TKAM Ch. 1 (#1)

Personally, I don't consider myself to be "Southern." I spent the first twelve years of my life living in New York, and in the past three years I've lived in Florida, I still haven't adapted to many of the more "Southern" features of my town, and I don't plan on it. When I think of someone that is "Southern," I tend to picture what the general population of our school looked like on Hillbilly Day during Homecoming Week: it makes me think of people walking around in camouflage overalls with no shoes. I also tend to associate it with having a very strong, drawling accent, and raising some sort of farm animal, especially doing so as part of a class for school. I know that this is very stereotypical and that it isn't true for a lot of people that I have met while living here, but this is what comes to mind when I think of what it means to be "Southern."