Southern states ranked most to least southern
1. Mississippi
2. Alabama
3. Georgia
4. South Carolina
5. Louisiana
6. Tennessee
7. North Carolina
8. Arkansas
9. Florida
10. Virginia
11. Texas
12. Kentucky
13. Oklahoma
14. West Virginia
15. Maryland
16. Delaware
Actually Florida is the most southern state, assuming we’re only talking about CONUS. The southernmost point in the lower 48 is in the Florida Keys, Hawaii if you include all 50 states, and American Samoa if you include all US territory
The south is full of poor morons with no souls and minorities. The land is cheap because life there isn't worth living
>excludes South Carolina, the quintessential southern state, when much of Texas is much more Mexican than Southern
definitely a texan
>the quintessential southern state
There's no kinship or similar culture between south Carolina and the deep south
tennessean here, neither is there any "kinship" between the deep south and texas. why would you want to be lumped in with those inbred cousin-frickers anyway
He thinks he's "white"
Whatever that means
Even Arkansas is South? Holy shit! And they were the most hicktown people I ever seen.
Sorry Cletus, Virginia Maryland Florida and the Carolinas are all southern states
>florida which has absolutely zero confederate heritage or contribution to the civil war, no southern accents is somehow more southern than the fricking capital of the confederacy Virginia; jim cornette land kentucky; or "howdy y'all Texas
have a nice day moron
jump in front of a train tyrone, stop leeching off florida's economy to make your backwater look better
>Florida
>zero confederate heritage
>no southern accents
Is everyone moronic these days. Florida was the birthplace of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tom Petty and they did join the Confederacy, contrary to your moronic claims:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Florida_Confederate_Civil_War_units
Oklahoma feels more like a southern state than Virginia or Georgia does.
Oklahoma is oil wells, vast ranches, and Indians, none of which are common in the Southeast. Oklahoma is a cross between Texas and the Midwest.
Virginia, Georgia and North Carolina are the "New South" states. Florida and Tennessee too, I guess - though all these states still have large regions where Southern accents and the old ways still predominate.
South Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana are the "Old South" states. Arkansas is the "Old South" frontier.
I lived and worked in Big Bend National Park for a couple years, but never got Texas residency.
>lots of Black folk = southern
Delaware is over 20% black, as is Maryland. The blackest non-Southern state is New York at 16.89% black.
Texas is only 12.21% black. East Texas feels Southern, but not the rest of the state.
False. Virginia has always been the South's crown israeliteel. Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy. But heavy Yankee migration, investment and political influence has made both urban Virginia and urban North Carolina feel more northern than southern.
>3. Georgia
>4. South Carolina
Ah so it's a bait thread
>Delaware
>South
Lol
sorry australian here, does southern mean poor and uneducated?
The southern US is like northern Australia.
The economy of the South was traditionally based around slavery and tenement farming. This has led to the South lagging behind in social and economic development compared to the industrialized Northeast/Great Lakes regions, the homesteader-settled Midwest/Great Plains, and the resource-rich Western US.
Miss is weird. I grew up in Georgia where the remnants of the old South are all scrubbed away, Miss is like the one living relic of what the South used to be, a bizarre burgeoning aristocracy cut short before it could really blossom, all these regal-looking houses and beautiful estates but the utter lack of any industry means there's just no way to grow anymore, so the whole place is frozen in time and nothing really changes, just slowly decays.
I've been to where the Emmett Till thing happened. It's creepier than you can imagine. They don't do much to recognize the history of the place. It was falling apart and the area was deserted. The whole state felt like that. Few people around were very nice but said little. Every town was almost empty but seemed like it was a big place at one point. Complete Silent Hill vibes like everything is connected to some horrible history nobody wants to talk about. Then wispy vapors rise out of the swamps on fall nights and moss hangs from the trees. Absolutely haunted.
East Texas here. IMO based on "Southernness"
1. Mississippi
2. Georgia
3. Alabama
4. South Carolina
5. Tennessee
6. Texas (The eastern half)
7. Arkansas
8. Louisiana
9. Florida (The northern half)
10. North Carolina
11. Virginia
12. Kentucky
Sorry Virginia, but you are just too far north and affected by DC and NOVA. Plus your removal of monument avenue made us revoke your Southern card. Missouri isn't a Southern state. Southern Florida is not even American anymore.
For Texas, draw a line from in between Dallas and Fort Worth down to Waco, then a line from Waco to Victoria. Everything east of that is Dixie. The rest is the desert SW, Cowboys and ranches
>states get continually better to live in with the exception of delaware which is not southern in any meaningful fashion anyway
hats off OP, actually pretty accurate
You've never been to Sussex County
Virginia is northern, not southern
t. Californian who has never been east of the Rockies
UNQUESTIONANBLY SOUTHERN
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
Georgia (excl. Atlanta metro)
South Carolina
Tennessee
Arkansas
Flawda north of I-10 (Tally never officially surrendered during the War so STFU)
SOUTHERN LITE
NC (except for SE maybe)
North/Central Florida
Virginia south of Richmond
East Texas
EHHHHH
Kentucky
West Virginia
Yee-haw parts of Maryland
Coastal Virginia
Southern Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
SE Oklahoma
Misery Bootheel
NOPE
Majority of South Florida (except maybe the Heartland)
Dela-who?
NOVA/I-95 corridor
Pennsyltucky
Hey guys, I'm moving out of the west coast, due to cost of living and terrible policies, I'm thinking about getting a little farm in the south is Georgia still worth moving to? pros and cons?
Frick the south. get over it. You literally started hating busses cause they got rid of the segregation.