My Autobiography

I from where I consider the deep south. I from Greenville, North Carolina where East Carolina University is located. Although my hometown is quite southern, it is nothing like Kinston, North Carolina where I attended high school. I travelled a total of one hour there every week day. At my high school, the guys competed in how cool each one's trucks were or who had the loudest exhaust. Although I wasn't quite the same as the other guys I went to school with I still consider myself quite southern. I have been joked numerous times for deep southern accent. I'm one of people that really enjoys a simple day whether it be fishing or hanging with some friends. Every Saturday or Sunday I'll be tailgating or watching football. Being from the South to my life has revolved around sports. I played both basketball and football and as a young kid I played baseball. Although I loved sports it still seemed as though you had to play sports to be socially accepted. But besides the basics, the concept of my southern past, ancestors , and Confederate relations also help to show my southern side. Being from the South, family life is important. My family and I always ate dinner together and did activities together. Even though I am completly against my relatives for fighting to keep African Americans in chains, I still support and remember what they did. They are family in not just blood but a southern sense. If I had been alive during that time i cannot argue that I would have certainly fought for the Confederacy. And that all comes down to the fact that in the South you have your family's and friends' backs. You put yourself second in my opinion when it comes to Southeren living. I dont't agree with the Conderate fight to have kept slavery, but I do support their past beliefs fight against a governement that was telling them how to live. My southern nature comes out in both the little things, like having a love for big trucks, and the bigs things, like remembering fallen Confederate soldiers and the hardship the South endured after the Civil War.