Sh%t Southern Women Say

Bless their hearts. Just like when you posted about kudzu, Alex, I am once again amazed at parts of my everyday life that other people find to be strange, different, and interesting. Or funny.
http://www.neatorama.com/2008/04/17/houses-covered-in-kudzu/

Perhaps it's a regional thing but in my forty years of living in the South, I've never once heard a person say "dern".

Really funny stuff here! Yes, that is what Southern women say, and said the way they say it. All you actresses who fake the accent badly, should have this video on a loop. [Hint: it's all about the vowels.]

I'm a product of NC and I was raised by one of these wonderful women (Asheville, NC) and I have the privilege of being married to one as well (Atlanta, GA). Don't let the "Steel Magnolias" or "Hart of Dixie" crap fool you (one of my wife's favorite shows, by the way). They are as intelligent, driven, beautiful, pulled together and FORMIDABLE as women from any part of the world. People from other parts of the US view the Southern Accent as something just one step past brain damage, while cackling and screaming through their noses and whinnying like horses at their supposed wit-bless their hearts...

Southern Women make you want to snuggle on a cold night and talk about Faulkner, the fact that the Dow just took a 1% hit, the advantages of a Kimber over a Springfield, modern brutalism vs. art deco, the need for resources to be utilized to develop economic empowerment zones in poor areas in the US and not abroad, and why you should never go out in certain outfits without first taking a good hard look in the mirror to "make sure you don't look like a tart." It was a long night :)

Ya'll can keep Sarah Jessica Parker. Give me Andie MacDowell any day of the week!

BCB-Atlanta, Georgia