Cassandra, some would say NC and VA aren't actually true South, and your time in Chi town harding improves your status for making observations about the South. This club is more exclusive than one might imagine. You can see there are all sorts of foreign interlopers down in FL trying to pass themselves off as members. We caught the pesty wanabees at the door and turned them out good and proper. LOL, :>, have a good day.

I received this as an email a couple years ago. It's in a Word document now, so there will by a few weird ? in it.


Southern Test

Score 3 points per correct answer. You're given 1 point to start. Answers follow below.

1. How many Vienna Sausages are in a can?
2. What was the number and color of Richard Petty's cars?
3. Bill Dance is good at what?
4. What university does Bill Dance root for?
5. Where did Herschel Walker play (college) football?
6. After boiling peanuts for an hour you have what?
7. In cubic inches, how big is the smallest 1966 GM small block V8?
8. A Cajun is likely to speak what furrin' language?
9. What is a chigger?
10. What is scrapple?
11. Where is "The Redneck Riviera?"
12. What's that fuzzy stuff hanging off the oak trees?
13. What follows logically? Johnson, Mercury,
14. What's the common name for a bowfin?
15. If you mated a heifer and a steer, what would you get?
16. Who sang "Your Cheatin' Heart?"
17. What are grits made out of?
18. Who was nicknamed "The Bear?"
19. Why is the Blue Ridge blue?
20. What did The Baldwin Sisters make?
21. Who was Andy Taylor's love interest?
22. What are the radio station call letters that carries "The Grand Ol' Opry?"
23. Where would you find Vidalia County?
24. What sport requires 3 legs and a rope?
25. What instrument did Bill Monroe play? (typically)
26. How many strings on a banjo? (two possible answers)
27. When you argue with a fool, what is he doing?
28. What is a scuppernong?
29. Do you want the goats to get into the kudzu?
30. Why do you want to eat "high on the hog?"
31. What color is a John Deere?
32. What do you call the offspring of a mule?


Aintsers:

1. 7
2. 43, red and blue
3. Fishin'
4. University of Tennessee
5. University of Georgia
6. Hard peanuts
7. 283
8. French
9. A red bug (small parasite)
10. A sausage-like loaf made out of pig parts
11. Panama City, FL
12. Spanish moss
13. Evinrude
14. Mudfish
15. Nothing. A steer has been castrated.
16. Hank Williams
17. Corn
18. Paul Bryant
19. Because of the pollen
20. "The Recipe"
21. Helen
22. WSM
23. Georgia
24. Calf roping
25. Mandolin
26. 3 or 5
27. The same thing
28. A wild grape
29. Yes
30. Because that's where the better cuts of meat are. Rich folks live high on the hog.
31. Green
32. Mules are generally sterile.

FormalAttire said: "some would say NC and VA aren't actually true South"

Say what?!? Loosen the bowtie, the blood needs to circulate.

My stepdaughter and her husband (from NJ) lived down there for about two years and absolutely loved it. She was about 24/25 when they lived there and there was plenty to do for someone her age. They only moved back due to his job, otherwise I think they would have stayed longer.
My husband and I visited the city several times and it's a great place. They have great food in the South (but it's true you won't get NY style pizza or bagels, but you won't miss it all that much since there are so many other great things they have).
It will be a great experience for you no matter what. ENJOY!

wow i have alot to learn i got about 2 right on the test. :)

"True Southern ladies....avoid saccharin at every opportunity, offering true sugar, not artificial sweetener". Wrong wrong wrong blacktie, sigh, AGAIN!! :D Wrong in both senses of course, but clever, I will grant you that. And NC not being in the South? tsk tsk How silly.

Now, I do know where MsScarlett was born and she's a belle all right. I should add too that one can be born in the south and bred there as well, but if the breeding doesn't stick, as it unfortunately does not on occasion, then that person no longer qualifies as a Southern gentleman...or woman...as the case may be, and I think that's essentially what we are discussing here, n'est pas?

In a way, I think the test is for men. I don't know about motors, fishing, football, or tractors. But since this is a travel board, I hope you know the Redneck Riveria.

Doesn't the Redneck Riviera cover a broader area. I always thought it was Gulf Shores, AL. Destin is where all the rich folks went.

Regarding Texas and the South, the eastern portion is very Southern. I would put Tyler up against Natchez any day of the week.

I find it odd that someone from San Antonio would not have learned about the civil. A major high school is named after Robert E. Lee. He resided at one of the hotels there during the Mexican border skirmishes. There is a semi-famous drawing of a Union General surrendering in San Antonio. The state government still offers Confederate Heroes day as an optional official holiday. hmmmmm.

My favorite Southern man was Tennessee Williams. He could turn a phrase or two.

Second fave: Truman Capote

Ncgirl, do you grade on a bell(e) curve? :) Yikes!

Great southern reads:

Eudora Welty, William Faulkiner, Thomas Wolfe, Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy.

Just to keep it travel related, I was flying many years ago from Denver to Albuquerque when someone had the very sad misfortune of dying (heart attack I think) mid flight. I was reading As I Lay Dying.

Ok you caught me...only went to elementary school in San Antonio, high school in Michigan, and guess I wasn't paying attention when they were teaching about the Civil War, still caught up Remembering the Alamo, trying to decide what side I wanted to root for.

Well, LOL (really), now we know somebody slept thru geography (you'd know about the bell)! Last Hint: it's gotta be EST or CST to have any chance of qualifying southern. C'est fini for me, :>.

Blacktie says, "C'est fini for me"

I don't suppose we can expect that to last, can we?

"You can see there are all sorts of foreign interlopers down in FL trying to pass themselves off as members. We caught the pesty wanabees at the door and turned them out good and proper"

I find this insulting to anyone , not just to myself and my husband.
Someone living in DC can hardly use "we" when speaking of Southerners, can they? Or maybe his geography lessons were a failure?

Too bad, this thread was lighthearted until some it an excuse to be rude.

Y'all are leaving Pat Conroy and Anne Rivers Siddons off that list of great southern writers.

We are thrilled some read the truly great southern gothics, Tandoori, obxgirl, goTravel. That's clearly why people need to delve into a region's literary culture, in order to begin to know it. You're setting a great example of that. On that issue, is anyone familiar with "full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." Wm. Faulkner could surely sum up!

From Light in August (travel and southern related):

"My, my. A body does get around. Here we aint been coming from Alabama but two months, and now it's already Tennessee."

Oops. Just realized I'm quoting from copyrighted material. Must stop that....must stop that...

There are some good present-day Southern authors as well. Doug Marlette's "The Bridge", T.R. Pearson's "A Short History of a Small Place", and Clyde Edgerton's "Rainey" and "Walk Across Egypt". All are set in NC. Pearson's book is especially good.