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@john_st_helen @CSandbatch If you ever find yourself in or passing through Olla or Urania you should assess your situation.

@john_st_helen @CSandbatch My vote is Alec—it’s just not near much of anything, and everything around it is apex Louisiana twilight zone.

These however depict Alexandria, LA in the current decade and make that one in Virginia look like the Peabody hotel.

@Paul51854258222 @InternetAsylum @shagbark_hick It’s an acquired taste.

@InternetAsylum @BYodeler @shagbark_hick The absolute worst?

I'm a full-blown outsider to the world of the South, but it does seem to me that whatever the South's best qualities are -- Louisiana does them the best. I can't think of what one would find in another Southern state that could really be better than Louisiana. You know, you go to Georgia and it feels 'stuffier'. You ride around Alabama and people are pretty leery. The Carolinas just feel like Southern New Jersey but hotter; a lot of Mississippi is just sad. But Louisiana? Best state in the South by far, as far as I could ever tell. Realest people. Fewest plasticky subdivisions. Best food. Cajun culture. Friendliest folks (in my own experience). I'm very glad I do not live there but when I go there, I am happy to visit and am sad to leave it. Thus far I have not been able to say the same of any other Southern state (unless you count Texas). No disrespect to the rest of the Southern states. I've just got to say though that from where I stand, Louisiana is the "GOAT" of the South.

@GulfDemocrat Curious as to what’s going on in like two counties in Southern Arkansas.

I have been fortunate enough to have lived in different corners of our wonderful region so I am going to make a hyper-regional map of the south and then build a website providing histories of each region as I collect more of them. This is a first (extremely rough) draft.

@CSandbatch Yeah, but, James Booker could play the fire out of a piano.

Every event in NOLA is like 12 they/thems from Iowa celebrating the music of a 1950s black dude that had 10 kids out of wedlock & killed more than one Mexican with a beer bottle.

@RolandGunnTN Someone knows where that mace is.

So old school it no longer even exists x.com/BYodeler/statu…

Really wish I could’ve met the gentleman whose estate sale I visited. I’ve never recognized so close a kindred spirit just by the things he chose to collect.

@RolandGunnTN Also some old school Sewanee swag.

Watching AllBirds stock be +430% after announcing a pivot from being a shoe company to a GPU as a service AI company

@RolandGunnTN This is the most bizarre to me. But I haven’t seen a good example on here just yet.

There is also a "right wing" (read Duginist) version of the same phenom which is active on this website

In a lot of the South we see a dynamic where “contractor Americans” form a new “planter class.” There is a set of hicklibs who got better grades in high school, maybe even went to state college, but are now underemployed or maybe high school teacher, who make considerably less money than the Contractor class who absolutely despise and resent them.

@Dub__A @booksandbbq Deep Claiborne County lore—keep on digging.

Scenes from Mississippi today

@RolandGunnTN When I’ve had a long commute before I found myself drifting far into podcast world, for better or worse—as you age your time becomes much more valuable.

Commute time now down to 3 minutes. 3 years ago it was close to an hour. It’s not just about the time you get back, being on the road a lot every day is spiritually/psychologically draining.

@Kurt_Steiner Pre-Sunbelt explosion

Americas biggest and least American cities are basically the same (1910)

@Empty_America Really you can pick a random song on the country charts blindfolded from the 80s and 90s, and there’s either a compelling simplicity or erudition that got lost along the way.

@Empty_America “Guitars, Cadillacs” does similar work.

There isn't any secret world of modern country music, no act "you probably haven't heard of" that is better, no "deep cuts" you need to hear. It's all right on the surface, the best stuff is just George Strait, radio classics like "Amarillo by Morning" and so forth.

@RolandGunnTN Essentially, Coastal Living.

Thank the Lord that Mammaw didn’t live to see Southern Living sink this low

Nixon car vlog 1968.

@EWErickson I’m sorry dude, you are on your rear all day and talk on the radio—should probably sit this one out.

This is why Trump should have avoided the performative shit posters for positions. We're taking out the world's #1 sponsor of terrorism, and the Director of Counterterrorism is upset about it. He'll be blaming Israel within hours (he already is!!) and go on Tucker shortly.

@Empty_America 1607 versus 1620, simple as.

On the other hand, the entire idea that the Plymouth Puritans were the "founders" of this country seems like an odd artifact of 20th century public education. Episcopalian Virginia Gentry were the primary founding group, although they lost a war later on.