's a lot of non country accents and culture in the metro Atlanta area. Lots of sprawl and growth too where historically rural towns are sprawling with new neighborhoods and stores.
@@waltonsmith7210it’s too diverse
Finally a list that Louisiana and Mississippi can top.
You mean a list that Louisiana and Mississippi would want to top. They could certainly top other lists like obesity, poverty, and homicide.
@@GrantGraffyou ain’t gotta call us out like that
@@GrantGraffCalifornia has horrific poverty stats. I would also add one major city can skew stats. I don't want to know what the city of Memphis does to my wonderful state of Tennessee's stats. I'm sure Gary doesn't help Indiana's stats and poor Illinois has to deal with Chicago.
@@sneakyquick they both suck and one has a corrupt economy while one is a cheap cheap state basically a third world country lmfao
We're still havin' fun, and we're still Number 1! Except for Bama gettin all the good sunshine!
When he said, "Missouri" I was like, "Ooo! We're on the list?!" And then he said the next line and i lost it 🤣😂💀
Kansas City and St. Louis are not southern at all, but Ozark culture is damn near the Deep South in the right places.
Okay yeah whatever 😂 I was born in the Deep South of rural Georgia and I’ll say that Missouri as a whole isn’t southern at all unless sure the border between Arkansas and Missouri but even most of Missouri called soda or cola pop instead of coke as us southerners do. And south central like Oklahoma and Texas is a mix of southern, midwestern, and just the desert west like El Paso is under the state of New Mexico which imo is the coolest part of Texas but that’s not what I am saying. I am saying that most of Missouri as whole isn’t southern and Texas, oklahoma, Virginia/West Virginia, Kentucky are mixed with midwestern, northeastern, and mostly southern influences. American states have a strong mix of culture and tradition mostly in south central and upland south. And if i would definitely say that the Deep South (South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana) are infact a lot more southern compared to Texas or Oklahoma or even Kentucky or the Virginia’s. Tennessee and North Carolina are also southern too which are in the middle between deep and upland south so you can call it mid south but they also kind of have Midwestern influences. Imo I think when he said Alabama is the most southern state I was not surprised. But to me the Deep South is mostly the actual real south if you think much more about it. Also my favorite state of the south has to be Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Florida, and others like Kentucky and Virginia.
@@MysticMoth_277 Hence my surprise that Missouri was on the list lol
I was surprised we made the list too lol. I’m outside of KC and there’s nothing “southern” around here. My family lives in the southern half of the state and are total hillbillies.
Never understood how Missouri, West Virginia, and Maryland only get "half-cred" for their Southern-ness, yet Kentucky has always been full on Southern. How's that work?
As a Alabamian, for perspective I had a friend call me and tell me this morning “he seen a a car hit a buck on the way to work”. Then proceeds to ask me to take his saw from his house and go cut the head off it or at least the antlers. I went to go do it half way through my cup of coffee and a guy was already loading it up in the back of his truck with other vehicles trying to do the same. I mean technically the entire neighborhood came out of the wood works to claim roadkill including myself, and I came to the realization that I fit the stereotypes.
In Virginia a friend's wife totaled her SUV hitting a huge buck. My friend went out at first light retrieving the head to have it mounted in honor of his wife. Of course this was South of Lynchburg.
I'm not going to argue about the rankings, fair is fair. But in North Carolina I've seen a few headless roadkill deer.
Sounds like a typical south western Pa thing to me 😂
I saw the same thing happen in NY state north of Woodstock once.
Years ago my mom had a deer hit her little Geo Metro car. It pretty much jumped on the hood trying to cross the highway. Everyone asked if we got the venison. But no, the dumb thing actually got up and ran off!
“Their inferior BBQ and chili.”
As a Texan, you just done crossed the line.
Clearly he's never been to Lockhart
I’m beginning to think he’s never had a true Texan barbecue. Shall we revoke his Buc-ee’s rights?
Edit: it has come to my attention that we should also take his Dr.Pepper and Blue Bell ice cream from him.
Ngl those felt like fightin words to me😬
@@CullenRTerry *yes* Make fun of BBQ and we’ll take away the B’s.
Taking back Buccees and Dr. Pepper.
Born and bred in the heart of Mississippi! You are spot on Brother. Moonshine and church revivals every weekend. Keep up the amazing work brother.
Remember Sundays in the 80's when Mississippians 'would drive across the River to Bogalusa, Louisiana to stock up on booze on account of those Blue Laws? The parking lot at the liquor/convenience store might as well of been tailgating before the game. Fun times! Ya'll come on back and let us know how ya' Momma and Em doing!
Mississippi finally gets a good rank. 🎉🎉 I love being a Mississippian. Proof those who do the ranking don’t come to the small towns or communities that is where everyone knows everyone and they help each other out. That is what makes Mississippi such a great place to live.
Like how Matt has never been to North Carolina.
@@ronaldpippen8164Y’all have the Research Triangle
@@chillmemes5865 We don't (I'm from the coastal plains region) and that doesn't mean anything. We don't do snow either.
Mississippi is in the top 3 poorest states in the US…yeah, sign me up to live there. Ungodly humidity, unemployment, mosquitoes the size of dragonflies lol. Oh and the home of the low life Brent Farve. I’ll gladly stay north of the Mason Dixon.
I think it's the phrasing of "or the devil will get you!" that really puts that sign into "So Southern You're Surprised It's Not Trying To Give You Biscuits" territory.
North Carolinian here: we've got a 300-foot-tall cross made of aluminum siding in the middle of town! Beat THAT!
And the winner 🏆🥇 of the comment section is this dude with the biscuit analogy. 🎉😂
I live about 5 miles from that sign. It sits only a hundred yards away from another sign that says "America - Love it or Leave It".
@@charlieschuder9976bama got one of of those too
@@charlieschuder9976 one of those in gardendale😭straight off the side of the interstate its only 125 feet tho
As a Texan I was surprised by the barbecue and chili comments. Bless your heart. 😉
As a not a Texan but fairly well traveled - Texas Chili Parlor and Franklins would challenge Matt's claim.
I was just surprised Texas was even in the rankings because y’all ain’t a southern state🤷♂️
@@BoostedYoteBless your heart
We show up to the club as a courtesy
Most Texans are.
As a GA resident that was raised on Melvin’s BBQ (SC), I am now obligated to subscribe to your channel due to your support of the Bessinger family’s gift to this world.
You know, i was born and raised in NY, but 100% of my grandparents are southerners who moved to NY. Im talking Virginia, Mississippi, and the Carolinas. I was watched by my grandparents as a little girl, so i have a NY accent with random southern drawls thrown in lol. Majority of my extended family still live in the south. Just found your channel, and it feels like a family lol
Alabama girl and we have a local sign that advertises RABBITS FOR SALE: Meat or Pets!
I live in MIchigan and I've seen that
@@sallyhamilton7202 That is so funny! My BA was in Anthropology so things like that fascinate me! There really are hillbillies everywhere! I have always thought that Michigan would be a great place to live if I had to move North and this proves me right....I would fit in, lol! Everyone I have met from there have been great and the geographical beauty cannot be denied!
That's dark lol. Here in NC our humor's a bit different. There's a sign I saw many times driving between Aberdeen & Laurinburg that said: Buy a cock and pullet
And? can you buy a raccoon in the hood for the pot?
@@sallyhamilton7202it was showcased in Roger and Me
You cut me deep with the BBQ and Chili comment Matt. Gonna be hard to recover from such betrayal. 😀
Lived in Texas for over a year-- I loved both! the BBQ is different yes but it's still delicious! And when I make chili I do Texas version, it's spicer and has no beans!
@@theComputerVoice the bbq isn’t different in Texas. Everyone else’s bbq just taste different than Texan bbq.
Plus, didn't chili originate from the Mexico-Texas border?
As someone who spent 2wks every summer with her Texan grandparents, I came to say "I love you Matt but don't you mess with Texas BBQ! My granny will rise from her grave & find you, & you best pray they didn't actually bury with her .45." do luv u Matt, but my granny was feisty, so watch out, I'd be scared of her - I *was* scared of LOL! 😂
@@lindseychilds9474 Yes. Yes it did. Although there's a school of thought that says it originated on cattle drives to feed the drovers the cows that couldn't make the trip.
We live in Pensacola and see that billboard every time we head up I65. Love it! We've seen it a million times and STILL text pictures of it to everyone we know every time we drive by.
Bullcrud on that snow part ( North Carolinian here ) I have had to fight tooth and nail for a bottle of tea before when the weather man said it was going to be an inch of snow, and we didn’t even get any snow
Yea he was probably focusing too much on the mountains, near the coast, it shuts down everything
@@Luke_Skvwalker I remember in High school we had a snow day because another town in our county had snow. We got nothing. Eastern NC and snow does not mix.
He was probably talking about Western NC (Asheville, Boone) I live in Asheville and its snowed quite alot here.
@@ChristianCutler-bj6ww From Hendersonville, Asheville bless her heart is our least and most southern part
@@limatree4018 Yea, Asheville at this moment is more San Fransisco than Southern at this point.
Georgia native here. At first I thought #4 was insulting. Then you brought up the absolute nightmare that the rest of us Georgians hate. #4 is fair
I was in Atlanta to watch Ole Miss win the Peach Bowl. Had the best steak I've ever eaten, but the BBQ is sorely lacking. I feel for you brother!
I agree completely. We don't claim Atlanta. The I-285 loop is like a quarantine zone the rest of the state knows to stay away from. Ill stay in Northwest Georgia at least an hour away form Atlanta thank you very much.
All of us Georgian's are in agreement about Atlanta. But we do have the Dawgs & the Braves!!! We also used to have an NFL team called the "Falcons"... but they vanished a few years ago & haven't been seen since!!
@@kdouglasleeWe have incredible BBQ... You were just not in the right place to find it!!
Speak for yourself…love Atlanta. Georgia (and Atlanta) is the heart of the South. Georgia has everything Alabama has and much more.
“New Jersey with alligators” has got to be the best description of south Florida ever made. 😂
As someone lives in Florida and not from the US
He correct about Florida
The funny thing about northeasterns who always vote democrat is when they moved to Florida half become Republicans. However when Californians move to Texas they stay Democrat
Yeah idk what florida is
Northern is southern
Central is retirement home
Those attorney ads have invaded Tennessee like a bunch of Mississippi deer with CWD.
Thank you sir for putting my lovely state of Tennessee on the list as well as my home state of Kentucky. I was raised in Kentucky. But moved to Tennessee several years ago. I know. I KNOW!! IM A TRAITOR!!!! But I love it here. I truly do.
Kentucky and Tennessee are the same states. They share a lot of common ancestry as well. You basically moved to KY.
Grew up a hr north of Nashville on the ky side. Tenn and ky are pretty much one great state. Love them both
As a Texan, I was a little shocked at the hate on the BBQ (I love it, no bad BBQ here!), but my entire family is from Alabama and you're dead right about the "GO TO CHURCH OR ELSE" billboards, that's as southern as it gets...
our BBQ is great
I'm from Texas and now live in Kansas City.
Mmmmmhmmmmmmmmmmm.......
Memphis person here so maybe I'm biased but some Texas BBQ is DRY.
@@Icanthearyou202 North TX, for sure. Austin into San Antonio, I've never had bad BBQ the farther south I go...
yeah i feel like texas is as southern as it gets i personally think we should take there bucees from them until they learn
You insulted our BBQ and our chili we are taking our Buc-ee's back
As a Texan I did feel attacked about the BBQ comment.
I mean Texas BBQ isn't "bad", just inferior and insufferably self-important. Brisket is ok if there's nothing better around. Learn to cook pork, besides those sausages. ; )
@@rangefinderz5135Man, they're like Kansas City. It's all ketchup based "BBQ sauce".
@@rangefinderz5135 BBQ is a cooking method. Good brisket and/or pork shouldn't need sauce.
BURNT ENDS!@@holleyz713
Coming from someone who is from Mobile,AL and lives in Pensacola,FL.... He is not lying 😂😂
That sign go to church are the devil will get you is in Chilton County Alabama 😊. And thank you for the number one spot Roll tide Roll 👍
You go ahead and enjoy that Number 1. We already in the truck coming over to steal Big Al. Moo hoo ho ha ha!
Actually congrats!
As a Pensacola native I can confirm that that is the most accurate description of the panhandle that has ever been described
I'm just here to say I appreciate that he understands Pensacola. At least old Pensacola. ♥️😉
@@Liddlegreenbees yeah, in the past year or two it's changed quite a lot with all the new people moving here from up north. But for the most part, he gets it
My niece from Virginia who now lives in Pensacola was called a "snowbird" by some locals, but she declared that it's definitely not the South! She's homesick for Virginia and friendly folks and country cooking. I told her to hang in there.
@@MeadeSkeltonMusic I'm so sorry your niece is having such a a hard time. It's difficult trying to integrate. Much of Pensacola is either a city area or urban area. To get the more suburban or country parts of it you need to be further north. Luckily I live right outside of Pensacola in the Milton/Pace area which is much more actual country
@@mopar1969ful she still thinks it's a beautiful area. The weather is nice too
As a native Arkansan born and raised, you hit the nail on the head, also dont forget about our sign in Benton on I-30, that reads " WARNING!!! PREPARE TO MEET GOD!"
They've got one of those in Van Buren AR as well lol
@@gossamyr0 I didn't know that, I'll keep a look out next time I'm driving through there.
That’s been there forever
@@501huntinandfishng4You're right, I'm 38 and it's been there for as long as I can remember.
I live a few miles from there@@gossamyr0
Being a Mississippian I was going to argue about our No 2 ranking....until I saw that billboard in Alabama. We can't beat that.
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hey man im happy being number 2 on the list! and on the gas station food, you left one thing out, the free trip to the bathroom after you eat the biscuits! ( trust me, its worse than taco bell) but the food is amazing!
As a Tennessean, I'm surprised we breached the top 3 with the impact Nashville's having on the state.
Sadly Nashville is turning into Atlanta...
And Memphis.
I will gladly hand Memphis over to Mississippi. Nashville still has some southern left in it. The Moon Shine comment is absolutely accurate. Moon Shine is not legal, what you are drinking is just whisky.
@@toddseales8222Memphis has the best barbecue in the US and you cannot change my mind.
@@toddseales8222 Memphis is clearly more southern than Nashville, what are you talking about?
As a Georgian, I agree with your ranking and reasoning
Georgia for this Yankee was my only entry into the south. Lived in Warner-Robins, Bonaire and Atlanta proper working at Emory University (which is run by Coke, didja know?!) The whole experience was very enlightening for a young twenty something. Other pals were doing Europe but they could have saved a ton by living in the south a spell... whole different ballgame. and very educational. Oh, and as a polite guest I'd like to add, 'the South will rise again,' you're welcome. peace out Tay
@@dawnreneegmail You worked at Emory’s main campus cause if so it might legally say Atlanta, GA but I used to live like 5 minutes from there and it ain’t really Atlanta, I will always consider that like right between Decatur and Druid Hills. So I would not consider Emory truly Atlanta Proper, you live there you bout find yourself living in Decatur which is the exact opposite of the South
I got so happy when he mentioned Pensacola because I live right outside there
Florida Panhandle is really East Mobile
North Carolina delegate response: Bless your heart. 😊
As a born and raised North Carolina guy, I think NC should be ranked higher because to this day everyone freaks out even by the mention of snow. Every grocery store is emptied of milk and bread. Great ranking though, love it Matt!
I’m in NC as well, my family is one of the few that don’t freak out. My momma and daddy taught us to cook on a wood stove when we were little. Now we did always get milk, but that was to make biscuits and pancakes. If we got bread it was to eat any lunch meat before it went bad.
I agree
Yeah, but NC and TN are still nothing like GA/MS/AL/SC in that regard. Tennesseans aren't good at driving in snow, but even we couldn't help but chuckle at Atlanta's reaction to 2" of snow. People don't abandon their cars on the Interstate for 2 inches of snow in Tennessee. (But we definitely do still shut most stuff down when we have 6+". As was the case last week when a large percentage of the state had 6-10" on the ground for a week straight.)
The last time I was in North Carolina, people were happy about snow, but that happens a lot in Boone.
I think the Asheville, Brevard, Boone triangle removed y’all from the freakout. I took skiing as a PE class there. That’s kind of next level.
Louisiana is basically the Jurassic Park of the South! 🐍 🐊 🌀 .. ⛈️ 💨 🥵
🤣😂🤣😅 Pretty much!
Ughh Oh
Florida Man: I'll take your Alligator and Nutria Rat and raise you a Saltwater Crocodile and a Python! I'll also throw in a few Iguanas for good measure.
Florida says otherwise. Since it has gators, crocodiles, snakes, invasive iguanas, and invasive pythons.
Louisiana has black bears
And How. But those Cajuns, they are lovely!!!
Man, that take was something else… the Mississippi folks are gonna take you off the Christmas card list for this one man 😂
Naw, we’ll just send him some cards saying “Bless your heart” and “We’ll be praying for ya!” 😭😭😭
@@richardgoranski LMAOOO
“New Jersey with Alligators”…earned my subscription after I got up from the floor and wiped the tears from my eyes. One small point… the Panhandle of Florida really goes all the way to lake pontchartrain.😏
I'm impressed he recognized Houma, LA. I tell people I live an hour south of New Orleans and they think I live in the Gulf of Mexico
Same here
They think you're from Fourchon or Port Eads??
Same
Houma, the most dangerous place to be a professional wrestler.
I know Houma. I had people near Houma before Katrina and I love me some Tab Benoit.
I live in Tennessee and we don’t call the store bought moonshine real moonshine.
I don’t think anyone in Tennessee drinks that stuff, we just make it and ship it to the rest of the states!😂😂😂
they sell that shitin Canada i grew up in Knoxville can confirm no one drinks it except tourists
Tennessean men are usually whiskey guys, coming from a Nashville native
Facts
The people from out of state buy it and fall for the scam. It's just shitty vodka, basically. Real moonshine tastes like moldy bread smells and burns like drinking lava and is made by cousin david out in the woods. The store-bought stuff just tastes like flavored grain alcohol. I hate moonshine but I know the difference. As a Kentuckian, bourbon is the go-to but I don't drink much.
I'm from Missouri. I'm happy we're on the list!
Sorry Louisiana food is better, we made Hank and Elvis famous - Louisiana Hayride.. plus we can cuss you out in 3 or 4 languages.. bless your heart Bama
"plus we can cuss you out in 3 or 4 languages.."
That's not southern unless all of it is in English, lol.
bless your heart, loserisiana
The Palmetto tree is the symbol of SC resilience against the British! They were used to build Fort Moultrie in less than 5 weeks, which was instrumental in protecting Charleston from the British Navy during the revolutionary war. The walls of the fort were so strong that rumor has it that they ricocheted the canon balls back towards the British ships.
Charleston only fell at the end of the war due to a land invasion bc they couldn’t take it by sea thanks to the Palmetto tree.
I'm 62 and thought I knew a lot about American history. But I didn't know that, shows you never stop learning. I'm really glad you shared that. I'm anxious to see if my grandchildren know this
Also why they don't got no more. used them all to build the fort. Now our pastime is telling Ohio to stop putting their stuff on our state flag.
They should just be happy we let everyone else borrow the yellow rattlesnake and leave us be. (Christopher Gadsden from SC)
SC was also where the War Between the States started. Pretty damn southern
That's really interesting. Thanks for sharing.
That bbq and chili statement for Texas is fighting words 😉
Yeah we were thinkin" that. He has to let go of Buckees or apologize profusely 😅
Texans don't expect an apology for truth talking. Y'all just stick to steaks and Tex-Mex let the real guys do up BBQ. @@tapestry6455
Bless Matt’s heart.
@@tapestry6455 Real Texans don't expect an apology over truth speak.
@lorireed8046 Black's, Smittys, Krotz....all better then the garbage in Alabama
As a South Carolinian, I'm just happy we made the top 5. Also, I agree about the palmetto stickers, but we also gotta call out squatted trucks and jeeps with salt life stickers
The palmetto trees are a reference to their use when the british attacked a fort made of palmetto logs in 1776
@ev.evy908 True . Jasper County S.C. is named for Sergeant Jasper of the S.C. militia who boldly hung up the SC flag when it was shot down by cannonballs from British warships . Sergeant Jasper lost his life in Georgia fighting the British army .
Met so many wonderful, kind people while stationed in Columbus Georgia. I still say “fixin to.” All the best to everyone. Be kind. Always.
Matt saying TX BBQ and chili is inferior is like being stabbed in the heart and back at the same time
They can keep their one meat bbq. I’ll take every meat smoked under the sun here in Texas over their one horse show any day!
And the mouth
Texas BBQ is good. Hell, really any BBQ is good. If I can get chicken, ribs and brisket, there isn't much to complain about.
As someone who was raised right outside of Houma, LA. I didn’t realize people couldn’t understand us until I got out of the state. It takes a Cajun a while to get out of the state because it is a long boat ride or you need a street legal car
Haha my family is from Opelousas and New Iberia and you should have seen the look on my wife's face the first time she met my maw maw and paw paw and my uncle's. She was like are they even speaking English??? Then my maw maw answered the phone to talk to her sister and started speaking Cajun French and she was like WHAT...THE...F....🤣
I didn't have an issue understanding the Southern Louisiana accent when I lived there for 4 years.
Depends on what part of south Louisiana your in some people have heavier accents than others
My family is from Evangeline Parish (we moved to a different area of the state since then), and my mom confuses me with her sayings sometimes. I love our state.
I used to work 3rd shift at QVC answering phones for orders back before everything was automated, which is based in PA if you didn't know. I had so much trouble understanding the accent that it would literally take 45 minutes to an hour to complete a simple order. It didn't help that some of them didn't know the difference between area codes and zip codes
Thank you for including Oklahoma! We are a melting pot of Midwest and Southern, and mix in some Western influences too. But there’s a LOT of southern traditions here that deserve recognition and I’m grateful u see it.
Haha let's go, roll tide!! Those were some deep cut billboard jokes, love it
as someone born and raised in east tennessee, you are 100% accurate. i’ve come across well over 20-30 moonshiner hideouts in the middle of nowhere while hiking.
My dad was from Missouri and he had some legendary revenu-er stories.
Not sure how East you are but yeah. That extra pocket money, no bar code stuff is everywhere in those hollers. We lived right on the state line and so many families have someone in the penitentiary. Damn revenuers.
Thats how it is, always gotta have something to drank 😂
Yep. All you gotta do is leave em alone if you find em. Same thing for those "special buckets" with those plants in them. If you find them, it's somebody's personal stash, just leave it be and nobody cares.
It's so unusual hearing someone say something nice about Mississippi that I very nearly cried. Thanks for being nice to my home. We always get ranked worst but here we are number 2. No, wait, you didn't mean it like THAT did you? 🤨
Till you go to the tag office and your vehicle tag cost you $1,200 unless it's 25 years old and you pay a one-time fee for a life plate.
@@jamesm568 I don't think that's entirely accurate because my car tag renewal is due this month and it is only $35. Admittedly my car is 17 years old but, still, even on a new car, my fees have never been what you mention.
If your vehicle is in the $30,000 range it's automatically $1,200.
@@jamesm568 Wow! I'm glad my car is worthless.
@@zzydny I know when I brought my new vehicle in for a tag they wanted to see the actual sticker price .
Alabama isn't as southern as some like to think, due to the NASA program Alabama's largest city, Huntsville, is full of transplants from other regions of the country and other parts of the world. Also Mobile, Alabama has considerable French influence and that's because it was once a part of the French Empire.
This is hilarious. First Maryland was cut from the south. Then Virginia and Kentucky. Then Arkansas, next came North Carolina. Now Alabama actually isn't that southern. Lol, no wonder no one knows where the south is. It's nowhere but this one trailer in Mississippi to some.
@@threefiveseven North Carolina isn't cut out of anything.
I’ve been all over the South and Alabama is by far the most Southern minus Huntsville and Huntsville is the biggest in terms of the population in the city limits but is still way way behind the Ham in terms of metro area.
@@martinsimracing1255 Well how is Alabama the most southern?
Omg that sign is awesome! Haha
Real moonshine doesn't come with a bar code, unless it's associated with a criminal record.
LOL !!! TN was just looking for a way to sell their moonshine and charge top price! $25-32 for a manson jar worth? LOL
@@lorireed8046 Meh, they had to add water to it to make it nice and legal. ; )
@@taylorlibby7642 Lots of sugar LOL 🤣
@@lorireed8046 it was just a way to make whiskey cheaper, for bourbon to be bourbon, it is legally required to age in a new oak barrel for 2 year minimum, "moonshine" can be bottled the same day it was made, no storage cost and convincing yuppies they're getting real authentic southern moonshine 🤣great marketing if you ask me
@@lukeandliz TRUE
1:34 Pensacola is basically Alabama with lottery tickets. Spot on Matt!
I'm like he's not wrong. Also Georgia (I live in Georgia that's fair considering I live in Metro Atlanta).
North is where the best BBQ and soul food is though, south has better Carribean food
Missouri is not South. I don't know why people keep saying we're south.
because the Missouri Compromise of 1820 redrew the Mason-Dixon line. From STL and KC north, that's not the south. Below that, very much is. We have accents, eat southern food, identify with southern culture, fly the rebel flag and hate the north. You must be a city dweller that copes way too hard over this.
Agree with the the bottom comment from St. Louis to kc north ain’t the south. They very much messed up when they made the Missouri state line. It should have the northern border as the Missouri River not its western border.
He said what about Texas BBQ and chili. Aww Bless his lil heart.!!!
That go to church sign has outlived multiple generations and tornados. Its a staple of the state at this point
I love church in the South.
If the tornado missed the town, it's cuz everybody prayed so hard.
If the tornado went right through downtown, God's angry at you sinners.
Time for revival! American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God!
I’m from Mississippi and honestly, I 100% agree with your assessment! I am seriously proud that my home state made second place because we DESERVE IT! Not first, Alabama gets that fair and square, but second is significant. I actually live in Louisiana and yeah, it is the most unique state in the union. Like, I almost think of it as its own COUNTRY. Whenever we go back to Mississippi, it feels like we’re back in the US of A. Anyway, thank you so much for giving my homeland the recognition and respect it deserves. God bless y’all! ❤
Howdy, l am from coastal Mississippi. 😂
Howdy! From Mississippi and Southeastern part and more East to Alabama.
Howdy 🤠 from Texas but from Columbus Mississippi amen 😉
@@XDgamer-lk8nf we are all Southern family. Thanks for replying and commenting
@@ScottRandolph-dd7dr 😉
We are happy to be on the list!
As a New England yankee born & raise I gotta admit. Nothing puts us northerners "off our game" harder than southern hospitality. I live in Massachusetts, a state where a middle finger out your car window counts as a "good morning greeting."
Now I realize y'all are talking trash about me the minute I leave, but the fact that you don't say it to my face just makes me wonder if you really do care 😂
Ok, well, I'll go back to packing my carpet in a bag. I've got family down south to visit! ❤
As a proud Kentucky native and longtime Pensacola resident I applaud your list, especially having driven I-65 in Alabama many times and seeing that "Devil will get you" billboard.
Matt, we would literally smoke every other southern state in a BBQ Brisket competition. And yes we are Texas first, South second, but never yankee.
i do agree
You kinda clarified why texas is not bbq without even knowing it. When a southerner wants bbq, we mean pork. Pork butt and ribs. When we want brisket, we say brisket. Entirely different.
That's cool and I know your brisket is delicious, but BBQ is pork.
And American third I’m guessing?
@@BradanKlauer-mn4mpYes, actually. I've genuinely heard some Texans say that.
As a Mississippi native I accept.. and living in Alabama. You damn right
As a South Carolinian, we don't put those palmetto stickers on by choice. They just show up and we are too scared of taking them off since the once who do move to West Virginia.
Born and bred in Missouri. Depending on where you live, parts of Missouri are definitely Southern. Anything North of I-44 is considered Midwestern. That includes St. Louis, Columbia, LOTO, Kansas City, Hannibal. Anything South of I-44 but WEST of US 63 is considered “Hillbilly”. That includes Springfield, Branson, Lebanon, Mountain Grove. Anything that is South of I-44 but EAST of US 63 is considered “Southern”. Now, within that area, you have another area that is even more “Southern”, and that is from Sikeston south through the boot heel. That area has almost an “Deep South” or “antebellum” feel, much like Mississippi and Alabama.
From far Western KY….which is west of KY and Barkley Lakes….i agree with this 100000%. The boot heel also makes a case for being Southern just for Lamberts and Boomland. I’ve said for many many years that if you combined the boot heel, the same latitude line for southern Illinois and Southern Indiana you gave for Missouri, and us in western KY…you could make another southern state. These areas are just different from the rest of their home states….and that difference is just being southern.
You are truly a proud Missourian, and after having gone to school there, I don't know why, but God bless you.
I think you have to include KC BBQ as southern and I would draw the line on 44 going SW from Rolla. There are a few counties north of Joplin/I44 that would fall into a southern feel too but above I70 is clearly Midwest
How to tell if someone's from Missouri? Ask Then how to pronounce half our towns and cities.😂💯 And as a proud Ozauken. hillbilly. I'm glad we made it on that list.
@@minnieviola7304 As a KC native I would say we're much more midwestern than southern.
Matt you have never been to NC in winter and it shows. The MOUNTAINS may be okay, but the entire rest of the state goes insane. That famous photo of massive pileup with a car on fire in the snow is from Raleigh!
Seriously. We got ranked #8 based on a completely false premise. Not to mention, we have some of the best barbecue in the south! NC deserves a much higher position.
This is 100% spot on. It doesn’t snow as much now it seems as when I was in school, but there were times when they called off school because they thought it was going to snow. There were times school administrators were wrong and we basically got the day off because it was cold lol
@@travisreifke4356yeah but it’s not nearly as southern as it used to be. Still better than our fellow “southern” state Virginia but still not as southern as our fellow Carolina in South Carolina and I’m living and my family has lived in North Carolina for generations. At least since before the civil war. Before that I don’t know.
@@mintz9782 Speaking as a native of the Carolinas, I disagree. But, even if SC is more southern than us in very few ways, NC should still be ranked higher than #8. We are definitely more Southern than Arkansas!
I agree about the snow on the coast we have social collapse if it snows, but throw hurricane parties. We are however a swing state so that does bring us down on the list.
Georgia should be #1 honestly
Except I really can't argue the Atlanta part
Yeah, Georgia is very southern it has a lot of antebellum architecture and a rich musical heritage.
Matt you forgot the greatest gift from Arkansas to Alabama "Bear Bryant". 🏈📽
I had no problem with this list until you disrespected our Texas BBQ and chili...thems fighting words. Not only will we take back Buc-ee's, but also Blue Bell and Dr Pepper!
Going for the throat!!😂
And Whataburgers
Lets just take back all our oil and see how things go!
No Brother no! Not the Dr. Pepper! You take that back!
Better not touch RC or Peach Nehi or its "rough and Tumble" for everybody! Taking away Dr. Pepper ... how am I supposed to fish?
Southern BBQ/Chili Cook-off in Texarkana to settle this for good and all! Serious, call the local radio station!
As a Virginian of a certain age, I remember when NoVa was Southern. In the mid nineties, the North began their second invasion of Central Virginia. Soon, there will just be a few areas and people considered Southern. That really hurts.
Moved up to Northern Virginia coming from Texas and North Carolina. I felt like I left the South once I passed Richmond.
I can't even go to a Waffle House or Cracker Barrel.
I grew up South of Roanoke Va and have felt the division of cultures for a long time. Now I feel visiting family near DC is like going to a Borg Collective Cube straight out of Star Trek. It's very stressful and depressing to see how that side of my family has changed how they think. More materialistic and less empathy for working people. I'm always grateful to get South of Charlottesville, get a real country ham breakfast with a big spoon of grits.
Agreed. Northern Virginia isn’t the South. But I’ve been to Martinsville once or twice and if you sell $1 pink hot dogs at the track, that’s Southern enough for me (the hot dogs might be more expensive now, wouldn’t know, haven’t been since ‘19)
….they don’t have Waffle House or Cracker Barrel in NoVa? That’s weird bc they’re all over up here in Maryland 🤷🏻♀️
@@heatherr4321 They didn’t when I lived up there. The closest Cracker Barrel was on US 81 near Lynchburg. In Charlottesville we had some great private diners, one was like Waffle House, open 24 hrs. The other had the best breakfasts. Cat Head biscuits to die for. Those places are gone now along with our statues, it’s all corporate places now. ☹️ I’m thinking of moving to Alabama! I want to be back in the real South.
I got stuck at chili on spaghetti…..what kind of mess?! I didn’t believe you and had to look it up! They proud of that!
Love this video❤️ Me being from the 314 and being born in the 601 and thinking about moving to the 901
I can't even be mad that Virginia is ranked so low. The amount of northern infestation has destroyed this once fine southern territory.
Yep & Northern VA is like another planet!
@@karenlouise4822 Coastal Virginia too. Doesn't feel southern at all, feels overpopulated and dirty. Then there is the BBQ. Any other southern state has better BBQ than Virginia. Good luck even trying to find BBQ restaurants here, they do exist, but they are less plentiful than any other southern state.
Florida sucks with northerners and the evil empire mouse trap world everything that mouse touches turns to 💩
That’s what the plantation owners were saying in the 1850s 💀
@EagleCrocnot trying to be mean, but you left us. Now you're nothing but coal mines and opioid dens. And a buffer from Ohio. Also, you get too much snow.
Alabama born and now living on the west panhandle of FL, I completely agree Matt. Well done sir!
I’d argue NC should be higher. We’re the home of many southern icons such as Dale Earnhardt, Richard Petty, Billy Graham, Charlie Daniels, Luke Combs and much more.
We don't do snow either.
Love Billy Graham. Real deal, there. It isn't quite Southern without Charlie Daniels. About race cars ... down here we all go to the local tracks to see our cousin or uncle race. Yet, if we go to the VFW, NASCAR's always on. Go figure! Just how I was raised, I understand up to South Carolina as Deep South, where North Carolina on up is "Atlantic" South. Regardless, your claim would be a lot stronger if UNC or Duke was in the SEC. ACC just doesn't scream "Yeeeeee Haw!" like the SEC. Yet Luke is the only legitimate country I've heard in recent years, so you get my vote to bump North Carolina up on the pecking order!
Spot on about Florida. Born and raised in Pensacola. We're definitely about as Alabama as you can get. I tell folks all the time, I'm so far west in Florida I might as well be Bama. xD
As someone who lives in Florida but not in the panhandle, whenever I go meet up with my family in the panhandle it is SO southern. People have the accents and cowboy hats, and even sometimes some crazy weather! So yes, the panhandle is the most southern part of florida
Completely agree…. As a lifelong Mississippi girl, your ranking of Alabama is spot on. The closer you get to Louisiana the more Cajun you get…. Louisiana is its own individual country.
Some have LA a "Banana Republic." :D
I knew I was gonna be disappointed and Matt, you didn't fail! NC is 8th!! I'll give ya that your negative points are valid (come universities! Why can't you get in the SEC?) But Arkansas beat us? Till this is rectified youre not welcomed in NC Matt!
@@prestonrichards3474Boudana Republic FIFY😂
Texas here. I beg to differ re: Louisiana.
Matt, your reasoning for down-ranking Georgia a couple slots was irrefutable. Aside from that, we could give Alabama and Mississippi a challenge for the top spot. I like Mississippi's new flag with the magnolia blossom, but Alabama DID give us white sauce.
Go Dawgs!
Georgia is more southern than Alabama with or without Atlanta.
When you called Texas barbecue inferior I recoiled hard, but I laughed real good when you admitted you shouldn't have said it
Born in NC, raised in Alabama, stationed in GA, MS, OK, family in TX, VA, and have extended time in all of the other southern states. I think you were pretty spot-on, although Ala and MS could be interchangeable (1 and 1A).
I grew up on the Miss/Alabama border (a bit East of Meridian) and in that area it's literally called the twin states. There is very much a reason for that as the only real change over the state line was which University rivalry will tear apart a family if you dare marry the wrong fan.
@@mwater_moon2865 Drove through there recently, from SE Bama. It's quite the same.
It’s really hard to pin point where Virginia gets “southern”. I mainly say it starts at Ashland down or hell Richmond va where I live. I mean it was the confederate capital back then
Honestly, how "southern" a state is can often also be answered by how many Revolutionary War or War of 1812 battlefields it has. The more numerous or famous they are, usually they're more "southern" in ranking. Louisiana and Virginia have big claims with New Orleans and Yorktown respectively, while Alabama basically hatched out of a cannonball, since the Creek Campaign among other stuff literally led to the state's creation in the 1810s.
Pensacola resident here! Thanks for pointing out how we're basically lower Alabama, and DEFINITELY Southern. 💛
It would be really funny if they just decided to draw a straight line from the Alabama/ Georgia border south to the Gulf and made Alabama a square
@@MrByars 🤣😂
@@MrByars When Florida was bought from Spain in 1821, the area west of the Apalachicola River was offered to Alabama for annexation. With the typical foresight the Alabama legislature, then and to this day, has been noted for, the legislature declared they didn't want to fool with this "swampland". (Also, Mobile, Alabama's largest city at the time, didn't want the almost as large community of Pensacola as a potential political rival.)
Ok Texans I recommend we pay a visit to this gentleman and explain exactly why we are #1 in everything on Tuesday around 7:30. Should I bring sweet tea for 84 million or 85 million?
GA got snubbed
Jokes about Atlanta aside, Georgia is as Southern as the rest of us. As far as I'm concerned, you us brother! Beautiful country when driving through up to Virginia and Maryland. Fine people, and what they can do with a biscuit and gravy ... would make a pussycat slap a bulldog it's so good!
Loved this video as always, but there was that comment about Texas BBQ. Soooo bless your heart Matt
Ouch! That's a bit harsh! 😂
But the chili part was ok, right?
I'd be interested to see Matt draw his line on a Virginia map denoting the South. Personally, as someone from Central Virginia, I would use what I call the "sweet tea line" and that is the line which once you cross, most restaurants stop making sweet tea. So far, I've determined Culpeper and Richmond fall below that line, but Fredericksburg is north of it.
Edit: Some of y'all have never been to Augusta or Rockingham Counties, and it shows.
I think the line should put UVA in the North and VT in the South. Just to make it clear
Same, I've heard any and everything North of Fredericksburg is it's own State 😂
Fredericksburg is kinda the dividing line. Much different once you get south of it.
Charlottesville -- definitely North.
As a former Virginian, now in Tennessee, I propose that the James River be the dividing line. Sorry Mechanicsville, but growing up in Chester, I still remember "South of the James, by invitation only."
Northern Florida born here. Nice vid
As a Louisianan I am appalled that you consider South Carolina more southern than us!!! 😭😭😭😭😭
What got me was when he put Alabama at #1. Now that's a low blow
@@AlphaXCalibur that's true, cousin kissing is not southern values!!!
@@christianraber4760 I WILL however give him credit for saying that no state in the country is more unique than us.
Right!?!
There is no south as we know it without South Carolina. And South Carolina to a certain extent to a lesser or greater degree has everythang Louisiana has. Y’all have creole/cajun culture we have the Gullah/Geechie culture on our coast.
Y’all have New Orleans a major port city
We have Charleston, one of the first major port cities
Y’all have swamps and gators
We have plenty of swamps and gators
Y’all have y’all rednecks
We have our rednecks, per capita we have the most trailer homes in the country
At this moment The only thing I could say that y’all clearly have that seperates y’all clearly from us is the music and great artist/talent y’all have produced through yalls states history. I love yalls zydeco and the part y’all play in blues/jazz history
"Missouri. Just be happy youre on the list" got me 😂😂 the truth is i actually was super happy we were on it lol!!
same! southern missouri is amazing :)
Damn yanks
Missouri is as Follows: North of Missouri River (Might as well be Iowa), Stl & KC are just their own mess. Southwest to Arkansas (The south). The boot-heal (Very French)
@@home3363308 haha true
@@Tarantulas118 aww yess
As a Texan.... bless your heart Matt
😂
Them's fighting words Sugar!!
You said what I was thinking my fellow Texan.
one of my favorite phrases to pull outta my pocket here and there... SPOT ON!@@taylorlibby7642
I live smack dab in the middle of cullman and your statement is most definitely true. Lol
We are honored to be at the top of the list, and I agree, especially with Mississippi being right behind us though, that’s a good state.
I'm from the Florida panhandle and can confirm it is essentially indistinguishable from Alabama or Georgia.
As a resident of Louisiana I’d just like to clarify that Louisiana is actually 3 different entities mashed into one boot shaped state. Everything north of Baton Rouge is what I like to call southern Arkansas, New Orleans is its own thing, and then there is the beating heart of Louisiana which is Acadiana and it’s surrounding areas or Cajun Country for those that don’t know what Acadiana is.
Lafayette native here! Agreed on all points.
Sitting in Cajun country right now!
I'm in Arkansas. I've driven all over Louisiana. It's definitely full of interesting transitions.
My family is from Opelousas and this is 100% facts. Also, somebody tell New Orleans to quit trying to claim Boudin as "New Orleans Cuisine". You couldn't even find Boudin in New Orleans until like 10 years ago.
I agree with this. Lake Charles here.
As an Alabamian, I love seeing us at number one on the list! Also, sweet tea is on top :)