<p>Which school, in your opinion, is the most "Southern"?</p>
<p>Pretty much all the big state schools in the south…UGA, Ole Miss, Alabama, Auburn, Tennessee, South Carolina, etc.</p>
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<p>I have heard that Clemson is pretty Southern.</p>
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<p>What on earth are you talking about?? Are you looking for some place that serves grits for breakfast and fried chicken for dinner?</p>
<p>Washington & Lee as well as U of Virginia take a great deal of pride in their Southerness. U of North Carolina has great Southern Studies resources.</p>
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<p>University of Mississippi</p>
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<p>somewhere that flies the confederate flag would probably go up in that category.</p>
<p>Sewanee The University of the South, College of Charleston, The Citadel, V.M.I., Vanderbilt</p>
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<p>I don’t think it’s possible to top Ole Miss.</p>
<p>Nowadays Washington & Lee and Vanderbilt have tons of kids from California and New Jersey. They’re Southern relative to New England schools, but not relative to the most old-school Southern campuses.</p>
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<p>If you’re talking about schools that MOST heartily embrace Southern culture, then I would say these school qualify:</p>
<p>The entire SEC, with the possible exception of Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Any large state school in any of the one-time Confederate states, with the exception of Virginia and North Carolina and, possibly, some of the schools in West Texas</p>
<p>Any LAC or regional college where the vast majority of the students are from the South</p>
<p>Unlike others, I would not include UVA, UNC-CH, or William and Mary as wholly embracing Southern culture. UVA and W&M have relatively large, non-Southern populations, and the Virginians who are there are disproporionately from Northern Virginia, which is really not very Southern, at all. UNC-CH has a large population of the children of people who moved there to work in the research triangle.</p>
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