Southern Women

[Hermione]

What a sweet thing for you to do, Queen Mother, bless your heart. I just don't know how you find the time to do so much, I really don't. You must just be about to drop in your tracks! Here, let me get you a glass of tea. Oh, honey, here's a coaster. This is my great-grandmother's favorite little table and I'd just hate like everything for anything to happen to it. Anyway, I'm so glad you came by and I'm so sorry my house is such a mess. I was out plowing the back forty and delivering a calf, and I just did not have time to move that magazine off the coffee table! Oh, there's the phone -- excuse me, I'm expecting my cousin to call. We have to run down and bail him out again. Family, bless their hearts, what can I say . . .


(Something like that?)

[Hermione]

Well, it hit all the major themes. I do come from a family where the motto is "if it moves, feed it."

It's striking when I visit my son out West, that the women I meet seem much less friendly and open than Southern women.

[fuzzis]

I know this is a horrible thing to say, but the first thing I think of when I think of Southern women is make-up and hair. :smt118

And then I think of manners and food.

fuzzis

[fuzzis]

Fuzzis, I think you speak for a lot of people. Watch the Miss America pageant Monday night - people usually expect a Southerner to win it and statistics show that they often do.

A lot of Southern women wouldn't be caught dead away from home without makup and hair perfectly coiffed.

I've never been much of a make-up girl, but I swear, seven summers here and I still can't figure out how to keep make-up on my face in the summer. :smt102 (Not that I care about it)

fuzzis

[Astra]

I gotta go with Fuzzis here - keep in mind I'm a transplant.

I cannot for the life of me understand how southern girls my age can walk around in an inch of foundation in the middle of summer - given, it's not all of them, but I can usually peg a former pageant contestant at 50 yards :)

I used to attend football games for a non-USM college and the majorettes there looked like Barbie dolls. Their hair was a mile high, they probably used an entire can of hair spray per game, and their faces looked like masks. It definitely made them show up better on the TV screens, but close-up, they were rather scary looking.

[ynotme297]

yea, get 6 of them together and you can get a full set of teeth.:smt038

[Tully Mars]

I absolutely love Southern women. Heck, if it weren't for two very special southern women I wouldn't be here and neither would my kids. Southern women to me epitomize a kind of grace and class that money simply can't buy. They also tend towards a resilience that is amazing.

When I think of southern women I don't really think of hair and makeup. Thoughts of immediate family members come to mind first. Those women who have and continue to influence my life in a positive way. I also think of women like Pat Fordice, Evelyn Gandy, Eudora Welty, Sela Ward (talk about hotness!), and many others who have made their mark in the world in significant ways.

[Maggie-Doodle]

I've never been much of a make-up girl, but I swear, seven summers here and I still can't figure out how to keep make-up on my face in the summer. :smt102 (Not that I care about it)

fuzzis

Me neither fuzzi and I have been here (south) all my life except for maybe a year and a half. I found out early on most of the guys are not crazy about all the make-up either...about all I wear is skin cream and mascara, and not much mascara anymore either..

[XC9]

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I loved the tv sitcom "Designing Women." To me, they represented the stereotypical view of Southern women.

I'm afraid I have traits of each of those cast members. But, I'm not sure that's a bad thing!

Oh lord, that is my FAVORITE show of all time. I just loved Delta Burkes role. She was great. Yes, they were all perfect southern ladies. I think all women can identify with at least one of the designing women. I have been told southern women were clueless when it comes to being on time. I have to admit-I am not on time for most things, just the really important things. We also know that pageants are a southern girls thing too. That is why the ladies in the south win so many Ms. America pageants. Southern ladies are also more friendly and polite. I know this is mostly the "old" south I am spouting but the old stuff is what made us what we are.

[pEtAl mIsFiT]

I am a southern raised girl and proud of it. I have seen and done things a girl from the north probably hasn't.
such as....
milked a cow with my hands
churned butter
canned
help plant and harvest a garden
see cows give birth many times (my dad own a angus farm)
made homemade sugar cane syrup
made homemade ice cream still do but I don't crank it no more I plug er up
do they even have family reunions up north?
drive tractors
there is so many things I have done. It blows my daughters mind. And, guess what I am just 34!

[carsalesguy]

there is so many things I have done. It blows my daughters mind. And, guess what I am just 34!

geez ur old:smt118

[SouthChic]

I am a southern raised girl and proud of it. I have seen and done things a girl from the north probably hasn't.
such as....
milked a cow with my hands
churned butter
canned
help plant and harvest a garden
see cows give birth many times (my dad own a angus farm)
made homemade sugar cane syrup
made homemade ice cream still do but I don't crank it no more I plug er up
do they even have family reunions up north?
drive tractors
there is so many things I have done. It blows my daughters mind. And, guess what I am just 34!

LOL! I was expecting you to say you were in your 40's or 50's after reading that. hahahaha!! I'm 35, grew up in the south, and I've never done any of the aforementioned. :oops: Well, I've made homemade ice cream, but never used the one you had to crank.

[Astra]

I am a southern raised girl and proud of it. I have seen and done things a girl from the north probably hasn't.
such as....
milked a cow with my hands
churned butter
canned
help plant and harvest a garden
see cows give birth many times (my dad own a angus farm)
made homemade sugar cane syrup
made homemade ice cream still do but I don't crank it no more I plug er up
do they even have family reunions up north?
drive tractors
there is so many things I have done. It blows my daughters mind. And, guess what I am just 34!
Hey, define "north!" My family is from around Missouri and we've done everything on that list, minus the sugar cane syrup - I drove a tractor and rode a donkey because I drove a car. I don't know about the family reunions though - they have them, but down here they seem to be MUCH bigger events and I can't say I've seen any up there that make up t-shirts and that kind of stuff. More of just a big picnic type thing.

[LipsofanAngel]

I am a southern raised girl and proud of it. I have seen and done things a girl from the north probably hasn't.
such as....
milked a cow with my hands
churned butter
canned
help plant and harvest a garden
see cows give birth many times (my dad own a angus farm)
made homemade sugar cane syrup
made homemade ice cream still do but I don't crank it no more I plug er up
do they even have family reunions up north?
drive tractors
there is so many things I have done. It blows my daughters mind. And, guess what I am just 34!

wow, you just brought back memories. Heck, I'm only 24 and I've done half of those... just not any of the cow milkin & stuff (was around cows, but not milk cows) The best memories were the late summer afternoons pickin' blueberries, ridin my grandpas horse bare back (just 'cause me and the cousins were clueless how to put the saddle on!), me sittin on the fence while my cousins chased cows (I was scared of them!), and eatin HOMEMADE icecream on the back porch. The we'd go to bed... the next day consisted of the kids bein sent to the garden to pick corn and peas! We were their little workers. I even got to pick the tomatoes b/c I was the fave ;)

now THAT is what I think of when I think of some of the experiences of a true southern girl... it's so sad that I doubt my children will ever get to do any of it.

As far as makeup... yeah, we wear alot. I have the triple of curse of being southern, former pageant girl, and former dancer. I really don't wear much at allll in the summer... besides the fact that it melts off, with a golden tan, why cover it up? But, I don't dare go anywhere now without mascara on. That's my one MUST have!

[fuzzis]

I am a southern raised girl and proud of it. I have seen and done things a girl from the north probably hasn't.
such as....


I'm pretty sure there are farms all over the country. :smt102 I lived in PA for awhile as a kid, and there were farms where all of those things happened. Hell...I did them as a kid in MO. One of my best friend's grew up on a ranch in New Mexico...and it happened there too. There are huge ranches/farms in the west too. :smt102 It seems like you're talking about more of a difference between rural and urban areas, rather than North and South.

I think there are a lot of stereotypes, which I find kinda disturbing...and I really think we're more alike than we are different. :confused:

fuzzis

[Conveyor Belt]

I think the contrast of the two threads is amazing.

[LipsofanAngel]

I'm pretty sure there are farms all over the country. :smt102 I lived in PA for awhile as a kid, and there were farms where all of those things happened. Hell...I did them as a kid in MO. One of my best friend's grew up on a ranch in New Mexico...and it happened there too. There are huge ranches/farms in the west too. :smt102 It seems like you're talking about more of a difference between rural and urban areas, rather than North and South.

I think there are a lot of stereotypes, which I find kinda disturbing...and I really think we're more alike than we are different. :confused:

fuzzis
true, it's easy to just assume north=city, south=rural.

[Mr. Bama]

I have mixed feelings on southern women. Southern women have great qualities such as being family oriented, loyal, religious, loving, and are by far the most beautiful women in the country. Though I've found that they can also be needy, insecure, close minded and scared of leaving their region.

Also, the southern accent is by far the most attractive accent in the U.S. Overall I think southern women are the best in the world.

When it is all said and done I know what i want in a woman and when I find her, where she's from is going to be the least of my concerns.

[58ford]

I haven't been keeping up with this thread so I don't know if any one has mentioned this, but southern women tend to be better looking than northern women.
There are several theories about this.
A friend of min when I was in school wrote a paper on the fact that more Miss americas come from the south (esp. MS & AL) than any where else in the country. His theory was that the North was settled by slavic, English & Germanic peoples, while the south was settled by the spanish & french, therefore the south had a"prettier gene pool.
I've also heard it proposed that the warm humid climate of the south keeps women prettier longer than the Cold of the north or the dryness of the west.
I remember a friend of mine after moving to St. Louis told me, "You know what they call a good looking girl up here? A tourist."
My own theory is that men in the south (due to our extraordinarily high levels of testosterone) simply won't have sex with ugly women, so we've bred them out of the gene pool.
Also, southern women tend to revel in their femininity, instead of trying to prove they're as masculine as the next guy. That alone can make a soup-bone hound hotter than a two dollar pistol.

[CircusRide]

I could really give a lengthy spill about this topic but I'll cut it short.
Southern women (born and raised here, not implanted):

1. Cannot be close enough to their mother. Mother/daughter relationship is HUGE!
2. Will not go into public without their makeup. Just not happening and I commend them for that!
3. Make their husbands believe they're sweet, kind, & submissive but we all know they're really strong and the glue of the southern family unit.
4. Make us southern men look much better than we are!
5. The northern women are more career- out gain their husbands, oriented. They're controlling (or try to be) and make a point to prove it. The southern women have the same drive, only they somehow make us believe we're their hero/knight in shining armor even when they get a leg up on us.

[Hermione]

I haven't been keeping up with this thread so I don't know if any one has mentioned this, but southern women tend to be better looking than northern women.
There are several theories about this.
A friend of min when I was in school wrote a paper on the fact that more Miss americas come from the south (esp. MS & AL) than any where else in the country. His theory was that the North was settled by slavic, English & Germanic peoples, while the south was settled by the spanish & french, therefore the south had a"prettier gene pool.
I've also heard it proposed that the warm humid climate of the south keeps women prettier longer than the Cold of the north or the dryness of the west.


There is something to the humidity thing. The climate up north is rough on the skin.
However, your friend has his facts seriously askew. The South was settled primarily by English and Scots-Irish. They landed in Virginia and the Carolinas and worked their way westward. (Open the Hattiesburg phone book and look at the disproportionate number of Mc's plus their cousins the Grahams, Camerons, Wilsons, etc. I'm surprised that children here aren't born knowing the words to "Scots What Hae Wi' Wallace Bled" -- not that I'm descended from a man named William Wallace McClung, or anything. )

PS I was surprised that nobody recognized either my Haliburton nor my McGregor tartans when I had them up as avatars.

[XC9]

Hey, define "north!" My family is from around Missouri and we've done everything on that list, minus the sugar cane syrup - I drove a tractor and rode a donkey because I drove a car. I don't know about the family reunions though - they have them, but down here they seem to be MUCH bigger events and I can't say I've seen any up there that make up t-shirts and that kind of stuff. More of just a big picnic type thing.

Missouri was actually considered a split state. The north was yanks and southern Missouri was rebs. I guess that was kinda the cut-off of the north and south-mid Missouri.

[fuzzis]

PS I was surprised that nobody recognized either my Haliburton nor my McGregor tartans when I had them up as avatars.

I saw them, but I didn't know I was supposed to comment/mention them. :smt102

fuzzis

[Hermione]

I saw them, but I didn't know I was supposed to comment/mention them. :smt102

fuzzis

No, I didn't expect you to, just wondered if some crazy Scotsman around here would ask what clan they were. There's a fair degree of interest in that stuff in this area.

[Astra]

Missouri was actually considered a split state. The north was yanks and southern Missouri was rebs. I guess that was kinda the cut-off of the north and south-mid Missouri.
Yeah. I lived in the north part of the state. Point is that most of that list could have applied just as well to Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, etc.

[wilebill]

No, I didn't expect you to, just wondered if some crazy Scotsman around here would ask what clan they were. There's a fair degree of interest in that stuff in this area.Oh yeah, let's talk about tartans. I love to talk about tartans. I even have that little tidbit of knowledge in my profile. :smt070

Tartans.

[fuzzis]

Oh yeah, let's talk about tartans. I love to talk about tartans. I even have that little tidbit of knowledge in my profile. :smt070

Tartans.

You are just getting to use all of your words tonight, aren't you? :smt118

fuzzis

[wilebill]

You are just getting to use all of your words tonight, aren't you? :smt118

fuzzisYeah, ain't that cheesetastic?! :smt118

[wilebill]

You know, this has got to be one helluva special day. I got to say flax (thanks to Lips), tartan (thanks to Hermione), and cheesetastic (thanks to Fuzzis and Astra).

Wow. The Trifecta. Somebody call Ripley's.

[Hermione]

So, wile, what is it with you and that tartan stuff in your profile?

[wilebill]

So, wile, what is it with you and that tartan stuff in your profile?Ah, it's a long story. If you want to look back about a year ago it's all there. The story can tell itself better than I can. :smt101