NC: No Longer a Southern State?

[PlazaMidwoodGuy]

You got me on the CARY thing. But nonetheless, I personally rarely or infrequently here North Carolinians use it, and when I do, it tends to be older people saying it. It just sounds so archaic, from the Civil War Era.

[Spartan]

You got me on the CARY thing. But nonetheless, I personally rarely or infrequently here North Carolinians use it, and when I do, it tends to be older people saying it. It just sounds so archaic, from the Civil War Era.

[DCMetroRaleigh]

One thing I will concede is that as more non-southerners move South, the term has become uncommon/non-existant in the public sphere.

[monsoon]

Or in my sphere, except for my British fans who use it to refer to Americans.

[Spatula]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the ones arguing most adamantly for NC being a southern state are actually from other states, in this thread at least. Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee. It's only anecdotal evidence, but it's kind of interesting.

You guys must really not want to lose us.

[krazeeboi]

^Are you all planning on seceeding or something?

[DCMetroRaleigh]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the ones arguing most adamantly for NC being a southern state are actually from other states, in this thread at least. Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee. It's only anecdotal evidence, but it's kind of interesting.

You guys must really not want to lose us.

[krazeeboi]

Great point. Although I think we North Carolinians acknowledge NC is a Southern State, which is also Mid-Atlantic. The non-NC Southereners seem to go ballastic whenever we acknowledge the dual identity.

[Pillsbury]

Maybe it's just me, but it seems like the ones arguing most adamantly for NC being a southern state are actually from other states, in this thread at least. Georgia, Virginia, South Carolina, Tennessee. It's only anecdotal evidence, but it's kind of interesting.

You guys must really not want to lose us.

[roundhere]

North Carolina is a Southern state. Its geographically in the South and culturally Southern. Ive lived here my entire life, and Ive traveled throughout the South, NC is Southern!

Some people like to say NC is mid-Atlantic because narrow minded people have a negative perception of the South. Tennessee, Arkansas, and NC are the same geographically, so are they northern? Now I used to hear NC is in the "mid-South", and VA is the upper South.

[triadcat]

^Are you all planning on seceeding or something?

[krazeeboi]

I think that is much more of a South Carolina thing to do.

Sorry man......had to say it.

[Louisvilleslugger]

Louisville, could you cite your study with a link and date, since we cited our studies with links and dates earlier in this and other threads. At any rate, I know the studies I referenced were covered in national media and received major attention when released. Your study... not so much???

[DCMetroRaleigh]

Pretty cool stuff there. SO, NC considered about as Southern as Arkansas and Florida.

[A2]

John Shelton Reed Percent who say their community is in the South (percentage base in parentheses) Alabama 98 (717) South Carolina 98 (553) Louisiana 97 (606) Mississippi 97 (431) Georgia 97 (1017) Tennessee 97 (838) North Carolina 93 (1292) Arkansas 92 (400) Florida 90 (1792) Texas 84 (2050) Virginia 82 (1014) Kentucky 79 (582) Oklahoma 69 (411) West Virginia 45 (82) Maryland 40 (173) Missouri 23 (177) Delaware 14 (21) D.C. 7 (15)

Percent who say they are Southerners (percentage base in parentheses) Mississippi 90 (432) Louisiana 89 (606) Alabama 88 (716) Tennessee 84 (838) South Carolina 82 (553) Arkansas 81 (399) Georgia 81 (1017) North Carolina 80 (1290) Texas 68 (2053) Kentucky 68 (584) Virginia 60 (1012) Oklahoma 53 (410) Florida 51 (1791) West Virginia 25 (84) Maryland 19 (192) Missouri 15 (197) New Mexico 13 (68) Delaware 12 (25) D.C. 12 (16) Utah 11 (70) Indiana 10 (208) Illinois 9 (362) Ohio 8 (396) Arizona 7 (117) Michigan 6 (336) All others less than 6 percent.

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun99/reed16.htm

Thias study has been conducted for over a decade by UNC and is still being conducted.

[triadcat]

So what do people in West Virginia think that they are a part of, if not the South??? I am a bit shocked at the low percentage (25%) of those polled who do not consider themselves Southern. If anything thing, they are probably more Southern than any state on the poll IMO.

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[DCMetroRaleigh]

Maybe WV thinks of itself as in the Ohio Valley or a non-coastal Mid-Atlantic state that is not Northern or Southern.

[krazeeboi]

That's not surprising, since the whole reason why WV split from VA was over the issue of slavery, with WV being a Union state during the Civil War. Check out the intro in the WV Wikipedia article; it describes the state's split identity.

[triadcat]

That's not surprising, since the whole reason why WV split from VA was over the issue of slavery, with WV being a Union state during the Civil War. Check out the intro in the WV Wikipedia article; it describes the state's split identity.