/r/TheSouth
A friendly subreddit to celebrate and share what we love about the American South. Grab a rocking chair, ask a question, start a conversation, or share a slice of life.
You don't have to live in the south to participate. No matter where you are, you can be in a southern state of mind.
A friendly subreddit to celebrate and share what we love about the American South. Grab a rocking chair, ask a question, start a conversation, or share a slice of life.
You don't have to live in the south to participate. No matter where you are, you can be in a southern state of mind.
Please see our rules page for details
1: Be hospitable
2: Stay relevant
3: Limit self-promotion
4: No Buy/Sell/Trade
5: No politics
6: No Lost Cause
7: Keep posts / titles SFW
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/r/TheSouth
Is there any correlation between the hipster look in the south and democratic politics?
So if someone has a man bun, flannel, cutoffs, tats— does that lean one way politically in the American south or does that person just like climbing gyms?
Where does the movie typical "southern lawyer" come from? Also do y'all say law-yer or Loy-er
I stayed in the (northern) south for a while and had a lot of southern friends and by the time I went back up north I had picked up a few phrases. One of them that I’ve only ever heard in the south is “you scared the mess out of me.” Is this uniquely southern or just not a thing where I live?
I have a character who grew up in small-town Mississippi and I also have family who live in the south. What are some things you just can't say or do in the south? Also, if you would like, what are some common terms and phrases?
For example, I have heard that you can't really say "i swear to god" or anything like that
Or where I live in New England, we ca the loquor store the packie, and I'm wonderjng if there are any similar terms.
My partner and I are taking a two-week roadtrip from Connecticut to Los Angeles in September. We're planning to stop in DC, Richmond, Charleston, Savannah, Atlanta, Mobile, the gulf of Mississippi, NOLA, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Santa Fe, and Sedona. What are some absolute musts in the South (and west technically)? This can include cafes, restaurants, museums, activities, sight-seeing, etc. We want a truly southern experience and are both pretty flexible. Thanks!
I live in Ohio, and my mother in law has bounced around the South for about 10 years. She lived in Charleston for a while, now North Carolina (near Duke), and Virginia for a bit. She claims Southerners don’t like Brats, and she can’t hardly find them in the South. I find this a bit hard to believe. So I come to you and ask, are Brats non-existent in the South?
EDIT- Thanks for all the replies. A quick follow up, if you reply to this, let me know if you're from the south, or a transplant. Thanks!
What do yall do for work to survive? It seems like every southern state does not pay good. For example, places like NC that are growing like crazy, how do you survive? Any answers/insight is appreciated.
I’m talking like oddities shops, taxidermy stores, gun ranges, off the wall food spots. Not stuff like the Peach Water Tower more like the museum of death in Nola
I currently live in northern virginia getting my bachelors in history and after getting my degree and working hee for a few years I want to check out the mississippi part of the memphis metro area, if youve been there or live in that general area how is it?
Greetings everyone. Sorry for the extremely late reveal post, I went hiking in Joshua Tree Natl Prk. Polls will also remain open for the remainder of tonight to compensate. Also tomorrow I will post the updated bracket--sorry for falling behind on that.
Tennessee wins the tiebreaker and Louisiana won last round. Here is today's poll: https://forms.gle/aiPhLrGxx7vCw7NW7
And the winner is...dadgummit there was a tie. So today's poll will be a recount.
Click this link to vote: https://forms.gle/uctc7M4UKRWou1MT9
Hello!
Alabama beat Georgia and it progresses to the next round. However, the polls are open for South Carolina versus Tennessee.
Also, I've been failing to open and close the polls within an hour of the promised open time, but whatever.
Click here to vote in South Carolina v. Tennessee.
Hello!
Mississippi won the last round against Arkansas. Today, Georgia is up against Alabama.
VOTE HERE: https://forms.gle/KUc6wCvjQLGwQopU6
Click this link to vote in the first competition in the Most Southern State. Arkansas or Mississippi?
To the theme of March Madness, I’m going to be hosting a Most Southern State bracket, where y’all will be voting through Google Forms.
Voting will begin 9:00 AM EST, and it will close at 9:00 PM EST. The winner will be announced the following day. Once the voting for the brackets is done, the semifinals and the finals will occur.
I will be posting my crappy handwritten bracket as it progresses (it looks a little confusing but you’ll get the hang of it)
Here are the participating states, and their respective Google Form links, and the day they will open.
Arkansas v. Mississippi (March 23)
Alabama v. Georgia (March 24)
South Carolina v. Tennessee (March 25)
Florida v. Louisiana (March 26)
North Carolina v. Virginia (March 27)
Kentucky v. West Virginia (March 28)
Semifinal Round 1 (March 29)
Semifinal Round 2 (March 30)
Semifinal Round 3 (March 31)
Semifinal Round 4 (April 1)
Finals (April 2)
Please note I will be on vacation in Joshua Tree, CA, and the polls may open or close a few minutes late.
Happy voting!
Hey I’m planning a move back home to the south. The south is ever changing and some places I’ve visited since I’ve been gone have changed a lot. Doesn’t feel even southern anymore. I have a list of what I’m looking for in a southern city, and I’m hoping some kind folks here could help me out with where to start looking. Also I’ll make a list of cities I was considering but I’m not sure about anymore. Thanks so much for your input!
Not excessively high cost of living.
I’m not rich, I make between $20-23 per hour in my field.. my SO is a realtor/broker but I’m not sure if he’d continue that when we move. He would probably get a part time job on top of social security. Taxes are considered. They can really make or break a place.
Lower crime rate/safe for kids. I still have kids and I’d like to not have to be overly concerned about their well being. So schools that aren’t too dangerous and a community where I don’t need to worry about them every time they walk out the door. I’d like an area where it’s not out of the question to go for a walk in the evening. I’m more concerned about violent crime than anything, but it’d be nice to be able to put holiday decorations in the yard and they not disappear.
Warmish climate. I don’t mind chilly winters but I prefer that if it’s going to snow, then it’s gone fast. I wouldn’t want it to get much lower than freezing, and I’d hope that in the daytime it would be decently above freezing the vast majority of the winter. I don’t mind rainstorms, hurricanes, monsoons, whatever. Just tired of being cold all the time. I’d like to be where the muscadine can grow and I don’t have to shovel. On the other hand I don’t want to fry my phone on the patio table like I did in AZ. I don’t want my flip flop to melt to a metal grate like in NV.
Midsized to small cities are best, as long as they have things to do, especially for kids and teens. My kids are partial to hockey and arcades.. trampoline parks and skate parks. Planetariums. Nice and safe playgrounds. Things of that nature. Me and SO enjoy breweries and walks in nature.. somewhere to play darts.. golf… a fun sports bar to watch the game. A YMCA to work out. A shooting range. Maybe catch a little live entertainment.
If anyone could help us to narrow it down, it would be extremely helpful. Some cities we were looking at:
Raleigh Durham Roanoke Pensacola Huntsville Savannah Virginia Beach Jacksonville Mobile Houston (I know Texas is southern but it doesn’t feel like the same southern I’m accustomed to.. also it’s kinda big if I’m not mistaken)
Thanks so much 👍
So I was having a conversation with this guy online and we started talking about how we and our families make sweet tea,and these are the topics we covered, ratios of sugar, whether we eyeball or measure it, the darkness of the tea, the size of the batch, the amount of sugar used, the kinds of tea leaves used, whether or not the tea leaves were dried and how they were dried, and how his family even has held up a tradition for over 450 years of growing their own tea leaves and making their own sweet tea. The best part is this conversation went strong for about 30 minutes with not even a few minutes between messages and we could have kept going if he didn’t need to sleep and I could tell we both actually loved the conversation and that we were both interested in it. So yeah, I held a conversation about sweet tea for 30 minutes with another southern man and we couldve kept it up for longer too.
Hello, reddit. I don't usually use reddit but I was bored on a Sunday night.
Can I be considered a son of Dixie?
I’m in my early 20s from northern Appalachia and after my trip last year to Nashville I could tell that was very touristy and I’d like to visit the real south. Guess I’m looking for a small town in the middle of nowhere with a diner and some good swimming holes maybe some Jeep trails and somewhere to drink. Where should I go?
Dido. Pronounced “Dye-dough.” As in “turn right and then dido up in there…” curious as I just used it and my wife is making fun of me