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Do you consider yourself a "Southerner"

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Hold My Beer said:
I know The U has fans everywhere, but Florida is still home base at the end of the day.

Obviously being "Southern" means different things to different people, but just wanted to know what Canes Fam thinks

Me -- born and raised (all over) North Florida? Yes. 100 percent.

(This topic came up for discussion on a sports talk show up here in Atlanta wrt to best fits for SEC expansion)
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Yes up here in TN
 
RVACane said:
Well… we have the brown en recluse bite in common.
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Learned how to treat venomous bites - used it on my brown recluse bite 2nd day after bite.

Take the spark plug wire off a small engine and put it on the bite site. It stings, but 6 pops - and the venom is neutralized. Some hospitals in South America use this and it is an instant neutralization. Not recommended though if you have a pacemaker.

Second method that takes 30 minutes to completely neutralize a venomous snake bite, or brown recluse or black widow - ANY venom - is to push - and I mean PUSH 50 ml of ascorbic acid into a vein. Kick back, and in under 30 minutes it's all neutralized.

The commonality between ASCOR - or ascorbic acid - and the sharp gradient provided by the spark plug wire? Electrons.

Spark plug wire is a knows source of electrons. ASCOR has two electrons to donate. Some folks call ascorbic acid vitamin C, and there are other sources of vitamin C - but ascorbic acid has two electrons and the other versions only have one.

I find myself - a handful of us - in some very remote areas - far from medical facilities - and we've learned from many different people from many cultures - what they use. As long as it works - we use it!

And this has nothing to do with medicine. It's simple biophysics.

Family member was sick as a dog and when medical practitioners tested her and told her she had CV-19 - and to isolate for ten days, she decided to come home and isolate. I told her I'd be there at 10:00 the next morning, and that we'd knock that out. I showed her what to do, she did it, and by 6:00 that evening - no symptoms whatsoever.

MD's try this stuff - they'll lose their license. Not their fault - at least the ones who don't have the MD God complex!
 
A technical Yankee moved to Raleigh, NC, and he's very well educated, as is his professional wife, and they had two kids.

He was belly-aching to a friend of mine how Southerners there never got in a hurry, never felt the press to go faster, talked slower with that Southern drawl - just one miserable native of Massachusetts.

Said he couldn't stand Southerners.

My buddy said, "You've been here almost 12 years - and you'll be here for several more. Those kids of yours that were born and are being raised here? They're Southerners. You just think about that for a while before you go popping off again!"
 
Zbrod95 said:
I’m as southern as cornbread or biscuits and gravy. I’m Cuban as **** though as well.

Guajiro is the best way to describe me…
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You make a good point.

Being a Southerner - is more a state of the heart - than a location on your birth certificate.
 
JD08 said:
I moved to Cape Coral when I was 4. I went from there to Miami to WPB. My family has history in New England, but my life has always been in FL.

If people from South Florida aren't Southerners, then what are they?
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Like California - you're not Southern - you're not Yankee - I guess you're nothing. Or at least a no-name.

Southerners are more precise in their use of language - more specific - more differentiating.

For example:

"Breast." Breast is singular.

"B reasts." usually - two or more.

"Breast-es-es." - this is like Tootsies, or a Brazilian Carnival type volume.

Precise. Differentiating.

I guess I can give another example:

"Bad." Not good.

"Worse." Really not good.

"Worser." The SHTF.

I use and change language like I change my clothes. Put me in a crowd of Blackwater Cajuns - I am just another one of them.

Put me in a boardroom - I'm one of them as well.

And the whole time - I'm me.
 
Growing up we considered WPB south to Miami to be non-Floridians who came here from New York. Ft. Myers was cowboy Floridians. The rest of us were farm owners and workers. Homestead was southern. The Keys were their own society, but if you could catch fish, they accepted you. The drug period mixed everything up.
 
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UMFarArcher said:
Learned how to treat venomous bites - used it on my brown recluse bite 2nd day after bite.

Take the spark plug wire off a small engine and put it on the bite site. It stings, but 6 pops - and the venom is neutralized. Some hospitals in South America use this and it is an instant neutralization. Not recommended though if you have a pacemaker.

Second method that takes 30 minutes to completely neutralize a venomous snake bite, or brown recluse or black widow - ANY venom - is to push - and I mean PUSH 50 ml of ascorbic acid into a vein. Kick back, and in under 30 minutes it's all neutralized.

The commonality between ASCOR - or ascorbic acid - and the sharp gradient provided by the spark plug wire? Electrons.

Spark plug wire is a knows source of electrons. ASCOR has two electrons to donate. Some folks call ascorbic acid vitamin C, and there are other sources of vitamin C - but ascorbic acid has two electrons and the other versions only have one.

I find myself - a handful of us - in some very remote areas - far from medical facilities - and we've learned from many different people from many cultures - what they use. As long as it works - we use it!

And this has nothing to do with medicine. It's simple biophysics.

Family member was sick as a dog and when medical practitioners tested her and told her she had CV-19 - and to isolate for ten days, she decided to come home and isolate. I told her I'd be there at 10:00 the next morning, and that we'd knock that out. I showed her what to do, she did it, and by 6:00 that evening - no symptoms whatsoever.

MD's try this stuff - they'll lose their license. Not their fault - at least the ones who don't have the MD God complex!
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Yes , live in South Florida, Miami pretty deep as far as being south , but only Spanish down here no southern draw at all just Spanglish at best here.
 
UMFarArcher said:
You make a good point.

Being a Southerner - is more a state of the heart - than a location on your birth certificate.
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Yankee by birth, Southern by the grace of god and family. Married into a strong southern family in Atlanta(DAR, Daughters of the Confederacy), all my children born and raised in the south . So yeah, thru osmosis I’m Southern.
 
JeddTheFisch said:
This is probably the best answer. This is basically what a former coworker from the Panhandle always used to say.
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I grew up in Northern Virginia close to DC and it’s the same type of situation. While Virginia is a “southern” state the northern part of it, culturally, is definitely not. It’s why anybody who’s from that region will specifically say they are from Northern Virginia.
 
Live in the Redneck Rivera for 90% of my life. Yep, I’m a southerner and proud of it. Simple way of life has always made me happy.
 
I grew up in North Jersey, 10 minutes from Newark Airport, 25 minutes from NYC.

I considered anything below Northern Virginia the South. But when i go to Miami, i feel right at home. Lol
 
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Hold My Beer said:
lol, plenty of times. That was the back way from Gainesville to Tallahassee

"Rule No. 1. There are exceptions to every rule

Do they even have a beach in Dixie County?
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Rednecks don't need a beach. There's good shrimping there, or at least I'm told. My best friend in grad school was from there. Took me a couple of weeks to figure out he was speaking English when I first met him.
 
Was born “south” of the equator, moved ”north” to Florida in 1970. I’ve been confused ever since, every time someone’s referred to me as a southerner…
 
FuriousStyles said:
Ohhh boy let me tell you… if somebody from the Muck heard you say that Moore Haven is apart of the Muck. They’d cuss you out so bad. They’re so sensitive about it. 😂

****… Clewiston is 20 mins up the road and everybody I know from the Muck don’t consider it a part of the Muck.

Moorehaven is in Glades County.
Clewiston is in Hendry County.
The Muck is Belle Glade, Pahokee and South Bay… all in Palm Beach County.
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I'm Clewiston raised all my life. Born in Volusia county. Clewiston and Moore Haven may be a bit more country than the other muck towns, but they are definitely just as muck as the other south lake shore towns. Only outlier is Moore Haven because that town, everyone is related to everyone else. More missing teeth. Cousins marry cousins etc. Interesting place. But they do have an arby's now. Claim to fame
 
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