"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 6/21/2013 1:00 AM, notbob wrote:
>> On 2013-06-21, dsi1 > wrote:
>>
>>> It's a heritage that we just can't seem to shake.
>>
>> I spent a couple yrs in TN, back in the 60s. Almost got jumped by
>> hippie hating rednecks a few times, which was pretty funny cuz I was in
>> the military and the closest thing I could sport anywhere near to
>> hippie getup was a moustache. But, it got me in trouble more that
>> once.
>>
>> I actually miss a couple things about the South, but that "gonna rise
>> again" nonsense is not one of them. I figure Southerners cling to
>> their past glory so desparately primarily cuz thay got nothing else to
>> be pround of. Really, they do, but they listen too much to other
>> ppl's perception of them and gives them a poor self image. Granted,
>> some of it is warranted and their own doing, but it makes for a sad
>> and unnecessary take on life.
>>
>> nb
>>
>
> I found out how it was gonna go down on my first trip to the mainland.
> "Oh, that's how it is over here." When I was in Florida, it was "why the
> heck is everybody looking at me funny..."

Why was everybody looking at you funny? What were you doing?

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