"notbob" > wrote in message
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> On 2013-06-21, Ophelia > wrote:
>
>> Why was everybody looking at you funny? What were you doing?
>
> Not being "Southern".
>
> It's a weird social paradigm. If you fit, a good 'ol boy will die for
> you. If not, jes might kill you. I found this to be the total
> opposite of the almost universally tolerant Left Coast, where no one
> gave a damn whether you were grn, wht, alien, etc. Why, Cuz they
> didn't really care about you, AT ALL! Lose touch with a really tight
> longtime friend in CA, in six mos it's like you never existed. Yet
> every single person I met and became friends with in TN, even for as
> little as 6 mos, came all the way out to CA and visited me within two
> yrs. I realize a lot of this was, "I know someone in CA. Let's go
> see it". Still, the CA mindset is, don't see 'em fer 6 mos .....who?.
>

So, how does one look southern?


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