Yankee Girl Survives First Year at Southern University

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by amIblue?

Yep, Memphis is SOL just like the people in San Antonio and Shreveport and damn near every other city down here except for Atlanta, Miami, Dallas, and Houston.

If you're not going to be picky about the entire point of the thread, why don't you also include states that are franchise-free or with only a few franchises like the Dakotas, Nevada, Oregon, Vermont, and Hawaii to make your point?

Because I don't take what's been posted in this thread as seriously as you do, I guess?

I used some states in the southern half of the US as an example. That's all. Sorry if I somehow offended you..

[ASTalumna06]

I would also argue that the distance between cities with professional sports teams is greater in the south than in the north. And the New England states like Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are "cut off" from other major cities with sports teams and don't have one large college to rally around, so they follow the professional teams in Boston more than anything else.

[limegreen]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I would also argue that the distance between cities with professional sports teams is greater in the south than in the north. And the New England states like Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are "cut off" from other major cities with sports teams and don't have one large college to rally around, so they follow the professional teams in Boston more than anything else.

So very true. In the Midwest you can be in any number of cities within 2-3 hours. Chicago and Milwaukee are only an hour apart. Most of the major cities in the South are a healthy 3-4 hour drive apart.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by ASTalumna06

I would also argue that the distance between cities with professional sports teams is greater in the south than in the north. And the New England states like Maine, Vermont, and New Hampshire are "cut off" from other major cities with sports teams and don't have one large college to rally around, so they follow the professional teams in Boston more than anything else.

Oh, absolutely. The Red Sox have a state celebration day for every New England state because their fanbase is mostly comprised of those six tiny states, and the New England Patriots are named as such for similar reasons (and also because the team is actually not that close to Boston). Boston is the cultural hub of New England, so we're all drawn to what goes on in it.

South Carolina, in my opinion, doesn't have one centralized hub but rather three fanbase regions-Clemson, Columbia, and Charleston, with less emphasis on Charleston because they don't have a college football team. South Carolinians root for a collegiate team not only because that's what's closest to them but also because even if they didn't go to the school lots of people around them have and it best represents that area.

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

Oh, absolutely. The Red Sox have a state celebration day for every New England state because their fanbase is mostly comprised of those six tiny states, and the New England Patriots are named as such for similar reasons (and also because the team is actually not that close to Boston). Boston is the cultural hub of New England, so we're all drawn to what goes on in it.

Although CT tends to be split between supporting Boston and New York teams. You can even find a mix in certain areas of RI.

[barbino]

Originally Posted by ArtsyChick

I took a trip to San Antonio for a cousin's wedding... I definitely can't pull off the "y'all", I have no drawl! Nice trip for some warm weather, I love the Midwestern winter, but it snowed last week! It's supposed to be spring!

Oh, and the San Antonio river walk is gorgeous!!

We went to San Antonio for our honeymoon (15 years ago this week!) and it is my favorite town. The River Walk is amazing. I have always wanted to move to SA, and we almost did at one point. To me, it's very "Tex-Mex" - a little bit of Texas & a little bit of Mexico combined.

[srmom]

Texas is its own country.

Yes! Although with all the out of state plates lately, I think we are being invaded

[limegreen]

Cart.

I'll cop to calling a water/drinking fountain a bubbler.

[clemsongirl]

Originally Posted by limegreen

Cart.

I'll cop to calling a water/drinking fountain a bubbler.

You mean caht and bubblah?

[limegreen]

Nope. I'm from the other state that calls it a bubbler.

[xibair]

Being from another planet (California) we called carts – shopping carts.

What do north and south call vacuum cleaners? I have to poke fun of Ohioans. They call vacuum cleaners Sweepers. What the heck?
I remember during the beginning of my marriage my husband asked me for the sweeper. I figured he wanted to sweep something, so I gave him a broom. I will never forget his look.

[Sciencewoman]

cart

Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."

[ASTalumna06]

Originally Posted by clemsongirl

You mean caht and bubblah?

Ha, heck yea!

Originally Posted by xibair

Being from another planet (California) we called carts – shopping carts.

What do north and south call vacuum cleaners? I have to poke fun of Ohioans. They call vacuum cleaners Sweepers. What the heck?
I remember during the beginning of my marriage my husband asked me for the sweeper. I figured he wanted to sweep something, so I gave him a broom. I will never forget his look.

For some reason, this made me think of Hawaii and the fact that they call flip-flops "slippahs".. and no, that isn't me using a Boston accent.

[MysticCat]

Cart.

[angels&angles]

Originally Posted by Sciencewoman

Also, I find it interesting that many people don't consider Oklahoma to be "southern." From my upper midwestern perspective, every Oklahoman I've met has been a lot closer to southern than they are to midwestern, at least in terms of speech patterns and dialect. I saw a tornado survivor being interviewed on the Today Show this morning, and he said, "fixin' to."

Midwesterners swear we're Southern, Southerners swear we're the Midwest. Geography books say we're Southwestern which is the most patently false of them all, and they won't take us either.

Oklahoma: America's red-headed step-child.

(I identify as Midwestern but other Okies disagree. With a deep-Southern father, and a northeastern mother, growing up in OK, I was always going to be a muddle.)