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Date Posted: 11:33:47 08/30/07 Thu
Author: O"Bruadair
Author Host/IP: NoHost / 204.29.75.253
Subject: Re: "Becoming" Southern
In reply to: Sammie Sue 's message, ""Becoming" Southern" on 07:32:45 08/30/07 Thu

Well it’s been said before but Southern is more of a state of mind than anything. Blood and proper raising certainly don’t hurt but sadly I know plenty of people who have both but are about as truly Southern as the Pope is Hard-shell Baptist. Guess this is why Maryland ain’t considered Southern any more.

Stonewall Jackson said that the art of war could be described in three words; audacity, audacity, audacity.

Well Southern can be described in three too: attitude, attitude, attitude.


>I've heard it said you either ARE Southern or NOT
>Southern. It's an immutable trait. Something you
>cannot 'become.' But moving to the Deep South creates
>a change in you that makes you start to ponder on
>where you belong. In the first months, kudzu
>sculptures were magnificent; then you learn to wish
>there was enough Roundup in Alabama to shoot it down.
> Your favorite radio talk show is Rick and Bubba. In
>your heart you want to embrace half the kind folks you
>talk too. You learn not to refer to any road as
>'route.' It's 'highway', 'interstate', or 'county
>road.' The numbers are boggling. I could go on.
>Seven months here has taught me a lot. I'm homesick
>for sure, but not goin' back to Maryland. If my
>family comes here to visit, I reckon they'll want to
>stay. Yes, I started droppin' the 'g' off the end of
>my words and I say 'reckon.'

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