Definition of Southern Belle

According to Wikipedia.com a Southern Belle is...

A southern belle (derived from the French belle, 'beautiful') is an archetype for a young woman of the American Old South's upper class.
During the period, Kentuckian Sallie Ward of Louisville was the most noted belle in the South, and her portrait, which hangs in the Speed Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, is often called "The Southern Belle." A Southern belle epitomized Southern hospitality, cultivation of beauty and a flirtatious yet chaste demeanor.
The archetype continues to have a powerful aspirational draw for many people, and books like We're Just Like You, Only Prettier, The Southern Belle Primer, and The Southern Belle Handbook are plentiful. Other current terms in popular culture related to "Southern belles" include "Ya Ya Sisters," "GRITS (Girls Raised In The South)," "Sweet Potato Queens," and "Bulldozers disguised as powder puffs." Today, a Southern Belle is also another name for a debutante from the southern United States.
To detractors, the southern belle stereotype is a symbol of repressed, "corseted" young women nostalgic for a bygone era.

For some reason ever since I was little I've wanted to be a Southern Belle. I place the blame for my fascination and somewhat obsession on my all time favorite movie "Gone With The Wind". I mean what Southern Belle doesn't love that movie? Its the definition of "Southern Belle". I have even been known to walk around public places speaking in a thick Southern drawl calling myself Scarlett Sinclair and my side kick Delilah Davenport acting like I'm a snooty Southern Debutante. (My mother can well contest to this...can't you?)

So much to my surprise God has placed me into one of the hearts of Southern Belles...KENTUCKY! My husband is in the Army and they are moving us from Columbus, OH to Kentucky. So I thought what better way to 1) Keep my friends & families updated about my new "Southern Life" and 2) Journal my way to finally becoming the Southern Belle I have also longed to be then to start blogging about it? :)

So here goes nothing y'all!!!