No, of course, there's nothing wrong with a Southern accent. I love mine. But, it's the grammar that gets to me. And when it's so bad that a fellow Southerner, is like "what the HECK did you just say?"

But, Wry, you just have to spend a lot of time in B'ville to get exactly what I'm saying. It's a different place. Not all bad....just different.

Luckily, I too have only lived in Jackson, Oxford and Memphis. I couldn't imagine living in some of Mississippi's small towns. I have even been resented by the unwashed of Mississippi for being a university graduate. Go figure!



You'd think they'd want to better themselves!

I know, Rx. I did. I didn't appreciate it so much then.

Rx, hang in there while at Booneville. Look on the bright side..............you could be assigned to Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg. Then you would be dealing with folks like Hambugler. Now, doesn't that make you feel better?

It'll be okay Rx. When things get bad and you just can't stand it anymore, just remember, you aren't in Starkville or Baton Rouge. :)


WR

Well just hold on one cotton pickin' minute 'fore y'all start gettin' my nawth miss'ippi dander all in a tizzy, heah.

I'm a proud missipian from plantersville (that's south on route 6 outta tupelo, first bend after tater hills and across the tulip creek), my sister in law's from Jericho (outside ah booneville), her daddy OWNED part ah brice's crossroads (till he gave it to the sons of confederate soldiers), my first wife's mama was from corinth (love to see shiloh every time i head up 45) and why i do declare there ain't no finer people NOWHERE in the state than up in the rolling hills. Hardworkin', honest as the day is long. . .sure, we got some stupid ones but just name me one county in our state that don't.

I know tweren't no OF-fense intended, y'all, but mind your neighbors on this good board. I wouldn't trade Plantersville for 1,000 Jacksons. . .

Well, hope that weren't too catty but the damn coast and the northeast corner of the state bout the only good thing Missippi got going for it, how I see. . .so don't be snickering too durn hard behind your hand there. Them's good people. Tell 'em, Still. The Hills is where it's at!

:wave:

Thank ya and good evening to y'all.

Hey JBR, I see we finally woke you up!

ROFLMFAO!!!

oh JBR, no offense intended of course, I myself am from NE MS.....but booneville is a bit different.....even from NA

It is one of the things I love about Mississippi, how different in subtle and not so subtle ways the different parts are. I mean, for a State that has only about 2.5 million people in it, you wouldn't think there'd be much difference between Corinth and Carthage. You can tell which part of the State a native grew up in just by their accent. Folks from central Mississippi have a much different accent than those from the Northeast. Same thing for the Coast natives. You'd expect that kind of thing on a national level but it still surprises me that you can travel less than a hundred miles from one place here to another and hear a different form of the "Southern" accent.

Yessir, I do declarah. Y'all can drive 'bout an hour and a half down the Natchez Trace and go from Paradise, er Plantersville, straight to the middle of HELL.

Now y'all wanna talk about the ends of the earth, then BY GOD let's talk about that little half acre of the devil's armpit.

The way I see it, Wry, the State's divided up into pretty much three regions: the Delta and middle Mississippi (including Jackson, Meridan, Vicksburg and Natchez), the Hills of NE MS and the coast.

Love the coast. Love the Hills.

Y'all can burn the rest of the state. I'll piss the other way. :D

On second thought, save V'burg and Natchez. . .and of course, the city too beautiful to burn.

The REST of it can go! :D

We do have our share of "necks" as you well know, JB, but I will always love NE MS and call it home.

Preach it brother Still

I almost agree with you, JBR. Its just not that simple though. Natchez and Port Gibson just don't fit too well with Jackson, and certainly not Meridian. Vicksburg is to me different from Natchez, but it ain't the Delta. And then there's my hometown, Columbus, which is not anything like Tupelo (though it is something akin in feeling with Aberdeen), and nothing like Meridian. Columbus ought to have been over on the Mississippi but somehow got stuck on the Tombigbee, that is,what's left of it.

And the you have that swath of land south of Jackson and Meridian but north of Teacher's College. I put it into the Jackson culture, but then I am no expert when it comes to Chunky and Taylorsville.

Well, as Mississippians we all know our state is a coat of many colors, a patchwork of tax-free third world wages industrialism, abject poverty, burping, bulbuous Yazoo clay and a smattering of the enlightened amidst the herd. There really aren't too many counties that are alike, when it gets right down to it, but they're more alike than I guess I'd like to admit.

And I totally agree with Columbus being a Delta town on the wrong river, Wry. Aberdeen has a bit of that plantation whisper, too. Tupelo and Starkville seem to be vest-pockets of the New South, although I believe T town is doing a little better when it comes to progressive education and keeping a stable industrial base with low unemployment.

But the Delta, with its capital Greenville and its outposts of Holly Springs, Batesville, Clarksdale, Yazoo City, Greenwood, Grenada and Indianola are a region unto themselves.

The I-20 band of Jackson, Forrest, Meridian is another region. Kosciusko, Carthage, Philadelphia and Canton seem another backwoods region. South central Miss. is all piney woods lumber (much like the Yockanookany delta). And then the cosmopolitan coast, with its old world northern capital of Natchez. Hell, I don't know where Vicksburg and Port Gibson fit into this mix.

I guess I just broke down the state into those three main regions simply by what I perceive to be as their respective M.O.

The hills and the the coast seem to be looking forward, however defiantly. The Delta and the middle of Miss. seem to be forever stuck in the past. That and the fact that people are actually moving TO the coast and the hills. With the exception of Jacktown, the rest of the state seems to be bleeding its young to the diaspora.

Now that we've gotten all that settled, I still think Booneville's worlds ahead of Holly Springs, IMNSHO. See, I knew I'd get back around to my original point sooner or later. :D

joebordenrebel Wrote:Now that we've gotten all that settled, I still think Booneville's worlds ahead of Holly Springs, IMNSHO. See, I knew I'd get back around to my original point sooner or later.  :D

I completely concur.



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joebordenrebel Wrote:Now that we've gotten all that settled, I still think Booneville's worlds ahead of Holly Springs, IMNSHO. See, I knew I'd get back around to my original point sooner or later. :D

I also complete concur! Holly Springs and Kosciusko are on about the same level! :D

Where did my other post go? :saber:

That was an interesting and enlightening analysis,JBR,and I agree with most of it. Its just that when you say that the Coast is enlightened that I have to object. The Coast with its casinos is busier and noisier, and you will see license tags from such places as Nebraska and even Alaska, but its own provincialism remains unaffected, standing proud and loud. I don't know, somehow I miss the old places, the cheap little strip joints that featured such regulars like Ophelia Twat. There was something so honest about such low - life creatures who were involved in the redneck mafia.

Kosciusko does have one of the prettier courthouses in the state, although its square is not so vibrant as Oxford's or Canton's. That and the fact that you can ride from the middle of town to the Trace in five minutes and have a nice bike ride in the woods remains KO's only real advantage as a village.

And they have a truly progressive superintendent.

Speaking of the fourth reich, I thought everyone might like to know I have prevailed over the forces of evil and am now teaching English part-time. Next term I hope to increase my hours there and drop "Can you hear me now?" like a smoking radioactive cell phone. Let's hear it for LAWYERS, especially Bourland, Heflin, Alvarez and Minor!

But, yes, I miss the older, seedier Redneck Rivera myself, Wry. I mean, if you're going to be provincial, you may as well look the part.