ADOS ppl in Non Southern States

[Kliq_Souf]

My great-grandma moved from Norfolk VA area to Philly in the 1940s.
My great uncles/aunts grew up round here, but they got Southern accents.
Our family reunion is in VA too.
I don’t know my pops, but I did a ancestry test and my folks migrated from SC

 

[invalid]

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

She’s dead now but would’ve been in her 80’s. Father’s folks came up during the great migration and settled directly in East Chi Heights in the 40’s, 50’s. They never went up to Chicago. So if your people been there for a while they would def know mine.

 

[Cloutius Maximus]

i'm in cali. my folks from pennsylvania b/w of AL. my father moved out here in 1980

 

[fckyoupayme]

Great thread. Mississippi and Arkansas. I spent summers in Arkansas and picked up the country accent

 

[Biscayne]

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.

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.

This is interesting. The intra Southern migration between states is often forgotten. Especially the Georgia/SoFla connection and the Louisiana/Houston/Galveston/East Texas connection. Having lived in both SoFla and Texas I've seen both of these connections irl. When I was in Texas it seemed like every ADOS person who wasnt from Texas originally, were either from Louisiana or CA. And I see the GA/Miami connection starting to play out not only with ADOS, but also with Haitians. I know many who have migrated to GA.

 

[feelosofer]

Moms side is from South Carolina but they have been in Newark since the 1900s.

Dads side is from Georgia they came to NJ in the 1950s.

 

[Supper]

This is interesting. The intra Southern migration between states is often forgotten. Especially the Georgia/SoFla connection and the Louisiana/Houston/Galveston/East Texas connection. Having lived in both SoFla and Texas I've seen both of these connections irl. When I was in Texas it seemed like every ADOS person who wasnt from Texas originally, were either from Louisiana or CA. And I see the GA/Miami connection starting to play out not only with ADOS, but also with Haitians. I know many who have migrated to GA.

LA -----> TX -----> CA

Also in between those main points of migration OK, NV, and AZ were also points of settlement.

West Las Vegas was built by migrants from southern states like TX, LA, and MS.

 

[Captain Crunch]

Maternal side: Charlseton, SC area
Paternal side: North Carolina and/or VA??

 

[IllmaticDelta]

My maternal grandparents:

grandpa = born South Carolina/ raised New Jersey (he had no accent)

grandma = Virginia/Maryland born and raised (she had a twang more than a drawl)

Their daughter--->My Mom is/was born and raised in the Bronx. Has a NY accent



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my paternal grandparents

grandma = South Carolina born and raised (she sounds country with a drawl)

grandpa = North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida (he sounds country with a drawl)

Their son--->my father was born and grew up in South Carolina; came to Harlem when he was 9. Has a mixed NYC/Southern sound when compared to my mom


me = born and raised in NY...no accent

 

[I Really Mean It]

Dad is from GA, mom from Louisiana. They met each other up in Cambridge while he was going to MIT and she was getting a law degree from Harvard Law. He still has a little Georgia in him, but the south is completely missing from my mom. To be honest, I'm glad I didn't inherit any of their southern sensibilities. I relate a lot more to northern brehs than I do those in the south.

 

[Supper]

My maternal grandparents:

grandpa = born South Carolina/ raised New Jersey (he had no accent)

grandma = Virginia/Maryland born and raised (she had a twang more than a drawl)

Their daughter--->My Mom is/was born and raised in the Bronx. Has a NY accent



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my paternal grandparents

grandma = South Carolina born and raised (she sounds country with a drawl)

grandpa = North Carolina, South Carolina and Florida (he sounds country with a drawl)

Their son--->my father was born and grew up in South Carolina; came to Harlem when he was 9. Has a mixed NYC/Southern sound when compared to my mom


me = born and raised in NY...no accent

Bro, you know you gotta a big apple accent like a mf, even you don't use the slang heavy lol




I'm fukkin witcha.

Anyway, what do you think of this phenomenon I noticed?
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/37026724/

 

[IllmaticDelta]

The migrations are extremely predictable


LA, MS, AL Chicago/Detroit/Midwest

GA/FL/NC/SCNYC/Tri-state area

TXCali

actually it's more complex than that the further you go back

 

[Clayton Endicott]

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.

My mom and her parents were born in Lula That ain't exactly a place a lot of folks say they're from. They left Mississippi in the '65 lived in Indianapolis for a minute, then moved to Benton Harbor in '68.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Bro, you know you gotta a big apple accent like a mf, even you don't use the slang heavy lol




I'm fukkin witcha.

nah son

Anyway, what do you think of this phenomenon I noticed?
https://www.thecoli.com/posts/37026724/

Interesting post/question/observation....I think the answer is simply, they were surrounded by more "black" folks in a way that made them more clannish to what they were familiar with. Up North, there were less "blacks" so they had no time to be clannish.

 

[xoxodede]

Mom is from Dothan/Headland (Abbeville/Henry County), Alabama

Dad is from Thompson Station/Union Springs (Bullock Country), Alabama​

I was raised in Michigan. Went to Alabama for at least a month -- almost every Summer.

Parents, family and everybody I know --- Southern/country accent. I have a Southern accent mixed with a Michigan accent/slang.

My maternal Grandparents had 10 kids (5 Boys/5 Girls) -- oldest Aunt (now deceased) was the first to leave Alabama for Michigan in the 60's cause she didn't want to work the fields. A few years later my Granny and 7 of 10 left my Grandaddy and moved to Michigan for GM and education. My momma was one of the 7.

My Daddy ran away from my Granddad's at 13 to New Jersey to try to live with his Mom and sis who had recently moved there.

He was only there till he graduated H.S. and then went to Vietnam -- after serving 4 Agent Orange years in the Navy --- moved to Michigan got a gig at GM -- years later met my Mom there.

My Alabama family both sides -- who are not still in Alabama -- are concentrated in (Saginaw, Flint and Detriot ) Michigan, Chicago, New Jersey, Florida and Atlanta.