So, you're going to the South? South in the United States is an entity outside the parameters of all decisive culture adaptations and, as such, is always capitalized. We are a peculiar people and if you go far enough south you will find that we are a very friendly people. I live in Alabama and am not from here originally but this is the home I was looking for. I live near Mobile, the birth place of Mardi Gras (not the perverted one in LA), jazz festivals (not like CO), and a must stop for Beignets (a delicious pastry), battleship USS Alabama, and that's about it. I live about 45 minutes from the beach (haven't been there since we moved here). Gulf Shores and Orange Beach are tourist hot spots where crawfish boils, a plethora of souvenir shops, restaurants, and novelty shops line the streets. The water is usually calm with some brackishness from the inflow of the Mississippi. Offshore fishing is good and at night one can see the lights of the oil rigs.
We are not far from Pensacola where the Blue Angels practice, great shopping and dining, clearer water, etc. can be found. Mississippi isn't far (if you're into that), or even Louisiana. The culture is fantastical in books and movies. Painting us as plantation owners surrounded by cotton and day-long sipping of tea on a wrap-around porch. Or back wood alligator hunters who have a few teeth, cuss a lot, spit a lot, and say yonder every other sentence. What we really are is a combination of those things but above all we are just a different kind of people who believe in and are willing to fight for faith, family, freedom, and firearms.
We are not far from Pensacola where the Blue Angels practice, great shopping and dining, clearer water, etc. can be found. Mississippi isn't far (if you're into that), or even Louisiana. The culture is fantastical in books and movies. Painting us as plantation owners surrounded by cotton and day-long sipping of tea on a wrap-around porch. Or back wood alligator hunters who have a few teeth, cuss a lot, spit a lot, and say yonder every other sentence. What we really are is a combination of those things but above all we are just a different kind of people who believe in and are willing to fight for faith, family, freedom, and firearms.