Your favorite Southerners?

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Ma and Pa and the rest of my kinfolk hail from South Brooklyn, New York. I was born and raised on the back roads of sunny suburban Southern California. So I take great pride in my Southern heritage, and I seriously dig Southerners! Here are my favorites:

Reese Witherspoon
Steve Earle
Lightnin' Hopkins
Thomas Wolfe
Huckleberry Hound

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Steve Earle lives a few miles from me (or did). Reese grew up here.
 

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I like Hugh Jackman.

I would mention someone more southern than him, but I can't think of any celebrities from Tierra del Fuego.
 

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Huckleberry Hound :ROFL: I do love me some Huckleberry!

Mine? Matthew McConaughey. Yum. And his accent is wonderful :)

eta: favorite Southern writers is too long a list to share, btw.
 

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eta: favorite Southern writers is too long a list to share, btw.

My top three out of god knows how many:

Mark Twain
Walker Percy
Mary Flannery O'Connor

I feel a particuliar connection to Southern writers who write about religion with a sideways stare and from a position of belief, or of losing it.

Other favorites include Page Kenneth of 30 Rock, Scout & Atticus, the women of the Whistle Stop Cafe, and the honorary character that is the queen of the south, "sweet tea" itself.

Ain't no world worth living in that doesn't have the idea of sweet tea.
 

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How far south are we talking about here?

South of the Mason-Dixon line, wherever that is. (It's been a long time since my junior high school geography class).
 

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You don't know?
Ya'lls never tried to scale the wall at night?
or bribe the crossing officials?


Nah, nope. I'm one of them there laid-back, mellow, take-it-easy Southerners. Just like ol' Huckleberry! :)
 

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You might need a passport, for sure :D

That would be a big help, but my California accent will probably give me away. Also, the fact that I've never eaten grits, okra, or hush puppies. I don't even know what they look like, let alone what they taste like. :Shrug:
 

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That would be a big help, but my California accent will probably give me away.

It won't matter. Sometimes I think half of California is moving to Middle Tennessee.
 

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It won't matter. Sometimes I think half of California is moving to Middle Tennessee.

:ROFL:

One of my cousins (like me, a Southern California native) moved to Tennessee a few years ago. Closest I've ever got is Metropolis, Illinois -- on the Ohio River, right across from Kentucky -- during a vacation back in the 1980s.
 

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One of my cousins (like me, a Southern California native) moved to Tennessee a few years ago. Closest I've ever got is Metropolis, Illinois -- on the Ohio River, right across from Kentucky -- during a vacation back in the 1980s.

If you visit you don't actually have to eat okra and grits unless you stop at Cracker Barrel (they like serving grits to tourists--it makes the visitors feel like they've had a true southern experience).

Do have the pork barbecue though (religion permitting).
 

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If you visit you don't actually have to eat okra and grits unless you stop at Cracker Barrel (they like serving grits to tourists--it makes the visitors feel like they've had a true southern experience).

Do have the pork barbecue though (religion permitting).

That sounds pretty good. I'll go for the grits and okra, too, y'all!