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Fellow Southerners, Rejoice!
New York City's Saturday Night Live has deigned to allow us to feel pride in some features of our heritage. The following are authorized:offensive stereotypes regional norms in order to secure that crucial approval from our Northern neighbors.
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Is there some procedure where I could apply to be an Honorary Citizen of the South? Every time I hear those punks in the north talk, I feel like I was born in the wrong place. I have a hands on (real) job, a truck, and a gun. And a porch. No dog though...do attack cats count?
I mean, the mountain West was strongly influenced demographically by former Southerners fleeing the economic wreckage of the Civil War. It's not too unlikely that you have a few great-uncles or -aunts, or even more than a few, who hail from old Dixie.
Somewhat related. I am reminded of a conversation I had last year when visiting my NE home town. A friend and I were discussing where our classmates had ended up. One classmate who lives in the mountain states, my friend said, is a bit of a Tea Partier. I replied that my political stance wasn't all that different.
"That's because you live in Texas."
"Actually, most of my political changes can be traced to my time in Latin America and to conclusions I drew from my time in NE."
For example, while I first voted Third Party/None of the Above when I lived in Texas, I also voted Third Party/None of the Above in a Presidential Straw Poll in high school back in NE.
While most of my childhood peers in NE held the opinion that prejudice was something to be found in the South and NOT in NE, my childhood observations led me to the conclusion that we all have in-groups and out-groups- we all have some degree of prejudice within ourselves.
Raven, I hear you, and often feel similarly. Sometimes I get so tired of the obliviousness and fakery surrounding me here, and notice that I feel more comfortable around 'regular' people- working class, immigrants still holding to some of the non-pc traditional ways, old guys, and the like. When they mock the South, all I can think is 'wow, they sound so much more interesting and authentic than you self-inflated New Yorkers/Hollywood types'.
Grim, Alas, some of us can be fairly certain we have no Southern relatives. Mom is from China, and Dad's ancestors were not too far from Germany/Holland. So, can we at least self-identify as rednecks if not Southerners?
My own extraction is more hillbilly than redneck, since we're striving to conform to stereotypes our betters feel comfortable with.
Swamp Yankee extraction here, loggers, fishermen, whalers, tradesmen etc. Dad was raised in a mill town and ran a trap line during the depression. A tough bunch.
If transgender is an accepted mode, why not transregional? I'd take those of the Hall that identify as Southerners.
Does New Orleans count? ...
Grandad said we were kin to the famous Hatfields, but my genealogist cousin tells me that marriage records suggest that Great-Grandad was expanding considerably on the truth.
New Orleans definitely counts.
Huh. Just wrote on this today.
https://assistantvillageidiot.blogspot.com/2017/08/simmer-down-now.html
The settlers of the Merrimack Valley (MA and NH)and much of Maine in the 18th C were Scots-Irish, the same group who settled Appalachia.
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