Ending a sentence with a preposition?

If you Google for "end sentence with preposition", you will get a ton of links, most of which will explain "one should not end a sentence with a preposition" is a mythical rule that in fact does not describe English usage, but is nevertheless sometimes (or even often) mistakenly quoted as fact.

This article tells a bit about the history of the rule - in short, that it started in 1672 with a certain John Dryden, who claimed it to be an abominable practice but never gave any indication why he thought so. It is generally considered to be applying Latin grammar rules to English text, which makes as much sense as a pancake on a bunny's head.

The joke is recognising this fact, and making fun of the pseudointellectual pedants who cite this "rule" seriously.

"Not ending a sentence with a preposition" is a rule that's embedded in a famous literary joke that's often wrongly attributed to Churchill, i.e. "this is the kind of tedious nonsense up with which I will not put".

Wikipedia's article about that 'rule' is titled Preposition stranding:

Preposition stranding, sometimes called P-stranding, is the syntactic construction in which a preposition with an object occurs somewhere other than immediately adjacent to its object

I think that's saying that, theoretically, Georgia girl should have said, "From where are y'all?" (or "From where did you come?").

Part of the joke is that it's apparently a rule that's made to be broken, i.e. "where are y'all from" is idiomatic (and friendly).