i should prolly get a some for people i work with
Posted on 12/29/2013 8:00:50 AM PST by the scotsman
I grew up hearing "fizzy drink" from my Mother.
But the Correct name for a Carbonated Beverage is of course "Soda Pop"
Do transplanted Nooo Yawkers say "Youse'all"? :=)
Apparently you don’t read local papers through out the country. The local sections ALL carry such stories.
There is nothing particularly special about the NYT. It is as left as they come. Yeah they publishers soft stories that are well crafted. Now balance that against what they just published on Benghazi.
I can find ‘puff’ pieces in any paper I pick up and yes they are well written.
You want to see cotton fields??? Head to Fresno
Baltimore was regarded as at least somewhat southern as was Maryland on the whole, in the past. It hasn’t always been as it’s become.
y’all is southern and if you want the plural it is all y’all
Texas likes to claim all things belong to them but Texas wasn’t even part of the US when the true south was being settled
not you’uns but y’uns( at least by pronunciation)
The largest ethnic group to serve the Confederacy, however, was made up of first-, second- and third-generation Jewish lads. Old Jewish families, initially Sephardic and later Ashkenazic, had settled in the South generations before the war. Jews had lived in Charleston, S.C., since 1695. By 1800, the largest Jewish community in America lived in Charleston, where the oldest synagogue in America, K.K. Beth Elohim, was founded. By 1861, a third of all the Jews in America lived in Louisiana.
More than 10,000 Jews fought for the Confederacy. As Rabbi Korn of Charleston related, "Nowhere else in America - certainly not in the Antebellum North - had Jews been accorded such an opportunity to be complete equals as in the old South." Gen. Robert E. Lee allowed his Jewish soldiers to observe all holy days, while Gens. Ulysses S. Grant and William T. Sherman issued anti-Jewish orders.
The same thing has happened to small towns all over the country. I think the key factor was the automation of agriculture. Fewer people working the land means fewer people needing the goods and services of merchants.
i should prolly get a some for people i work with
IIRC, in Driving Miss Daisy which takes place in Atlanta Georgia, Miss Daisy is Jewish.
Believe it or not, I’ve recently started watching GMT on BBC America in the morning instead of Fox or CNN. Sure, the BBC has a POV as does Fox and CNN but I find there is a lot less fluff and a lot more in depth hard news coverage on GMT. Fox and Friends is pretty much unwatchable - it’s pretty much the “outrage of the day”, pounded and repeated over and over again, celebrity “news”, viral videos of puppies, kittens and babies, cooking, fashion and exercise segments and country music. Oh the hosts, they talk about the news but that’s pretty much all it is, talk and opinion. And I only watch CNN for breaking news coverage which is only marginally better than Fox.
In the southern Appalachians it comes out sounding sort of like “yoonce” but I never could quite wrap my mouth around it right, lol.
Savannah, GA in the 60’s had substantial Irish Catholic and Jewish American populations - very compatible and united in what was a golden age in the South (as I remember it).
Had lunch daily at a Jewish Deli and the owner's son became my Irish son's pediatrician - he had excellent references;)
I traveled from fla to ft benning ga recently. as soon as i headed west from 75 towards columbus there was cotton for miles.
Excellent Point. My wife and watched the movie “DRIVING MISS DAISY” the other night. As I watched, I was not only impressed with how well Hollywood portrayed the era but the two scenes on the work floor of cotton mill operated by the Worthen family. First scene showed a female operator for each noisy and for sure unsafe loom. Second showed NO operators, just automatic looms happily doing their work.
Thinking back, those two scenes probably are a better description of what really changed the old south. Maybe equal or greater than the Civil War and the Civil Rights Movement.
The South was at least as welcoming as the oh so tolerant New England WASPs.
Rhode Island institutionalized freedom of religion, not that they’re in New England but it’s to their credit. Pennsylvania to an extent, too. They weren’t all rigid and closed.
with you on that one…. It is that Scots Irish influence that sometimes leaves me tongue fumbled as well
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