I am from Oklahoma and i was raised with a lot of southern customs. Manners were extremely important, i drank sweet tea, ate grits, biscuits and gravy and said "ya'll", "i tell you what", and i loved chicken fried steak and white gravy. Oklahoma wasn't a state during the Civil War but was controlled by the south. We may not be deep south, but we are southerners.
As a native Oklahoman, I tend to think of everything roughly east of I-35 as "southern" and everything roughly west as "western." But there's a LOT of crossover.
How blessed are we to live in a country that’s so expansive with its many regions that have their own distinct flavor and culture. So cool. I grew up in Michigan but I LOVE visiting the South. My southerner friends always tell me I fit right in!
@@BigA1921 Good for Spain and good for India. I'm sure they are lovely countries and it would be great to visit someday. Your characterization of regional differences here in the states is a bit cynical.
Mavis Pruitt talking in exclamation points don’t make it true. The best you all do is 1/3 of cotton in America. Legalize hemp and we’ll be fine without your arrogance.
I agree and the guys annoyance towards the women in the lift is a tad annoying for me considering that I’m an Oregonian. Most of us come for close or direct British blood. Saying “ yes ma’am “ is strange to us. I think if we ever said anything like that it would be closer to “yes madam” tbh or we’re just straight to the point
@@oliviaweston2255 Well I guess that's why we're in the south and you're not 😂 It's just our culture, don't shade it:) We enjoy ourselves. *not to be rude or anything (it's the southern in me!)
You daam right I'm from Arkansas and WEEEEEE ARE PROUD BUT WE have the worst football team in America but we still stay woooooooo pig sooooooie Razorbacks
As a recovering Floridian, I will chime in and say that CENTRAL Florida, once you get away from the coast is VERY MUCH southern. I watched my first wild hog butchered in Myakka city, east of Sarasota. Basically between I-75 and I-95 from about Arcadia north is southern.
When, in 1974? Im from Loozeyanna, but lived in Sarasota for a few yrs in early 00’s. Even back then, 20yrs ago, nowhere south of Tampa felt “Southern”. Lots of yankees, stiffness, rudeness, everywhere.
There are plenty of places in Virginia that are above I-64 and Southern. A better diagram would divide Virginia with a diagonal line NE from Fredericksburg and NW from Fredericksburg. I suspect some folks on the edge of that line would like it refined further, but a line at I-64 is too much.
Ra'Chelle Banks where I live (West Virginia) it is considered the country. I am 18 and honestly still don’t know why. Many people say it is because we sell a meal called Biscuits and Gravy but I honestly don’t believe that is why it is considered the country.
@@joesanchez8297 Hi! I'm a Texan who lived in Midland for 11 years and my son was born in Odessa:) In my opinion, any town where you can sit in your yard and hear the high school band practicing, while drinking Shiner you bought at the closest beer barn...is pretty dang Southern:) Great town with some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Wild West streak but definitely Southern too.
Porch yelling served as great entertainment for me while I would mind my business hotboxing my car. Crack a window, adjust the mirrors if necessary and enjoy the show.
I guess the most fun I had as a Southerner because of being one is back in the early 90s, me and two friends took a trip to LA. Not Louisiana. We had a waitress who thought we were just so cute (sarcastically, of course). She challenged us to talk while totally losing our accent. I doubt I managed 100%, but I came closest.
@@vinhpham361 We have a saying in Vajenya. NoVA is Northern Virginia and down thru Norfolk. RoVA is the rest of Virginia, west of I-95 and south of I-64. I gave my Mama a subscription to the North Carolina magazine "Our State" for Christmas for many years. One year I added the Virginia equivalent "Virginia Living". When the VL renewal came she said "boy, don't waste your money. If it's west of Richmond or south of Charlottesville those people don't know anything about it".
At least 99.99%. I'm sure there may be some from Southern Kentucky, maybe Tennessee who head down to Florida in the winter just for some relief. But then, they are already Southern. But if you're north of let's say Bowling Green, Kentucky, you're not Southern unless you're a Southern expat.
Eddie Martinez what if ur SEC ADJACENT ( Clemson , North Carolina, North Carolina state ,wake forest ,Florida state , university of central Florida , Memphis , south Florida )
@Vintage Rose she clearly is one of the people who doesn't even know we (WV) is a state. She went from him saying WV to her saying Shenandoah valley and VA Beach. 🤦🏼♀️
Fourth generation Floridian here. I grew up in Central Florida. If you met my family, you’d hear the Southern accent right away. I grew up eating grits and drinking sweet tea. If you visit some of Florida’s southern-most towns like Okeechobee and Belle Glade, you would know right away you are in the south.
I've actually used my own test. I grew up in Oklahoma but moved to Florida for work. When I moved back, I knew I was in the right place when I could order chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and fried okra. That's my south.
@tampa ... you were in the wrong areas of Florida then. I know many places in the state where you can have a pile of grits, chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, awesome real brisket, gator nuggets, ham hock and beans (ever heard of 'em?) .. turnip greens etc. sweet tea (real sun tea) You just need to know how to get away from the yankee run and developed areas. 🐊
sounds like central Florida maybe. I've live on both coasts, Tampa and Orlando...plenty of grouper and Latin (not Mexican) food. I also had trouble finding my style of BBQ. Mustard stuff, vinegar stuff, and rub just doesn't do. When one of my friends went back to Oklahoma for a visit, he brought me back a gallon jug of Head Country BBQ sauce.
As a Missouri girl, I can say that the conflict between Midwest culture and Southern culture is a very real thing. It almost depends entirely on what town you are in, and how northern/southern the cities actually are is weirdly not a factor.
@@craig3536 It feels a bit closer to US-50 being the split after moving around the state a lot. The entire KC Metro, STL Metro, and Jeff City are midwest in my book.
@@jonahhumfleet472 Kind of. There are states where this is not a tradition at all. I have seen it by far the most in the southeast. And in some other states where I have actually driven even longer, I have not seen it a single time.
@@sunkissed_potatoe in Brazil it's common and actually taught to those who are getting their licences to CLEAR OUT literally get anywhere but the streets when an ambulance, police or firetruck is passing. People clear traffic streets some even get on the sidewalks to make sure theres no cars delaying them. Like basic education, they are EMMERGENCIES let them pass
Alaska is number one in the us for trucks so that dont make you southern and bass pro is in Canada aswell so those thing dont make you southern but yes you are a southern state
Missouri isn’t southern, only the southern line where it borders Arkansas is but not north or central Missouri. 2nd before you say I’m wrong just go look it up, Missouri maybe be rural but that happens to be most of the Midwest and mountainous west or even the northeast sometimes. His view doesn’t make sense of Missouri at all
I would say 90% of West Virginia is southern. The exception is probably the outskirts of DC, but I can't say for sure because I've never visited that part of my home state. We check all of the boxes and we know what "Bless your heart!" REALLY means!
I don't think it gets close enough to DC to really be infected. Not that many folks willing to take THAT commute. I lived in NOVA and now Shenandoah Valley. Once you get to the river you're in the clear 👌
I am a retired guy from Illinois and I transplanted myself to Georgia. I doubt I will ever be anything else to folks here but a yankee, no matter how hard I try to be southern, but that doesn't matter, everyone I have met and interacted here has treated me as welcome, I love it here. My mom who was from the south once told me, "southern folks will always take care of you, unless you cross them , then they will take care of you in a totally different way."
Your mama was right. NC native here and we will take good care of you, feed you and keep you company. We are a shoulder to cry on and sound council but bless your heart if you cross us 😂
I moved to Alabama, with my new wife, to be vlose ti her (now OUR) kids and grandkids. Lived and worked there for 9 years, and in 9 years I was still the guy from California, and nearly every day someone would say, " ain't from 'round here, are ya..." But people were friendly and would do anything for you. I loved Alabama, but ended uo in Texas, which I love just as much.
@@tomsmith5216 The south never changes, no matter the country. I moved from Auckland to Dunedin, and after ten years I was still that bloke from Auckland. I'm back north now, but do miss the cheese rolls.
When I went to Washington state in the Army I went to IHOP with a buddy from basic training that grew up in Georgia and when I was asked what I wanted to drink I said "sweet tea." That waitress looked so confused and said "I can bring you hot water and a tea bag and sugar is on the table." My friend looked at me and just said "We aren't in the south any more."
I’m so glad he said, “Texans consider themselves Texans first” haha. As a Texan I can tell you that is 100% accurate, and yes it’s in the South for sure. I mean is that even a question?
I was born and raised in Florida. I now live in Georgia. I can say with certainty that North Florida and central Florida are definitely the south. Sweet Tea, farming, grits, front porch gathering, etc. We eat southern food with all the fixins. We also have swamps and bayous and most the people in central Florida have a southern accent. :)
@@zanderhudson9058 only Parts of Florida are tropical. Florida was known for bull riding and other stuff. Travel it. It’s a weird state. You have beaches and orange groves, farms and swamp. It’s a huge state. :)
@@Mugshot214 it’s not the south it’s not the Deep South it’s just a state that people think that they from the south only south there is Jacksonville that just people from Georgia Jacksonville is literally Georgia
Idk why he put the whole state of Missouri as southern, it just doesn’t make any sense once so ever but yes only the southern border of Missouri between Arkansas and Missouri is southern but overall Missouri is a MIDWESTERN STATE NOT A SOUTHERN STATE! These other southerners (especially the ignorant southern dude in the video) are either have NOT done there research or either he just prefers being stupid. I can also say this because I was raised in the Deep South of rural Georgia which did for sure served sweet tea and grits but grits are gross any way (except for sweet tea) but anyway, the point is that Missouri as a whole is midwestern and transitional while the southern border between Missouri and Arkansas is southern. I have proven my point
The panhandle of Florida is legitimately called the "Panhandle" and "Lower Alabama". I don't know what's more Southern than naming a geographic location after kitchen ware.
@@GoDawgs18 and you are correct i live in Alabama and i always consider Tennessee as the deep south and the list of what's the south is correct and what is considered deep south is also correct
That's a list I can definitely get behind as a Texan. There's no doubt that we are part of the South... but we are just as much a part of the Southwest... while also sort of being our own separate thing.
Thanks for including Missouri! I'll tell you what, the southern 1/3, south of Rolla, is partly Southern (more so the further S you go), but especially the southern 1/5 with the Ozarks is part of the South! I grew up in the SE Missouri Ozarks & Ozark Foothills, and there is sweet tea, grits, mostly trucks (with gun racks), southern manners, "yes ma'am" & "no sir" & "please" & "thank you" & "ya'll", the 2 finger wave, greeting everybody, holding the door open, everything fried or covered in gravy or butter or cheese or made into a casserole or BBQ, beans & greens & cornbread, okra & tomatoes & onions, meat in the beans & veggies, dessert after every meal, southern superstitions like black-eyed peas & greens on New Years, a deep southern accent, Ozark hollers, fields of cotton, cypress swamps, hillbillies (I'm descended from a long line), Confederate flags, & the list goes on...my husband grew up in Northern Missouri (Macon) & we now live in Mid-MO (north of Jefferson City) & they are definitely Midwestern! At the state health dept, the tobacco prevention program manager went to the Midwestern states meeting and didn't fit in, but went to the Southern states meeting & was like these are our people, because the programs had way more in common with the same problems etc. Lol! We are still considered part of Tobacco Nation. Oh & I can relate to your Oregon experience - I lived there several years & found it strange they don't really say "yes/no sir or ma'am"!
While I was at the Texas State Fair in Dallas one year, we went out to eat and in the steakhouse there was a live band from Louisiana playing. They had a basket by the stage for you to write down a request and toss it in. Eventually they went to pull for the next request later on and the look on the lead singer’s face was hilarious when he read it. He shook his head, showed it to the band, said “Man, I love Texas” and started playing “If you’re gonna play in Texas, ya gotta have a fiddle in the band”….and they didn’t have a fiddle…lol Got quite the laugh out of the restaurant…lol
@@tylermcgruder1074 west Virginia became a state literally by separating from Virginia to stay in the Union, Kentucky and Missouri joined, but never got a star so I'd still count em
@@IdiotBoxProductionsTV they succeeded simply because Virginia was Confederate, not a big deal. East Tennessee wanted to as well but they were landlocked.
@@drowningclown1027I’m from Oklahoma and lived in Louisiana and my dads side of the family was some of the first Cajuns to settle in Louisiana. Both states are fantastic.
Born in Minneapolis, MN in the early 80’s…raised in Georgia. Thank God. My parents in 5 years had Alabama on the CD player, even the Christmas album 1986. 🎉
I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as soon as possible. Been here 41 years can’t hep but say yes sir and yes ma’am. Of course being in the military male officers addressed as sir madam if female made it easier for me to fall into the phrases.
@@chasealbrecht7091 you got a point there but some people were taught at a young age to address people as "ma'am" or "sir" its just a thing that's sorta habitual I guess.
I'm from Indiana and people tell me all the time that I have a little bit of a southern accent. I believe it's because I'm from a former industrial town that had to bus up people from Kentucky to fill the jobs when there wasn't enough locals so my town was more southern really than northern. lol Love my sweet tea and pickup truck. Try finding someone here that doesn't listen to country music. I love southern people. I've spent a lot of time down south and they're the best.
My present wife is from a small town in southern Illinois which sits on the Indiana state line. She has a very strong southern accent, almost that of someone from the hills of eastern Kentucky.
Technically, if a person from up above the Mason Dixon Line comes down south and turns around and goes back home they're considered a "Yankee". if they stay they're a "Damn Yankee".
Bill Clinton's campain mgr. said in a TV interview, ---Missouri is strange, on the east you have St. Louis, on the west you have Kansas City, and everything inbetween is Mississippi.
@@SF_BarbieThe PNW is just not the friendliest part of the world. It's almost refreshing how much I can generalize about those people because by and large they are VERY standoffish.
As a Texan, Texas has a couple different branches. You got the Midwest in the panhandle area, west Texas is more western than southern, south Texas is more Mexico than anything, East Texas is southern, and the Austin area is California
I was going to say this!! Lol I live in south Texas and honestly we never really did all the southern stuff they talk about. We do more Mexican stuff than southern stuff lol
After driving through the northeast corner of Texas, I am convinced one of the major reasons people keep moving there is they were trying to get someplace else but once they got into Texas, they couldn't find any borders, so they just stayed. It took me three days to cross a tiny little corner of Texas on my move to Georgia. I was convinced that I had just moved to Texas because I would never be able to get out of that state. I am afraid to take the 10 back across Texas for fear I will never find the exit in my lifetime.
I was raised in Georgia and lived a most of my life there and Matt is spot on about Atlanta. And anywhere down the middle of the state of Florida and in all of it's panhandle is considered southern. The coastal cities and areas are mostly populated with Northerners. The panhandle is called the Redneck Riviera for a reason, that being more people from the south go there for vacation.
I'm digging how they are even breaking our southern accents up now. I'm in the west Georgia/northeast Alabama circle that speaks coastal southern. (Despite not having a coast) I really love it
I'm originally from Jacksonville Florida, and it for sure is very Southern. I say Y'all call everyone Sir, or Mam, and am a Florida Gator football fan!
If not for South Carolina there would be no questions asked about who is or not Southern . You were the first state joined by twelve other states to proudly proclaim that you are Southern .
@@alanjones3874 It may be unfair to say, but is South Carolina the birth of southern culture? Before adding in the westward states, the culture was only previous in our state, which until the civil war, was the richest in the south, and most prestigious, and we were the powerhouse of the South
Its pretty cool....good for nashville they are maybe a model the rest of the deep south can model to get bigger and have pro sports! Eh atlanta but they dont care much. But not enough industry economy tv market etc to even warrant pro sports.....nashville is cool
Oklahoman here. I say yes ma'am and yes sir to my students. It's just the way I was raised. You don't have to be older than me to be respected by me. I help anyone I see who is in need (even strangers). I was raised with manners and say please and thank you. I would give anyone my last penny if they asked for it. My family came from the SE part of Oklahoma, (what we call the mountain people even though we don't have mountains, just really big hills. Lol) manners and helping your fellow man are absolutes with us.
As someone from Enid Oklahoma everything southern carriers over here. We are southern damnit we are surrounded by southern states and we have the same culture and mannerisms.
As a born and raised Floridian, I can tell you that North Florida and the entire interior of the state is pure southern. As with any state the cities are less country, but you can go into any restaurant in Orlando or Tampa and order sweet tea and not ruffle any feathers. The interior of the state is nothing but farms, mines and pickup trucks.
1/2 of Florida - yep. Said for years that if you're below Orlando (the East coast) you're driven too far south to be in the South. Drive north to get to the South again.
Dazzlings Wrong! Heartland Florida were I am from is south of Orlando and is very Southern. There is nothing but farms and cows here! A lot of people here still have Southern accents, unlike our neighbors in Tampa and Orlando. We love eating our grits and drinking our sweet tea! We are very religious people who praise the Lord everyday. Come down to rural Hardee, DeSoto, Highlands, and Okeechobee Counties to see what I am saying. We in Wauchula, Arcadia, Avon Park, Sebring, Okeechobee are very proud of our Southern culture. Our ancestors, including mine, are early pioneers of this state and have lived here before Florida even become a State. We in Heartland Florida are more similar to those in North Florida than our neighbors are.
Dazzlings I still disagree with you. Have you ever been to Wauchula or Arcadia??? Wauchula and Arcadia are very Southern. There is nothing but farms, cows, and orange groves here. Almost everyone in Hardee and DeSoto County has a Southern accent. We in Wauchula and Arcadia are mad at people overlooking us. We are as Southern as people in North Florida are! People keep overlooking us because we are very rural and small. Like I said again my ancestors were early pioneers of this state and lived here before statehood.
Dazzlings Since you haven't replied to my 2nd Comment, I believe you have no clue where Wauchula and Arcadia are. That doesn't surprise me, because we always get overlooked for being small and rural. :( We are like an enclave. We are very Southern, but people always forget us due to the surrounding counties. Yes, Tampa and Orlando are full of those Liberal Yankees, I wished would move out, but Heartland Florida is the exception. Most of Central and Southern Florida are full of Yankees and isn't southern, except for the inland Heartland Florida counties that are Southern. Most of the residents of Hardee and DeSoto have pioneer ancestors that lived here for a long time, some even before statehood, including myself. The most famous of these families are the Carltons, Albrittons, and Durrances. In case if you don't know where Hardee and DeSoto Counties are, maybe this can help you: Hardee County- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardee_County,_Florida DeSoto County- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_County,_Florida Florida Heartland- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Heartland
1. Do 50% of adult females drive a Nissan Altima with a pink monogram on the rear window? 2. Do 60% of adults drive 15-20 mph under the speed limit in the left lane? 3. Does the rear of the Chick-fil-A drive thru line wrap around the building until it comes within one car length of the car being served? 4. Are there more than seven fried chicken restaurants, excluding KFC. 5. Do people use triple negative phrases such as "Ain't never not been to church!" 6. Do people show radical support for football teams associated with universities that they never even considered attending? 7. Does one enhance his or her social standing by driving a jacked up pickup truck worth no more than $4000 and missing a functional exhaust? 8. Do people refer to every store as if it were a possessive? "We couldn't find a thang at Walmart's!" 9. On Sunday morning at church do you see the same neighbors you last saw at the beer cave on Friday night? I could go on...
Having lived in Texas for the last 25 years I can say Matt is right - Texans consider themselves Texans first - that sentiment is widespread across the state. after that, the state is made up of several different cultures which dominate only in a part of the state. The Southern culture dominates in Eastern Texas - known as the Piney woods - but as you move further west, you'll find spots of Southern culture peppered around but is significantly diluted by the other cultures that make up Texas. Callie's map reflects this.
I'd agree growing up West of Fort Worth, we like our sweet tea, and we do say ma'am but there is alot of southwestern influnces aswell. I love my BBQ, sweet tea, and manners, but I also love guns, taco's, and breakfast burritos, Matter of fact honestly you could keep the grits, ill stick to eggs covered in salsa wrapped inside a nice tortilla anyway, but eat it while sipping on sweet tea.
I have always considered myself a Texan even though I was born in Oklahoma. My parents moved to Texas when I was 5 years old (I am now 63) and I was raised and schooled entirely in Texas. Most Texans will claim to be part of the South due to the mere fact we were part of the Confederacy and the last battle of the Civil War was fought in Texas (after Lee had surrendered) , The Battle of Palmito Ranch, in which the Union LOST! But it is true the further west you travel in Texas the less Southern it gets. Grits is not a big thing in west Texas but you will see Confederate flags displayed even in west Texas! Being part of Mexico at one time, you are just as likely to see the flag of Mexico around in parts of the state too! To most Texans, Six Flags is not just an amusement park, it's our history! Texas has been claimed or been a part of Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States of America and the Confederate States of America! Fun Fact: Texas became a state by treaty and is allowed by that treaty to fly the Texas flag at the same height as the US flag.
Yea I agree as someone who has lived in El Paso and the Dallas area. North and East Texas are part of the South. But South and West Texas (like El Paso, Lubbock, San Antonio) are definitely part of the Southwest. Its a very different feel and mostly desert.
@@gregplatt197 And here's another fun fact: Texas can split into 5 separate states if it wants to without any congressional approval or oversight. That stipulation was part of the agreement for joining the U.S.
I would still say Southernness pervades in speech and attitudes, except maybe in some Mexican border regions where very strong SW Mehicano identities overwrite it.
The bulk of my family is from Missouri. It really is split. Above the River it is Midwest, below definitely South. I will say that the Midwest also has manners and say 'hi' to everyone. It's the cities no matter where you are that folks look at you funny if you say 'hey' to someone you don't know.
Florida is NOT Caribbean I should know I LIVE IN JAMAICA. And I often go to Florida. You obviously have never been to the Caribbean. Florida is in a whole boat by its self NOTHING like the Caribbean. Plus America is not 3rd world. And all Carribean Islands are.
Miami is not the south I live in Miami and it feels more like a crossover between la and Havana. It’s not uncommon in Miami to go to a restaurant and a person automatically speaks Spanish assuming you do to.
I’m from Kansas and have lived in North Carolina for almost 10 years and I am basically completely Southern. Sweet tea is probably my favourite drink, I wave to strangers a lot and I sometimes speak with a Southern accent.
Kansas is in the south, So you were southern before you got to Carolina. Being from Kansas you should be familiar with Lebanon, KS which is the geographic center of the contiguous United States. (Lat. 39°50' Long. −98°35')
@@moonshinerphd9523 I’ve always wondered if the southeast corner or any other part of Kansas is culturally southern, but I’m pretty sure few people think of Kansas as the South, and more like the Midwest or the plains states.
@@gengushmurda6448 Whether one thinks it's culturally southern or not, I was just stating where the official dividing line between the northern and southern part of the contiguous United States is. There are a lot of cultures in the South.
I was looking for someone that said this, I want to take this guy to Nashville which is like 3 almost 4 hours away from me since I live on the other side of Tennessee and prove we’re southern I’ve been to Nashville and know for a fact it is southern
Oregonian here, raised with a southern grandmother! For whatever reason, it’s true, people here get angry over being called ma’am. I do not understand it, and I’ve been on the receiving end of it. Yikes!
Because some people in other areas of the country associate “ma’am” with a more advanced age, so in those places women sometimes prefer “miss.” I’ve never heard of anyone disliking “sir” though.
Grew up in Portland and clearly you haven't encountered the crazy Oregon feminists who have shunned me lol. That's alright, I'm happier in Tennessee anyhow.
I thought this too. But then, do they do sweet tea? I’m Australian, so I don’t have a valid opinion lol. Though we have good family friends from Bama (roll Tide).
As someone who has lived in Alaska for 15 years, I can confirm that these people think sweet tea is when you add sugar to your glass after the brewing process:0
I grew up all over the place because my Dad was in the Army and we moved around ... a lot. But my extended family is from the S.E. New Mexico, W. Texas, Oklahoma area and most of them claim us as Southern but also Western, though not Californian, (even though that's where I had the misfortune of being born.)
Half my relatives are southern, the strangest thing, I ended up being a Michigander, but grits came with the breakfast in N Carolina unless you told the breakfast crew at the restaurants you didn't want them, I was always happy to get them, always cooked just right!
I grew up in the South, and by that I mean Oklahoma. I was very disappointed when I learned that Southern states do not consider it part of "the South". We have the unmistakable accent, sweet tea, june bugs and lightning bugs, more restaurants serve grits and BBQ than don't, big front and back porches with porch swings, waving at strangers while driving is customarily expected, sir and ma'am are as standard as please and thank you, and schools and roads are still named after Confederate soilders. How is that not "the South"?
As a Southerner I consider Texas and Oklahoma there own thing I call Western. If you come in a room with a big cowboy hat on they will assume you are from Texas then Oklahoma and usually one of those is right. You have some Southern stuff but you have some non southern stuff that's not really anywhere else so I call You and Texas Western.
Born and Raised in Southwest Virginia; we are southern. There is this fine line between us and the northern part of Virginia. We don’t associate with them anymore.
@@Mr-Trox Howdy! I have been confused all my life about Virginia being southern because of Northern Virginia. You have cleared up the muddy waters for me. Now I understand perfectly. Thank you so much for helping this Texan see the light.
the bandit king that line ends in Stafford. Stafford is the only county in NoVa that is southern. Drive anywhere west in this county and your in farm country.
In 1989 in North Carolina at a Truck Stop I asked if they had grits and they asked me what was grits , I grew up in Louisiana and moved to Utah at 55 years old , I'm now 62 and can still drive an 18 wheeler
At one time I would have argued that a northerner can never be a southerner. That opinion changed when my boss, born and raised in Pittsburgh Pa, was complaining about his neighbor. In frustration, he finally called the man a "Damned Yankee". Everyone in the shop lost it.
Citizens say hello to strangers, women aren't offended if you call them "ma'am", restaurants have sweet tea & grits, everybody has trucks, produces country stars, & you have a large metal object in your front yard. I'm curious what you guys think West Virginia is like, because your southern checklist literally described it.
West Virginia is hillbillies and mountain folks. You lost the right to say your southern when you joined the north in the war.. but your still regarded as friendly cousins.
I am from Evansville, Indiana and we are pretty southern. We moved to Arizona for a year and people asked me if I was from Tennessee. Sweet tea, trucks, grits are available at diners, country music predominates. People on the west side say hello to strangers (can't speak for the east side) and I say yes ma'am and sir and so do my kids (but they spent their early childhood in Murfreesboro, TN, lol)
Questions you can ask to identify a true Southern city, state, or person: 1. Do people let you out in traffic or merge? 2. Do people hold the door for you at any given opportunity? 3. Do people say y'all (proper way) or 'you all' (yankee way)? 4. Is the humidity in your state at least 80% at any given moment? 5. Can you tell when you're getting close to a town based on the billboards for the nearest Cracker Barrell? 6. Are you able to rank the size of your town based on the number of Wal-Marts in the area? 7. Do you pass at least one pick-up with a full size flag mounted in it on any given drive you take? 8. Do you know which SEC team at least 60% of the people you are around when driving pull for?
Same I live in the panhandle and I live next to Crawfordville, Bradfordville, Woodville, if you live near three ville-s then you are probably in the south
The Panhandle is absolutely Southern!! We’ve got sweet tea, grits, fried green ‘maters, fried okra, fried chicken, fried ‘gator, hell, fried anything! There’s Niceville, Crestview (aka: LA - Lower Alabama; aka: Crest-tucky), Cantonment, Milton!! For heaven’s sake, we’ve got a festival for a bottom feeding fish (shout out to The Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival)!
Matt's got the map right. And being Southern isn't just where you live, it's a way of life and a heritage. And even though I'm living in the Inland NW now, I make sure to have my sweet tea. But right now my little chunk of transplanted south has lots of snow and I love hockey. LOL
Here’s another criterion - does anyone call the ladies Miss [insert first name here]? I get that on occasion here in Missouri, and having migrated from Chi-town, find it distinctly southern. Plus I can get awesome cheese grits at MULTIPLE restaurants in Saint Louis City! But sweet tea standard? Maybe we’ve got one foot in the door here . . .
Oklahoma territory had several Confederate Forts. Fort Washita is still standing and protected by the state. The last Confederate general to surrender was General Stand Watie of and at Oklahoma, around September 1865. US Census considers Oklahoma part of the south. Most of the American Indian tribes in Oklahoma were the sworn ally to the Confederacy. In many towns, we have numerous Confederate cemeteries or part designated(Ardmore for example), for Confederate' s to rest.
@@deborahcollins9273 if you knew his name, then you must have had other information about him? If so, why didn't you jump up and elect to share it with the rest of us? Just being curious.....
Thank you for including Missouri. South of I-70 in MO is Southern. My grandparents are from the Ozarks near the Arkansas border… All of our food and customs are southernnnn.
Now be nice, y’all. Southern is a state of mind. If the South is in your heart, it don’t matter what your address is. Or, to put it another way, you can take the boy out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the boy. (Nashville, TN, vintage 1946)
Except when you dont have access to any even decent food... Literally down south everywhere has fried chicken that tastse good. Up here in the damned yanky teritory the best fried chicken i can find (other than when i cook it myself) is kfc. Ick
Ya'll appatently never been to West Virginia. They are definitely southern. Down to the lowest level of southern which i term the hillbilly southern. There is no such thing as unsweet tea, biscuits come with every meal, and every woman over 50 has lace tabletops, fuzzy toilets, and crochet blankets on their sofa. Church is Wednesday and Sunday and you better send a thank you note and RSVP.
I live in West Virginia but I'm from South Carolina, west Virginia is not southern. They have oatmeal more than grits, they where in the Union during the "War of Northern aggression". They are not southern.
@@sharynstover1823 west Virginia is as southern as Maryland! Quick note Maryland is also under the Mason-dixon line. West Virginia is not "northern" but it also isn't southern. It has it's own "Appalachian" culture, which is weird but not unpleasant. It has elements related to southern culture but it is a distinct culture that is completely separate from Southern culture. Though sadly living in Huntington wv i see that culture dieing, the whole state seems to be dieing honestly but where people remain the Appalachian culture is being replaced with meth culture.
@@sharynstover1823 I'm from Charleston South Carolina! I'm southern to the core! I'm shrimp and grits! I'm eat fush not fish! West Virginians are oatmeal for breakfast but fried chicken for dinner. It's a bizarreo place
I live in Chesapeake, VA, literally 10 minutes from the NC line towards Elizabeth City on one side and and 20 min from Moyock on the other. I agree that Southern Hospitality stops at our city line into VA Beach. Although every restaurant I've ever eaten at in VA Beach do indeed have grits and sweet tea.
I'm from Pasquotank county and it really seems like a different world in southeast VA from northeast NC. Idk if it's because we are a rural county and way smaller than y'all but I'm 32 and my accent is way stronger than 50 year olds in VA. It was a culture shock the 1st time I crossed the state line and got to the city and saw all the buildings and people and talked to locals.
I'm from Oklahoma and its confusing for me as well. Up towards Tulsa i wouldn't call it southern, down here where I am we got a Jimmy's egg, typical southern cafe's, hell you can get anything anywhere anytime you want really. I've had some awful sweet teas here and some to die for. Loved the video btw
Generic Snacks, We try to pretend? As a Texan, my family has been to Louisiana multiple times and to tell you the Truth, there wasn't that big of a cultural difference between Lousiana and where I grew up other than the fact that there were fewer Mexicans. I can see why you say west Texas isn't southern because although they have a southern charm about them they are more old western and cowboyish than anything. and south Texas is basically Mexico but the rest of Texas is southern minus the big cities. I grew up in a very very southern house hold and barely have anything in common with the western culture ya'll think of us being.
greatwhiteprivilege you really don't know a great deal of Texas history do you? Lol freed black people fought FREELY during the Texas Revolution on our side. Even leading units It wasn't till asshole Democrats brought slaves in that there was a issue. Make no mistake while there are asshats who hate by in large real Texans are anti big government,are polite to a point,highly independent, and tend to practice a live and let live attitude until you do something stupid then we just shoot.
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Florida (except the Miami part), Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana are southern. Southern halves of Kentucky, Virginia, and Missouri are southern. No question about it.
jason cash your not making any sense...They are under the Mason-Dixon Line, even Maryland is....Hate to break it to you. Yeah maybe some of them lost a lot of southern culture but they will always remain southern.
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern Half of Virginia, Georgia, Northern Half of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma
I have to say, I moved to Montana from Texas not too long ago. Some of the time I have to make my own southern staples but as far as people go I feel like montana is the most southern northern state I've been to, although I am severely disappointed the only readily available iced tea is unsweetened
I lived most of my childhood in Montana, and now I live in Oklahoma. Montana doesn't share the food, the slang, or the twang. But the people are the same. It's just a bit more Teddy Roosevelt. You got your horse, of course; your pickup truck; a gun for fun; a five-point buck; a five hour drive to the nearest town; wheat and sleet till the sun goes down; the rodeo; no next-day mail; some steak; a lake; a mountain trail; a school too cool to close for snow; just three can be a city here, though; some trout, no doubt; and getting towed when stuck in muck on a gravel road; a redneck shed selling fireworks, too - and one more next door (but this one's blue).
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Florida is the only state in the US where you have to drive North to get to the South.
Pilot Boy my favorite comment of the thread -
For sure 👍🌴🌴
Yup
True! I am from North Florida!
I live in Tampa which I feel like is more south and I rarely relate to these videos but I still watch them because there very addicting
North Florida: Deep South
Central Florida: 50/50
South Florida:not at all
That’s fair 👍🏻
Alligator ally is definitely Southern.
bradenton is mostly sothern with your occasional snowbird
Overall a fair assessment, but you’re kinda wrong on South Florida. South Florida is Southern, if you step away from the coast and go further inland.
@@brothermouzone1307 Yeah, don't know why the Everglades becomes not southern because Disney is north of it or something.
I am from Oklahoma and i was raised with a lot of southern customs. Manners were extremely important, i drank sweet tea, ate grits, biscuits and gravy and said "ya'll", "i tell you what", and i loved chicken fried steak and white gravy. Oklahoma wasn't a state during the Civil War but was controlled by the south. We may not be deep south, but we are southerners.
That couldn’t be more true
Amen!
As a native Oklahoman, I tend to think of everything roughly east of I-35 as "southern" and everything roughly west as "western." But there's a LOT of crossover.
Oklahoma is as southern as Oregon
@@azurephoenix9546 Look at a Map!
How blessed are we to live in a country that’s so expansive with its many regions that have their own distinct flavor and culture. So cool. I grew up in Michigan but I LOVE visiting the South. My southerner friends always tell me I fit right in!
@@BigA1921 Good for Spain and good for India. I'm sure they are lovely countries and it would be great to visit someday. Your characterization of regional differences here in the states is a bit cynical.
There's actually a non-comical video on this here RUclips that explains the differences in regions. It's pretty accurate.
Are you one of those people who pick up an accent almost immediately? I am lol
I'm from Michigan!
You just mentioned where I live!
Texans are 1st Texans, 2nd southern, then American. In that order.
I agree as a Californian who knows several Texans
Mavis Pruitt then cede. Oh wait! Haha
Mavis Pruitt can’t live on nothin but cows, corn and peanuts. No man’s an island. Y’all might hate on California, but they grow most of your produce.
Mavis Pruitt talking in exclamation points don’t make it true. The best you all do is 1/3 of cotton in America. Legalize hemp and we’ll be fine without your arrogance.
Mavis Pruitt figured that was the Texan in you. Never met a Texan that didn’t think their shit don’t stink
All I know is that Southern people are reaaaaaaaalllly proud that they're southern.
Yes we are. Very much so!
I agree and the guys annoyance towards the women in the lift is a tad annoying for me considering that I’m an Oregonian. Most of us come for close or direct British blood. Saying “ yes ma’am “ is strange to us. I think if we ever said anything like that it would be closer to “yes madam” tbh or we’re just straight to the point
@@oliviaweston2255 Well I guess that's why we're in the south and you're not 😂 It's just our culture, don't shade it:) We enjoy ourselves. *not to be rude or anything (it's the southern in me!)
We are indeed
You daam right I'm from Arkansas and WEEEEEE ARE PROUD BUT WE have the worst football team in America but we still stay woooooooo pig sooooooie Razorbacks
As a recovering Floridian, I will chime in and say that CENTRAL Florida, once you get away from the coast is VERY MUCH southern. I watched my first wild hog butchered in Myakka city, east of Sarasota. Basically between I-75 and I-95 from about Arcadia north is southern.
When, in 1974?
Im from Loozeyanna, but lived in Sarasota for a few yrs in early 00’s.
Even back then, 20yrs ago,
nowhere south of Tampa felt “Southern”.
Lots of yankees, stiffness, rudeness, everywhere.
@Desstrik this was late 90s, and yeah, on the coast, sure, but inland, it gets redneck real fast.
Basically the land of the Seminole is all southern 😂
Nope. Florida.Flirida is not Deep South
Anything above Orlando is Southern Florida.
I can see in about 30 years or less that the entire state of Florida not even being southern anymore.
I appreciate how you colored in VA. South of 64 we are SOUTHERN.
There are plenty of places in Virginia that are above I-64 and Southern. A better diagram would divide Virginia with a diagonal line NE from Fredericksburg and NW from Fredericksburg. I suspect some folks on the edge of that line would like it refined further, but a line at I-64 is too much.
"Country" and "Southern" are not the same.
canWego Backintime HA HA!
@canWego Backintime I agree but you can't have southern without country. You can have country without southern tho.
Say it again for the people in the back!!!
Ra'Chelle Banks where I live (West Virginia) it is considered the country. I am 18 and honestly still don’t know why. Many people say it is because we sell a meal called Biscuits and Gravy but I honestly don’t believe that is why it is considered the country.
@canWego Backintime guess im country too then and never knew it
As a Texan, I would say that, in general, everything east of Abiline is the south, and everything west of Abiline is the wild west.
Born and raised in the Wild West of Midland,Texas
@@joesanchez8297 Hi! I'm a Texan who lived in Midland for 11 years and my son was born in Odessa:) In my opinion, any town where you can sit in your yard and hear the high school band practicing, while drinking Shiner you bought at the closest beer barn...is pretty dang Southern:) Great town with some of the nicest people you'll ever meet. Wild West streak but definitely Southern too.
Texan 1st. I do think of Texas as southern more than western.
Look during summer. If it’s green it’s southern if it’s brown it’s western. Shows how much the Gulf of Mexico affected it
except Austin which is California
As a Virginian the people yelling on their porch is very accurate. Even in some of the more urban areas:)
Porch yelling served as great entertainment for me while I would mind my business hotboxing my car. Crack a window, adjust the mirrors if necessary and enjoy the show.
I guess the most fun I had as a Southerner because of being one is back in the early 90s, me and two friends took a trip to LA. Not Louisiana. We had a waitress who thought we were just so cute (sarcastically, of course). She challenged us to talk while totally losing our accent. I doubt I managed 100%, but I came closest.
The part that he lleft out northern virginia had me dyi ng
We've perfected the citybillie 😆
@@vinhpham361 We have a saying in Vajenya. NoVA is Northern Virginia and down thru Norfolk. RoVA is the rest of Virginia, west of I-95 and south of I-64.
I gave my Mama a subscription to the North Carolina magazine "Our State" for Christmas for many years. One year I added the Virginia equivalent "Virginia Living".
When the VL renewal came she said "boy, don't waste your money. If it's west of Richmond or south of Charlottesville those people don't know anything about it".
This was so much fun to watch. As a Canadian, snow birds are not southern in 99.99% of the cases.
At least 99.99%. I'm sure there may be some from Southern Kentucky, maybe Tennessee who head down to Florida in the winter just for some relief. But then, they are already Southern. But if you're north of let's say Bowling Green, Kentucky, you're not Southern unless you're a Southern expat.
@@turn-n-burn1421Bowling Green is your line? By that logic you don’t think places like Pikeville KY are southern? What a weird take.
"They're in the SEC"
Solid reasoning
Eddie Martinez 😂😂
They were in the Big 8/12. Then they tried to join the Big 10 but got rejected in favor of Nebraska. Then they bugged out and joined the SEC.
Eddie Martinez what if ur SEC ADJACENT ( Clemson , North Carolina, North Carolina state ,wake forest ,Florida state , university of central Florida , Memphis , south Florida )
Best comment of the video ...
Faith Thomas, they don’t have to be in the SEC. That’s just an indicator. Clemson is almost SEC. People call it “Auburn by the Lake” for a reason.
As being born and raised in West Virginia. It is like a southern/hillbilly combo pack
I was confused on why they didn’t include West Virginia.
Amen.
@Vintage Rose she clearly is one of the people who doesn't even know we (WV) is a state. She went from him saying WV to her saying Shenandoah valley and VA Beach. 🤦🏼♀️
@Vintage Rose lol, right?! I can't tell you how many times I've told people where I'm from and they've said " Oh, I've been to Richmond!" 🤦🏼♀️🤷🏼♀️
@Vintage Rose 😂🤣😂
Fourth generation Floridian here. I grew up in Central Florida. If you met my family, you’d hear the Southern accent right away. I grew up eating grits and drinking sweet tea.
If you visit some of Florida’s southern-most towns like Okeechobee and Belle Glade, you would know right away you are in the south.
I've actually used my own test. I grew up in Oklahoma but moved to Florida for work. When I moved back, I knew I was in the right place when I could order chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes with gravy, and fried okra. That's my south.
@tampa ... you were in the wrong areas of Florida then. I know many places in the state where you can have a pile of grits, chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, awesome real brisket, gator nuggets, ham hock and beans (ever heard of 'em?) .. turnip greens etc. sweet tea (real sun tea) You just need to know how to get away from the yankee run and developed areas. 🐊
sounds like central Florida maybe. I've live on both coasts, Tampa and Orlando...plenty of grouper and Latin (not Mexican) food. I also had trouble finding my style of BBQ. Mustard stuff, vinegar stuff, and rub just doesn't do. When one of my friends went back to Oklahoma for a visit, he brought me back a gallon jug of Head Country BBQ sauce.
@@Tampahop yes there's a lot of Puerto Rican and Cuban food!
@@TampahopHead Country is the BEST!
As a Missouri girl, I can say that the conflict between Midwest culture and Southern culture is a very real thing. It almost depends entirely on what town you are in, and how northern/southern the cities actually are is weirdly not a factor.
Missouri here too. I've never felt that Missouri is a Southern state at all. Solidly Midwest.
@@TheSunnites Missourian here, I feel like everything north of I-70 is midwest and everything south of it is in the south.
@@craig3536 It feels a bit closer to US-50 being the split after moving around the state a lot. The entire KC Metro, STL Metro, and Jeff City are midwest in my book.
@@TheKeksadler totally depends for real. stl metro here and you get kind of a mix sometimes I feel like, but maybe just a lot of fake southerners
Yes Missouri is very a mix of Southern culture and midwest.
I think another key question to ask is... “do you pull over when the hearse drives by?”
Other places dont do this? I thought that was just an American thing overall 🤔
There are places that don't
The crap?
@@jonahhumfleet472 Kind of. There are states where this is not a tradition at all. I have seen it by far the most in the southeast. And in some other states where I have actually driven even longer, I have not seen it a single time.
Yes!!!!
@@sunkissed_potatoe in Brazil it's common and actually taught to those who are getting their licences to CLEAR OUT literally get anywhere but the streets when an ambulance, police or firetruck is passing. People clear traffic streets some even get on the sidewalks to make sure theres no cars delaying them. Like basic education, they are EMMERGENCIES let them pass
I appreciate you including Missouri. Bass Pro, Monster Trucks, BBQ….. we Southern ya’ll.😊
Alaska is number one in the us for trucks so that dont make you southern and bass pro is in Canada aswell so those thing dont make you southern but yes you are a southern state
@@reelfishing47Bass Pro was founded and headquartered in Springfield, MO.
@@JumpScareJesus ik but I'm saying bass pro isnt just a southern thing if theres some in Canada
Missouri isn’t southern, only the southern line where it borders Arkansas is but not north or central Missouri. 2nd before you say I’m wrong just go look it up, Missouri maybe be rural but that happens to be most of the Midwest and mountainous west or even the northeast sometimes. His view doesn’t make sense of Missouri at all
I would say 90% of West Virginia is southern. The exception is probably the outskirts of DC, but I can't say for sure because I've never visited that part of my home state. We check all of the boxes and we know what "Bless your heart!" REALLY means!
I don't think it gets close enough to DC to really be infected. Not that many folks willing to take THAT commute. I lived in NOVA and now Shenandoah Valley. Once you get to the river you're in the clear 👌
No we are Appalachian, not north not south. We said flying a battle flag wasn’t for us.
Nah you guys are 99% southern and I mean SOUTHERN. The most southern people in SC are like average people in WV
I am a retired guy from Illinois and I transplanted myself to Georgia. I doubt I will ever be anything else to folks here but a yankee, no matter how hard I try to be southern, but that doesn't matter, everyone I have met and interacted here has treated me as welcome, I love it here. My mom who was from the south once told me, "southern folks will always take care of you, unless you cross them , then they will take care of you in a totally different way."
Your mama was right. NC native here and we will take good care of you, feed you and keep you company. We are a shoulder to cry on and sound council but bless your heart if you cross us 😂
I moved to Alabama, with my new wife, to be vlose ti her (now OUR) kids and grandkids. Lived and worked there for 9 years, and in 9 years I was still the guy from California, and nearly every day someone would say, " ain't from 'round here, are ya..." But people were friendly and would do anything for you. I loved Alabama, but ended uo in Texas, which I love just as much.
@@tomsmith5216 The south never changes, no matter the country. I moved from Auckland to Dunedin, and after ten years I was still that bloke from Auckland. I'm back north now, but do miss the cheese rolls.
Your Mama's quote is about to be posted on my FB page! Stay safe!
Yankee is more of New England further west and the line gets blurred.
Matt's Florida line is pretty accurate
I agree. I lived in Jacksonville awhile back. It’s even in the name.
I agree I lived on a farm in Plant City,Fl very south
@@avasalad5927 I'm from lithia
Sadly yes. Quite sad I live on the bottom part of Florida
It’s just needs to go up a little more than its perfect
I nearly spit-taked my whole sweet tea when I saw that she forgot a whole side of Texas.
When I went to Washington state in the Army I went to IHOP with a buddy from basic training that grew up in Georgia and when I was asked what I wanted to drink I said "sweet tea." That waitress looked so confused and said "I can bring you hot water and a tea bag and sugar is on the table." My friend looked at me and just said "We aren't in the south any more."
I’m so glad he said, “Texans consider themselves Texans first” haha. As a Texan I can tell you that is 100% accurate, and yes it’s in the South for sure. I mean is that even a question?
The valley is definitely not the south. It’s only Hispanics lol.
Central, West, South, Pan Handle and arguably North Texas aren’t the south.
@@rico14 Hispanics can't be Southern?? I tell you what, I literally put grits in my breakfast burritos
@@matthewviramontes3131 yes and no. The cultural roots of the valley are super different from what rest of the south.
@@matthewviramontes3131 this is coming from someone who’s lived in Georgia a good portion of my life, and I can tell you the difference is miles apart
I was born and raised in Florida. I now live in Georgia. I can say with certainty that North Florida and central Florida are definitely the south. Sweet Tea, farming, grits, front porch gathering, etc. We eat southern food with all the fixins. We also have swamps and bayous and most the people in central Florida have a southern accent. :)
Florida's native lands are so awesome! And Apopka has the Wekiva Springs and River! And Kissimmee is all country folks 😉
Nigga flordia is not the south it is tropical and Texas are not the south
@@zanderhudson9058 only
Parts of Florida are tropical. Florida was known for bull riding and other stuff. Travel it. It’s a weird state. You have beaches and orange groves, farms and swamp. It’s a huge state. :)
@@Mugshot214 it’s not the south it’s not the Deep South it’s just a state that people think that they from the south only south there is Jacksonville that just people from Georgia Jacksonville is literally Georgia
@@zanderhudson9058 Lol You obviously haven’t been to Pensacola. They literally called that area Lower Alabama. 😂
I live 100 miles south of Atlanta and have met people from Tennessee and Kentucky that are more southern than we are.
I'm from SW Missouri. Trust me, we are still pretty southern. We serve sweet tea, we have grits, and there are MORE than plenty of trucks. 😂
To me the only bit of Missouri that feels southern is from Ozarks to Poplar Bluff, and to the Mississipi and down that feels southern.
Idk why he put the whole state of Missouri as southern, it just doesn’t make any sense once so ever but yes only the southern border of Missouri between Arkansas and Missouri is southern but overall Missouri is a MIDWESTERN STATE NOT A SOUTHERN STATE! These other southerners (especially the ignorant southern dude in the video) are either have NOT done there research or either he just prefers being stupid. I can also say this because I was raised in the Deep South of rural Georgia which did for sure served sweet tea and grits but grits are gross any way (except for sweet tea) but anyway, the point is that Missouri as a whole is midwestern and transitional while the southern border between Missouri and Arkansas is southern. I have proven my point
The panhandle of Florida is legitimately called the "Panhandle" and "Lower Alabama".
I don't know what's more Southern than naming a geographic location after kitchen ware.
WV has entered the chat
I agree. And as someone whose lived both in Georgia and North Florida, they’re pretty similar. North Florida is definitely southern.
Lynyrd Skynyrd was from Florida, end of discussion
LOL
Florida is not lower Alabama ! Only floridiots call the panhandel a part of Alabama. Alabamians do not claim yall !
South: AR, TX, OK, KY, WV, VA
Deep South: GA, AL, MS, LA, TN, NC, SC, and Panhandle FL
THANK YOU
I have lived in Tenn., it is not considered Deep South, states below it are Deep South.
Tabitha Mashburn for real? I live in North Ga about 2 hours from Tennessee, and everyone hear considers it deep southern, even more than GA
@@GoDawgs18 and you are correct i live in Alabama and i always consider Tennessee as the deep south and the list of what's the south is correct and what is considered deep south is also correct
That's a list I can definitely get behind as a Texan. There's no doubt that we are part of the South... but we are just as much a part of the Southwest... while also sort of being our own separate thing.
Thanks for including Missouri! I'll tell you what, the southern 1/3, south of Rolla, is partly Southern (more so the further S you go), but especially the southern 1/5 with the Ozarks is part of the South! I grew up in the SE Missouri Ozarks & Ozark Foothills, and there is sweet tea, grits, mostly trucks (with gun racks), southern manners, "yes ma'am" & "no sir" & "please" & "thank you" & "ya'll", the 2 finger wave, greeting everybody, holding the door open, everything fried or covered in gravy or butter or cheese or made into a casserole or BBQ, beans & greens & cornbread, okra & tomatoes & onions, meat in the beans & veggies, dessert after every meal, southern superstitions like black-eyed peas & greens on New Years, a deep southern accent, Ozark hollers, fields of cotton, cypress swamps, hillbillies (I'm descended from a long line), Confederate flags, & the list goes on...my husband grew up in Northern Missouri (Macon) & we now live in Mid-MO (north of Jefferson City) & they are definitely Midwestern! At the state health dept, the tobacco prevention program manager went to the Midwestern states meeting and didn't fit in, but went to the Southern states meeting & was like these are our people, because the programs had way more in common with the same problems etc. Lol! We are still considered part of Tobacco Nation. Oh & I can relate to your Oregon experience - I lived there several years & found it strange they don't really say "yes/no sir or ma'am"!
While I was at the Texas State Fair in Dallas one year, we went out to eat and in the steakhouse there was a live band from Louisiana playing. They had a basket by the stage for you to write down a request and toss it in.
Eventually they went to pull for the next request later on and the look on the lead singer’s face was hilarious when he read it. He shook his head, showed it to the band, said “Man, I love Texas” and started playing “If you’re gonna play in Texas, ya gotta have a fiddle in the band”….and they didn’t have a fiddle…lol
Got quite the laugh out of the restaurant…lol
If your state was a Confederate during the civil war its southern
MrShitfire what about the boarder states like Kentucky, Missouri and West Virginia?
@@tylermcgruder1074 west Virginia became a state literally by separating from Virginia to stay in the Union, Kentucky and Missouri joined, but never got a star so I'd still count em
Marshal Mills, Thanks!
Marshal Mills it’s the exact opposite, they both got a star, never joined in them because the union just showed up, but they are still southern
@@IdiotBoxProductionsTV they succeeded simply because Virginia was Confederate, not a big deal. East Tennessee wanted to as well but they were landlocked.
If everyone stops on the road for a funeral, you’re in the South
Umm that's customary no matter where you are. They did it when I lived in Ohio.
@@mikebelcher7720 I mean, OH is an honorary southern state in my book. lol
@@mikebelcher7720 Not in Massachusetts, busting a funereal line ain't no big thing
I live in california, and you will be fined or arrested for not stopping.
I mean Maryland is the south but not southern and people definitely stop for funerals
Thank you for including Oklahoma! Finally, someone likes us, they really like us!!!🥰 much love from Oklahoma!
Love from Louisiana. Y'all's is the only state I'd consider moving to. Beautiful country and really enjoyed my time in Tulsa.
@@drowningclown1027 Louisiana is my favorite southern state!
@@drowningclown1027I’m from Oklahoma and lived in Louisiana and my dads side of the family was some of the first Cajuns to settle in Louisiana. Both states are fantastic.
Born in Minneapolis, MN in the early 80’s…raised in Georgia. Thank God. My parents in 5 years had Alabama on the CD player, even the Christmas album 1986. 🎉
Why am I reading these comments in a hard country accent😭😭
Lmao ich ban ien Floridian
@@timothyconley5871
Lmao ich ban Sam and English is the language of the south.
Aka Alyssa lol same
Because that's how they're meant to be read. :-)
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I can't stand when people get offended by "yes sir" or "yes ma'am". Drives me up the wall!!
Ikr its like its illegal to speak properly and formal
Because it's too personal. Referring to someone in such a personal way, especially when you don't know them is weird.
They'd better not join the military then!
I wasn’t born in Texas but I got here as soon as possible. Been here 41 years can’t hep but say yes sir and yes ma’am. Of course being in the military male officers addressed as sir madam if female made it easier for me to fall into the phrases.
@@chasealbrecht7091 you got a point there but some people were taught at a young age to address people as "ma'am" or "sir" its just a thing that's sorta habitual I guess.
Is that a headboard with edison lights? 🤣🤣 perfection.
I'm from Indiana and people tell me all the time that I have a little bit of a southern accent. I believe it's because I'm from a former industrial town that had to bus up people from Kentucky to fill the jobs when there wasn't enough locals so my town was more southern really than northern. lol Love my sweet tea and pickup truck. Try finding someone here that doesn't listen to country music. I love southern people. I've spent a lot of time down south and they're the best.
My present wife is from a small town in southern Illinois which sits on the Indiana state line. She has a very strong southern accent, almost that of someone from the hills of eastern Kentucky.
I said "yes, ma'am" in a comment to a woman from Australia and she knew instantly I was from the southern US! 😄
American Southerners are the best people I’ve met, cheers from Canada!
Thank you.
Thank you Sm!
And the Canadians I've met are BOSS!
Aww thank you
Thank you so much sugar have a nice day
Technically, if a person from up above the Mason Dixon Line comes down south and turns around and goes back home they're considered a "Yankee". if they stay they're a "Damn Yankee".
Bill Clinton's campain mgr. said in a TV interview, ---Missouri is strange, on the east you have St. Louis, on the west you have Kansas City, and everything inbetween is Mississippi.
"Their obsession with hockey is....worrisome"
*I'M* *DEAD* !!!🤣😂🤣😂
I busted out laughing so hard!
Why can't they be obsessed with the best sport in the world?
I'm from Tennessee and there's nothing like watching someone punch another's dudes teeth out on the ice It's A amazing sport
I am a southern and live now in Oregon and you are correct sir!! I have had ladies go off on me because I said yes ma'am....😮
@@SF_BarbieThe PNW is just not the friendliest part of the world. It's almost refreshing how much I can generalize about those people because by and large they are VERY standoffish.
As a Texan, Texas has a couple different branches. You got the Midwest in the panhandle area, west Texas is more western than southern, south Texas is more Mexico than anything, East Texas is southern, and the Austin area is California
Best breakdown of Texas today I ever heard.
I was going to say this!! Lol I live in south Texas and honestly we never really did all the southern stuff they talk about. We do more Mexican stuff than southern stuff lol
I forgot south East Texas is Louisiana
After driving through the northeast corner of Texas, I am convinced one of the major reasons people keep moving there is they were trying to get someplace else but once they got into Texas, they couldn't find any borders, so they just stayed. It took me three days to cross a tiny little corner of Texas on my move to Georgia. I was convinced that I had just moved to Texas because I would never be able to get out of that state. I am afraid to take the 10 back across Texas for fear I will never find the exit in my lifetime.
@@RiverWoods111 100% correct
I was raised in Georgia and lived a most of my life there and Matt is spot on about Atlanta. And anywhere down the middle of the state of Florida and in all of it's panhandle is considered southern. The coastal cities and areas are mostly populated with Northerners. The panhandle is called the Redneck Riviera for a reason, that being more people from the south go there for vacation.
Atlanta is still southern. I'm a native and we haven't lost our culture.
i was born in Atlanta but i grew up in buford
My favorite part is when he calls Norman Oklahoma to prove a point 😂 awesome
Y'ALL! North Florida IS VERY southern! Bless your heart...
the very very north of it but that tail is not.
@@aftersexhighfives Anything north of Orlando.
@@pre-debutera6941 what bout tampa?
I’m from central and I disagree with y’all because parts of it can be pretty southern
@@braydonjustice4505 Some rural parts yeah. Not Orlando tho, or anything along the coast
Jacksonville is technically in Florida, but is verrrry much Southern Georgia. That accent is only available to folks in between Jax & Savannah ;)
Truth. I live in Jacksonville, and going to Tampa is like visiting a different state. Meanwhile going north into Georgia and nothing seems to change.
I'm from Savannh GA I agree
I'm digging how they are even breaking our southern accents up now. I'm in the west Georgia/northeast Alabama circle that speaks coastal southern. (Despite not having a coast) I really love it
I'm originally from Jacksonville Florida, and it for sure is very Southern. I say Y'all call everyone Sir, or Mam, and am a Florida Gator football fan!
Only the Northside and Westside of Jax is where southern accents are.
We are my SC brothers? South Carolina is so overlooked by everyone, yet we are up there with all other southerners.
If not for South Carolina there would be no questions asked about who is or not Southern . You were the first state joined by twelve other states to proudly proclaim that you are Southern .
@@alanjones3874 It may be unfair to say, but is South Carolina the birth of southern culture? Before adding in the westward states, the culture was only previous in our state, which until the civil war, was the richest in the south, and most prestigious, and we were the powerhouse of the South
🎉 greetings from coastal Mississippi. I am Cajun....I love back porch living....❤
Love the Mississippi gulf!! Gulfport, Biloxi, Pascagoula. Spent a lot of time down there workin
“Their obsession with hockey is worrisome” 😂😂
GO PREDS!!!
lexie Alexander Dallas Stars just kicked the crap out of them
So is our love of football but that's none of my business (sips sweet tea)
Its pretty cool....good for nashville they are maybe a model the rest of the deep south can model to get bigger and have pro sports! Eh atlanta but they dont care much. But not enough industry economy tv market etc to even warrant pro sports.....nashville is cool
Try mixing that with a Texan who has happily watched hockey from the age of 5.
“Blasphemy!”
“They’ve done this to themselves.”
My favorite lines from this vid.
Oklahoman here. I say yes ma'am and yes sir to my students. It's just the way I was raised. You don't have to be older than me to be respected by me. I help anyone I see who is in need (even strangers). I was raised with manners and say please and thank you. I would give anyone my last penny if they asked for it. My family came from the SE part of Oklahoma, (what we call the mountain people even though we don't have mountains, just really big hills. Lol) manners and helping your fellow man are absolutes with us.
As someone from Enid Oklahoma everything southern carriers over here. We are southern damnit we are surrounded by southern states and we have the same culture and mannerisms.
This is the best video you’ve ever made.
Hilarious! 😂
As a born and raised Floridian, I can tell you that North Florida and the entire interior of the state is pure southern. As with any state the cities are less country, but you can go into any restaurant in Orlando or Tampa and order sweet tea and not ruffle any feathers. The interior of the state is nothing but farms, mines and pickup trucks.
Coastal and major cities aren’t southern anymore.Way to many new Englanders and Long Island trash flooding Florida
@@jamalyoung7258 agreed
AGREED!!!
THIS^
Don’t forget the swamp cats
1/2 of Florida - yep. Said for years that if you're below Orlando (the East coast) you're driven too far south to be in the South. Drive north to get to the South again.
Dazzlings Wrong! Heartland Florida were I am from is south of Orlando and is very Southern. There is nothing but farms and cows here! A lot of people here still have Southern accents, unlike our neighbors in Tampa and Orlando. We love eating our grits and drinking our sweet tea! We are very religious people who praise the Lord everyday. Come down to rural Hardee, DeSoto, Highlands, and Okeechobee Counties to see what I am saying. We in Wauchula, Arcadia, Avon Park, Sebring, Okeechobee are very proud of our Southern culture. Our ancestors, including mine, are early pioneers of this state and have lived here before Florida even become a State. We in Heartland Florida are more similar to those in North Florida than our neighbors are.
MrOrange those are central and south
Dazzlings I still disagree with you. Have you ever been to Wauchula or Arcadia??? Wauchula and Arcadia are very Southern. There is nothing but farms, cows, and orange groves here. Almost everyone in Hardee and DeSoto County has a Southern accent. We in Wauchula and Arcadia are mad at people overlooking us. We are as Southern as people in North Florida are! People keep overlooking us because we are very rural and small. Like I said again my ancestors were early pioneers of this state and lived here before statehood.
Dazzlings Since you haven't replied to my 2nd Comment, I believe you have no clue where Wauchula and Arcadia are. That doesn't surprise me, because we always get overlooked for being small and rural. :(
We are like an enclave. We are very Southern, but people always forget us due to the surrounding counties. Yes, Tampa and Orlando are full of those Liberal Yankees, I wished would move out, but Heartland Florida is the exception. Most of Central and Southern Florida are full of Yankees and isn't southern, except for the inland Heartland Florida counties that are Southern. Most of the residents of Hardee and DeSoto have pioneer ancestors that lived here for a long time, some even before statehood, including myself. The most famous of these families are the Carltons, Albrittons, and Durrances.
In case if you don't know where Hardee and DeSoto Counties are, maybe this can help you:
Hardee County- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardee_County,_Florida
DeSoto County- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeSoto_County,_Florida
Florida Heartland- en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_Heartland
MrOrange you assume wrong. I want to look at a map and reply on my computer. My Florida geography is getting better.
Love the references to “Boot Scootin’ Boogie” and “If You’re Gonna Play In Texas.” Two great country songs!
Myakka City, Fl is as south as south gets and inland Florida is chock filled with southern charm.
1. Do 50% of adult females drive a Nissan Altima with a pink monogram on the rear window?
2. Do 60% of adults drive 15-20 mph under the speed limit in the left lane?
3. Does the rear of the Chick-fil-A drive thru line wrap around the building until it comes within one car length of the car being served?
4. Are there more than seven fried chicken restaurants, excluding KFC.
5. Do people use triple negative phrases such as "Ain't never not been to church!"
6. Do people show radical support for football teams associated with universities that they never even considered attending?
7. Does one enhance his or her social standing by driving a jacked up pickup truck worth no more than $4000 and missing a functional exhaust?
8. Do people refer to every store as if it were a possessive? "We couldn't find a thang at Walmart's!"
9. On Sunday morning at church do you see the same neighbors you last saw at the beer cave on Friday night?
I could go on...
J Shepard you are from the south. Judging from your description I'm going to say the deep south, like Mississippi, Alabama or Louisiana
You win! This is the perfect litmus test.
redd1911
Uh huh. Served some time in north Alabama.
How dare you exclude the granddaddy of all fried chicken restaurants!!!
Are you even southern
Having lived in Texas for the last 25 years I can say Matt is right - Texans consider themselves Texans first - that sentiment is widespread across the state. after that, the state is made up of several different cultures which dominate only in a part of the state. The Southern culture dominates in Eastern Texas - known as the Piney woods - but as you move further west, you'll find spots of Southern culture peppered around but is significantly diluted by the other cultures that make up Texas. Callie's map reflects this.
I'd agree growing up West of Fort Worth, we like our sweet tea, and we do say ma'am but there is alot of southwestern influnces aswell. I love my BBQ, sweet tea, and manners, but I also love guns, taco's, and breakfast burritos, Matter of fact honestly you could keep the grits, ill stick to eggs covered in salsa wrapped inside a nice tortilla anyway, but eat it while sipping on sweet tea.
I have always considered myself a Texan even though I was born in Oklahoma. My parents moved to Texas when I was 5 years old (I am now 63) and I was raised and schooled entirely in Texas. Most Texans will claim to be part of the South due to the mere fact we were part of the Confederacy and the last battle of the Civil War was fought in Texas (after Lee had surrendered) , The Battle of Palmito Ranch, in which the Union LOST! But it is true the further west you travel in Texas the less Southern it gets. Grits is not a big thing in west Texas but you will see Confederate flags displayed even in west Texas! Being part of Mexico at one time, you are just as likely to see the flag of Mexico around in parts of the state too! To most Texans, Six Flags is not just an amusement park, it's our history! Texas has been claimed or been a part of Spain, France, Mexico, Republic of Texas, United States of America and the Confederate States of America! Fun Fact: Texas became a state by treaty and is allowed by that treaty to fly the Texas flag at the same height as the US flag.
Yea I agree as someone who has lived in El Paso and the Dallas area. North and East Texas are part of the South. But South and West Texas (like El Paso, Lubbock, San Antonio) are definitely part of the Southwest. Its a very different feel and mostly desert.
@@gregplatt197 And here's another fun fact: Texas can split into 5 separate states if it wants to without any congressional approval or oversight. That stipulation was part of the agreement for joining the U.S.
I would still say Southernness pervades in speech and attitudes, except maybe in some Mexican border regions where very strong SW Mehicano identities overwrite it.
The bulk of my family is from Missouri. It really is split. Above the River it is Midwest, below definitely South. I will say that the Midwest also has manners and say 'hi' to everyone. It's the cities no matter where you are that folks look at you funny if you say 'hey' to someone you don't know.
I moved from Delaware to Augusta 40 years ago. Never looked back. Love Georgia.
“Not even the braves are in Atlanta anymore” is a very underrated line from this video
The braves used to be the Boston Braves.
I mean, is Gwinnett not Atlanta?
@@thevirtualtraveler the braves are not in Gwinnett, they are in Cobb. But they have an Atlanta zip code.
@@jouansmothers7873 You're right, I was thinking of the Falcons (training center in Flowery Branch).
Braves is outside of Atlanta. Atlanta is huge. Different parts of towns in Atlanta
Miami, Oklahoma = Southern
Miami, Florida = Caribbean
Growing up in Tulsa, it's Southern.
Rachel Stephens lmfao, not
Midwest
Florida is NOT Caribbean I should know I LIVE IN JAMAICA. And I often go to Florida. You obviously have never been to the Caribbean. Florida is in a whole boat by its self NOTHING like the Caribbean. Plus America is not 3rd world. And all Carribean Islands are.
Miami OK is 100 percent casino. Casinos = Indian Reserve so Miami OK =/= Sounthern
Miami is not the south I live in Miami and it feels more like a crossover between la and Havana. It’s not uncommon in Miami to go to a restaurant and a person automatically speaks Spanish assuming you do to.
Years late to the chat - love all of this, and paused at the Atlanta - idk where this is going but I hear you.
carry on.
fancy atlanta - love it
I’m from Kansas and have lived in North Carolina for almost 10 years and I am basically completely Southern. Sweet tea is probably my favourite drink, I wave to strangers a lot and I sometimes speak with a Southern accent.
Kansas is in the south, So you were southern before you got to Carolina. Being from Kansas you should be familiar with Lebanon, KS which is the geographic center of the contiguous United States. (Lat. 39°50' Long. −98°35')
@@moonshinerphd9523 I’ve always wondered if the southeast corner or any other part of Kansas is culturally southern, but I’m pretty sure few people think of Kansas as the South, and more like the Midwest or the plains states.
@@gengushmurda6448 Whether one thinks it's culturally southern or not, I was just stating where the official dividing line between the northern and southern part of the contiguous United States is. There are a lot of cultures in the South.
Did he really just say Nashville TN ain't southern, ITS THE FREAKIN COUNTRY MUSIC BIRTHPLACE
I was looking for someone that said this, I want to take this guy to Nashville which is like 3 almost 4 hours away from me since I live on the other side of Tennessee and prove we’re southern I’ve been to Nashville and know for a fact it is southern
I live literally like right beside Nashville so yes we both and everybody else should know
They got tons of whiskey too
Country Music Originally was born from Bluegrass music
@@hillbillyhall7073 I'm just making a point I live near Nashville, I can't let him say that
I just don't understand how anyone can get offended by calling them ma'am or sir. It shows respect towards other folks around you.
I agree with you, Ma’am.
Oregonian here, raised with a southern grandmother! For whatever reason, it’s true, people here get angry over being called ma’am. I do not understand it, and I’ve been on the receiving end of it. Yikes!
@@kathleenedwards8472 Californian here, I had someone tell me that ma'am makes them feel old. They were ok being called Miss even when married.
Because some people in other areas of the country associate “ma’am” with a more advanced age, so in those places women sometimes prefer “miss.” I’ve never heard of anyone disliking “sir” though.
Grew up in Portland and clearly you haven't encountered the crazy Oregon feminists who have shunned me lol. That's alright, I'm happier in Tennessee anyhow.
South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana
You forgot NC
The other states on the Confederate flag are Texas , North Carolina , Arkansas , Virginia , Missouri and Florida .
Arkansas is in there, theres no way it isnt
I would also have to say that going to the Flea Market in the morning on the weekend and going to church are two of my favorite Southern Traditions.
Matt's criteria throughout this, makes Alaska a southern State.
alaska is more southern than most of the central US lmao
Honestly it kinda is... Alaskans r pretty cool
I will not confirm nor deny their southernness
I thought this too. But then, do they do sweet tea? I’m Australian, so I don’t have a valid opinion lol. Though we have good family friends from Bama (roll Tide).
As someone who has lived in Alaska for 15 years, I can confirm that these people think sweet tea is when you add sugar to your glass after the brewing process:0
Jimmy's Egg got a shout out along with Norman!
RhettyforFun your still from Oklahoma your still gay.
Joshua Towell you do know Oklahoma was gonna be the last state if not a at all to legalize gay marriage. But it was done federal. So how’s that gay?
Red river rivals Texas will always. E superior to Oklahoma.......
Just sayin' Indiana is Southern. I'm from there and people in georgia think im from there.
Zeke Best no one said anything about Indiana
I grew up all over the place because my Dad was in the Army and we moved around ... a lot. But my extended family is from the S.E. New Mexico, W. Texas, Oklahoma area and most of them claim us as Southern but also Western, though not Californian, (even though that's where I had the misfortune of being born.)
Half my relatives are southern, the strangest thing, I ended up being a Michigander, but grits came with the breakfast in N Carolina unless you told the breakfast crew at the restaurants you didn't want them, I was always happy to get them, always cooked just right!
I grew up in the South, and by that I mean Oklahoma. I was very disappointed when I learned that Southern states do not consider it part of "the South". We have the unmistakable accent, sweet tea, june bugs and lightning bugs, more restaurants serve grits and BBQ than don't, big front and back porches with porch swings, waving at strangers while driving is customarily expected, sir and ma'am are as standard as please and thank you, and schools and roads are still named after Confederate soilders. How is that not "the South"?
Yeah, and chicken-fried steak...(who says country-fried?)...local cops running out of state/town plates....high school football being a religion.
As a Southerner I consider Texas and Oklahoma there own thing I call Western. If you come in a room with a big cowboy hat on they will assume you are from Texas then Oklahoma and usually one of those is right. You have some Southern stuff but you have some non southern stuff that's not really anywhere else so I call You and Texas Western.
Midwesterner here. I would say most of Oklahoma (except the panhandle) is southern. The panhandle has more of a western feel.
I don’t consider Oklahoma as Southern and I’m a Southerner
@@anndeecosita3586 So you don't consider Reba McEntire as a Southerner? She's from Oklahoma. That's definitely not a Midwestern accent
Born and Raised in Southwest Virginia; we are southern. There is this fine line between us and the northern part of Virginia. We don’t associate with them anymore.
Southwest Virginia is best Virginia. You know you've left South Virginia when people stop saying sir and ma'am unless they're serving ya.
@@Mr-Trox Howdy! I have been confused all my life about Virginia being southern because of Northern Virginia. You have cleared up the muddy waters for me. Now I understand perfectly. Thank you so much for helping this Texan see the light.
Me too, but it ain't a fine line - it's a big gap.
the bandit king that line ends in Stafford. Stafford is the only county in NoVa that is southern. Drive anywhere west in this county and your in farm country.
As someone who's lived in NoVa their whole life, but has family in the Valley, this whole thread is 100% valid. 😂
Native Floridian, totally Southern and I live south of Orlando.
In 1989 in North Carolina at a Truck Stop I asked if they had grits and they asked me what was grits , I grew up in Louisiana and moved to Utah at 55 years old , I'm now 62 and can still drive an 18 wheeler
At one time I would have argued that a northerner can never be a southerner. That opinion changed when my boss, born and raised in Pittsburgh Pa, was complaining about his neighbor. In frustration, he finally called the man a "Damned Yankee".
Everyone in the shop lost it.
I live in Tennessee. My boss is from Nova Scotia, Canada, but you would not think he's Canadian after talking to him for 10 minutes.
In the North, Yankees are from New England.
I was born in Massachusetts and raised in North Carolina. It wasn't until I was eight years old that I learned that "Damn Yankees" was two words.
He’s just trying to fit in.
The difference between Yankees and dawm Yankees is dawm Yankees are down here
Citizens say hello to strangers, women aren't offended if you call them "ma'am", restaurants have sweet tea & grits, everybody has trucks, produces country stars, & you have a large metal object in your front yard.
I'm curious what you guys think West Virginia is like, because your southern checklist literally described it.
West Virginia is hillbillies and mountain folks. You lost the right to say your southern when you joined the north in the war.. but your still regarded as friendly cousins.
You literally just described Upstate New York
Yep.
@@tariqk.2145 That hurts and I'm from Texas up state n y wow
@@matthewslorenzo4802 Yep...Upstate NY is home of the most ardent Southern LARPers
Cheese grits, sweet tea and back porch bickering...
The south has never been summed up so sweetly ❤️😍❤️
I am from Evansville, Indiana and we are pretty southern. We moved to Arizona for a year and people asked me if I was from Tennessee. Sweet tea, trucks, grits are available at diners, country music predominates. People on the west side say hello to strangers (can't speak for the east side) and I say yes ma'am and sir and so do my kids (but they spent their early childhood in Murfreesboro, TN, lol)
Questions you can ask to identify a true Southern city, state, or person:
1. Do people let you out in traffic or merge?
2. Do people hold the door for you at any given opportunity?
3. Do people say y'all (proper way) or 'you all' (yankee way)?
4. Is the humidity in your state at least 80% at any given moment?
5. Can you tell when you're getting close to a town based on the billboards for the nearest Cracker Barrell?
6. Are you able to rank the size of your town based on the number of Wal-Marts in the area?
7. Do you pass at least one pick-up with a full size flag mounted in it on any given drive you take?
8. Do you know which SEC team at least 60% of the people you are around when driving pull for?
just say yuh'all its all-inclusive
That last one got me. On roadtrips I think this all the time.
The funny part is, most of Wisconsin and Michigan are the same way. 😁
Pennsylvanian here and I think we’re definitely more southern than Maryland, for what that counts for. We meet almost all these criteria ez.
Apparently Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan are southern...
The panhandle of Florida is VERY southern I’ve lived there I would know
MsBizzyGurl doesn’t every grocery store have BBQ?
Honey if you want GOOD bbq from a grocery store you gotta go to the middle of nowhere
Same I live in the panhandle and I live next to Crawfordville, Bradfordville, Woodville, if you live near three ville-s then you are probably in the south
The Panhandle is absolutely Southern!! We’ve got sweet tea, grits, fried green ‘maters, fried okra, fried chicken, fried ‘gator, hell, fried anything! There’s Niceville, Crestview (aka: LA - Lower Alabama; aka: Crest-tucky), Cantonment, Milton!! For heaven’s sake, we’ve got a festival for a bottom feeding fish (shout out to The Boggy Bayou Mullet Festival)!
I was going to say this! From like Tampa north is "southern", from Tampa south is snowbirds and Cuban lol
Matt's got the map right. And being Southern isn't just where you live, it's a way of life and a heritage. And even though I'm living in the Inland NW now, I make sure to have my sweet tea. But right now my little chunk of transplanted south has lots of snow and I love hockey. LOL
Growing up near East St. Louis, I was in high school before I realized not everyone drank their tea sweet!
Here’s another criterion - does anyone call the ladies Miss [insert first name here]? I get that on occasion here in Missouri, and having migrated from Chi-town, find it distinctly southern. Plus I can get awesome cheese grits at MULTIPLE restaurants in Saint Louis City! But sweet tea standard? Maybe we’ve got one foot in the door here . . .
The southeast quadrant of OK is known as “Little Dixie.” Reba McEntire was born there and accents don’t get any more southern than hers.
Oklahoma territory had several Confederate Forts. Fort Washita is still standing and protected by the state. The last Confederate general to surrender was General Stand Watie of and at Oklahoma, around September 1865. US Census considers Oklahoma part of the south. Most of the American Indian tribes in Oklahoma were the sworn ally to the Confederacy. In many towns, we have numerous Confederate cemeteries or part designated(Ardmore for example), for Confederate' s to rest.
@@jeffreyvaile127 The general’s name was Stand Watie.
@@deborahcollins9273 Thank You, opps mistype.... Stand
@@deborahcollins9273 if you knew his name, then you must have had other information about him? If so, why didn't you jump up and elect to share it with the rest of us? Just being curious.....
In Ardmore Oklahoma, before Oklahoma became a state their first newspaper in the Ardmore area was the Dixie Democrats....
As someone who’s a proud midwestern saying hi to strangers isn’t strictly southern but ma’am definitely is
iowa?
Agreed. Ohio here, and we speak to strangers.
Agreed. Ohio here, and we speak to strangers.
@@pbgd3 Wisconsin
Its called the midwest because everything it….is MID!
6:24 I definitely agree with you about Nashville. It sucks there now. Everyone is from California and New York.
Thank you for including Missouri. South of I-70 in MO is Southern. My grandparents are from the Ozarks near the Arkansas border… All of our food and customs are southernnnn.
Now be nice, y’all. Southern is a state of mind. If the South is in your heart, it don’t matter what your address is. Or, to put it another way, you can take the boy out of the South, but you can’t take the South out of the boy. (Nashville, TN, vintage 1946)
That don't apply to California, though.
Except when you dont have access to any even decent food... Literally down south everywhere has fried chicken that tastse good. Up here in the damned yanky teritory the best fried chicken i can find (other than when i cook it myself) is kfc. Ick
I must be in a pocket of the South in Ohio then
Bo Jangles is far better than KFC.
That's some new agey mess you're selling. Just because you believe something doesn't make it true. Somebody ought to revoke your Southern passport.
Ya'll appatently never been to West Virginia. They are definitely southern. Down to the lowest level of southern which i term the hillbilly southern. There is no such thing as unsweet tea, biscuits come with every meal, and every woman over 50 has lace tabletops, fuzzy toilets, and crochet blankets on their sofa. Church is Wednesday and Sunday and you better send a thank you note and RSVP.
If you want to be southern spell “Y’all” right
I live in West Virginia but I'm from South Carolina, west Virginia is not southern. They have oatmeal more than grits, they where in the Union during the "War of Northern aggression". They are not southern.
@@sharynstover1823 west Virginia is as southern as Maryland! Quick note Maryland is also under the Mason-dixon line. West Virginia is not "northern" but it also isn't southern. It has it's own "Appalachian" culture, which is weird but not unpleasant. It has elements related to southern culture but it is a distinct culture that is completely separate from Southern culture. Though sadly living in Huntington wv i see that culture dieing, the whole state seems to be dieing honestly but where people remain the Appalachian culture is being replaced with meth culture.
@@sharynstover1823 I'm from Charleston South Carolina! I'm southern to the core! I'm shrimp and grits! I'm eat fush not fish! West Virginians are oatmeal for breakfast but fried chicken for dinner. It's a bizarreo place
Anything south of the Dixie line is the South.
I live in Chesapeake, VA, literally 10 minutes from the NC line towards Elizabeth City on one side and and 20 min from Moyock on the other. I agree that Southern Hospitality stops at our city line into VA Beach. Although every restaurant I've ever eaten at in VA Beach do indeed have grits and sweet tea.
I'm from Pasquotank county and it really seems like a different world in southeast VA from northeast NC. Idk if it's because we are a rural county and way smaller than y'all but I'm 32 and my accent is way stronger than 50 year olds in VA. It was a culture shock the 1st time I crossed the state line and got to the city and saw all the buildings and people and talked to locals.
I'm from Oklahoma and its confusing for me as well. Up towards Tulsa i wouldn't call it southern, down here where I am we got a Jimmy's egg, typical southern cafe's, hell you can get anything anywhere anytime you want really. I've had some awful sweet teas here and some to die for. Loved the video btw
We are Texan first, southern second and that’s is coming from a proud Texan.
Heidi Allen Most if you are not southern at all though you just try to pretend.
Generic Snacks, We try to pretend? As a Texan, my family has been to Louisiana multiple times and to tell you the Truth, there wasn't that big of a cultural difference between Lousiana and where I grew up other than the fact that there were fewer Mexicans. I can see why you say west Texas isn't southern because although they have a southern charm about them they are more old western and cowboyish than anything. and south Texas is basically Mexico but the rest of Texas is southern minus the big cities. I grew up in a very very southern house hold and barely have anything in common with the western culture ya'll think of us being.
You're also Southwestern, because you have Mexicans and proper tacos.
Damn right!! Hook em horns
greatwhiteprivilege you really don't know a great deal of Texas history do you?
Lol freed black people fought FREELY during the Texas Revolution on our side. Even leading units
It wasn't till asshole Democrats brought slaves in that there was a issue.
Make no mistake while there are asshats who hate by in large real Texans are anti big government,are polite to a point,highly independent, and tend to practice a live and let live attitude until you do something stupid then we just shoot.
Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Florida (except the Miami part), Oklahoma, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas, and Louisiana are southern. Southern halves of Kentucky, Virginia, and Missouri are southern. No question about it.
take out exas, OK, the carolinas, kentucky, virninia and missouri..and you're right.
jason cash believe me southern Kentucky is as southern as it gets. And that's saying a lot considering I'm from the delta
Dimitri Tchaikovsky believe me...I'm from the actual south. Kentucky may be country but it isn't southern. At. All there is a difference.
mackyronni you aren't southern. You're a Yankee....
jason cash your not making any sense...They are under the Mason-Dixon Line, even Maryland is....Hate to break it to you. Yeah maybe some of them lost a lot of southern culture but they will always remain southern.
Kentucky, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Southern Half of Virginia, Georgia, Northern Half of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma
I have to say, I moved to Montana from Texas not too long ago. Some of the time I have to make my own southern staples but as far as people go I feel like montana is the most southern northern state I've been to, although I am severely disappointed the only readily available iced tea is unsweetened
I lived most of my childhood in Montana, and now I live in Oklahoma. Montana doesn't share the food, the slang, or the twang. But the people are the same. It's just a bit more Teddy Roosevelt.
You got your horse, of course; your pickup truck; a gun for fun; a five-point buck; a five hour drive to the nearest town; wheat and sleet till the sun goes down; the rodeo; no next-day mail; some steak; a lake; a mountain trail; a school too cool to close for snow; just three can be a city here, though; some trout, no doubt; and getting towed when stuck in muck on a gravel road; a redneck shed selling fireworks, too - and one more next door (but this one's blue).
Unsweetened iced tea!!! Isn't that a sacrilege? 😮