<p>I’m originally from Florida and it isn’t like that.</p>
<p>Anyway, University of Miami is definantely what you’re looking for.</p>
<p>Agree Big willy. It’s funny how UVA and W&M seem very southern and JMU has a vibe more like Penn State…</p>
<p>^^^ (But on a smaller scale)</p>
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Do what, now? Most of NC is pretty dang Southern. Still, Duke might be a good choice. There are quite a few transplanted Northerners in the Durham-Chapel Hill-Raleigh triangle (Cary is an acronym for “Containment Area for Relocated Yankees”). But I also agree that UNC is still pretty Southern.</p>
<p>UNC seems far less southern to this Northern Virginia resident than UVA. OP might want to check both out…</p>
<p>Saying UNC isn’t very Southern is absurd.</p>
<p>As someone who currently goes to UNC-Chapel Hill, I can attest to its southernness. Greeks dress up for the football games (guys with shirts and ties, girls in sundresses), things move at a slower pace, frats are big, Ralph Lauren and Southern Tide are king, and most people here have a nice southern accent. Of course, I consider this all to be a positive aspect of the school that differentiates it from other top publics.</p>
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<p>Cuse proposes some characteristics of “Southern schools.” I’d also propose that to those cultural artifacts you can add less racial / cultural diversity and less racial / socioeconomic interaction.</p>
<p>While DC arguably dips into the northernmost part of the “South”, I don’t think Georgetown, American or George Washington have any feel of the South or are really part of the South. DC moves and feels like a northeastern city.</p>
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<p>Well, of course not! It’s not in the South!</p>
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Missouri, at times, was considered to be a southern state, and some of its counties were called “Little Dixie”. It’s also sometimes considered to be a midwestern state.</p>
<p>Because it was a slave state, it has been considered to be a southern state.</p>
<p>I don’t consider Missouri a southern state OR Wash U a southern school. St. Louis is midwest.</p>
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<p>Actually, it’s a noted problem across this country that although our nation’s schools are integrated, the socializing is often segregated. I don’t know what Gadad means by “less racial/socioeconomic interaction”. I don’t know what he means by less socioeconomic intereraction part of that statement. If he’s suggesting that in the south there isn’t much interaction between affluent whites and blacks, he’s wrong. Maybe he’s suggesting something else, but I doubt he’s suggesting something that is unique to the south.</p>
<p>And…what is Southern Tide?..I live in the south and if it’s “king,” it’s not been venerated by me.</p>
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<p>Southern Tide is a clothing line started by a former KA at the University of South Carolina less than five years ago. It is expanding very rapidly across universities all over the south, and has quickly become “frattastic” attire at many of them. Trust me, if you haven’t seen it by now, you will soon. Their logo is a skipjack fish, and is usually over the wearer’s upper left chest.</p>
<p>Emory… According to its class profile page for 2009, only 39% of students from the South. Mid-Atlantic 21%, International 12%, Midwest 11%, West 9%, New England 7%, and Southwest 7%. [Class</a> Profile](<a href=“Admission | Emory University | Atlanta GA”>Admission | Emory University | Atlanta GA)
Interestingly, International students comprise the third highest percentage.</p>
<p>mom2college kids - I’ve lived in St. Louis. Missouri is not a southern state and St. Louis is not a southern city. Wash U is not a southern school. It’s solidly midwestern. St. Louis is no different from any other medium-sized midwestern city (Minneapolis, Cleveland, etc.) in that regard.</p>
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I have no problem with that. I was just giving the historical perspective. I just offered the reason why someone might post the WashU comment.</p>
<p>But, frankly, many southern cities are no different from “other medium-sized midwestern cities,” either.</p>
<p>Kansas City and points in southwestern Missouri, particularly near the Arkansas and Oklahoma corners have a “twang” about them and are culturally very different from St. Louis, and some would say politically different. Its the difference between “Missouree” and “Missourah”. During the War of Northern Aggression (Civil War to you Yankees! LOL), Missourah was a divided state.</p>
<p>Alabamamom: Fear not…some of those folks up north think of us as creatures from another planet. They just don’t know what they are missing in Dixie. LOL.</p>
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<p>Native St. Louisan here. No one in St. Louis considers her/himself to be a southerner or Missouri to be a southern state.</p>
<p>The state officially fought with the North, in defense of the Union, during the Civil War. There were irregular forces, such as Quantrill’s Raiders, who fought against the Union. Some of those characters became the Jesse James gang.</p>
<p>Down in the ‘bootheel’ (far southeastern part of MO), some of the residents might think of themselves as southerners, or at least as distinct from St. Louisans.</p>
<p>As far as Wash U goes, there is no southern vibe, period. When my son toured a few years ago, three of the four guides were from NY/NJ.</p>
<p>BTW, I grew up drinking iced tea, but never, ever, was it sweetened. At all. Definitely not southern.</p>