Re: [Leica] Fake US Southerners

["Dante A. Stella" <dante@umich.edu>]

Please no fake US southerners... we have enough real ones already!

Isaac Crawford wrote:

> Marc James Small wrote:
> >
> > At 06:51 PM 3/8/2001 -0600, henry wrote:
> > >(apologies to our members from outside the US - its a southern thang)
> >
> > Bullshit, sir, with all due respect.  You dudes down in Tidewater are just
> > that -- dressed-up, prancing dudes.  You want red-necks and hill-folk, come
> > up here to the Appalachians.  Generations of inbreeding and sipping at
> > Kerosene-cut 'shine have produced a rather unique outlook on life.
> >
> > My folks have been up here since the 1740's, north and south.  We aren't
> > much on the inbreeding thing (a couple of fifth cousins and the like), but
> > we do specialize in alcohol.  However, a genetic defect in my clan has
> > deprived us of a taste for Kerosene, so we tend to stick to the smoother
> > stuff.
> >
> > But, Tidewater?  Brother, I spent three years in the Flatlands at the
> > Marshall-Wythe School of the Law at the College of William and Mary in
> > Virginia (and, me, a committed Jacobite, going to a school named after this
> > Bonnie-and-Clyde pair!), and there is nary a red neck within a zillion
> > miles of the area.
>
> Now just a minute! I, sir, live nary 20 miles from Williamsburg in the
> backwoods of Gloucester county. Perhaps you have forgotten the area
> known as Guinea... These people settled there around the time Yorktown
> was founded and kind of kept to themselves. How much did they keep to
> themselves? Well, they still had cockney accents up until the turn of
> the 20th century! Talk about inbreeding! To this day, residents of
> Guinea are known as the most hell raisin, what you lookin at, trouble
> making residents of the middle peninsula... No rednecks indeed... Guinea
> is a Virginia treasure! In fact, every year they have Guinea pride day
> (I'm not kidding) complete with parade!
>
> Isaac