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Question: Which states qualify as culturally Southern?
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Texas
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Oklahoma
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Missouri
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Indiana
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Louisiana
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Mississippi
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Alabama
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Kentucky
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Tennesee
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West Virginia
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Georgia
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Florida
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South Carolina
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North Carolina
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Virginia
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memphis
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« on: October 10, 2014, 02:08:50 PM »

The South is probably the region of the country where people camp the least. The weather is super hot and humid and there are insects everywhere. Hunting is moderately popular with some people, but not to the extent of places closer to the Great Lakes. To the extent that we have outdoor recreation, popular things to do revolve around water. It's refreshng on a hot day. People in Memphis love to drive eight hours each way to go to the Redneck Riviera of the Florida Panhandle. Swimming. Jet skiing. Driving the four wheeler nowhere in particular. People love big loud engines. But, for the most part, we're very much an indoor society.  Summer is very much for parking your butt in front of a television away from the bugs and the weather.
As for the question, obviously states are heterogenous creatures, but even if they weren't, fitting a cultural model isn't a binary thing.
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« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2014, 03:04:16 PM »
« Edited: October 10, 2014, 03:15:59 PM by memphis »

Again, I'm not saying hunting and camping is a Southern only thing, I was trying to say it's the people who hunt and camp and their attitudes about it.
The hunting part is simply conflating rural with Southern. It's inaccurate, but we have a vague sense of what you mean. Camping is where I haven't a clue what the Inks you are talking about.  Camping seems like something Boy Scouts and affluent suburbanites do if we're speaking in stereotypes. I think of Western National Parks, not Southern Good Old Boys.
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« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2014, 05:07:10 PM »

NOVA has no regional identity because so many people have moved from all over to work in/near DC. I don't know what you mean by Central VA. That's not a term I'm familiar with. Are you referring to metro Richmond? That's very much a Southern town. Southern doesn't mean rural trailer trash.
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