I found this list at The Scent of Creativity and it is SO on the mark! I slightly edited some of it, to make it fit "me" but you can see the original list HERE.
You know you’re from the Appalachian Mountains if:
1. You’ve been referred to as a "young'un" by your elders.(Check.)
2. Any 4-lane highway was an "interstate." (Check.)
3. You know Pinto Beans as "Soup Beans." (Check.)
4. Its pronounced "App-uh-la-chun" not "Appa-laach-an." (Check.)
5. You never had cable, and some of your relatives still don't. (We always had cable, but I know people that still don't.)
6. You know all about the "snipe hunting" fiasco. (Check.)
7. You've willingly eaten something one of your family members hunted, shot, gutted, and filled the freezer with. (Not willingly, but tricked once!)
8. You don't get grossed out by putting worm on a hook. (I DO! But my sister doesn't!)
9. Some outsider made fun of your accent/dialect. (Um, SOME?!?! Like ALL!)
10. You went barefoot in the summer because it felt good, NOT because you were "poor." (Check, unless it was muddy!)
11. You caught "crawdads" and "salamanders" around the nearby creek growing up. (I didn't, cause I think that is "gross" but again, my sis has!)
12. You laughed your butt off at "The Andy Griffith Show." (I have even been to the real Mayberry. By accident, due to the hurricane evacuation one vacation, but we stayed 3 days!)
13. You caught "June Bugs" in the summer and sometimes even tied a string to a leg and watched them fly around in circles..." (Not me, but my mom!)
14. You never missed your high school football games. (Duh.)
15. There were certain schools you weren't allowed to play because the attendees couldn't contain themselves.
16. Old cars and pickups are COOL! (Aren't they cool everywhere?)
17. Jeff Foxworthy, King of Rednecks, made fun of your "local" airport in your nearby big-to-us town of Ashland, KY, on his Blue Collar Comedy Rides Again Special.
18. You called her "Mamaw," NOT granny. (I had BOTH, thankyouverymuch!)
19. The electricity went off when it snowed too much, but you had a fireplace or Kerosene heater.... (We just had gas heater stoves. Plus electric heat.)
20. No matter how far away you were from the railroad tracks, sometimes you'd hear the distant sound of a train..... (We live SO CLOSE to the tracks I often DON'T hear the train because I am SO used to the sound.)
21. You have at least one relative who worked in the coal mines. (Make that like 90% of all male relatives.)
22. A big city to you was Knoxville or Roanoke.... (Pigeon Forge and Columbus. lol)
23. You know what Poke is. (Both kinds, Poke from the garden and poke as in a bag.)
24. You were taught how to properly handle a firearm before you completed elementary school. (High school, but only because I was a girl!)
25. You used said firearm to shoot at trash floating down the river after a flood.
26. You were fed POP out of a bottle as a child. Occasionally, not exclusively.
27. You said the pledge of allegiance and never thought about it hurting anyone else's feelings. The clause "Under God" was not a problem for you. (We weren't aware it was a problem for anyone, back in school.)
28. You remember Vacation Bible School. (We still have VBS.)
29. Your Mom could sure make a great fried chicken supper! (Check.)
30. You LOVED "The Dukes of Hazzard..." (Before my time. But John Schneider is very cute. And Hazard is in my state. Don't know if it is the same Hazard, as they are spelled differently, but Hazard, KY, would definitly work for filming a remake.)
31. Diane Sawyer came to YOUR TOWN to do her "Appalachia Sucks" special. Okay, okay, it wasn't titled that, but she might as well called it that, by the way she acted.
32. If Diane Sawyer knows what is good for her, she will not be back to make a special anytime soon. :)
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