is the one I'm most familiar with. As to my southern bona fides, born in Mississippi, through HS in Alabama, and 30 years in Tennessee. Not to mention the 12 generations or so before me.

What part? East, middle, or west?

I live in Knoxville - the only blue city in the brightest red part of the state.

(Typically, everyone thinks Knoxville is red, but it's only in the county. The city just elected a former Cesar Chavez union organizer! Woo-hoo! )

here in Kentucky. I grew up in the eastern "mountain" part of the state and my Grandmother and Mother always made use of it.

expression younger people use. Of course I live in rural TN who knows.

I tried the google and the only hits that came up lead back to democraticunderground and one reference to a discussion about nuts, bolts and latches.

As a previous member already posted-- six of one, half dozen of another-- that one I know--

The up your ass insult is, though.

It makes no never mind to me. Probably not what you are looking for.

According to my internal DC-to-Shenandoah Valley dialect converter.

and no...never heard it put that way. 'Stick it' is generally not something you want to tell someone you're trying to get along with...

sP

You have to crank the car.

I've never heard that term used that way either.

A phrase I have never heard of until I visited a certain part of Florida is "you spoke it here"

The south is a pretty big territory. Not all things mean the same, even in a specific region.

Just my two cents.

It might be where I got the phrase. My grandparent's went there 3 times a year probably.

so, you know "you can stick it either way" as a comment about a choice not really mattering, rather than a suggestion for action regardless of the choice?

and yet the 2 choices mentioned where this phrase came up, seem like they would matter a great deal.

so far, you and the person who used the term are the only ones who seem to be saying this is a regional idiom.

Good luck with that.

6 of 0ne and half a dozen of another is in reference to collecting eggs and in this context its meaning is...
Doesn't matter where you get the egg from, one chicken, many chickens or a mix of chickens and geese..an egg is an egg and (Fits) eats just the same

Usually, it means doesn't really matter one way or the other. I also have family in the mountains in NC as well. They use it routinely. It is not meant as an insult at all.