Those sneaky southerners! They draw you into their gracious mannerly ways and hypnotize you with that charming long-voweled speech. Before you even realize it, you've been Southernized. I’m a born and raised Buckeye, a Yankee through and through. But most of my thirty years as a Navy spouse have been spent in the south. Virginia, South Carolina and Tennessee, to be specific. When I ran across a porch plaque defining The South, I realized I just might be one of them now.
The
South
\t͟hə ‘sau’th\, noun
A
Place Where…
Tea is sweet and
accents are sweeter. I’ve
been known to slip a “fixin’ to” in as often as possible—and it must be said
with a twang in order to truly be southern.
