My wife was born in MN and has lived in the South for 43 years. I was born in SC and lived in the South all my life. She has more Southern traits then others who were born here but...
She likes to claim to be a Southerner but I won't let her. If you are born north of the Mason-Dixon line you will always be a Yankee no matter what.
We give each other a lot of crap, too.