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Call me Deacon Blues Donating Member (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jul-05-05 04:14 PM
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30. I hear what you're saying . . .
but going along with that reasoning, there's no real "identity" to ANY region. History is a big thing down here, and I agree that it is in general a bad thing -- too many people use it as an excuse to fly the Stars N' Bars. But I don't think about the "history" of a region as much as I think about a region's culture, its' food, its' accents, the way people dress, their weather. The south? They're slow & genteel, they eat fried catfish & watermelon & gumbo, they play country music & blues & jazz (and we've turned out our share of rock n' roll, too), they talk slow & draw out their syllables, they dress for comfort, not for speed, they use a lot of air conditioning because it's hot & muggy for a lot of the year, and they DO NOT know how to drive in snow -- and consequently enjoy it a lot more than people up north. See, we can say all these things without once talking about race!

Personally, I think we can ALL get along!
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