1. That farm boy ou see at the gas station did more work before breakfast than you do all week

2. It's called a "gravel Road," No matter how slow you drive, you'r going to get dust on your Navigator.Drive it, or get out of the way.

3. The red dirt--it's called clay.Red Clay. If you like the color, don't wash your car for a couple of weeks-- it'll be permanent.

4. We all started hunting when we were seven years old. Yeah, we saw Bambi. We got over it.

5. Go ahead and bring your $600.00 Orvis Fly Rod. Don't cry to us if a Flathead breaks it off at the handle. We have a name for those 13" Trout you fish for. - "BAIT"

5. Pull Your pants up You look like an idiot.

7. If that cell phone rings while a bunch of Mallards are making their final approach, we will shoot it. You might want to ensure hat it it's not up to your ear at the time.

8. No there's no "Vegetarian Special" on the menu. Order steak. Order it rare. Or you can order the "Chefs Salad" and pick off the 2 pounds of ham and turkey.

9. Tea - yeah we have that, it comes in a glass over ice and is swetened. You want it hot - sit it in the sun. You want it un-sweetened - add a lot of water.

10. You bring coke to my house, it better be brown, wet and served over ice.

11. So you have a sixty thousand dollar car. We're real impressed. we have a quarter of a million dollar Combine that we only use two weeks a year.

12. Let's get this straight. We have one stoplight in town. We stop when it's red. We may even stop when it's yellow.

13. We still address our Seniors with "yes sir" and "yes ma'am," and we sometimes take Sunday drives to see friends and neighbors.

14. We don't do " hurry up" well.

15. Greens - yeah, we have greens, but you don't putt on them. You boil them with salty fatback, bacon or a ham hock.

16 Yeah we eat catfish, bass, bream and crappie. You realy want sushie and caviar? It's available down at the bait shop.

17. They are pigs. That's what they smell like. Get over it. Don't like it? Interstate highwys go North, East, and West. Pick one get on it and go.

18. Grits are corn. You put butter, salt, and maybe even some pepper on them. If you want to put milk and sugar on it, you want Cream of Wheat. - Go to Kansas, that would be west.

19. The Opener refers to the first day of deer season or dove season. Both are hollidays. You can get pancakes, cane syrup and sasuage before daylight at the chrch on either day.

20. So every person in every pick up waved? Yeah it's called being friendly. Understand the concept?

21. Yeah we have golf courses. Don't hit the water hazards. It spooks the fish and bothers the gators. And if you hit into the rough, we have these things called diamond backs, and they are not baeball players.

22. That Highway Partol Officer that just pulled you over for driving like an "diot" - His name is"Sir," no matter how young he is.

23. We have lots of pine trees. They have sap. It drips from them. You park your navigator under them, and they will leave a logo on it.

24. You burn an American flag in our state. You get beat up. No questions. The Libral contingent of our Sate Lgistature - all of them enabled a measure to stop this. there is now a two dollar and ffty cent fne for beating up the flag burner.

25. No, we don't care how you do thngs up North. If it's so great up there, why not visit a Northern state, or stay there. And no we don't have an accent, You do, Bless your heart.

(Note,) This has been stolen from someone else who forwarded it to me.

Lee L.

During our five years (winters) in Florida, I've come to really appreciate the Southern folks. A gentleman that sells turnips, greens and onions out of his pickup in a vacant lot is one of the neatest guys I've ever met. He told me he'd be there last Wednesday for my weekly onion purchase, but didn't make it. I saw him Friday and he really apologized and felt real bad, but had a niece's funeral to attend....so he had put up a large sign on the lot that said "Dan, can't make it but will be there Friday". His onions are .50 a bunch and he really gives me a hard time when I try to give him $1, which is about half of what the grocery store would change. I told him today that I felt bad not giving him a better price and he just smiled and said, "I enjoy doing it for you." And I've met a lot more of those type of folks down here, really neat people. I like it here.

Dan

During our five years (winters) in Florida, I've come to really appreciate the Southern folks. A gentleman that sells turnips, greens and onions out of his pickup in a vacant lot is one of the neatest guys I've ever met. He told me he'd be there last Wednesday for my weekly onion purchase, but didn't make it. I saw him Friday and he really apologized and felt real bad, but had a niece's funeral to attend....so he had put up a large sign on the lot that said "Dan, can't make it but will be there Friday". His onions are .50 a bunch and he really gives me a hard time when I try to give him $1, which is about half of what the grocery store would change. I told him today that I felt bad not giving him a better price and he just smiled and said, "I enjoy doing it for you." And I've met a lot more of those type of folks down here, really neat people. I like it here.

Dan

Dan I can't make up my mind weather you are a southerner that goes up north in the summer to escape the heat, or a northerner that goes south for the warmth in the winter. I guess when you get "OLD" our southern winters feel real good. ;) ;) ;)

Lee L.

Dan I can't make up my mind weather you are a southerner that goes up north in the summer to escape the heat, or a northerner that goes south for the warmth in the winter. I guess when you get "OLD" our southern winters feel real good. ;) ;) ;)

Lee L.

One of the cultural differences I had to get used to is the local (non-chain) restaurants closing at 2:00 in the afternoon. Couple times we stopped in at Pat's Barbeque and they were our of their specials....Pat just said, "You'all just let me know and I'll set whatever you want aside, and it'll be here when you get here.....and he does."

But until I learn to appreciate grits and/or greens, I'm probably more an Ioway farm boy.

Dan

You can find the same type of people in the north, east and west, just go into the country.

Grits is corn.

Ioway is corn.

How come you don't like grits, DOK?

Dan.......My being a 6th generation Floridian, I can appreciate your kind words about my native state and its old time people!
However, you are an exception to the rule. We find there is quite a difference in our "visitor's" attitude, depending where the are from.
My people came to this country between 1605 (Carter in Virginia) to 1735 (Robertson in Virginia), with the rest in between.
What we see all over is the humorous (and sometimes not so humorous) wisecracks about how we talk, what we eat, and so on. TV shows our women as Big Bust Bimbos (My mother was a Carter and really liked that) and our men as whiskey-making Good Ole Boys.
We see a ton of "Redneck" items that we are supposed to own.
What the "Visitors" don't realize......we are nice to them, but we really don't like their attitude!
The South is a very old culture.......good and bad! We have managed to maintain our basic identity and absorb all the various groups.....English, Scot, German, Irish, and you name it. From each we took some traditions. We are a mixed genetic pool.
We have taken a lot of flak about slavery in our past ......by the same people that had child labor, treated the Irish and Italians like trash, and so on.
No, we have not forgotten the War Between the States....and never will. The corrupt Reconstrution Period was worse that what was done to Japan or Germany.
With this said.....You are most welcome here since your attitude is all we ask! After all the South is all about attitude, not location of birth.......Best Regards, James

Grits is corn.

Ioway is corn.

How come you don't like grits, DOK?

kdub,

Thought about that and figured that since grits is refined corn, I must not be refined enough??

Dan

Dan.......
With this said.....You are most welcome here since your attitude is all we ask! After all the South is all about attitude, not location of birth.......Best Regards, James

James,

Very interesting comments, and to the point, I've never had any of the locals be inconsiderate or rude, in fact, just the opposite. And it's not the type of "smile to get a bigger tip" that I'm used to, but just plain friendly folks.

I've found myself chuckling when I realize that I frequently wish those d..... Northerners would go home......or at least stay off my golf courses!

kenh,

Excellent point!

Dan

We have taken a lot of flak about slavery in our past ......by the same people that had child labor, treated the Irish and Italians like trash, and so on.

I have always found humorous the fact that the Northern states were the ones selling the South the slaves. And the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation only freed the slaves in states in rebellion, while the slaves in the Northern states were not freed.

I have also found that interesting! .........James

I have also found that interesting! .........James


Hey hey hey....the 'North' ain't all bad. The Northeast certainly has 'earned' some of it's reputation for one thing or another that people don't like. But I think you'll find more rural peoples to have more in common than not, regardless of how far north or south of the Manson-Nixon (yes, joke) line they happen to be.

Every place has it's stereotypes: both people and cultural. Once you can start to meet people form different places, much of that stuff disappears. I'm a very, very proud VT'r, with roots back to the founding of this state (you know, the one with the constitution that banned slavery before we were even a state). And there's plenty I don't have in common with those who think they KNOW what a 'Northerner' is. By the same token, like James mentioned, there's plenty of pre and misconceptions about the South too. But, I know there's a ton of difference among the different peoples and places there. Just as the North is to be in no way, shape or form defined by people from NYC, NJ or where ever they come from to visit the South (see, even we have a problem with big-city people), I don't assume that Alabama, GA, and NC produce the same people.

Anywho, had to stick up for my Northern genes. There aren't alot of us on here!! :D

jonas