Southern drawl origin? (non-member query)

[Salikoko Mufwene]

At 04:15 PM 7/6/2000 -0700, A. Vine wrote:

>Texas is not the South, phonologically and culturally.  It is the West.
>
     That reminds me of the saying "What's in a name?" I suppose history
has a lot to do with the names of geographical regions. "South" stands for
the geographical Southeast, "North" for the geographical Northeast, and the
Midwest is barely in the geographical center of the USA compared to the
geographical West, though it is West of the eastern sates.

Sali.


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