Interesting how the rules are arbitrarily established for what makes one permitted to adopt ownership of their home. Funny, friends who moved to California during or after college consider themselves Californians. Why would that be acceptable yet another who relocated at the same time be considered transplants.
We in CA welcome anyone to be a Californian. Move here, and voilà you are one if you say so.
A favorite of mine, which I sometimes use is, “Well butter my buns and call me a biscuit!” 
For a bit of good-natured humor, go to youtube and search, “things southern women say” (videos made by southern women and intended to tickle the funny bones of southern women). Instantly, you’ll be directed to a portal of P-your-pants-funny that may have tears running down your face. It’s a series of four—no, actually, five videos, whose title is not actually “things” southern woman say", but rather, “[something else] southern women say”. I defy anyone who has ever lived in the south to say they haven’t heard some of these sayings multiple times. I didn’t directly link to any of the videos because their actual title may technically violate CC’s TOS.
Neither the CBF, nor any hint of it, is seen or suggested in any of these vids.
Here are some things we’ve been saying in my southern family for decades:
“I feel like I been dragged through a knot-hole, backwards.” (exhausted and achy.)
“It’s so good, it make you want 'ta slap yo Papa down!” (Said of something unusually delicious.)
“My eyes feel like to burn holes in a blanket!” (extreme eye fatigue.)
“Now that was just straight up Hinckty!” (to identify mean-spirited, contrary behavior).
I consider myself a Southerner having lived in the South for 33 years. My H, a native of SC, with family going back generations, would disagree. I’m not a fan of collards, field peas, sweet tea or grits (unless there’s a lot more cheese than grits). According to him, that alone disqualifies me. Lol. But I do LOVE peach cobbler.
@poetsheart - =))
LasMa, I know, right?
The entire video I was trying to remember where I had seen one of the actresses. How bugging! (Katherine Bailess from “Hit the Floor”, btdubs).
Lost it at “Can y’all monogram these?”
. Whoa. Time warp. Was already in/out of college in the 70’s. Yikes!! Time for a Goody powder. I think I’ve got a case of the vapors.
Agree with you, overtheedge. The requirement to have been born on the plantation or some similar expectation is what seems to feed the stereotype of the southerner. Where I live, its often joked that if you’ve been here more than 10 years you are a native.
Unless they drive a banged up beater car.
How bad it must be? Nice weather, great cost of living with affordable housing (most really do not live in trailer parks, and and most homes aren’t likely to fall into the ocean if the ground shakes), a growing economy and generally nice people.
You guys have such strict standards.
My classification of people is as follows… if you say:
-Pop: Midwesterner/Great Lakes
-Soda: Coasts
-Coke: Southerner
(And please, before anyone gets uptight, I am saying this with a smile.)
“Some fool stole my buggy at the Piggly Wiggly!”
(When I was in the Navy, I was stationed at Naval Air Station, Millington, TN. Even though I grew up in VA., Tennessee was a new kind of southern experience. I remember laughing my head off upon hearing someone say they were going to the Piggly Wiggly. But then I actually saw it with my own eyes, and shopped there multiple times. So often, in fact, that the name Piggly Wiggly began to seemed more charming than absurd.)
More from vid no.1:
“I’m fixin’ to fry up some ochra.”
"When I was a cheerleader…
"When I was a debutant…
“When I was rush chair of Chi Omega…” (LOL!)
“Oh my God, I know her…We use to do pageants together.”
“We had to put Mee-Maw in a nursin’ home.”
“He’s dumb as dirt, bless his heart.”
“I need to order twelve bridesmaid’s dresses, please.”
“Does this pistol come in pink?” (Snort!)
poetsheart,
How’s your momma 'n them?
And speaking of southern, there was an old gentleman who sat in his rocker on his front porch every morning and waved at the school busses as they arrived at school. He was such a fixture they held a memorial service for him at school when he passed away.
romani:
What’s your classification for hoagie/grinder/hero/sub sandwich/po’boy/ spuckies (anyone heard of that last one??)
Seven of the top 30 USNWR universities are located in the South. So much for “ignorant and uneducated.”
Time for a lesson in concentration of regions.
And comportment.
http://www.someecards.com/usercards/viewcard/MjAxMy1mYjBlNTA2ZjY0NjE3NGNh
How many of the top 30 USNWR are on the west coast? Are they also to be considered dumb and uneducated? Or maybe just ignorant. Don’t people also travel to college?
@jym626 uhh… lol
We say sub and I think hoagie is Philadelphia? Outside of that, I’ve got nothin’
LOL,yes! A favorite way to inquire of someone’s relative by many a Baptist church lady I grew up knowing.
Goodies Powder? Heck no—BC! (there’s some in my downstairs medicine cabinet right this very minute).
:))
“Spuckies”? Where do they use the term, spuckies?
I am not interested in getting into a you-know-what-ing match with anyone and I’m not someone who thinks southerners are anything (ignorant, uneducated, etc)… but just as a counter to what Bay said, here is a ranking of educational attainment by state using 3 different rankings. Overwhelmingly, the bottom states in all categories are southern.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_educational_attainment
I think looking at the whole population of a state is a better measure than looking at individual schools… especially when those top schools pull heavily from out of state (and I’m too lazy to look up which states they pull from!)
This ‘Southerner’ thing, the way I see it: If someone from New York City moved to Atlanta 50 years ago and has lived in Atlanta all those years…locals will call them an Atlantan…not a Southerner; If same New Yorker moved to Florida they’d be called a Floridian after 50 years…not a Southerner. If New Yorker moved to Albany or Columbus, Georgia 50 years ago…locals would call him today a transplanted Yankee…not a Southerner.