Why Americans are SO CONFUSED Over Which States are Southern

Why Americans are SO CONFUSED Over Which States are Southern | What is the South?

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On this video we discuss the debate that persists among Americans as to which states are and aren't a part of the South.
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@dirtycommie2877

As someone that grew up in DC and MD, to this day, I'm convinced "Mid-Atlantic" was coined because nobody outside of this region could agree on which "side" we belonged to. I've heard New Yorkers refer to Maryland as "down south" and we already know what the deep south thinks of this region. There's no winning. We are everywhere and nowhere at the same time.

@industrypools4063

No one from the South is confused about it

@highgrounder

As a Southerner myself, ain’t no way anybody calling Maryland or Delaware “Southern”. I’d personally include Virginia and WV, but that’s not universal. Texas, Oklahoma, and Florida are as Southern as you can get except Miami, that’s really just Cuba outside Cuba

@joep5815

The true south is Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, georgia, north and south Carolina, and Virginia, Kentucky. Anyother state isnt the south.They just wanna be apart of something better than what they really are.

@OLESOUTH_NAS500

VIRGINIA IS THE SOUTH WHAT ARE YOU TALKIN BOUT😂

@tanyabell-abercrombie3042

The whole country acts “southern” especially since Trump.

@revertrevertz5438

Keep in mind that Texas has areas with large Hispanic populations not necessarily because of “immigration”, but because you know , it used to be Mexico 😂. They just ended up on the American side

@stevenjordan9497

I will never believe that Maryland and Delaware are Southern states.

@stephbrahm1394

Marylanders will argue with you if you say you are the south. I currently live there and I feel like people just don't care to be known as the south because maybe we just have too many northern people changing our culture. Tearing down our monuments and destroying our history. I'm proud to be the south.

@georgemurrell8464

I am beginning to get a bad feeling that they no longer teaching which states belonged to the Confederation.

@meganmccullough3595

As a Mississippian who now lives in D.C., I was surprised to find just how Southern a city D.C. is. Is it the South, no, but there are definite strains of southern culture that exist here.

@BananaPhoPhilly

That map putting Delaware in the south is wild lol

@lilcuh9433

As someone from the South, when I went the DMV area, it definitely felt way more northern than southern

@kytoaltoky

I like a county-based view of the south. Southern Missouri and Eastern Oklahoma are far more 'Southern' than Western Maryland and Northern Kentucky, for example.

@d.c.cheever9258

I grew up in South Florida. I remember going up to Northern Florida with a friend and his family to go camping in some of the natural springs. We went to a big lake and were swimming with the locals. The local kids from there heard us talk and our accent and heard the word "dude" and immediately asked if we were from California. I was so confused lol. I didn't realize the cultural divide even within the same state. But yeah Northern/Southern Florida are completely different beasts.

@LemonalSlice

Being from West Virginia is a little silly in terms of the north/south argument. WV split from VA over slavery so most people here really don't like using the term south, BUT most people will agree we're definitely not northern from a cultural standpoint. Many of the people I talk to around here just call it Appalachia, and we tend to see ourselves as weirdly disconnected from other surrounding states, as if we're this secret 3rd option.

@RCooke357

I absolutely agree with you that the south starts at Virginia and ends when you go into DC and Maryland. I was also born and raised in NC and yes, it is the south.

@philetaerus

I had a sociology class in college with John Shelton Reed, a professor who specialized in "the South". Based on a lot of different factors, like the ones you discussed in this video, he drew a map of the South with gradients of shading. The Deep South all the way up to North Carolina was the most "southern". East Texas and northern Florida were still largely southern, but south Florida and west Texas were hardly southern at all.

@JasonTaylor-po5xc

If you base it on culture, which is really how I look at the South - then you can't exclusively use state boarders. I agree with you that Florida is a mix - transitioning somewhere around Ocala into something less Southern and into something unique. For Texas, it's really like 3-4 regions (big state) - Great Plains, West Texas, Rio Grande and East Texas (south).