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Here's mine. Renee gave me the idea of adding personal info to the side. Just wanted to let ya'll know it was her idea. 
You have a party or a barbeque whenever Alabama plays Auburn in football. We would be freaks if we didn't. And you better get to the stores early for bar-b-q, steak, and beer. The night of the game, it will be gone and/or the stores will be closed.
You go to Gulf Shores every summer. Very true. I have only ever been to two other beaches.
You call the Atlanta Braves baseball team "us" like they're actually from Alabama. So-so. My great grandma was obsessed.
You would much rather visit Florida than California. I don't know. I have been there so much, I would like to see Cali.
You don't "take", you "carry" or "tote"... as in "You want me to carry you down to the 7-11?" I never say tote. I usually say take. My family and friends say carry.
A soft drink isn't soda, cola, or pop, it's Coke. Totally true! I once heard a Northerner say pop and I was completely confused. LOL
You call it a "buggy" and not a shopping cart. Shopping cart takes too long to say. Buggy is much easier. So, yes very true. There are even positions at local grocery stores called "buggy boys."
You've said "fixin' to," "might could," or "usetacould" during the last week. Definetely. I know, Southerners chop the English language up horribly... But for some reason it feels natural.
Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date. My co-worker's fiance did not want to get married on the day of the Alabama-Auburn game this year, so they compromised and are doing it at home during half-time. I swear that is a true story.
You know the meaning of the phrase "Fobbed again." Sort of. I know he was gov. and not many liked him.
You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Opelika, Bayou La Batre, and Oneonta. I can pronounce Eufaula, Opelika, and Oneonta. The other one looks like it could be pronounced many ways.
The Talladega 500 is the biggest sporting event of any sort during the entire year. Yep. Besides the Alabama-Auburn game.
You know exactly what chitlins and mountain oysters are, and you know someone who eats them anyway. Yep.
You think that people who complain about the humidity in other states are sissies. Oh yea. I don't know what no humidity feels like.
You aren't surprised to find rental movies, groceries, ammunition and bait all in the same store. There is one like that right down the road with all of these things. I accept it as normal as I have grown up around it.
You've missed a wedding or a funeral to go to a football game. No. Can't say I have. That would be sad.
Asian food is always "CHINESE" regardless of the fact that it may actually be Korean or Japanese or Thai. Pretty true. I don't know the difference unless it has the actualy word in the name of the restaurant. ie: Japanese Steakhouse.
You have a party or a barbeque whenever Alabama plays Auburn in football. We would be freaks if we didn't. And you better get to the stores early for bar-b-q, steak, and beer. The night of the game, it will be gone and/or the stores will be closed.
You go to Gulf Shores every summer. Very true. I have only ever been to two other beaches.
You call the Atlanta Braves baseball team "us" like they're actually from Alabama. So-so. My great grandma was obsessed.
You would much rather visit Florida than California. I don't know. I have been there so much, I would like to see Cali.
You don't "take", you "carry" or "tote"... as in "You want me to carry you down to the 7-11?" I never say tote. I usually say take. My family and friends say carry.
A soft drink isn't soda, cola, or pop, it's Coke. Totally true! I once heard a Northerner say pop and I was completely confused. LOL
You call it a "buggy" and not a shopping cart. Shopping cart takes too long to say. Buggy is much easier. So, yes very true. There are even positions at local grocery stores called "buggy boys."
You've said "fixin' to," "might could," or "usetacould" during the last week. Definetely. I know, Southerners chop the English language up horribly... But for some reason it feels natural.
Someone you know has used a football schedule to plan their wedding date. My co-worker's fiance did not want to get married on the day of the Alabama-Auburn game this year, so they compromised and are doing it at home during half-time. I swear that is a true story.
You know the meaning of the phrase "Fobbed again." Sort of. I know he was gov. and not many liked him.
You can properly pronounce Eufaula, Opelika, Bayou La Batre, and Oneonta. I can pronounce Eufaula, Opelika, and Oneonta. The other one looks like it could be pronounced many ways.
The Talladega 500 is the biggest sporting event of any sort during the entire year. Yep. Besides the Alabama-Auburn game.
You know exactly what chitlins and mountain oysters are, and you know someone who eats them anyway. Yep.
You think that people who complain about the humidity in other states are sissies. Oh yea. I don't know what no humidity feels like.
You aren't surprised to find rental movies, groceries, ammunition and bait all in the same store. There is one like that right down the road with all of these things. I accept it as normal as I have grown up around it.
You've missed a wedding or a funeral to go to a football game. No. Can't say I have. That would be sad.
Asian food is always "CHINESE" regardless of the fact that it may actually be Korean or Japanese or Thai. Pretty true. I don't know the difference unless it has the actualy word in the name of the restaurant. ie: Japanese Steakhouse.
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"No matter where else you go in the world, you're always disappointed in the food." and "You pronounce the largest city in the state as "Nawlins."
Yup - That's Louisiana, tried and true!
...and I don't know where the person who posted above me is from, but some of that falls under the southern states in general.
Yup - That's Louisiana, tried and true!
...and I don't know where the person who posted above me is from, but some of that falls under the southern states in general.
In my neck of the woods........lol
Hicks are people that are close to self sufficient. They may or may not have electric. They probably only have a washer, no dryer. They own dogs usually loose. They can foods..freeze foods........and rarely go to town. They live in an almost less than adequate house that smells of woodsmoke.
( I love that smell. ) They have morals (some not that good, lol. but have a true belief) and follow them. What they do have is pretty clean. The kids are usually clothed in hand me downs....but clean. "Hillbilly and Hick" are closer to the same rather than "redneck and hick".
Rednecks are people that go to town on Sat. night in jacked up trucks. Drink beer, and love to mingle with the opposite sex. They might live in a trailer with cable tv, and their vehicle probably cost almost as much as their home. They listen to mostly country music and love mud boggin' and skinny dippin'.
That is just my take on it ..
Now I am a little closer to a "redneck hillbilly" You see I can then get the best of both worlds. LOl.
Edit: I believe we must be able to laugh with the people who come up with these stereotypes. Some are funny....but some are simply not true.
I for one don't care if I am called either. I know that the people from where I come from are some of the most honest, hardworking, and the most willing to give to help a person in need, people I have ever seen. We are taught to say ma'am and sir' and to thank those that help us. And I say Ya'll...even though I know it isn't correct grammer.
I would be sooooo much more insulted being called a "city slicker" than either term I mentioned above.
What people don't really hear about is when a good ole country boy helps the "city slicker" in need. We sit around the brush fire telling stories of the "girl from the city" couldn't change her own flat tire, it's worse if it was a man. Lol The person that hires a "guide" to take him down the South Branch River. Lol The person that drives 40 minutes looking for a restroom.
The person that doesn't go outside after the bugs start biting. I could go on for ever.......... But I have rambled long enough again.
But you see........ We all have differences and those differences make the world diverse....and interesting.
Hicks are people that are close to self sufficient. They may or may not have electric. They probably only have a washer, no dryer. They own dogs usually loose. They can foods..freeze foods........and rarely go to town. They live in an almost less than adequate house that smells of woodsmoke.
( I love that smell.
) They have morals (some not that good, lol. but have a true belief) and follow them. What they do have is pretty clean. The kids are usually clothed in hand me downs....but clean. "Hillbilly and Hick" are closer to the same rather than "redneck and hick". Rednecks are people that go to town on Sat. night in jacked up trucks. Drink beer, and love to mingle with the opposite sex. They might live in a trailer with cable tv, and their vehicle probably cost almost as much as their home. They listen to mostly country music and love mud boggin' and skinny dippin'.
That is just my take on it ..
Now I am a little closer to a "redneck hillbilly" You see I can then get the best of both worlds. LOl.
Edit: I believe we must be able to laugh with the people who come up with these stereotypes. Some are funny....but some are simply not true.
I for one don't care if I am called either. I know that the people from where I come from are some of the most honest, hardworking, and the most willing to give to help a person in need, people I have ever seen. We are taught to say ma'am and sir' and to thank those that help us. And I say Ya'll...even though I know it isn't correct grammer.
I would be sooooo much more insulted being called a "city slicker" than either term I mentioned above.
What people don't really hear about is when a good ole country boy helps the "city slicker" in need. We sit around the brush fire telling stories of the "girl from the city" couldn't change her own flat tire, it's worse if it was a man. Lol The person that hires a "guide" to take him down the South Branch River. Lol The person that drives 40 minutes looking for a restroom.
The person that doesn't go outside after the bugs start biting. I could go on for ever.......... But I have rambled long enough again.
But you see........ We all have differences and those differences make the world diverse....and interesting.
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As far as your definitions Julie... I am a redneck through and through. Though I have never been skinny dipping. LOL
To me, hillbilly = someone that is unclean, uneducated, inbred, treat animals as objects. I know it means something to different to everyone, but that is what comes to mind when I hear it.
To me, hillbilly = someone that is unclean, uneducated, inbred, treat animals as objects. I know it means something to different to everyone, but that is what comes to mind when I hear it.
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Oh my... we had to explain to a couple out of state guests what tri tip was as it was an option for dinner at our wedding reception...
Sad, but true. I don't plan on going back to visit until well after summer is GONE!
I used to work at a hotel and people would comment on "that awful fog." Please, at least you can see a few feet ahead of you...
Pretty soon there won't be any orchards to cut down....
Sad, but true. I don't plan on going back to visit until well after summer is GONE!
I used to work at a hotel and people would comment on "that awful fog."
Please, at least you can see a few feet ahead of you...Pretty soon there won't be any orchards to cut down....
Most of those are more true for the Western 3/4 of the state.
The joys of living close enough to Missouri to exploit their liquor laws...
Actually, I have no desire to visit either of them. Aggieville burned from God's wrath. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!
Except for the Schoenchen (which I've probably heard, but doesn't sound anything like it's spelled) I've driven through all of them on a regular basis. "Sa-line-a" "Baze-or" "O-lay-thuh" (not O-laa-thee) "O-sa-waht-omee".
And gone from heater to a/c in my car in one day and from sweatshirt/long pants to shorts/tanktop in two. We only have two seasons anymore.
The joys of living close enough to Missouri to exploit their liquor laws...
Actually, I have no desire to visit either of them. Aggieville burned from God's wrath. Rock Chalk Jayhawk!!
Except for the Schoenchen (which I've probably heard, but doesn't sound anything like it's spelled) I've driven through all of them on a regular basis. "Sa-line-a" "Baze-or" "O-lay-thuh" (not O-laa-thee) "O-sa-waht-omee".
And gone from heater to a/c in my car in one day and from sweatshirt/long pants to shorts/tanktop in two. We only have two seasons anymore.