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Since there are only 10 poll options available, I organized the states roughly by population totals. Each region has 26-33 million souls..except California with it's 37 million. So you can think of this a contest of sorts - whichever region has the most votes gets the pride of knowing that a larger proportion of their neighbors waste time on this game.

If you're from Puerto Rico you already have your own country, I have no idea what you're doing in this forum. If you happen to be from some outlying territory like Samoa, Guam, or the Virgin Islands...well you're screwed here for not living in a real state. And you have no one to blame but yourself. Or your parents. But think of yourself as a free agent and vote for where you'd like to live if you weren't stuck on some God forsaken island.

Poll:  Where ya from?

I'd love to hear the rationale behind "South" vs. "Good Part of the South".

I'm in GA now, originally from FLA, so I'm good on both counts.

You put Alaska! I can actually vote!

I'd love to hear the rationale behind "South" vs. "Good Part of the South".

I'm in GA now, originally from FLA, so I'm good on both counts.

I am assuming he means Miami and Atlanta.

The South's geography is a neat little paradox. If you go on a roadtrip from any Southern State to any other one, no matter which direction, every time you leave one state it's "I'm so glad to be out of Alabama... oh, crap, I'm in Mississippi". Every state is better and more delightful and worse and more terrible than its neighbor, so the grass really is greener on the other side as long as you never actually reach the other side. Ironically, I've always said this effect ends in North Carolina - once you're there, anything there or up the coast is always an improvement over South Cackalacky.

As a long-time Floridian, it's also its own little paradox: the further south you go in Florida, the further into the North you are. I'm up in Northeast Florida, but the panhandle and north Florida are essentially South Georgia or East Alabama. Gainesville's an exception, of course, but by the time you're down to the I-4 corridor, you're in a more northern area, and then Miami is essentially what would happen if Havana and Boston had a bastard lovechild that couldn't be bothered to go see the Dolphins/Canes/Marlins/etc. unless Tim Tebow is there.

The important thing to keep in mind, though, is the sage counsel of a very intoxicated fellow from South Carolina we ran into after the Florida-Georgia game in the mid to late 90s. It's really hard to dispute the tragic beauty of the sentence: "I'm from South Carolina, and you're not, so you suck and I don't."

hahahahahahaha love the post, u def get a forum ball for cracking me up... good and legit info too lol

Texas and outlying colonies, that is perfect. New Mexico is like the child nobody wants, and Oklahoma is the try-hard attention seeker whose only claim to fame are the OKC Thunder. In Texas, things are ironic in their own right. I'm from and live in Houston, which is the place to be if you are in the music industry. Austin holds the best college in the state IMO, San Antonio has lots of history, such as the Alamo, and the "Big D" has many tourists, though I don't know why people like them so much better than every other city here. (This is not why I am called Big_Dogs.) Sports here is second nature. With the best high school football, and maybe basketball in the nation, it's no wonder why so many Texans go on to play for great D1 schools. In fact, Russel Okung went to my high school. I love the UT-OU rivalry, and I used to love the UT-A&M rivalry until the cowardly Aggies left for the SEC.

If you are trying to get out of the state, and have to go north on I-10, you are in a heap of trouble. I had a friend of mine say that it takes 22 hours to get from here to Michigan by car, and 10 of those hours are in Texas alone! Take I-45, and sooner than later, you will end up somewhere in Louisiana. There is also lots of diversity here. So many peoples blended in, and you have a blossoming of culture. We probably have the best Mexican food and BBQ ribs in the country.

Of course, not everything is so great. The weather is so bipolar. Our summers burn so hot, you could probably bake cookies or fry eggs on a sidewalk, and when it's winter, the cold strikes with a vengeance.

As they say, everything is bigger and better in Texas, y'all.


Last edited by Big Dogs at 10/4/2012 11:13:35 PM

From Ohio, the vortex of evil. But beware, we determine your future president of the United States. Best show some respect.. or we'll help drag this country further down.

Cant argue against the BBQ, and not just the ribs, got hungry just thinking of it, but I doubt the Mexican food is better than CA's, especially from LA down...

Last edited by Cometahalley at 10/4/2012 5:33:50 PM

Ha, I've never been to either the Good South or the Bad South. But I had to divide the south into two populations to make this "even population" thing work. And so hrudey is correct in that I went with (as far as I know) Atlanta and south Florida being somewhat culturally different.

Yeah. Georgia outside Atlanta is definitely not the good South....lol.

which part of H Town you live on?

I live in Southeast houston, near the beltway (Bealtway 8) and I 45