Byron, Georgia, in the heart of peach country, has a water tower that looks just like a giant peach.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The people of Memphis can start saying a sentence at breakfast and not finish it until lunch.

The National Corvette Museum is in Bowling Green, Kentucky.

 

The National Quilting Museum is in Paducah, Kentucky and quilt lovers around the world make a pilgrimage.

 

In the harbor at Mobile, Alabama an anchored World War II battleship has its massive guns trained on Mobile, ready to blow it off the map.

 

 

 

 

The trees are so tall in the rainy South that you almost break your neck trying to read the highway billboards above them.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

True fans of the "Gone With the Wind" novel or movie should make a pilgrimage to Georgia. Atlanta has the "Road to Tara" museum.

 

 

The Georgia tourism slogan is "Georgia on my mind," also the state song.

 

The name of a floral and design shop in Semmes, Alabama is "Sherry's Southern Accents"

 

In Hattiesburg, Mississippi, a huge Baptist churchyard has hundreds of neat white crosses lined up in rows to memorialize aborted babies.

 

On the state highways of Mississippi, in sawmill country, yellow warning signs say "Trucks turning, watch for long logs." Good advice.

Louisiana is the Bayou State for sure. Bayous with French names like Lafourche are everywhere in the state.

One of the quickest and surest ways to get tagged as a Yankee down South is to order unsweetened iced tea.

 

 

 

 

Near Paducah, Kentucky you can buy Joe Bob's flowers for 4 dollars right out of the field if you dig them yourself.

 

A lady truck driver in Georgia had a T-shirt that said "Yeah I know the load's late, but the voices keep telling me to pull over and clean the guns."

Only in the South can you find the Church of God Prophecy Holiness Get With It Tabernacle Assembly.

 

 

West of Sherman, Texas the litter along the highway is cleaned up by the "Sons of Confederate Veterans."

 

 

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