Is your grandparents from the south.

[Coco Loco]

Yeah. All of this is an Interesting layer of the great migration that isnt discussed often. The migration of AA's from one Southern state to another.. Most of Florida prior to the civil war was uninhabited by many non Europeans. Not many plantations. So alot of slaves escaped to Florida. And post Civil War, Most of SoFla was developed by Northerners. Jim Crow laws were actually "brought in" by state legislators in the Panhandle. Alot of Black folks from rural parts of GA, SC, etc found work in SoFla alongside Black Bahamians. That's why the two groups are very closely related. Decades of intermarriage.

Alot of Louisiana blacks would migrate to Texas as well. East Texas, Houston, Galveston have an abundance of Louisiana Creole AA's. Under the surface at least. Beyonce's the most famous one..

And then there's the post Katrina folks also. And even pre katrina black folks who migrated to texas for work.

Yeah I was about to say like Louisiana to Texas. Now I'm curious to see what my dad's side has to say about this.

 

[Taadow]

This is TRUTH. 25+ cars following each other from Michigan to Alabama.

Family mad we gotta keep stopping cause someone body aint pee during the last stop -- or one of you uncles or aunts or their kids still hungry and we gotta stop.

Cousins wanna ride in another car - or gotta ride in another car cause they acting up or mad at each other.

Some of the younger cousins wanna stop in Atlanta overnight instead of riding all the way to bama. Older people pissed and wanna check everyone.

Once you get to Tennessee, Ga or Bama -- some body wanna stop on the side of the expressway and eat red dirt.

Just shyt all the way there.

Almost everybody start out mad because we was supposed to leave "before day" but its 2 people who didn't pack last night and they holding up everybody...now we gotta drive through Phoenix during the hottest part of the day, and we probably won't make it through Texas before Sundown...

 

[Brer Dog]

Eyybody got a "Buddy" in they fam - our Buddy was Mama's uncle...

Same here. Nobody could explain why we called him that

 

[GoAggieGo.]

My maternal grandparents aren't originally from WV, but my great grandaddy was from North Carolina and my great grandmother was from Tennessee. My maternal grandparents were born and raised in WV. My paternal great grandparents are from the Carolinas that I know of and my paternal grandparents were born and raised in WV.

Drove through West VA on my way to Ohio, and partied in Morgantown. Was there for an engineering conference. There are a lot of black folks in WV. I didn’t expect it. I know there’s an HBCU out there too.

 

[Taadow]

Same here. Nobody could explain why we called him that

Yep...that's everybody doe. I got a nickname like that, too.
We got people's where most people don't find out your real name until you die.

A few weeks ago I went to a funeral for one of the OGs everybody knew as "Billy", come to find out his name was "James". Happens all the time.

 

[hatealot]

My girls grandparents are from Charleston, SC. Well, Beaufort SC.

My homeboy is from the Bay, and all his from AR. Same with my home girl from San Diego. Running joke was they were cousins

me and your girl prob related.

 

[DUCKED_OFF]

To everybody who said south carolina , do you know which part?

 

[315]

To everybody who said south carolina , do you know which part?

My maternal grandmother is from Anderson. Not sure what part my father is from, SC is on the birth certificate

 

[hotbeezie]

Louisiana is kinda fukked up and country as hell but it got a hold on me brehs



My grandad left for Vegas in the late 60’s and ended back up in Louisiana by the 80’s

It’s a good amount of us in Vegas, Dallas,Houston and LA.

 

[Black Steph Curry]

Paternal grandparents: Madison County Alabama

Maternal grandparents: St Ann Parish Jamaica



As a matter of fact, right now i live across tha street from a subdivision tht was built on tha land my paternal grandma and her folks use to sharecrop. Back then tha road wasn't even asphalt just gravel.

 

[8WON6]

Eyybody got a "Buddy" in they fam - our Buddy was Mama's uncle...

My Uncle Buddy.

lmaoooooooooooooooooo

 

[Luken]

i just got taken aback for a second.


....never met any of my grandparents.

 

[@OffHalsted]

Egypt, Chickasaw County, Mississippi

 

[Guile]

My father's family is from Florida. My mother and father refuse to go into deep details of each of their family past when I have asked about it.

 

[cheek100]

Yep...that's everybody doe. I got a nickname like that, too.
We got people's where most people don't find out your real name until you die.

A few weeks ago I went to a funeral for one of the OGs everybody knew as "Billy", come to find out his name was "James". Happens all the time.