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Originally posted by AKA_Monet
Strong Roots in the South.
My Father is from Florida, born in Panama City...
My Mother is from Georgia, born in Tate County--yes, the back hills folks!
My Paternal Grandparents were raised in Quincy, Florida
Both parents attended Fisk, back in the day. For some reason, all my dad's friends sent their kids to Spelman and Morehouse in Atlanta, Georgia. And for some reason, I attended Spelman, rather than University of California at Berkeley or Santa Cruz...
Don't ask me why I wasn't born in Tennessee, but born in NorCal, Fairfield outside of Sacramento. Then it was my Mama that saw SoCal and said "We livin' heerah!!!"
To this day, my folks sound extremely southern. None of my SoCal friends without southern heritage understand my folks. And while I've decided to move back to what I wouldn't call deepsouth, just don't tell some folks in Bush country that, I will always miss my South--er, Southern California home. With the Earthquakes, the sunshine, the lack of severe weather, the waves and the sand. YES, I must move in order to gain more when I come to my old home, if some terrorist organization doesn't decide to take out LA, today...
Besides it's too dayum expensive out here anyways!!! Median houses are $305,000!!! Who the hell can afford that??? Forget SoCali, I love it, but I gotta let it go...  
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I feel you on that! I am a proud Cali girl true and true. I joke with my boyfirend all the time about the South, and its "ways", it's just like if you are from here you can't understand how truly slower the pace is. It doesn't matter if I am talking from someone from Cali or New York, Chicago or Detroit we all can relate to how "slow" things are down here.
I like the South, I like to live here mainly because there is a much larger network of positive blacks (who know they are black) that live here. I graduated from a HBCU which is what brought me down South, and I am in the process of relocating to Texas from Louisiana, so I plan to stay in the South.
From a historical perspective though and particulary here in Louisiana where I live,there is a westward migration (mainly to Texas) and a major lack of oppurtunities in this state for educated people, in fact statistically at this rate, there will be mostly unskilled workers and the elderly left here in the next 20-30 years. I actually like this state, but I am young and realize that my best oppurtuinites are elsewhere, however due to the hospitality, cost of living and just good feeling I get when I am down South I have choosen to make it my home.