A place where beliefs on creationism, race, nutrition, religious difference, childrearing, women's roles, gay rights, and labor rights are 150 years behind the rest of the country.
"I wanted to know more about the 1800s, so I went to the South. They don't find the behavior of this Paula Deen character at all out of the ordinary."
by Justice777 July 10, 2013
1. A direction, usually seen pointing downward on a compass.
2. A fairly large region of the United States. It consists of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and the southern half of Virginia. Sometimes Florida is considered part of the South. Kentucky and Missouri are NOT the South. Because of some Southern cultural and social connections, these two states are often considered Southern, but they are Midwestern states.
2. A fairly large region of the United States. It consists of North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, and the southern half of Virginia. Sometimes Florida is considered part of the South. Kentucky and Missouri are NOT the South. Because of some Southern cultural and social connections, these two states are often considered Southern, but they are Midwestern states.
1. Okay, so to get from Indianapolis to Louisville, you'll have to go south.
2. Missouri and Kentucky are not the South because they had large numbers of Irish and German immigrants, they didn't have strong institutions of slavery, and a lot of the people don't even sound Southern; they have neutral-sounding North or South Midland accents. Only the southernmost third of Kentucky and the southernmost parts of Missouri have truly "southern-sounding" people. Plus most of their economic ties are with their fellow Northern states around them, lots of people in Kentucky are descended from Pennsylvanians who came to Kentucky when it was the frontier in the late 1700s, and the overwhelming majority of both Kentuckians and Missourians fought for the North during the Civil War.
2. Missouri and Kentucky are not the South because they had large numbers of Irish and German immigrants, they didn't have strong institutions of slavery, and a lot of the people don't even sound Southern; they have neutral-sounding North or South Midland accents. Only the southernmost third of Kentucky and the southernmost parts of Missouri have truly "southern-sounding" people. Plus most of their economic ties are with their fellow Northern states around them, lots of people in Kentucky are descended from Pennsylvanians who came to Kentucky when it was the frontier in the late 1700s, and the overwhelming majority of both Kentuckians and Missourians fought for the North during the Civil War.
by The Midwestrn Soldier June 05, 2006
by Force Majeure January 12, 2009
1. A place where everyone wears a Larry the Cable Guy t-shirt and a Dixie Outfitter hat with one of those dumbass gold fish hooks on it.
2. A place where nobody finished high school because they were all too busy "throwing in a fat one" and dreaming of that deer they killed from hundreds of yards away while hiding in a tree stand wishing slavery was still legal and listening to Garth Brooks drone on about how great beef jerky is.
3. A place where nobody ever learns to read.
2. A place where nobody finished high school because they were all too busy "throwing in a fat one" and dreaming of that deer they killed from hundreds of yards away while hiding in a tree stand wishing slavery was still legal and listening to Garth Brooks drone on about how great beef jerky is.
3. A place where nobody ever learns to read.
Boy: Pa, I want to learn to read.
Father: READ!?! What are you, a damn Yankee? Have you forgotten your Confederate roots? You're from the South!
Boy: Hell yeah! Fuck reading!
Father: Good, now go get me my Skoal so I can watch Fox News.
Father: READ!?! What are you, a damn Yankee? Have you forgotten your Confederate roots? You're from the South!
Boy: Hell yeah! Fuck reading!
Father: Good, now go get me my Skoal so I can watch Fox News.
by The Freaking Pope December 04, 2005
The real America. Dixie- almost heaven. American by birth, Southern by the grace of God. Glory Glory Hallelujah.
by Southen Justice December 13, 2011
The region below the Mason Dixon line on the east coast of the United States of America. Full of haters, racists, homophobes,foot washing-snake handling baptists, and radical republicans. Most people in the south start drinking as soon as they get up in the morning, hence part of the reason southerners are about 60 years behind the times.
From the South:
John Wilkes Booth -killer of President Abraham Lincoln
Herman Cain-Republican primary candidate for president in 2012, thrice accused sex pervert.
Westboro Baptist Church - Homophobe headquarters. These assholes protest and picket funerals, equating everyone with the gay lifestyle.
Ku Klux Klan - Parent organization of the Westboro Baptist Church. But these guys are more hardcore, preferring violence and lynching as a way to get their message across.
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John Wilkes Booth -killer of President Abraham Lincoln
Herman Cain-Republican primary candidate for president in 2012, thrice accused sex pervert.
Westboro Baptist Church - Homophobe headquarters. These assholes protest and picket funerals, equating everyone with the gay lifestyle.
Ku Klux Klan - Parent organization of the Westboro Baptist Church. But these guys are more hardcore, preferring violence and lynching as a way to get their message across.
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by Rowandowneyriver November 27, 2011