Might I add another Yee Haa for the motto
American by birth, Southern by the Grace of God.
As far as the talk, I got it all the time when I was in the military. Of course after I had managed to completely get em turned around and ended up with their resources and the commanders ear, they realized the error of their ways.
Course now I am back in Louisiana, home of the Cajuns, Rednecks, and people from New Orleans (New Orleans is my group). Its good to be back home, spent a few years in Boston... /shudder
Congratulations, you made it out of Mass! I'm still stuck here, and will be for another 3 years, at which point, I'll be a retarded Sailor heading back to Missippy.
These people here have no sense. Their roads are bad, the design is poor (rotarys-wtf?), their manners are atrocious, and their pronounciation, well, if I'd try to talk like that in grade school, my butt would still be sore.
Not a day goes by when my wife and I talk about getting back home as soon as my 20 years are up. It's getting to the point that we specifically teach our 4 yr old boy how to pronounce things the RIGHT way - with that drawl :)
How about this one that you see over here in Lone Star?
NATURALIZED TEXAN
I wasn't born here, but I got here as fast as I could!