[Malcolm]

LOL, no Southerner cares what any Yank thinks or says, even on FReep. But arrogant Northerners, and other non-Southerners think that they do. Blab away, for all the good it will do you. The smartest thing a Yank can do is keep his mouth shut. You'll impress more people with that than demonstrating your ignorance, believe me.....

[Keith]

Malcolm, I married into a southern family...truer words were never spoken.

[Arizona Pard]

Just gotta tell my favorite Alabama story here. It fits, so stick with me for a bit. We have two different colors of shop jackets they make us wear at work, mostly blue. The other color, grey, is very rare and hardly ever seen. One day a young guy from Alabama came into my lab in the midst of a tour group. The young guy was of course wearing a grey jacket. I asked him about why he didn't seem to fit in with the color code of the day and he replied in a great Alabama drawl, "You know where I'm from?!? I cain't wear no blue jacket!!!"

Thanks. I love that guy!

[mathluv]

I was working with a lady from New Jersey. Somehow, the subject of the Civil War came up. I referred to it as the War of Northern Aggression. She was flabbergasted that it was a topic that still had an impact.