Southron?

[alexjack]

Now here's a word I never heard or read in my life until a few days ago. It would seem to mean the Confederacy but why? Southron, I don't get it !

 

[hanna260]

Oh, well, I always thought it meant someone who was/is? passionately devoted to the Confederacy- to the point of hating Northerners. *shrug*

 

[MajGenl.Meade]

The always reliable (cough) Wikipedia, she say:

Southron is a term meaning "a person from the south". It is uncommon in modern usage. It was originally used by Scots to refer to the English. Other notable uses are:
A person from the Southern United States in general
Historically, a person from the Confederate States of America
A member of the Haradrim, a human people in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
Anyone who lives below "The Neck" in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by author George R.R. Martin

 

[AndyHall]

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"Southron" was originally was a term the Scots applied to the English (among other things they called them), and the term came to be adopted as an alternative to "southerner." It's still used by some southerners, particularly of the unreconstructed sort, as a self-identifier.

 

[W. Richardson]

I have seen it many times. I always associated it with some Northerner who could not pronounce or spell Southern.
lol

Respectfully,
William

 

[alexjack]

Ok. Thanks for your answers.

 

[hanna260]

I have seen it many times. I always associated it with some Northerner who could not pronounce or spell Southern.
lol



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Respectfully,
William

I like this answer!

 

[LoriAnn]

This is a first for me too. I had to look it up a couple of nights ago.

 

[Patrick H]

The always reliable (cough) Wikipedia, she say:

Southron is a term meaning "a person from the south". It is uncommon in modern usage. It was originally used by Scots to refer to the English. Other notable uses are:
A person from the Southern United States in general
Historically, a person from the Confederate States of America
A member of the Haradrim, a human people in the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien
Anyone who lives below "The Neck" in the series A Song of Ice and Fire by author George R.R. Martin

Go with this general explanation. If in doubt, read on to Andy Hall's next post. I have read this term SO MANY times, but, after reading the above explanations, it might be because of my Scottish ancestry or my Missouri upbringing.

 

[Georgia Sixth]

Now here's a word I never heard or read in my life until a few days ago. It would seem to mean the Confederacy but why? Southron, I don't get it !

I've heard the term all my life, mostly used by my father and it was simply a term from someone from the South.

If the wiki sources quoted above are correct, then it would be more common among the Scotch-Irish areas, the yeomen class of the South, from which my family certainly came.

As for any "neo-confederate" implications, well, all I can say is that my father once said that if he'd been alive during the Civil War, he would hope he would have worn the blue not the gray. (I think I nearly passed out upon hearing that...)