feralmerril
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Have you ever noticed that if you have throw rugs on a smooth wood floor they always eventualy slide to the north?
Is it my imagination
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While this is true, the attitude predates these shows by years.
Some friends and I were talking about this topic yesterday. Many people from the northeast preach all about diversity and respect for other cultures, but that only includes cultures of people with different skin colors. White people who have a different culture or way of thinking are suitable fodder for rude jokes and comments. Oh, and black people with conservative political views.
They are all about diversity, as long as everyone agrees with them.
My son has instructed me to say this about the Gulf Coast of AL. He wants people to think it's a terrible place to live.
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Go to a county fair sometimes, it isn't just trailers that come in double and single wide.
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Hey, we have Andrew Cuomo, Mike Bloomberg, The Sopranos, and Jersey Shore and New York City which you can smell before you can see. You want to compare role models?
If you read the MSM, or listen to them, you can see countless examples of this sort of thinly-disguised bigotry against anyone who does not "live" in a major metropolis. They cleverly (they think) refer to us as living in "the heartland." 
You southerners aren't the only ones who are oppressed.
You southerners aren't the only ones who are oppressed.
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"We're cousins!"
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Richmond Va. is the worst case of north south stigma I have ever experienced; right in the Capitol of The Confederacy. If you live south of the James River in Richmond, you are the plague.
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We were visiting the city and it was mentioned that we had driven from Plattsburg. "OH you are from upstate!" Dad said "No, I'm from Arkansas, I'm just stationed in Plattsburg." Silence ensued.
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Don't have to wait for the fair. Just hang out in Walmart for a bit.
I hate to burst your bubble, but DC isn't the Northeast. It's well south of the Mason Dixon line. The location of DC was picked to be in the middle of the then existing United States.
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gregintenn
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Get a map. Find northern, middle Tennessee. You'll see that Washington D.C. is well north and east of here; hence "the northeast".
Don't need a map. We're talking about "The northeast" as a region of the country. At least the rest of us are.
Delos
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Not to be a trouble maker but the truth hurts sometimes
You guys are playing patty-cake over trivia because to discuss the real world is not politically correct.
Every once in a long while, Hollywood Movies gets something right.
Jimmy Stewart was the older brother who had fought for the North. Dean Martin was the younger brother who had fought for the south.
Jimmy Stewart wants his younger brother to quit his outlaw gang and go to Wyoming with him to start a ranch.
When Dean Martin’s character asks about “hows mom”, Jimmy Stewards character says words to the effect “when she heard about you riding with Quantrill she died of grief”.
Dean Martin replies (as best memory serves) “So one brother rides with Sherman and burns down a whole state. The other brother rides with Quantrill and destroys a few towns and he is the one that killed his mother”.
………………….
My parents spent their fist 40 years in Iowa. I once read about the various vitamins and associated diseases. The vitamin D deficiency disease is Ricketts (soft bones). People who eat fish get plenty. People who live on basic American and European diet of vegetables, wheat, corn, and beef do not get enough vitamin D.
Unless they get adequate sunshine. White skin absorbs a lot of the ultra violet rays of sunshine that reacts with skin oil to make vitamin D (over 70 percent perhaps?) African American being adapted to the tropics absorb somewhere below 20 percent (again if memory serves).
All kids were at risk in early industrial city apartment buildings (little sunlight). Worse for the African Americans who fled north (to shorter days) also hit the night shift factory labor that was possible from the invention of “gas lights”. Children indoors in cold industrial cities died by the thousands. When vitamin D was identified as the cause it was added to bread and milk which ended the epidemic.
(This is pretty good -- it is all that I could find quickly)
Vitamin D, Cod-Liver Oil, Sunlight, and Rickets: A Historical Perspective
(Not to overlook other trivia).
Before the Revolutionary War, for almost 200 years, this country was part of England called New England. All nobles north and South were English Nobles.
After France helped in our Revolutionary War some rich French slipped in somewhere?
You guys are playing patty-cake over trivia because to discuss the real world is not politically correct.
Every once in a long while, Hollywood Movies gets something right.
Jimmy Stewart was the older brother who had fought for the North. Dean Martin was the younger brother who had fought for the south.
Jimmy Stewart wants his younger brother to quit his outlaw gang and go to Wyoming with him to start a ranch.
When Dean Martin’s character asks about “hows mom”, Jimmy Stewards character says words to the effect “when she heard about you riding with Quantrill she died of grief”.
Dean Martin replies (as best memory serves) “So one brother rides with Sherman and burns down a whole state. The other brother rides with Quantrill and destroys a few towns and he is the one that killed his mother”.
………………….
My parents spent their fist 40 years in Iowa. I once read about the various vitamins and associated diseases. The vitamin D deficiency disease is Ricketts (soft bones). People who eat fish get plenty. People who live on basic American and European diet of vegetables, wheat, corn, and beef do not get enough vitamin D.
Unless they get adequate sunshine. White skin absorbs a lot of the ultra violet rays of sunshine that reacts with skin oil to make vitamin D (over 70 percent perhaps?) African American being adapted to the tropics absorb somewhere below 20 percent (again if memory serves).
All kids were at risk in early industrial city apartment buildings (little sunlight). Worse for the African Americans who fled north (to shorter days) also hit the night shift factory labor that was possible from the invention of “gas lights”. Children indoors in cold industrial cities died by the thousands. When vitamin D was identified as the cause it was added to bread and milk which ended the epidemic.
(This is pretty good -- it is all that I could find quickly)
Vitamin D, Cod-Liver Oil, Sunlight, and Rickets: A Historical Perspective
(Not to overlook other trivia).
Before the Revolutionary War, for almost 200 years, this country was part of England called New England. All nobles north and South were English Nobles.
After France helped in our Revolutionary War some rich French slipped in somewhere?
Delos
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1867 Texas
Yes, here it is, everything you needed to know about Texas.
Bandolero,
James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch,
Being chased across the border and “all over mexico" by Sheriff July Johnson (George Kennedy).
Andrew Prine plays Deputy Sheriff Roscoe Bookbinder.
James Stewart rescues brother Dean Martin and his sleazy gang from a neck-stretching party in 1867 Texas, after Dino & Co.'s botched bank robbery. They hightail it over the Mexican border with the recently widowed "vistoso" Mexican Raquel Welch as their hostage, while sheriff George Kennedy and his posse follow in hot pursuit. Truth be told, Kennedy is more hot for Raquel than the pursuit of justice, and who wouldn't be?
Yes, here it is, everything you needed to know about Texas.
Bandolero,
James Stewart, Dean Martin, Raquel Welch,
Being chased across the border and “all over mexico" by Sheriff July Johnson (George Kennedy).
Andrew Prine plays Deputy Sheriff Roscoe Bookbinder.
James Stewart rescues brother Dean Martin and his sleazy gang from a neck-stretching party in 1867 Texas, after Dino & Co.'s botched bank robbery. They hightail it over the Mexican border with the recently widowed "vistoso" Mexican Raquel Welch as their hostage, while sheriff George Kennedy and his posse follow in hot pursuit. Truth be told, Kennedy is more hot for Raquel than the pursuit of justice, and who wouldn't be?
Please review some of the "I'm thinking of moving to (Texas), (North Carolina), (Georgia), etc. threads.
Every one of them contains at least once the statement..."Well it was Eden until the Yankees moved in." or something similar.
"Hello, pot? This is the kettle calling."
Every one of them contains at least once the statement..."Well it was Eden until the Yankees moved in." or something similar.
"Hello, pot? This is the kettle calling."
I don't mind you snowbirds moving down here to Texas, looking for freedom, I'm just trying to get some of these darn Aggies to move up north!
Straightshooter2
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Oh man, there are so many Aggie jokes that could play off that one statement! Most of which would earn me at least a three day vacation from the forum.
CW
