Just got back from North Carolina....

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I drove down to North Carolina for my nieces wedding. I have some BAD news for you guys....I THINK YOU'VE BEEN INFILTRATED BY YANKEES!!!! :D

I can honestly say that I didn't hear one Southern accent the whole time I was there. I was disappointed. It was sort of like being in New York, but with nicer weather. :D
 
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G-Mac said:
I drove down to North Carolina for my nieces wedding. I have some BAD news for you guys....I THINK YOU'VE BEEN INFILTRATED BY YANKEES!!!! :D

I can honestly say that I didn't hear one Southern accent the whole time I was there. I was disappointed. It was sort of like being in New York, but with nicer weather. :D
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You must have been in Cary (just outside of Raleigh), or around the South Park section of Charlotte...
 
It's been ten years since I was last in NC but I was the damn Yankee there. I always did like the people there but maybe I was just in the right places too. Might have to get back there too one of these days.
 
I live in the Hampton Roads area of Va near NC line. Around here the natives refer to it just as Carolina. If they use the North they are the tourists and move ins.
 
dmar said:
You must have been in Cary (just outside of Raleigh), or around the South Park section of Charlotte...
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Not too far from there....Apex, Holly Springs. :)

My brother-in-law told me that if I wanted to hear the Southern accent, I'd have to go out to the tobacco fields. :)
 
1morethan8 said:
they can't drive worth a hoot in the mountains!:D
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That's a fact...I worked on a habitat project in Rabun county this Friday and on the way there I got behind some cat who rode his brakes like he owned stock in Raybestos.

In my lifetime I've seen those mountain areas go from extreme poverty to some areas with a good deal of prosperity. That's a good thing but it's a bit jarring to see chain restaurants and big box retailers in what used to be quiet little mountain towns with mom and pop stores.
 
Cooter Brown said:
That's a fact...I worked on a habitat project in Rabun county this Friday and on the way there I got behind some cat who rode his brakes like he owned stock in Raybestos.

In my lifetime I've seen those mountain areas go from extreme poverty to some areas with a good deal of prosperity. That's a good thing but it's a bit jarring to see chain restaurants and big box retailers in what used to be quiet little mountain towns with mom and pop stores.
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Did you stop by and say "hello" to Billy Redden.. he did live in Clayton?
Rabun County has more National Forest than any county in Georgia.. I've prospected many areas there for both gold and other minerals.

Billy at 15 when he played in Deliverance... oh, he really can't play the banjo!

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1morethan8 said:
Did you stop by and say "hello" to Billy Redden.. he did live in Clayton?
Rabun County has more National Forest than any county in Georgia.. I've prospected many areas there for both gold and other minerals.

Billy at 15 when he played in Deliverance... oh, he really can't play the banjo!

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Didn't see Billy...

Rabun county at one time probably had more stills than any other county. I found a busted up one when I was grouse hunting one time. It actually had ax-shaped holes in it. I wish I could have taken a picture but I didn't have camera on me at the time. This was a good while before digital cameras and I didn't have a small film camera.

Thankfully I never found a still in operation...
 
Hillbilly77 said:
You came back?! :eek: :confused: :confused:

:D
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Yeah, drove down Friday....got there about 3:30AM Saturday morning. Niece got married 3:00 Saturday afternoon. Slept over til Sunday. Left 1:30 Sunday afternoon and got home at 12:30AM. 13 hours to get there, 11 to get home (took a different route....bypassed D.C.). Wife is staying down there for the week with her sisters, they rented a beach house on the ocean. She's got the week off. I have to work. :(

I got to drive my wife's new Nissan Altima down and back. Very comfortable ride, no problem keeping up with traffic, and awesome gas mileage! :)
 
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I really wish I could have stayed longer. I would have liked to check out some of the gun shops, local barbecue joints, etc. :)

Unfortunately, I have to work tomorrow. Wife has tons of vacation time to use up. :)
 
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Yep...Same here on the Va. coast...In Virginia, the Governor and Senators are all carpetbaggers...This is a military area so there is little or no regional culture other than military. A very good friend moved to Florida from New Bern, NC a few years ago. He is ready to move back "up south" because he is surrounded by Northeastern Democrats who are driving him nuts.
 
I recently became friends with a young woman from North Carolina. She was attending Iowa State University to get a Phd. in Veterinary Science. I noticed her lack of southern accent and inquired about that. She said her Grandma insisted they speak without accent so they wouldn't sound uneducated. True story and the family is long-time southerners. She got her Phd. and now has a job in Fargo, ND....can you believe that?? The accent up there is all chattering teeth.

So while Yankees are filling jobs down south, at least one southerner did the reverse.
 
S&WIowegan said:
I recently became friends with a young woman from North Carolina. She was attending Iowa State University to get a Phd. in Veterinary Science. I noticed her lack of southern accent and inquired about that. She said her Grandma insisted they speak without accent so they wouldn't sound uneducated. True story and the family is long-time southerners. She got her Phd. and now has a job in Fargo, ND....can you believe that?? The accent up there is all chattering teeth.

So while Yankees are filling jobs down south, at least one southerner did the reverse.
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My daughter had to learn to talk in a neutral voice being in both radio and TV... hard to do for a Southern girl!:D
 
Carolinas.....

Western Carolinas and East Tennessee. It's easy to see why people would want to move there.

FN is in Columbia. Glock is in Marietta Ga.

Reuters says, Ruger, Colt Remington, Beretta all have plans to move south.

We REALLY need to send special invitation to S&W to come down here. Land is reasonable, resources are plentiful, willing work force....

The large company I worked for had a large building on Wall Street as their corporate office. After 60 years they moved out to the country.
 
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This is the 2nd invasion-the 1st happened in the 1860s. The current invaders waited until we repaired all the damage and rebuilt our country, and then came in again, only in greater numbers than before. And the problems are numerous because of it.

None of them have a gun heritage, so they want to disarm all of us, because they are scared a gun is going to jump up and shoot them all by itself.

Most of them can't drive intelligently and safely, as you can't talk on your cellphone or text on your device and have a hand free to put on your turn signal.

Nothing grates my nerves worse than to hear someone down here say 'youse'. There is no word like this in the Southerner vernacular.

I don't care how you did it where ever you came from, you're not there anymore---unfortunately. So shut up about it.

Everything down here is wrong compared to 'home'. Well, US AIR can have you home before dark. Book a ticket!

I know I am going to heaven when I die, because my homeland has turned to Hell with all these outsiders.

Go home, all of you!
 
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