Posted on 01/27/2007 2:15:06 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Yeah, I wouldn't hold my breath either. The libs won't wake up, even when their charming glorious paradise is going down in flames around them. THey'll still be blaming the right.
I extend the invite to any Massachutan sick of the bs to come to Florida.
Sometimes it works to create unpleasant differences. Once we brought some of my young relatives from down South to visit my wife and me in northern Virginia (where no trace of a Southern accent can be found. The Yanks have taken over that place). The neighborhood children had a great time making fun of how my relatives spoke. Of course, my kin were too polite (there's that Southern trait at work) to say that the neighborhood kids sounded odd to them.
Well, IMHO, one of the traits that I'm going to miss when the South is completely overrun with us Yanks is their warmhearted openness. They'll talk to you; invite you into their house; share a cup of coffee with you; give you the coat off their back. My son went to a military school in Virginia and I recall one of the gentlemen down there telling me the reason Southerners were so much more hospitable was because that society was primarily an agrarian one (and that's slowly changing) as opposed to the industrial north. In agrarian society's, people NEED each other and they have to work together. In the industrial north, you just drag your sorry butt into the factory every day and collect your paycheck from the "machine." Generalizations, yes, but pretty on the spot if you ask me.
I have alway read that the Southern states were originally populated with Scots/Irish. New England was originally settled with the English. It was the differences in those cultlures that are apparent today.
Try Oregon, similar weather to CA, yes we are a blue state but only the north west of the state, the rest of the state is red. I am in southern Oregon, about an hour and a half from the CA border. Close to the famous Oregon coast in Roseburg.
Most everybody is conservative, low property taxes, low real estate prices, low cost of living. You can still buy a house for less than $200K, with $1300 a year taxes. Not too hot in the summer and not too cold in the winter, it snows once a year for a day and we only we get about 32" of rain a year. No traffic, no mexicans, no long lines at the stores.
I am not so sure that is true but if you go by temperament in general, it would follow. Irish/Scottish people are much warmer than the English. I have traveled to all three (Ireland, Scotland and England). Incidentally, I am descended from English AND Irish on my mother's side and these were Southerners.
I am a 98% Spud and I love the South!
Northernes are Massholes because Harvard College started here. Boston convinced it self that it was the equivalent of Athens!
B.S.!!
I have never seen so many ignorant boobs per square inch than here, that's why I am leaving.
I do believe that your comments are right on target.
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