My new southern nickname?

[Conan The Librarian]

Now that I'm a southerner I'm fixin' to adopt a southern style nickname. I like Skeeter, don't care for Bubba. Got any suggestions?

[nomosendero]

Becoming a Southerner takes time. The people that know you will give you one when it's due.

[oldandslow]

Nomo is right. You will receive your nickname when it's due and you don't have a choice in what it will be.  It works that way out here in the southwest too.

[MGMorden]

Heh - my ~2 yr old nieces both call me "Bubba" .  Never really was a real nickname, but my sister sometimes called me "bubba" (just meaning "brother" in general) and her daughter picked up on it and started calling me "bubba" too.  Then the other one (my brother's daughter) heard HER calling me that and she started it too.

Never really considered myself a "bubba" but they get a pass to say it .

[Hooker]

How about Booger

[BBF]

LOL the only nickname I ever got in civilian life was from a lady boss of mine. She called me "buckwheat"

[wareagleguy]

I thought my name was Damit until I was about 15 years old.

[PowPow]

Living in the South and having the responsibility to assign nicknames to a lot of 4 and 5 year olds, I believe one of sturdiest but most under-utilized Southern nicknames is "Cornbread".  It would not be too much of a change to become "Cornbread the Librarian".  You and your family would become "Cornbread and them".

[powderman]

Had a boy in school that thought his name was shutupdamit cause thats what his momma called him. POWDERMAN. 

[highwayman]

all nicknames are regional is the south. what works in louisiana will not work in alabama.

[Swampman]

Cletus

[Oldshooter]

Heck, just hope they dont call you "late for dinner" 

[rockbilly]

Adopting a name will not make you a “southerner.”  Adapting the style of life “might”, and then one of the good ole boys will give you a name, might even be one you are proud of…………….let them call you anything they like as long as they don't call you late for supper.

[williamlayton]

Look to the left.
Hummmmm---my sister still calls me wiliamlayton.
Got to have two names--AKA billybob, joebob, joewilly.
Blessings

[Tommyt]

Now that I'm a southerner I'm fixin' to adopt a southern style nickname. I like Skeeter, don't care for Bubba. Got any suggestions?

 Like has been said they will make it when you arrive its just about always DamYankee
Then when your around for a while and in good standings it may(hopefully) change

Tommyt

[Hooker]

Now that I'm a southerner I'm fixin' to adopt a southern style nickname. I like Skeeter, don't care for Bubba. Got any suggestions?

 Like has been said they will make it when you arrive its just about always DamYankee
Then when your around for a while and in good standings it may(hopefully) change

Tommyt

No at first we call you Yankee it's when you don't leave we call you DamYankee

Pat

[Dee]

I've been a Southerner for almost 61 years. I have one name. The one my mother gave me, and there are few in my circle that have more than one name. TV has painted a distorted picture of the south.

[williamlayton]

Yea Dee but your real close to OK.
I grew up with a county full of joebobs and such.
Course we were a backward East Texas---Mississipi, Alabama, Georgia look alike.
Blessings

[nw_hunter]

Now that I'm a southerner I'm fixin' to adopt a southern style nickname. I like Skeeter, don't care for Bubba. Got any suggestions?

Conan! If your not a southerner by birth, you never will be..............Sorry!

You can be excepted as one of the boy's......sort of, but will always be a Yankee.
Growing up in Se Ar., we had some kids from north of the Mason Dixon line enroll in school, and most were pretty good old boy's "for yankees"

There are even different degrees of southern! Being from Arkansas, I was( almost southern )to a Mississipi or Alabama fella. And my cousins from Paris Tex, and Hugo Oklahoma were western boys to us.

But were the closest thing to southern as you cold get.Unless we were playing them in the Cotton Bowl

"BLESS THEIR HEARTS"

Even though I've lived most of my adult life away from the south, my heart remains there, and when I go back to visit....I'm home again!

Oh yea! It might help if you learn to like Collard greens, salt pork, and cornbread.

[RB1235]

Tommyt nailed it. If you are visiting you are a yankee. If you do not leave, a damyankee as Tommy put it. Could take 10-20 years for that to change. Just depends if your accent deteriorates or not. Watch the stories you tell to others, often that is the derivative of a nickname in my area.

[pastorp]

Change in 10-20years my foot. It takes generations to be southern.  Only place I know where you can move to & fit right in is Alaska, cause almost everybody was born somewhere else. 

Regards,

[kynardsj]

I agree that a nickname is something some else will eventually give you. When I was young I had the nickname "Bo" from one of my grandfathers. My first two given names are Steve Joseph. My youngest granddaughter came up calling me Stevie, she's grown now and still does. Others picked up on it and added part of my middle name to it. Most will call me Stevie Joe now. Even my wife does it when she isn't calling me something I can't write here.

[gypsyman]

Gotta a question for you southern/western boys out there. Coming from a ''good yankee''.(gonna stay up north, and not try and figure out how to make grits taste good) Where is the line where a person stops calling themselves a southerner, and starts calling themselves a westerner? People in Ga.,Alabama,Louisana, call themselves southerner's, but somewhere, I guess in the Texas area, they start refering to theirselves as ''westerner's. Never hear of anybody from New Mexico refering to themself as a southerner. They say their from the west. Any help. gypsyman

[Old Fart]

A lot of it goes back to the civil war days.
The further west you go the less activity.
Around the Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas line.
In those states you're both.

[AtlLaw]

Around the Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas line.  In those states you're both.

That's why that area is called the SOUTH west!   

[Oldshooter]

Texas is a large area. consequently, There are different areas of delineation. I'm from southeast Texas. We may be "west" of Louisiana, Mississippi, and Gawga, but we are still the South here. Some in west Texas might consider themselves in the west but here its still the South.

[Sourdough]

I was born and raised in the South.  Had several differant nick names growing up.  Lurch, Slim Jim, Bean Pole, Zipper, Mule Skinner(shortened to just Skinner), Climber, Runner, Blue, Wrangler, even Bubba and many more I can not mention here.  A differant name with differant groups.  A nick name is assigned and you won't have anything to do with it.  It will just be hung on you by someone and you won't have any way of changing it, except to get it changed to something offensive by rejecting it.

I got "Sourdough" from a lady at Holloman AFB, New Mexico.  Originally it was "Sourdough Sam".  When she first tagged me with the name few people knew if.  She used it one day at Commanders Call, and next thing I knew people from all over the base was calling me by that name.  The guys at range control shortened it and assigned "Sourdough" to me as a radio call sign.

Just after I retired my beard turned white.  The name Graybeard was hung on me by a local Radio DJ.  Since he called me Graybeard over the air, many people heard it and it stuck.  Many people here in North Pole still call me Graybeard.  I used it as well until I moved to this site, and went back to using Sourdough.   

[RB1235]

The South is considered by most in the South to be the  states of the Confederacy. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Map_of_CSA_3.png You know, Yanks and Rebs. As for today's standards of south east and south west. I would imagine they go by the Mississippi River for east and west.

[Flynmoose]

I am a northwesterner and a friend explained things to me years ago.
He was from Florida and said he was 21 years old before he found out
that damn yankee was two words!

[Sourdough]

Finding a true Floridian, or even a true Southerner, living in Florida is rare.  Most people living there are Damnyankees.  They call themselves Snow Birds.  There is two types of Snow Birds, seasonal and permenate.  Seasonals come down for the winter then go back to Yankee land for the summer.  Permenates stay there year round, with maybe a shrot trip back to Yankee land to visit friends and family during the summer.