Perspectives of a Canadian in the Old/Deep/New/Geographic South: This is where I ramble on about nothing in particular and post a few nice pictures.
Ooops, I seem to have managed to totally bork my individual entry archives. Since that’s also where the comment form is, no comments until I get this fixed.
I did have redoing the templates on my list of things to do…maybe this will be as good a time as any to do that.
Update: Ok, I think things are fixed now…
MUSC‘s Hurricane Awareness Day is going on in the Horseshoe today until 2PM. I think it’s targeted mostly towards employees and students, but I’m sure they won’t notice a few neighbours walking through. Lots of cool stuff to see, and you can even go meet Rob Fowler from Channel 2. I saw Sticky Fingers setting up to serve lunch, so grab some BBQ and learn how to get ready for storm season.
The rest of the list is much much longer, but just listing these made me tired.
Well, everyone else is doing it, so what the heck.
There is one other thing I like. Being able to send pictures like this of us hanging out on the beach on New Year’s Day to my friends buried in the snow back home. Is that a mean thing to do?
Not too wild about the summer heat, but that’s another list.
Someone stumbled on my blog and emailed me this
One note: there is some debate as to whether South Carolina is “the deep south”, “the old south”, or both. More info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_South
As a native Georgian and former Charlestonian, I have always understood that the Deep South referred to the post-cotton-gin regions of the south — where there are vast, seemingly endless plantations fields (Alabama, Mississippi, Louisianna, and Arkansas).
A good book on the subtle differences between “deep” and “new” and how they’ve affected modern life in the South’s major cities is “New Men, New Cities, New South”.
I thought it was interesting. As someone ‘from off’ (as they say around here), ‘Deep South’ was the only term I had encountered, and from what I had gathered, referred to mostly the southeastern US (why not the rest of the southern US, I could never figure out). I always thought it was just a geographical term, but Wikipedia‘s Deep South and Old South entries would imply a historical and cultural distinction between the two terms.
Maybe some of you local readers can help educate a foreigner 🙂