primarily southern sororities

[sweetie adpi]

Originally posted by kateshort

I got a total of 133 active chapters. Is that right?

yep!
and if you figure the percentages:

WEST = 16 - 12%

MIDWEST = 32 - 24%

NORTHEAST = 12 - 9%

SOUTH = 70 - 53%

CANADA = 3 - 2%


... southern? yeah i think so

[IvySpice]

If we're talking numbers, we should probably consider the fact that SORORITIES are more popular in the South than they are elsewhere.

I'm not about to do that math here, but I think we'd find that the number of collegians does not follow the population distribution of the country. The Northeast has a gigantic population but practically no sorority collegians per capita compared to a small but heavily Greek state like Mississippi. So since sororities in general are skewed to the south...you'd expect that most truly nationwide sororities would reflect that imbalance numerically. In other words, they would look heavily southern, when in fact it's the sorority system that's heavily southern, and they're just reflecting that.

I guess my point is that I think Texas_Gal has an excellent point that Southern is a state of mind, and can't be measured with numbers.

Ivy

[Winterbloom]

SAI is obnoxiously Northern. Yay for all those music schools up north, I suppose. Being founded in Michigan doesn't hurt, neither.

Just to add my two cents, I was born and raised in Maryland and do consider myself a Southerner--accent included, free of charge. The only reason Maryland did not leave the Union was because Lincoln turned the guns of Ft. McHenry on Baltimore and said, "Go ahead, make my day."

ZTA is a very Southern sorority to me from what I know of their practices and such. I do love those girls to pieces.

~Emma

[sugar and spice]

Originally posted by IvySpice
If we're talking numbers, we should probably consider the fact that SORORITIES are more popular in the South than they are elsewhere.

I think the reason we were all taking numbers was so that we could compare the numbers of each individual group in specific regions . . . obviously there are more sororities in the South than in other regions, and as pointed out beforehand, more states that are considered "Southern" than in any other region. But at the same time, if you compare the percentage of, say, DZ chapters which are in the South to the percentage of ADPi chapters and to the percentage of DPhiE chapters, you get very different numbers for each group -- that's all I think people were doing the regional breakdowns for, is to have a basis for comparison.

I first off, I LOOOOOOVE my GLO. Alpha Phi ROCKS THE HOUSE!( as my little niece says)...she an Alpha Phi in waiting!

But it is true what is considered southern. I am born and raised southern californian. which means nothing, but I am from a very traditional southern family. My great grand dad was a Tenn Supreme Court Judge... who knew the Gore family. We have many UT alum's in my family. So i have heard many of those southern sorority sterotypes. But i also heard those names i listed below as the big GLO's.

I went to college down south in Arkansas ( Univ. of Arkansas) and let me tell you i got a quick education on southern sorority life... CHI O, Phi Mu, ADPI, Tri Delt, PI PHI, KD, ZTA and KKG are the powerhouse houses down south.

If i had to pick the one house that would be considered very southern belle-ish it would be Phi Mu. then Pi Phi. I almost COB'd Phi Mu but i didn't because they left campus and for other reasons. What i liked a lot about Phi Mu is that they are very girly and very southern. What I like about southern sororities is the fact that they value and embrace there southern roots, traditions and like every GLO ..... SISTERHOOD!

I love the south. Something very special about it. I would love to see More Alpha Phi expansion down south.

my 2 cents!

Laura ( a VERRRRY PROUD Alpha Phi!)

[JohnsDGsweethrt]

DG has chapters all over the place. Most in in CA and PA for a total of 143 I think. Maybe 144 when you include Auburn

[KillarneyRose]

This discussion about which states are considered "southern" brings to mind something a good friend of mine (a Clemson KKG, born and bred in Lancaster, South Carolina) said to me when I expressed surprise that her family considered her Maryland-born husband to be a "Yankee"......

"Honey, my family thinks people from North Carolina are Yankees!"

I guess it's all a matter of perspective!

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by JohnsDGsweethrt
DG has chapters all over the place. Most in in CA and PA for a total of 143 I think. Maybe 144 when you include Auburn

Yes, and Delta Gamma was founded in Mississippi! For origins, you can't get much more "Southern" than that!

[JohnsDGsweethrt]

Originally posted by CutiePie2000
Yes, and Delta Gamma was founded in Mississippi! For origins, you can't get much more "Southern" than that!

True that!

ZTA has 121 chapters in North Carolina, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma. All together we have 231 chapters which includes one in Canada.

[XOMichelle]

is that active chapters?

28 chapters are either inactive or inactive because sororities do not exist on that campus anymore.

[Peaches-n-Cream]

Originally posted by IvySpice
If we're talking numbers, we should probably consider the fact that SORORITIES are more popular in the South than they are elsewhere.

I'm not about to do that math here, but I think we'd find that the number of collegians does not follow the population distribution of the country. The Northeast has a gigantic population but practically no sorority collegians per capita compared to a small but heavily Greek state like Mississippi. So since sororities in general are skewed to the south...you'd expect that most truly nationwide sororities would reflect that imbalance numerically. In other words, they would look heavily southern, when in fact it's the sorority system that's heavily southern, and they're just reflecting that.

I guess my point is that I think Texas_Gal has an excellent point that Southern is a state of mind, and can't be measured with numbers.

Ivy

Do you mean that there are more sororities in the South than anywhere else?

I'm interested in seeing the numbers and statistics. New York State has over 50 colleges many of which have sororities. The chapters don't have the 150 + sisters per chapter that many big greek schools have, but they still do pretty well.