Southern women know their summer weather report: 
Humidity
Humidity
Humidity
Southern women know their vacation spots: 
The beach
The rivuh
The crick
Southern women know everybody's first name:
Honey
Darlin'
Shugah
Southern women know the movies that speak to their hearts:
Fried Green Tomatoes
Driving Miss Daisy
Steel Magnolias
Gone With The Wind
Southern women know their religions: 
Baptist
Church of Christ
Football
Southern women know their cities dripping with Southern charm:
Chawl'stn 
S'vanah
Foat Wuth
N'awlins
Addlanna
Southern women know their elegant gentlemen: 
Men in uniform
Men in tuxedos
Rhett Butler
Southern girls know their prime real estate:
The Mall
The Country Club
The Beauty Salon
Southern girls know the 3 deadly sins:
Having bad hair and nails
Having bad manners
Cooking bad food
More Suthen-ism's: 
Only a Southerner knows the difference between a hissie fit and a conniption
fit, and that you don't "HAVE" them, you "PITCH" them..
_____
Only a Southerner knows how many fish, collard greens, turnip greens, peas,
beans, etc., make up "a mess." 
_____
Only a Southerner can show or point out to you the general direction of
"yonder." 
_____
Only a Southerner knows exactly how long "directly" is, as in: "Going to
town, be back directly."
_____


Even Southern babies know that "Gimme some sugar" is not a request for the
white, granular sweet substance that sits in a pretty little bowl in the
middle of the table. 
_____
All Southerners know exactly when "by and by" is. They might not use the
term, but they know the concept well.
_____
Only a Southerner knows instinctively that the best gesture of solace for a
neighbor who's got trouble is a plate of hot fried chicken and a big bowl of
cold potato salad. If the neighbor's trouble is a real crisis, they also
know to add a large banana puddin! 
_____
Only Southerners grow up knowing the difference between "right near" and "a
right far piece." They also know that "just down the road" can be 1 mile or
20
_____
Only a Southerner, both knows and understands, the difference between a
redneck, a good ol' boy, and po' white trash. 
_____
No true Southerner would ever assume that the car with the flashing turn
signal is actually going to make a turn.
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A Southerner knows that "fixin" can be used as a noun, a verb, or an adverb.
_____
Only Southerners make friends while standing in lines, ... and when we're
"in line,"... we talk to everybody! 
_____
Put 100 Southerners in a room and half of them will discover they're
related, even if only by marriage.
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In the South, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.
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Southerners know grits come from corn and how to eat them.
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Every Southerner knows tomatoes with eggs, bacon, grits, and coffee are
perfectly wonderful; that red eye gravy is also a breakfast food; and that
fried green tomatoes are not a breakfast food. 
_____
When you hear someone say, "Well, I caught myself lookin'," you know you are
in the presence of a genuine Southerner!
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Only true Southerners say "sweet tea" and "sweet milk." Sweet tea indicates
the need for sugar and lots of it -- we do not like our tea unsweetened.
"Sweet milk" means you don't want buttermilk. 
_____
And a true Southerner knows you don't scream obscenities at little old
ladies who drive 30 MPH on the freeway. You just say,"Bless her heart" ...
and go your own way.
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To those of you who are still a little embarrassed by your Southerness: Take
two tent revivals and a dose of sausage gravy and call me in the morning.
Bless your heart!


And to those of you who are still having a hard time understanding all this
Southern stuff, ... bless your hearts, I hear they are fixin' to have
classes on Southernness as a second language! 
_____
And for those that are not from the South but have lived here for a long
time, all y'all need a sign to hang on y'alls front porch that reads "I
ain't from the South, but I got here as fast as I could." 

Southern girls know men may come and go, but friends are fahevah !

Now...... Shugah, send this to someone who was raised in the South or wish
they had been! If you're a Northern transplant,bless your little heart, fake
it. We know you got here as fast as you could


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Laura...
Dec. 10, 2009 at 9:16 AM

Thanks for the funny! I'll pass this on to my friends and hear what they recognize.

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2old4...
Jan. 3, 2010 at 2:31 AM

OMGosh!  I'm southern and didn't even know it!  LOL

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