Slitherine

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I lived in Texas( San Antonio and Del Rio) as a kid and all I can remember of it are the Chiggers.

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Dont forget Paris & Karnack Texas..............(bet no one knows where the latter is at) !

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ORIGINAL: Gil R.

My father grew up in Tulsa, went to school in Dallas, and now lives in the New York City area. So what would a Texan make of him?

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ORIGINAL: christof139

On my way to Ft. Jackson, Columbia, SC in 1991 I stopped for the night at a truckers' motel in Spartanburg, SC, beautiful country there. Whilst visiting the motel's tavern I struck-up a friendly conversation with the bartender and a customer, both Floridians by birth, and we had a few ales etc.

So, I eventually asked this question: 'What do you think of all the Snowbirds, Yankees from north of the Mason-Dixon Line fleeing the North and invading Florida?? That's what it is, an invasion and flight from the cold Winters, a mass migration. Michigan is being depopulated. My family even has a place there.'

Well, one fellow looks at me, and gives a little smile and says, 'Mason-Dixon Line!??! Yankees!??! Hell, anyone north of the Florida border is a Yankee!!'

So, upon nearly choking on my beer from surprise and spontaneous laughter , I bought this fellow another beer and told him "You know what, I am never going to forget what you said. That is so funny and maybe true. Honestly.'

And to this day, I have not forgotten this bit of wonderfully humorous and partially true wit and words of wisdom. Honestly.

Chris

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That's a good story. What I find funny about it, having lived in Florida for a very long time, is that if you travel to the rest of the South, and mention you're from Florida, your status is a bit like being from California. People from out West don't consider California as part of the West, it's more it's own country, and the same seems to hold fro Florida and the South.
Thing is (and one of the things I love about America) is that Florida is really four States rolled into one. We are from North West Florida, which we affectionately call "Lower Alabama." We have about as much in common with Miami as we do with London!

Paul

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Well, one fellow looks at me, and gives a little smile and says, 'Mason-Dixon Line!??! Yankees!??! Hell, anyone north of the Florida border is a Yankee!!'

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Justin Wilson (cajun humorist and excellent cook) used to say the same thing..........."He was a Yankee from way up around Shreveport"................to him if you lived north of Alexandria (about half way between Lafayette & S'port) you were a Yankee!!!

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ORIGINAL: shenandoah

Justin Wilson was great to watch. Wine in everything! However, he was not a true cajun. The accent was just for show. I used to also watch Bob Ross, the painter. He also had some funny stories about Florida, Alaska and just about everywhere else.

shenandoah

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I really liked Justin's stories I gar-on-tee!

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I grew up in Georgia, Alabama, and (when visiting my grandparents) Mississippi, and I must say we never really felt that Florida was part of "Dixie." Maybe it was the Spanish influence--somehow Florida seemed a little different from the English-Scots-Irish culture left over in the Deep (but not As Deep) South.