What is The South?
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- People refer to it all the time. We talk about its food and its history and its heat, but what is The South? What states should be included when someone talks about the south? That depends on who you’re talking to.
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Ironically, Southern Florida is as far from “South” as you can get
Daddy Donald I can agree but north and central Florida is southern
Daddy Donald first the yankees need to leave it to make it the south again
ok but south south like miami ain't the south
They say in Florida that, the further North you go the further South you get.
Florida is in the northern hemisphere, so it’s definitely not “south”
I don't consider anything west of Texas the south that's just me tho
Remmy 96
I don't even consider Western Texas the South cause it's too Mexican-American.
Yeah, I'd always call that the "Southwest" it's about as similar to The South as New York is to LA.
john murphy parts of south Texas. It’s stops after Houston I’d say
I consider it the Wild West.
Where my Nevadians at?
Hell yea or east of arkansas
The Mason Dixon line is imaginary? Well, aren't all borders imaginary, then?
its a cultural border. not really an actual geographical border.
No, that line is a cultural line within the US. Borders mark areas where a nation has control.
fucking globalist
Exactly. Borders are indeed imaginary. There is no physical line. Inb4 “hurr but trumps wall!!!”
J MM borders are real. It shows where a country has control.
Missouri is a tough one because the northern half is distinctively midwestern but the southern half in the Ozarks, or Ozark Mountains, is definitely southern. It's basically split in two at the Missouri River
BackyardExploration Missourian here and I agree with this
Kansas City and St. Louis are distinctly Northern cities, since those are the largest population centers and since Missouri didn’t secede from the Union, I would consider it a Northern state. Not to say there aren’t rural/Southern cultural parts of the state.
I've read Ozark literature and seen some of Bourdain's special in the Missouri Ozarks and I would disagree. The culture is a mishmash between Southern and Midwestern; an Ozarks accent sounds halfway between a thick Tennessee accent and a neutral (maybe Kansan) Midwestern accent. It's not nearly as Southern as, say, the Arkansas side of the Ozarks.
Having said that, Missouri as a whole is equally Southern and Midwestern. It was torn during the Civil War, and even today sits between these two identities. St. Louis is a culturally Midwestern city, but was also a huge center for blues, jazz and rock n' roll (music styles usually associated with Southern cities like New Orleans and Nashville) during the early 20th century. Kansas City is famous for its barbecue, even though THAT method of cooking meat is associated with the South. So it's definitely a blend, and difficult to define.
Missouri is in the Midwest
I would say Missouri southern
So the conclusion is:
No real conclusion
J D North Carolina is definitely in the south lol
J D north Virginia is 100 percent not south
New Mexico and Arizona are nit southern
Jackson Hopkins New México did exchange hands during the war a few times and was indeed originally part og the south
Implying that all csa states are now "southern"
that's what I'm saying
But they seceded
they are.
...New Mexico didnt succeed from America in the civil war. We weren't even a sate till 1912....
Autumn Castaneda they were territories.
The southern half of New Mexico did.
@@3seven5seven1nine9 technically it was invalid
Mason Dixon line doesn’t matter anymore, Maryland isn’t southern
JSF107 maryland is the south dummy
JSF107 have you ever been to the Eastern Shore?
Mark Nay the Eastern Shore is property of a true southern state Virginia
Darren Davis you probably haven’t been to the south ever Maryland is not southern nor is Delaware
You've never been off the I-95 cooridoor have you?
Can't believe he called Virginia a "boarder state." It was the birthplace of Southern culture, the home of the foremost Confederate heroes, and not to mention the capital of the Confederate States of America.
It aint the south never will be
hi.. 'Border States' are still Southern. They just (for the most part) didn't secede. Virginia actually didn't want to initially secede, they wanted to remain neutral in the dispute between Lincoln and the deep South. But when Lincoln tried to conscript Virginia to fight sister Southern states.. then Virginia became motivated secessionists. peace
That was a 160 years ago. Today things have changed. I would agree southern Virgina is still southern but the eastern and northern parts of the state have been yankeeinized over the years.
@@dvferyance Yeah, this is an interesting debate. I understand your point, Northern Virginia has a lot of Yankee transplants & modern day carpetbaggers.. but having recent transplants doesn't necessarily change the definition of 'the South'. Virginia is still below the Mason-Dixon, it still has hundreds of years of history as a Southern colony/state.. and Virginia, demographically, is still within the 'Black Belt'. All characteristics of the South. Northern Virginia government workers have changed Virginia to some degree politically, but it doesn't suddenly remove VA from the South. /peace
@@GeorgeWashingtonX The Mason Dixon line got it's name from 2 surveyors named Mason and Dixon whose job it was to map out the state line between Pennsylvania and Maryland. It really wasn't supposed to be about the boundry line between the north and the south. That is kind of a myth that started that. Yes I know Richmond did for a time serve as the capitol of the confederacy although the confederates should have kept in in Montgomery. But that was 160 years ago culture changes over time.
I continue to watch videos like this because Texas is always undecided 🤷🏻♀️ I took a Texas history class in college and my professor said “southern history doesn’t claim Texas and western history doesn’t either, that’s why, for now, Texas is just Texas” 😂 I see my state as very southern and very southwestern, as well as a lot of Mexican influence (obviously); we have the landscape, dialect and personality of both lol. I have a friend from north Carolina that says Texas isn’t the south (which I found odd because obviously she hasn’t been around enough of Texas to see the cultural similarities; I’ve been all over the US so I can see differences). Texas is just unique! Let’s be real
That’s how I feel. Southern or not... western or not.. Texas is still the shit and have our own way of doing things that separates us from other places. Not to mention this is where all the real cowboys and cowgirls roam ain’t no denying that
I’m from Tennessee (Memphis) and everyone here considers Texas the South, no questioning 😂
@@DomItDown Facts. I don't what is today folks saying we ain't Southern. Cowboy ain't even Texas culture we just went with it to disassociate ourselves from the south, but our speech and way of life says the south made us.
I 35 is the dividing line between the west and the south. El Paso is not Southern. Houston is not western.
Texans are Texans first, Southerners second, Americans third
Where my Floridian's at???
BigCountry 92 mmmmm
Hell yea
DUUUUUUVAAAAL
some parts of Florida are too far south to be considered the south imo xD
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The south to me is the Bible Belt
That's the true South, yeah!
North Florida is in that belt (we don't like our South Florida neighbors to well cuz they Yankee)
That would include Kansas, Most of Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri, and all the rest, except Florida and Maryland.
Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell are from Virginia. Lynchburg, VA has Liberty U. Couldn't get any more Bible Belt than that
Big rig Fishing I live in Arkansas and I can tell you that people on the Eastern side of Oklahoma especially act very southern. At least from what I've seen.
The South is any state that fought for the Confederacy, has sweet tea readily available, and has grits at any sit down diner.
North Florida is definitely the South. We're not South Georgia or Southern Alabama, we're North Florida. Southern and proud
I know this comment is 2 years old but I’m originally from Florida and have lived in Panama City and when I think of the Deep South I think of Panama City first
The south is made up of 13 states Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Texas, Georgia, Virginia, Arkansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Oklahoma, and Louisiana.
Vandikit I agree minus Oklahoma.
FL,TX,OK and KY are only partially southern.
dvferyance how the heck is Texas partially southern most of the southern stereotypes came from Texas
Florida isn't southern, it's a separate entity entirely just like Texas, but Texas has a better argument for being "southern". Florida down to maybe Jacksonville can qualify, any further south is a whole different ball game.
The proper power south lineup is this: southern Virginia, southern Missouri into Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, eastern Oklahoma and the cream of the crop: North and South Carolina.
I wouldn't consider El Paso or San Antonio to be in the south. That is the southwest
Historical Maryland yes was southern, but modern day Maryland isn't
Agreed, not so much no (at least the parts that decide the state's politics). But only due to an influx of northern transplants back around the 70's. Now the same is happening to Virginia, and who's next? North Carolina? That's why out of respect for most of her history I consider Maryland Southern.
Yea it is
@EABOY2600 Southern is used in American conversation to refer to both geography and "how you act".
@EABOY2600geographicly Maryland is in the south, culturally the majority of marylanders align and identify themselves with the Northeast. I'm born, raised, and live in Maryland... when I talk, people say I have a North East accent. Politically we align ourselves with Northeast politics. The Amtrak Northeast Corridor is between DC and Boston. So in modern day cultural sense, Maryland is northeast.
Yes, There are Parts on the Eastern Shore and Western Maryland where people identify themselves as "Southern" but that is a minority of the population of Maryland. The bulk of marylanders who live in Central Maryland don't identify themselves with the South.
@EABOY2600 are you from Maryland? If not, then you don't get a say where Marylanders Align and identify themselves.
Where my Texans at?
Abbyabby20237 here
Right here
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Delaware and Maryland aren’t southern
I agree and it's not even debatable.
dvferyance clearly you have never been to northern, southern or eastern maryland.
They are hybrid/border states. Mix of North and South.
Wrong I have and I have also been to DC. It's by no means anything like Nashville or Atlanta not anywhere close. Maryland is a reliably Democratic state it is part of the northeast not the south it's much closer to Canada than it is to the gulf of Mexico. Just becasue slavery was legal there 150 years ago does not make it the south today.
Well, actually history matters. In that sense, Maryland is part of the Old South, as well as Virginia. But the state was too weakly Southern to maintain that identity. The South is the 11 former states of the Confederacy. That leaves out the border states of Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, etc.
Oklahoma was "Indian Territory" during the Confederacy. But today Oklahoma is every bit as "Southern" as Kentucky, West Virginia, The Carolinas, Arkansas, Texas & Tennessee.
noted by a hard slap sly received by a lady for swearing in front of her in that show ' Tulsa King'
Texas , Florida, Oklahoma, Maryland, Delaware, Arkansas, Alabama, Kentucky, Virginia, Mississippi, Louisiana, Georgia,north Carolina, south Carolina, any part of Missouri south of i-44,Tennessee, west Virginia
Maryland is Mid-Atlantic, not Southern. So is Delaware.
Virginia is mid Atlantic too dodo bird. Yet it’s the capital of the south. Mid Atlantic means bordering states which is what Virginia is. Delaware, DC, Maryland and Virginia are all bordering states but are still the south
@@JabrenHarris98 Virginia is the only state in the south .. the rest are not.. geographically those states are definitely not the south and have you ever visited those places.. definitely seems more east coast then south .. the dialect, culture, weather everything is more east coast.. Virginia barely makes the cut if u ask me . But oh well…
@@stealthehedgehog6634 😂😂😂 I’m from the dmv area Maryland is literally right next to Virginia and Delaware is not that far. Do you even know what east coast? Clearly not east coast means states on the eastern coast line next to the ocean 🤦🏾♂️. Georgia is the east, Florida,NC and SC man y’all don’t know anything. And if you ever been (which I can tell you haven’t) Maryland is country asf outside of Baltimore and the dc metro. Also Maryland and Delaware are under the mason Dixon so yeah geographically Maryland and Delaware are the south. Where do you think Harriet Tubman and Frederick Douglass are from NYC? Philly?
Virginia may be a Mid-Atlantic state also A Southern state too. Because It borders West Virginia. Kentucky. Tennessee and North Carolina. That's why they call it The "UPPER" South. Maryland on the other hand is different. They may be Mid-Atlantic yes, But their more Northern Because their above Virginia
And also In between The Virginia and Tennessee border, In a Small town of Bristol. Is the BIRTHPLACE of country Music
States generally considered southern: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas. Predominantly southern: Texas, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Kentucky.
Partly southern: Florida, Missouri, West Virginia, Virginia.
Associated with the south for some purposes: Maryland, Delaware.
You can’t put Arkansas and North Carolina as “The South” and not put Texas and Tennessee
Oklahoma ain't no predominantly southern. Its partially, which mean it's not a real southern state
Most of Virginia is still part of the Bible belt. BTW, the author of the "sweet tea " line study, later admited it was fake.
Meade Music yeah I live in southern Virginia, and I order sweet tea whenever I'm at a restaurant, and I go above the "sweet tea line" all the time and still get sweet tea, all the fast food chains have it in the whole state, and most sit down restaurants do too. Idk where they came up with that line it isn't accurate
It’s about right. I’m fro Richmond. My woman and I went to Maryland and she was surprised they didn’t have Sweet Tea. I told her they wouldn’t and she didn’t believe me. They gave her that god awful tea out of the soda dispenser. She was livid, it was hilarious.
Kudjoe Adkins-Battle yeah but Maryland is a weird state anyway.
I know. VA is home to Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, two of the biggest televangelist ever. Plus Liberty University is the biggest Christian School in America.
Southern and western Virginia still are anything from Richmond northward is not and especially not the DC metro area.
There were some people in Maryland that fought for the South and some who fought for the North during the Civil War. That's why a lot of older people here call it "the state that turned brother against brother."
Same with delaware
Seeing how after all these years Americans still have to struggle with the mental divide between North and South, it really makes me wonder how long the West/East divide here in Germany will last. Or Korea, even, if they ever get their long deserved reunification.
Do the East Germans want to separate from the rest like some Southern Americans?
@@Ivan-jl6cf1 I’m a southern American and I think it’s a horrible idea to separate
They forgot North Florida
Yeah, north Florida is definitely southern, but oddly southern Florida isn’t.
Yeah I live at the bottom of Georgia, so when you get to north Florida it really doesn’t change that much
I’ve lived in Florida all my life and I can confirm that the more north you go the more southern it is.
I'm from DC and we say "Ya'll" a lot. I even here "yall's" every now and then.
We say that in South Jersey. Go to Atlantic City you can hear it. 😂
I always considered the South to be what used to be the slave states just 'cause in every history class I've ever had they always refered to those states specifically as the South
People never accurately depict the "sweet tea" split. In the south (and even many areas of northern New Jersey), they have "iced tea", which tastes like cold tea, as well as "sweet tea", which tastes like cold tea with a lot of sugar. In the North however, we only have "iced tea", BUT it tastes _MUCH SWEETER_ than the South's "sweet tea", it's almost more of a juice, similar to Snapple, Brisk, and Arizona.
Then you've never had Milos sweet tea...
Then it ain’t sweet tea. Sweet tea doesn’t taste like juice. It taste like good ole southern sweetness
Born and raised south mississippi dat cajun blood
im from the magnolia state mississipp.neworleans What part of Mississippi and I'll let you know. #Louisianian here
I thought it was a louisiana thing only as well
Audie Murphy definitely in Mississippi as well especially the more south and towards Louisiana you go
Proud Cajun from Texas/Louisiana here :)
Man ppl b hating on Mississippi ion get it I know it has a bad history but speaking now I would consider it a top 10 state by cost of living and stuff and California would definitely b last that state is a disgrace to the country
I grew up in a very Southern town in Kansas, just north of the Mason-Dixon Line. Of course, it was settled by Virginians and South Carolinians. When I first visited the North East, I was often asked what part of the South I was from!
Too much German heritage in KS to be part of the south. Jayhawkers were abolitionists.
Like I said, there weren't any Jayhawkers in my hometown. In fact, it almost ceased to exist when the War broke out, because the men all went back to fight for Virginia and South Carolina..
All of Virginia outside of northeast part of the state is southern.
mt mt facts
Maryland is the south!!, we where a slave state and birth place of Fredrick Douglas and Harriet Tubman, and not the whole Maryland fought with the union, some fought with the confederate also
Get this Frederick Douglass escaped slaves exactly 68 years before I was born ...!!?? Wow WOW
Maryland is northeast
Jamil Conner Maryland is in the south. It’s just certain parts of MD have a northern culture.
Preach Bro Maryland is definitely the south nice 2 c someone else has a good understanding ab how things b working
Jamil Conner hell no
Saying pen and pin the same way....yep. We do. Never realized it. At work i say “can i have a pen?” But it comes out like “pin”
Nikki D how else could ya say it lol
Same for me with cot and caught
There's a small part of California that does this as well, because it's were Okie migrants settled.
Yeah, I like to think I'm pretty well traveled, at least in the US, and I can't figure out the difference.
Matthew Swenson yep that's where the term Okie comes from. From Californians that hated the oklahoman's that came there during the Dust Bowl to pick grapes.
The southern states to me are the 13 states that represent the 13 stars on the Confederate flag, that includes missouri, Kentucky and Maryland
But Maryland doesn't have a star on the flag.
@@jessevinson3621 🤣🤣🤣
Maryland is a democrat hell
missouri remained a union state. we are midwesterners. don’t insult us
One would not be represented 11+3=14.
I can promise you that the lower quarter of Indiana is more Southern culturally than a lot of places in the geographic South are.
I used to work in Jeffersonville and in Floyd county and can confirm.
Family's from Floyd county, and I swear, they have the strongest southern accents I've ever heard.
It is not it may be southern if your comparing it to Minnesota or North Dakota. But compared to Tennessee or Georgia not anywhere close. The strongest southern accents come from Georgia and Alabama.
Southern is pretty subjective. I'm from West Virginia and am consistently told by people from the deep south i.e. Georgia, Alabama, South Carolina, etc that I am from way up north but then people from Michigan and Massachusetts all act like I'm from the deep south. Just because someone is not from the deep deep South doesn't mean that they won't have a strong accent because I can assure you that people from Eastern Kentucky can have some pretty thick accents.
I'd say that the strongest accents are in Alabama and Tennessee. Southwestern Virginia has a strong southern accent. South Georgia, too.
I think the Bible Belt and sweet tea lines are the most accurate. I live in northern Virginia and it’s basically a mini DC
They were proven to be false. Most of Virginia is part of the Bible Belt. Northern Virginia is slowly pulling away from the rest of the state because of transients.
I agree! I live in Loudoun County and whenever I go below Richmond is a totally different state!
Chloe Fischer Below Fredericksburg. Richmond is Southern !
Meade Music my bbbbbbb, I have a ton of friends that go to VCU in Richmond, and the general vibes of that area is not southern, but I have no real experience with the rest of the city:)
Yes, it's Southern. Even with the hipsters. Richmond is an old South city. Your friends are wrong. Fredericksburg is Southern too. Fredericksburg is now where the real Virginia starts.
Central Maryland is basically just extended DC, but if you go out to the Eastern Shore or some spots in the North or West, you'll still find some parts of the original Southern culture.
I don't agree with what you said on Central MD, but I can see why you think that.
What do you mean by "some spots in the North or West"? I've heard the west part, but never "the North". What spots are you referring to?
S Plass I think I must've meant the Northwest lol, sorry. That area in general seems very agricultural and still kind of holds on to the old culture. When I said that central Maryland was extended DC, I think I meant more in terms of culture than like the actual city. It's very "Northernized".
I understand it a little better now. For reference, I'm from Carroll County. I don't feel Southern, but I'm not fond of the Urban Northeast either, not by any stretch of the imagination. So I'd say I'm some sort of Mid-Atlantic (Northern) Conservative I guess.
(Not really sure what makes a southerner a southerner to be honest)
Just for clarification, northern is in parentheses, and with good reason. It's a very weak "northern". I don't identify much with either, but if I had to pick I'd probably go with northern over southern.
Mid Atlantic is not the Northeast. That's why it's called Mid Atlantic!
Born and raised in the South. Great video. Fun video.
Lol, I love how California is cut out as well in the beginning of the video.
As the years go by, Maryland will become more and more of a Northern State. Especially after some high speed rail goes through NYC and DC.
Same with delaware
It's funny how Florida is the most southern state on the continental U.S. but it's still considered the least southernly state of the southern states.
Thank you lol thank you so much. Was looking for this very comment or I was going to write it lol, me either though I'm from West Orlando been here all my life, and we literally talk southern and eat southern food and our culture is southern so idk 🤷🏿♂️. I been saying this for years man, like I guess bc we have so many tourists and people who move here and there not natives
Because southern Florida is like the Caribbean
From a Virginian's perspective, somewhere in the middle of Virginia separates the north and the south.
Id say Fredericksburg
Same with West Virginia. It splits almost directly across the center.
Nah lower delaware
Me being from Louisiana, I’m just here for the comments 😂
If you want to get into a fistfight tell someone in Kentucky they aren’t part of the south.
Kentucky never has been and never will be the south, and if it was, Kansas would be too, though it's clearly middle America
@@Zachpoteet380 boy you’d think there were 10 of me
Kentucky was a Union state and today it’s more industrial… it’s more oriented towards the Midwest and the North. If there’s anything Southern about it, it’s on a lighter level and not the same type of “South” as the Deep South.
@@Zachpoteet380 u beg to differ it may or may not be now but before and imediatly after the civial war i can assure you it was very southern JEFFERSON DAVIS WAS BORN IN CHRISTAN COUNTY KY AND WAS EDUCATED LATER IN LIFE IN LEXINGTON EVEN TJOUGH HE DID SPEND MOST OF HIS LIFE IN MISSISSIPPI and yes i know lincolin was born here too
In Florida, the more north you go, the more southern it gets.
California is like that too
Someone used to say that the border of the south was wherever you could stop your car and people would yell, "hell yeah," if you asked if it was the south. This was the "hell yeah," line. I always lked that one.
I’m from DC .. and often get told I sound “country”
My family is originally from Mississippi.. migrated to Louisiana and then ultimately DC & Maryland
Im a Québécois from Québec city and I love the South of us!
I’m from Arizona and I consider my state Western. I also consider Texas Western too.
Douglass MacArthur west texas. But east texas is southern.
Alante Gipson I agree. East Texas is Southern.
East Texas is the south, North and Central Texas can be a hybrid of Western and Southern cultures. South Texas is more Mexican influenced
Only anything west of san Antonio and Austin is considered western. Were I live and southeast Texas is very much southern. Texas is a huge state so the regions all differ from eachother.
*southwestern
The South Is any state that knows that barbecue is a verb and not an event where people usually grill meat on a charcoal or gas grill which in the South is properly called a cookout
Delaware
northern West Virginia isn't part of the south, literary the top of the panhandle is at the same level as New York city.
That imagination line is very real in a lot of folks' minds
I'm from Kentucky and we are very south
There are certain cultural aspects that are considered southern that can be found in places across the country. I wouldn’t necessarily consider those area southern, but they certainly have southern influences.
Southeastern mo is definitely southern
I'd add Southwest MO, as well.
I have seen confederate flags around the Springfield Joplin area.
The lower third of Missouri is southern or like the South.
You could roughly put our own "Mason Dixon Line" at Interstate 44 through the state
I have family in the Poplar Bluff area. Definitely Southern
The South is the best place to live now.
Bullshit
4sure, I really like it except for the heavy downpours in the spring and the unbearable humidity, which really depends on what part of "the south" you're in
What’s the south? Christin Bell. But you
Know, what ever. I fricken love the south!!! I in SOUTH Carolina if your
Wondering
Born in florence, raised in dillon, myrtle beach, cherry grove,mullins and columbia. And I'm only 20
Same I'm in Columbia, SC
SAME
i live in south carolina myrtle beach
South Carolina ain’t southern
Speaking as a native Marylander, we would have left the Union if it wasn't for martial law
Southern Missouri also needs to be considered part of the Bible Belt as well--particularly the Ozarks. Also, it's much more "Southern" in culture and lifestyle than the rest of Missouri is. In other words, I suppose what I'm saying is that we'd like membership in the South!
Already are part of the south bordering Arkansas all the way to about up to Kentucky ... So about 150 miles north from Mo Ark line .. IMO
South of the Missouri River is culturally Southern, the Ozarks and St Francios Mountains are too.
Wait why only sell unsweetened tea or sweet tea? I live in Georgia and the McDonald's near me has both
Lucas Fernandez McDonald's in berea Ohio sells sweet tea
As someone from GA, I think he is way too liberal in his definition of The South. The South includes Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Mississippi, and Virginia (which can be south or not).
dispeaking1 bruh have you ever been to Kentucky
Virginia is Southern anywhere from Fredericksburg on down.
dispeaking1 you forgot Texas and the panhandle of Florida
So Louisiana and Arkansas aren’t the south? GTFOH
dispeaking1 texas too. My grandfather fought with ya'll
The Sun shines bright at my Old Kentucky home.
For people who say Florida isn't southern they just go to Florida for vacation and believe stereotypes. Florida is just as southern as Georgia and Alabama. Because in Florida college football is the biggest sport and I have seen confederate flags flay over people's homes.
Lol. Football in the US is big. Green Bay Packers. Come on man. Football is only a big thing in the US. It is not a Southern thing. Southerners talk a certain way and they always says "Ma'am". Florida had immigration from NE states to soak up the beaches. Northern Florida up in Jacksonville is Southern but Miami and the popular beaches areas is Cuban culture. There is nothing about Southern about Cuban Americans.
@@samuelmorales2344 to be fair he is probably talking about college football and I will say even south fl a bit is a bit southern in terms of culture although it has more transplants. See I’m from west fl aka lower Alabama and I was shocked when I first heard people say fl isn’t southern but it’s probably because out of all the southern states we have the most cities people want to vist and I don’t think anyone up north goes I really wanna go to mobile, so that really changes culture done south but they are mainly in cities and almost every city isn’t as southern as the rural parts
New Mexico and Arizona aren’t southern
Bryce Owens well they're in the south part of the US... So they kinda are
Not southern in the traditional sense.
Southwestern that is a different region.
GetMoney23 The King no the south rides their cousin and Texas rides horses
Anthem Animations ♥ no you’re western
If you're a Missourian and you say "Missour-uh," you're definitely a Southerner. Most of the southern part of Missouri considers itself the South. The northern part, including Kansas City, St. Louis, and Kirksville, considers itself Midwestern.
I concur...All of rural Mssouri is southern acting..
The exception is Springfield. It's geographically southern, but people from KC and mid Missouri have more of a southern accent.
The Boot heel is 50 miles further south than Kentucky, Virginia, and W. Virginia...
Lol I like how at the beginning of the video they include New Mexico and Arizona in the south
It could also just be the sun belt though that has different definitions as well, which generally includes California (roughly up to Sacramento, some definitions extend it to Redding), and Las Vegas, though Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, southern California, and Florida are all in the sun belt by every definition...some definitions also include Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Reno, and Salt Lake City, though it for sure does not go any further north than that
“Pen” and “pin” are pronounced the same and there’s no arguing that.
I only consider states that fought for the confederacy southern
West of I-35 in Texas is the Southwest. When you're past San Antonio on I-10 and you see beautiful sandstone buttes growing larger with more frequency, you can picture John Wayne leading a cavalry troop through hostile territory.
Came here because I was curious if they'd make the distinction between northern and southern Ohio. People don't consider southern Ohio the south, until they've been to the northeastern coast. Disappointed it wasn't mentioned, historically this is not just my opinion but one that has been around since the Civil war.
Any fellow South Carolinans here?
This video is okay I guess, but it failed to include all four of the border states during the civil war, which were Missori, Kentucky, Maryland, and West (western)Virginia. And the sweet tea line isn't relivent, all of Virginia is southern, every part of the state still has its cultural foundation in the old families like the Lees and the Hills, no matter how many northerners move inside her borders.(No offense to northerners)
1:18 also forgot West Virginia. This is actually why West Virginia is a state. They chose to stay in the union. Mainly because they really didn’t own slaves from the mountainy landscape. So it wasn’t a huge problem to them if slavery did or didn’t end.
Culturally, WV is very, very southern and is part of the Bible Belt.
I never really had this particular problem because I live in the deep South of Mississippi and Louisiana
urahara64360 where do you consider the south starts at?
@@whatchulookinatboy1393 Texas
Anybody from Tennessee?
Indeed.
Oh yeah buddy what a great state to live in
Me
Oklahoma is the south
Maryland did not fight for the north. Marylanders either went south to join a regiment in Virginia or joined the Maryland regiment. All of the Union Maryland regiments are all people from different states that are not from Maryland, most were from Pennsylvania. If anyone wants to argue with me, that is fine. I am free to educate the public about the real history of Maryland.
I love the South (with a southern accent)
Kaylee Ballinger Me too (with a southern accent)
I love the South (sometimes) (Without a southern accent)
I mostly enjoy it, but there are days I hate it (Oklahoma, which is basically northern, southern, central and midwest all at the same time) because I'm originally from California and am used to the scenery, dry heat and the sky being completely clear most days if the year...but I could never move back because I value my freedom more than a good looking state, cuz I ain't no fucking democrat
Thanks born and raised in Tennessee
I cross the Mason-Dixon Line daily over the Ohio River commuting to and from work. There is no difference evident when I cross. I think of where I live as a sort of "Mason-Dixon Zone," a blended region. Louisville, Ky. has strong labor unions and lots of Catholics, as does Southern Indiana. SI has lots of hills, hollows, fishin' spots, as does Kentucky. On both sides of the river, many people use the pronoun "you-all," through southern accents are less prevalent on both because of so many newcomers around here in the last 30 years. And because of the internet, localisms in speech are giving way to a more national language; we frequently say "soda" for soft drink. Thirty years ago, we called all colas "cokes," like in the deep south.
I lived in KY for a little bit. Yes u are right, there really isn't much of a difference there. Sure Kentucky is culturally southern but tbh I consider it more of a Midwestern state imo
@raw cramp Because it's split and it is. The parts near Louisville and Cincinnati are very Midwestern culturally and the Bluegrass regions looks a lot like Ohio. The rest of the State especially near Tennessee is obviously very southern
@Raw Camp Those counties near Cincinnati, plus Louisville have about 40 percent of Kentucky’s population, about 60 percent of its voter participation, and the vast majority of its industry and commerce. They are not little exceptions. They, plus the Bluegrass region, drive the state.
@raw cramp What part of, "40 percent is vastly more than 4 out of 120" is raw unable to grasp? Looks like Kentucky's famous educational quality is summed up in one person's posts.
Nice, just pretend the Mason Dickson Line doesn’t exist. West Virginia is the best part of the South.
Wym, y'all are traitors to the REAL Virginia
It’s way better than California no doubt Top 20 state right there bruh
Your missing the fact that Florida is dramatically different north of I4.
I live in Tennessee and ive noticed that it didnt even move once 😂😱
Maryland is not in the south
Ben Dover yes it is. Ever been to La Plata? It’s more southern than most of Virginia.
Not more Southern than Virginia. But Southern.
I agree. When I went to Baltimore, I never said to myself, "wow, I'm in the south"
Of course not. It's not a magic line, but it is an official start!
Ben Dover Maryland is very much south in parts of the state like the Delmarva peninsula. Every been there. You would know!
West Virginia is southern to me.
Anna Phillips I agree.
It's actually called "West" Virginia because it was NOT part of the South. Otherwise, it would just be part of Virginia still.
Never met someone from West Virginia that considered themselves southern
AndrewLuis CrespoDeMoura they are a part of the rust belt for sure, def not south at all. My uncle and cousins live in east Ohio and my aunt is from West Virginia and they definitely don't consider that area the south. If you call a soft drink "pop" you are pretty much disqualified from being a southern state
Danny M I never heard anyone in the south call it pop. The only people I met use that term were from West Virginia, Okio, and Oklahoma. Apparently it's all over the Midwest and Great Lakes too
The only Southern part of Missouri is approaching the Arkansas Border. All the parts where people really live are distinctly Midwestern (cows, wheat, and banks)
Re: the Civil War ... many Southerners fought for the Union. 31,000 soldiers were Union from Tennessee although the state seceded. Likewise, considerable numbers fought for CSA although they were from states that did not secede.
hey what the name of the song?
Anyone know?
To me the states that are real southern are AR,LA,MS,TN,AL,GA,SC and NC. FL is a strange one us it is more southern than all the rest but south FL is really quite different from the states father north.
Period!!
We Southern in central Florida though g, I'm from West Orlando
I’m over here in Oklahoma.. We are on the border of being southern and mid western...
Music is HECTIC
What divides the south from the north is the Mansion Dixson the Line in Missouri was a split state half fought for the south and half fought with the north . So the line is at Lexington MO including Kansas that is the furthest west it goes .
The Mason Dixon line is is just a nickname for the PA MD border. I am trying to get it straight for everyone who thinks it's some boundary between the north and the south that is a myth.
So... where is the line between north and south then? Mason Dixon is more relevant today than ever before.
I lived in Ft. Leonard wood all my life, & I'll never consider myself a Southerner. I consider myself a Midwesterner.
Vega Shultz Im from Virginia, and I'm Southern.
Vega Shultz yet im from Branson and consider myself southern. I think people south of i44 align more with the south.
Anything north of I-10 is north.
disney like me i 10 is at the bottom
Dude I went to school with some floridians who said the same exact thing
Make that I-64.
Venice Beach Calif is due south of the 10 freeway
disney like me so most of Georgia, Alabama, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and the entirety of the Carolinas, Tennessee, Arkansas and Virginia are not southern?
God Bless the WHOLE SOUTH.
Proudly from the Missouri Ozarks.
I grew up in the southwesternmost county in Pennsylvania. I would argue that Messrs. Mason and Dixon drew their line about 30 miles too far south.
There’s a gang of people in these comments that need geography lessons.
D Martin people are incorrectly thinking that rural areas are the qualification for being southern. Climate of the south is fairly uniform and the areas that the population will almost unanimously agree on as being southern doesn't stretch past Arkansas to the west and northern virginia is about as far as it goes, but states like Kentucky and West Virginia will mostly not identity as being a southern state
I didn’t know that Maryland was considered the south
Rebecca S it’s not, it’s mid Atlantic.
Historically yes, but not so much now.
Yes
The southern states are Maryland, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.
People also got to remember fl is not just south, its also east as well. Geo wise its east to. From main to fl is all east.