31 Reasons

Gabriela @ Une Vie Saine

I kind of wish I’d chosen to go to the south for college. I seriously considered several schools, and I just love how sweet and polite everyone is down there!

Lola

As a transplanted Austin-raised Texas Aggie living in Madrid, I can say that I.CAN.RELATE. I misssss:
-tailgating/day parties
-spending all day on lake
-dressing casuallyyyy
-tex-mex and bbq
-losing my wallet, keys, cell phone, etc…and OBVIOUSLY whoever finds said items goes out of there way to make sure they are returned to their rightful owner…

Chelsea @ One Healthy Munchkin

I’ve always wanted to visit the south! I’m trying to convince some friends to go on a road trip with me!

Carolyn @ lovinlosing

I’m somewhat appalled that the Cracker Barrell’s chicken n’ dumplings are on your list. It should be homemade chicken n’ dumplings! Nothing better! 🙂

eatmovelove

I love how alot of the reasons have to do with food!

Must get me to the South I thinks! 🙂

lindsey

i’m from NC, and these are all so true 🙂

♥ lindsey

Amanda

Two words…..southern hospitality! 🙂

lucianna

LOVE THIS LIST!! real, good barbecue, cornbread, more than one country station on the radio, southern hospitality! i’m from the pacific northwest but i swear i was born in the wrong place! everytime i go south i fall in love again. can’t wait to move down there!

CalliNae

It’s so funny. All those things are things I, in general, miss about the US. I find myself longing for hot summer and our general noisy, exuberant ways. I met a wife and husband from Texas yesterday at Wimbledon (On their 11th anniversary wedding trip!) and made me all nostalgic.

Guess we all miss home 😉

Cynthia (It All Changes)

Enjoying a walk in the rain in December.

Chatting with a store clerk.

Friendly neighbors.

Waffle House!

Jessica @ Jessica Balances

My favorite one that you listed: “The way every road trip ends at a Cracker Barrel” – so true! I will add…
– fried okra
– hanging out at Wal-Mart and actually having fun
– it’s not weird to make eye-contact with strangers

Sandy

chicken fried steak
Texas BBQ brisket
Howdy
sundresses for all occasions
crepe myrtle trees in bloom
live oaks

Lisa

As a Georgia girl I love the list…and it could go on and on! (:
biting into a peach so fresh the juice runs down your arm;
grandmama’s cornbread hot from the oven;
grandmama;
homemade ice cream;
the way the hot pavement smells after a summer shower;
people waving as you drive past even though you don’t know them;
summer banks covered in flowering thrift;
cicadas buzz buzz buzzing
mama and daddy
4th of July fireworks over the lake
the smell of Coppertone

Help Meghan Run

1) Boys in cowboy boots 🙂
2) Southern hospitality
3) Summer rainstorms when it’s sunny and thundering

Ah, I love living in the South.

Suzanne de Cornelia

-Dogwoods in bloom. The only place I’ve seen these in California is the mountains. In North Carolina when I was working on a Duke University project they were everywhere! Awesome!

-In St. Petersburg, Fl had fried ice cream (weird and never again) and key lime pie for the first and only time. The later was good–just don’t see that in California.

-Loved the dripping moss from the trees-gorgeous.

-I do like that soft way of speaking. And the Worth Ave. Palm Beach, all white summer clothes/tan kind of style. It’s an attractive look whether 8 or 88. Grannies look really healthy, happy, active, and cute there.

Kristin T

Check out this embarrassingly easy recipe for oatmeal waffles – I bet it could be made into pancakes also! http://www.theveggiegal.com/blog/?p=1007 i froze the leftovers, and they crisp up perfectly in a toaster oven. Add some banana and PB? forrrrr the win. BUT, I gotta say, a regular bowl of oatmeal lasts me longer than one of these waffles – it doesn’t make any sense!!

Monique@She's Going The Distance

Those pancakes look awesome 🙂

I’ve never really been to the South before, but you paint it favorably 🙂 Makes me kind of want to go soon! Well, maybe during college football season.

jenna

must try those pancakes asap!

Sara @ myfancytuna.blogspot.com

As boring as I find college football, I have to say I love tailgating, and UGA fans are THE tailgating champions.

I love Athens, I love Chikfila, I love summer thunderstorms, I love the history…

I can’t imagine not living here, as much as I poke fun at it sometimes. Thanks for reminding me of why I love GA 🙂

Kerri Beth

Don’t forget fried okra!

Courtney

Ahh the South – I never realized how much I loved it until I moved away for the first time. There’s something to say about southern hospitality, entire Saturdays devoted to college football…followed by entire Sundays devoted to church, family, and FOOD, and I love the luxury of wearing flip flops all year long.

Traci

So this is my first post – thank you for your list! I think my favorite thing you listed is hurricane parties – are they great or what?! I’m from Texas, lived in Louisiana for college, and now back in Texas. I want to travel everywhere, but I think I’d like to always live somewhere in the South. And I totally have flip flop tan lines by the way. Also add to the list:
-crawfish boils
-saying “yes sir” and “yes ma’am”
-being able to lay in the warm sun for most of the year
-everyone doing fireworks in their driveways for holidays
-New Orleans food (bananas foster, beignets, jambalaya, etouffee, blackened seafood….)
-really big shrimp

gina (fitnessista)

watermelon 🙂
hope you’re having a great weekend <3

ari

hahaha, i love how i grew up in basically the southernmost point of the US (miami/fort lauderdale) and it’s so not traditional southern at all.

Tara

I’m from California and I have to say that many of the items on your list are the same things that I love about California. As someone who loves California, and will likely live here for the rest of my life, I get annoyed with people who glamorize the south. It’s like people make the south seem like some sort of utopia where people who live there are inherently better (i.e. morally superior, friendlier, more gracious, etc.) than everyone else. It just doesn’t bode well with me. However, I understand the nostalgia people feel for their hometowns.

Leslie

I’m a southern girl living in Chicago these day’s and what I miss the most is Alabama football!!!!! (and REAL BBQ)
Roll Tide Roll! 🙂

Mom

knowing your child will always come home …

Nelly

Don’t forget: redbuds in full bloom filling the woods with flashes of bright fuchsia when the other trees are just starting to get their new spring leaves!
And going to strawberry farms and picking your way through lunchtime…and finding crawdads in the crick…and scrabbling through thick brush to find wild blackberries and scuppernong grapes.

Vicky

I loved your Southern list! I go to college at UNC-Chapel Hill but I’m studying abroad in Germany right now and I miss those things too! I hope you enjoyed the rest of your weekend!

Kelly

Not needing to specify that tea should be sweet
Cheerwine & Sundrop slushies
Fish Frys for family gatherings and major holidays
Working on your tan in March
Giving directions based on landmarks

Emily

Ooh Chic-Fil-A! I love that crispy, buttery chicken so much. I’ve lived in South Carolina for 5 years now, and have had my rainbow flip flops for the same amount of time. They even got me through 3 days of walking through the uneven cobblestone streets of Italy. Love the south!

marisa

sorry for misspelling my name and all the typos in that last comment, stitches in my finger are making it a p.i.t.a to type

Rachel

You just described my home in Mobile! I got my Rainbows on right now!!! Yall come visit. 🙂

Emily

Living in San Francisco for the past year, I can definitely relate to missing the South, especially now that it’s “summer” here and it’s cold :). My parents live in Charleston, SC and I just love going home! Things that I feel are best in the South are peaches, watermelon (right now it’s like suga… so amazing!!), grits, shrimp and grits, anything seafood related, fried okra, okra and tomatoes, boiled peanuts, homemade peach ice cream, the fact that everyone says hi to each other, beautiful deep southern accents, oh the list goes on. I definitely sport the rainbows here… despite the crazy hills 😉

Callie

I realize I’m a year late, but Rainbow flippies are from CA originally…