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Being Southern Means...

Southern is being able to sit on your porch on a warm, sunny day.
Southern is knowing everyone in your community and what they've been up to lately.
Southern is going for a long walk by yourself down a country lane.
Southern is being proud of your 1980's model 4-wheel drive pick-up truck.
Southern is going to town once a week for "supplies".
Southern is going fishing on a Friday afternoon.
Southern is the folks that gather at the local store to swap stories and chat.
Southern is having two different churches on two different sides of the road whose members intermingle after services.
Southern is sitting out in the yard on a starry night and looking for the big dipper.
Southern is going for a walk with your girlfriend after dark around the farm.
Southern is taking a break after cutting and hanging tobbacco with your work buddies.
Southern is sitting in the warm tobbacco stripping shed and talking while you work.
Southern is when everyone you ever knew comes to the hospital when a family member is ill.
Southern is a preacher giving a sermon to a patient congregation on a Sunday morning.
Southern is going hunting.
Southern is being able to walk to the houses of most of your kin folks.
Southern is driving the same tractor as your great-granddad did.
Southern is hearing your Grandpa talk about the 'good old days'.
Southern is when there are more gravel and dirt roads in your county than there are paved.
Southern is when the closest "city" is miles away.
Southern is smelling tobacco smoke rolling from a dark-fire tobbacco barn.
Southern is seeing the "Confederate Flag" more than the American Flag.
Southern is cutting wood for the winter and listening to your granddad tell you how they "used to do it".
Southern is when an outhouse still stands behind your grandparents house.
Southern is a yard full of chickens.
Southern is seeing most men around where you live wear overalls and work boots.
Southern is your Grandmothers cooking.
Southern is your Grandfathers rocking chair by the fire place.
Southern is loving your kin folks.
Southern is being kind to strangers.
Southern is helping your niebors.
Southern is a harvested corn field.
Southern is seeing a tobbacco field.
Southern is when going to the largest town near by only once a year to do Christmas shopping.
Southern is when the largest part of your home town is still the court square.
Southern is a small town on a Sunday morning.
Southern is crusing the block on a Saturday night.
Southern is going rabbit hunting every Thanksgiving morning with the "men-folk" of your family.
Southern is a group of women in the kitchen.
Southern is when your girlfriend is a better shot than you are.
Southern is when your girlfriend kills a bigger buck than you do.
Southern is when even your aunts go hunting.
Southern is hanging out with your cousins.
Southern is standing around after church and talking.
Southern is a graduating class of twenty.
Southern is going to ball games.
Southern is seeing more tobbaco wagons than cars on the road.
Southern is meeting grain trucks on a one lane road.
Southern is picking wild flowers along the road and in fields for your girlfriend or wife.
Southern is meeting your wife and kids on the porch after a long trip.
Southern is being chased out of someones pond on a summer day.
Southern is still respecting your parents.
Southern is still making a habit to pray after you leave your parents house.
Southern is cutting down a tree with a axe.
Southern is when your hero is still Robert E. Lee and Thomas Jefferson even though your school tells you they were "slave owners".
Southern is when you see poetry outside.
Southern is taking a nap under a shade tree.
Southern is saluting the Rebel flag every time you see it, when ever you see it.
Southern is listening to your Uncle tell you about what he has "learned in life."
Southern is feeling at home no matter where you go.
Southern is having unexpected company on a Saturday night.
Southern is walking in the rain.
Southern is carry a pistol when you go to the "back forty".
Southern is the smell of your daddy's or Granddaddy's work barn.
Southern is listening to your grandmother talk about how she met your granddad.
Southern is when family matters more than anything.
Southern is knowing your local Sherrif personally. Southern is when everyone who see a column of smoke gets in their truck and drives to see what it is.
Southern is when word of an accident reaches you before the ambulance gets to the sceen of the wreck.
Southern is when you accidently hit someones parked car, and then talk for hours about a shared interest.
Southern is seeing more 4 wheelers than cars on the road.
Southern is racing your friend to the creek from the barn.
Southern is still believing that God, and more significantly, the devil, exists.
Southern is rolling your own cigarettes.
Southern is classic rock like the Allman Brothers, Lynard Skynard, CCR, but also newer bands like the B-52's.
Southern is grit and wisdom without any elitism to clutter the mind.
Southern is gentility in blue jeans.
Southern means you know what oppression feels like.
Southern means you are ridiculed for enjoying your heritage.
Southern means you know what it is like to be the butt of northern jokes.
Southern means you know we are a unique people with our own culture and values.
Southern means eating more possum. ;)
Southern means Yankees are just jealous of you.
Southern means loving your home state.
Southern means knowing the Stars and Stripes is dipped in Southern blood.
Southern means you still feel the pain of a war lost long ago.
Southern means you love our Southland with all your heart.
Southern means you are aware we are still under attack.
Southern is having close family relations (and I mean Uncles, Aunts, Grand-dad's, and the "Uncle" that's not even kinfolk)
Southern is listening about the "old times" with your grandparents
Southern is fishing with your dad and wishin you didn't have to go back home
Southern is defending what is yours
Southern is being able to name the people passing by your house, just by the sound of their truck
Southern is going out in the woods just to listen to the "sounds of nature"
Southern is being proud of your history.
Southern is having cow poop a regular smell.
Southern is relaxing on the front porch in the rocking chair.
Southern is waving to everyone you see on the road.
Southern is stopping to smell the honeysuckels.
Southern is loving magnolias.
Southern is the slow, twang voices.
Southern is homecooked food with fatback.
Southern is climbing trees when you were little.
Southern is hunting deer, squirels, racoons, and ducks.
Southern is dressing in camo and feeling at home.
Southern is holding a gun and feeling at home.
Southern is telling stories about what happened way back when.
Southern is knowing what grits are and loving the taste.
And most important: Southern means thanking the Lord for making us Southern.




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