<p>Just out of curiosity where is palmetto tree from? My dad was born and raised in Winter Park, Florida where his brother (my uncle) still lives and my dad’s other brother lives in the Buck Head area of Atlanta. Anyone from the south would know that these are two of the places in the south where citizens are typically “southern gentry” as an earlier poster I think effectively described. Yet, the patri-linear portion of my family would think that anyone that holds the belief that being born beneath the 37th north would give you some sort of inherent sophistication, is a posing idiot that in all likelihood is from a middle class family- probably from 19th century immigrants that had some sort of relative who may have fought for the CSA and then made there living as a sharecropper- which gave this person the idea that they were some sort of southern aristocrat and valued traits of this social class were inherited by them, which they in fact, are not. Not to say that being a member or descendant of a member of a long dead level of a social hiearchy is a positive or negative thing, but it DEFINITELY is neither a physcial or personality trait.</p>