ADOS ppl in Non Southern States

[Nikki_04]

Mom: Not born in the south
Grandfather: Texas (also his parents came from florida)
Grandmother: Mississippi (also a lot of family in New Orleans)
Dad: Not born in the south
Grandfather: DC
Grandmother: I think Georgia or Arkansas

My parents have accents, my siblings and I don't really. But there's quite a few people in this area that have a generic southern "twang" to how they speak ....you can't really identify where it's from, but you know it sounds slightly southern.

 

[PoPimp84]

Dope thread. I’m a southern Ados breh from Memphis but I have a bunch of family who migrated to Chicago and Detroit.

 

[omnifax]

Grandparents on my mother's side are from Mound Bayou Mississippi
Grandparents on my dad's side are from Sherill Arkansas and Pine Bluff
Dad was born in Sherill but raised in Pine Bluff, moved to Wisconsin for a bit, over to Chicago for a while then to Michigan.
Mom was born in Lula Mississippi then eventually moved up to Michigan with my grandfather and her youngest sister.

 

[Baracka Flocka Flame]

I’m from NJ.
Mother was born in Kentucky and moved here when her father was killed.

Grandparents on her side are from West Virginia.

 

[Supper]

Dope thread. I’m a southern Ados breh from Memphis but I have a bunch of family who migrated to Chicago and Detroit.

MS -----> Memphis -----> St. Louis -----> Chicago

Probably the most legendary route of the great migration. You can literally just follow blues artist and their songs to learn about it.

 

[Bawon Samedi]

Maternal side=North Carolina.

 

[audemarzz]

umm shyt i believe alabama is where i can trace it back to . . some of my fam went to cali other half to ohio i was the unlucky one who had the silly fukks who decided to come to ohio -.- and of course the ones who stayed in alabama

 

[HarlemHottie]

Born n raised in NYC

Mothers side from South carolina
Fathers side from North carolina

Both parents are new yorkers but are a direct product of the migration

This is me. Interestingly, my maternal grandparents are from the same tiny southern town. They already knew of each other but meet at the Savoy in Harlem.

My man's people are from, maybe, 20 miles away. I don't know how we managed to find each other but it families mesh perfectly. His uncle preached my great aunts funeral and the family was like 'Yes lawd! That's that good old southern preaching. ' makes sense, the uncle was born in NC.

Far away from home, we still managed to find each other.

 

[Biscayne]

This is all beautiful. Thank you all for sharing.

 

[Biscayne]

This is me. Interestingly, my maternal grandparents are from the same tiny southern town. They already knew of each other but meet at the Savoy in Harlem.

My man's people are from, maybe, 20 miles away. I don't know how we managed to find each other but it families mesh perfectly. His uncle preached my great aunts funeral and the family was like 'Yes lawd! That's that good old southern preaching. ' makes sense, the uncle was born in NC.

Far away from home, we still managed to find each other.

This is so beautiful.

 

[Supper]

This is me. Interestingly, my maternal grandparents are from the same tiny southern town. They already knew of each other but meet at the Savoy in Harlem.

My paternal and maternal grandmothers and maternal grandfather are all from the same parish in Louisiana too(intra-southern migration).

There's even a street named after the main city in the parish in the Frenchtown neighborhood of the city cuz so many people came from that area.

 

[606onit]

From Starkville/Maben MS area to tha Chi. . Momz is ADOS.

Popz is CubanDOS tho.

 

[prime]

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[prime]

@ab.aspectus you grandmother is from Chicago heights how old is your grandmother? My grandmother was born and raised in Chicago heights too

 

[Spade]

That's seems to be the case. Train routes pretty much dictated where most people went.

There is a ton of overlap though . Ie AR Ms and LA are heavily represented in both the west coast and the midwest

Ga and AL for the midwest (esp. Michigan and ohio) and the east coast

Yeah. People also saying Texas -> Cali but Texans also went to Missouri and Nebraska as well for the exact reason you brought up. The train lines.
Also Florida received lots of people from Georgia and South Carolina. My great grandparents are originally from Georgia but like many Georgians, they moved to South Florida in the 50s.