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Eloquent Conversationalist
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 Posted: Sat Jan 20, 2007 10:28 pm
I'm originally from Mississippi. Shout-out to all the Delta Belles out there. Raise the roof. (If you're in Amish country, of which there is a small community in Mississippi, it's "Raise the barn" instead.)
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:50 am
Mizakichii ZonkotheSane kingpinsqeezels *Giggles* Yay Louisiana. xd mardi gras's coming up Yup, yup. We have 3 days off for it. 3nodding whee I will be in downtown N.O. Chillin' in the French Quarter. Getting boozed up... ninja But yea, to clear things up. I do not go out of state. SLU here = Southeastern Louisiana University. I think it's funny that so many colleges around the nation use the same abbreviations. xp Dude, I've always wanted to do that. 'S a much longer trip for me though >.> And as far as South-bashing goes, my bestest friend is from Mississippi, and I usually amuse myself with teasing him about it. It's mostly cliché stuff like, "what the heck are grits O.o?" He usually gets back at me for being from Long Island, so it's all good. (yeah, that's right, I hang out in diners and I'm effing proud.) **edit** is anyone else stereotypical enough to have one of these apply to you?
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 7:53 am
xd And you use sweet words like "effing." blaugh
I've always wanted a British accent myself, but in all honesty, I don't think I quite have an accent at all. xp
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:06 am
darkphoenix1247 xd And you use sweet words like "effing." blaugh I've always wanted a British accent myself, but in all honesty, I don't think I quite have an accent at all. xp You prob'ly would if you spoke to someone outside of your state. I get pegged for being from downstate all the time here in Albany, but in LI most people think I don't have a accent at all.
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:29 am
Wow... tis amazing... I almost follow all of these stereotypes. It's true... Nothing ever shocks me, and my last name IS NOT pronounced the way it's spelled. Last name = Duet Pronounced = doo-A
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 5:52 pm
Mizakichii ZonkotheSane kingpinsqeezels *Giggles* Yay Louisiana. xd mardi gras's coming up Yup, yup. We have 3 days off for it. 3nodding whee I will be in downtown N.O. Chillin' in the French Quarter. Getting boozed up... ninja trolling for beads...
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:16 pm
Divash Chai, y'all! Yep, I'm Southern and Jewish. There is a VERY SMALL Jewish community in my home state. Unfortunately there is no Chabad house, and there aren't any Orthodox synagogues in the state as far as I could find. I couldn't find a mikvah there either, so during one visit with family, I immersed in a lake. It's nearly impossible to find kosher food. There are, as far as I was able to discover, three synagogues in the whole state, and all of them are quite far away from where my family members live. The nearest, I believe, was about 60 miles, and it's Reform (I'm Orthodox). The nearest Chabad house is over 300 miles away. Almost every time I go there, someone asks me whether I'm on a diet, because I always bring my own food for a week-long visit. Or someone asks me if I have cancer, because I wear a snood or other hair covering at all times. People are very, very friendly and welcoming, and they figure this makes it okay to ask questions. I don't mind the questions, actually, because I meet some interesting people that way, but sometimes they're awfully personal. A total stranger once asked me whether it was true that Jews have marital relations through a hole in a sheet! (Which... no, we don't, but was that her business?) And people say to me all the time, "Oh, I have a friend who's Jewish and she doesn't do _______." Well, that's nice, ma'am, but Jewish law requires it, so I do it, even if your friend doesn't. There are so many rumors about the South, most of them involving bigotry or stupidity, but I can tell you after living more than half of my life outside the South that those things are no more a defining characteristic of the South than of anywhere else. Every place has its bigots, its idiots, and its shining examples of true compassion and integrity.
This is a stereotype I hadn't even heard of until I started college. I know the origins of it, but still.
My dad's from Arkansas (and not Jewish). My mom is from Texas, born in Houston. Her mother and her mother's mother were born in Houston. I need to find a genealogist that can help me, but I'm pretty sure my great-great grandmother was Jewish and came in through the port of Galveston (well, I know she came in through the port of Galveston sometime in the mid-19th century, I just don't know her ethnicity -- my mom always just said she was French, which may or may not be true). If it turns out my matrilineal line checks out and I'm ethnically (culturally?) Jewish, this will mean that none of my Jewish ancestors in this country ever lived outside of the Southern United States. (And for the record, my dad's family never lived outside of the South either, they came to North Carolina from Scotland in the early 18th century.)
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Posted: Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:18 pm
MANNOWAR darkphoenix1247 ? So what southern states does everybody live in? And agreed with Yoni, by the way. 3nodding I's from Georiga a person once asked me why all Jews liked bagels, while I was debating how to kick his racist little arse, it occured to mr that every jewish person i know loves bagels
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 4:23 pm
Mizakichii Wow... tis amazing... I almost follow all of these stereotypes. It's true... Nothing ever shocks me, and my last name IS NOT pronounced the way it's spelled. Last name = Duet Pronounced = doo-A Hey! We save our newspaper for crab boils, but I do love crawfish. And anyone who says crayfish drives me up a wall. I can't help but laugh though, because I know a lot of people from New Orleans who would totally agree with the Five Alarm chilli thing. *Grins* Most Arkansas stereotypes don't apply to me, because a, I don't live on a farm, and b, I'm not the product of inbredingness. It's not a word, I know. sweatdrop
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 6:19 pm
kingpinsqeezels Mizakichii Wow... tis amazing... I almost follow all of these stereotypes. It's true... Nothing ever shocks me, and my last name IS NOT pronounced the way it's spelled. Last name = Duet Pronounced = doo-A Hey! We save our newspaper for crab boils, but I do love crawfish. And anyone who says crayfish drives me up a wall. I can't help but laugh though, because I know a lot of people from New Orleans who would totally agree with the Five Alarm chilli thing. *Grins* Most Arkansas stereotypes don't apply to me, because a, I don't live on a farm, and b, I'm not the product of inbredingness. It's not a word, I know. sweatdrop I love crawfish, too. I do ask for the Tabasco when I'm eating five alarm chili. My roommate has experienced that... rofl
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Posted: Mon Jan 22, 2007 10:28 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:24 am
darkphoenix1247 xp If that's your definition of a Jew, then I guess I'm a bad one as well. I like some bagels, but I really don't like cream cheese. sweatdrop I do like lox, though! ^^;; Where do you live in Georgia? I know somebody who lives there, and I went there for the 4th of July for like 4 years! 3nodding Bagels and lox is THE jewish food 3nodding . So is bagels and cream cheese, or corned beef on rye 3nodding .
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Eloquent Conversationalist
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:00 pm
roothands Well, bagels are an Israeli invention. Not so much. Bagels are an invention of Ashkenazi areas of Europe and Russia (which technically is in Asia). They, as well as bialys (which were named for Bialystock, the town in which they were created), were often given to women in childbirth so that they could have something to bite down on.
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 2:14 pm
nathan_ngl darkphoenix1247 xp If that's your definition of a Jew, then I guess I'm a bad one as well. I like some bagels, but I really don't like cream cheese. sweatdrop I do like lox, though! ^^;; Where do you live in Georgia? I know somebody who lives there, and I went there for the 4th of July for like 4 years! 3nodding Bagels and lox is THE jewish food 3nodding . So is bagels and cream cheese, or corned beef on rye 3nodding . I do love corned beef and rye! This place in Chicago, Kaufman's, has the best tuna and corned beef (separately! blaugh ) ever! *drools*....
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darkphoenix1247 Vice Captain
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Posted: Tue Jan 23, 2007 3:59 pm
Divash roothands Well, bagels are an Israeli invention. Not so much. Bagels are an invention of Ashkenazi areas of Europe and Russia (which technically is in Asia). They, as well as bialys (which were named for Bialystock, the town in which they were created), were often given to women in childbirth so that they could have something to bite down on. Hehe. My luck, i'd choke on the thing....Somehow.
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