nebula Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 10 Topic Count: 5,823 Topics Per Day: 0.75 Content Count: 45,870 Content Per Day: 5.94 Reputation: 1,897 Days Won: 83 Joined: 03/22/2003 Status: Offline Birthday: 11/19/1970 Share Posted July 12, 2012 Well, if someone can tell me what the perception of Maryland is, I can mention if it is true or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winsomebulldog Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Diamond Member Followers: 1 Topic Count: 20 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 732 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 113 Days Won: 5 Joined: 03/26/2010 Status: Offline Birthday: 04/30/1971 Share Posted July 12, 2012 I was born and raised in the South, Mississippi to be precise. I don't know that I could begin to list all the misconceptions I've heard attributed to my home state in my lifetime, especially since I left the South and moved up North. (Married a Yankee) A lot of what I hear is semi-true. Southerns do live life at a slower pace. The problem is that many non-Southerners don't realize that a slower lifestyle - and vocal cadence - does not mean slower brains or lower IQs. I get very tired of hearing Southerers all called "hicks" or much, much worse. I suppose the thing that bothers me most, though, is the notion that all Southerners, and MIssissippians in particular, are racists. It's a topic I can rant on for quite a while. Basically, having been born and raised in the South by parents that I readily admit were, indeed, racists (primarily through ignorance), I can honestly and sincerely state that I have seen far worse and more insidious evidences of blatant and unapologetic racism during my more than 2 decades of living in the supposedly unbiased and progressive North. On a lighter note, I do have to laugh at myself and much of my heritage. As my beloved husband noted a few years back after a business trip to Tennessee, "Southern women are still into big hair." Way back in the day, I think I probably used half a can of hairspray every morning in an attempt to keep my poof in place. LOL Generally, I'm very proud of where I'm from. It isn't a perfect place, but even my hubby says he'd like to move South one day. For anyone who hasn't lived there (or married into it like him) it will likely always be something of a misunderstood place. But for those of use who know it first-hand, no length of time away will ever make it less "home." As to Texas: both my sisters lived there for years. I've got a dear friend who lived there as well. We all agree that Texas is pretty much a place unto itself. The only problem I have with them is their utter confusion over what BBQ actually is. For the uninformed, BBQ is smoked, pulled pork. Nothing else. Beef Brisket is NOT BBQ. It is, however, very, very tasty. Which is why hubby and I routinely smoke both brisket and pork so we can stuff it into the freezer for the long winter months! Great. Now I'm hungry. Time to go raid the freezer and find me some yummy BBQ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornagain2011 Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 82 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 602 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 233 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/15/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 (edited) I used to live in Fairbanks Alaska for the first 15 years of my life, some misconceptions, it is not cold all the time, it gets into the 90's and 100's in the summer. But...in the winter it can get 10-20 below, and if your power went out it could mean life or death in some cases. Now I live in Washington state, I live in the desert area around Othello and Ephrata, not a whole lot of trees and rain until you get farther to the coast. It sucks living in the desert, but we have awesome sand dunes that people travel across the country to get to! Oh, and where I live we have a huge lake! That's why my town is called Moses Lake Not sure what the misconceptions about WA state are, I haven't really heard any. Edited July 12, 2012 by bornagain2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refugepsa91 Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,961 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 61 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/25/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 I've been told by numerous persons, from Michigan and outside. That I'm from Hicksville. I've had comments like...."Do you need me to talk slower for you?"....etc..... I've been to Texas and my trip there was so full of a comedy of errors..... Praise God for wonderful people...Texas has alot of them by the way! I get to the motel after a taxi driver kidnapped my daughter and I....he said he was sent by the motel and he wasn't! GASP! I'm in this(messy by the way) taxi on the biggest highway I've ever encountered, and the other taxi calls my cell asking me where I was. (I immediately thought of everything I've ever seen on CSI) with my eyes saw a suitable weapon on the floor of the backseat....(a flashlight) to defend my daughter (LOL) anyway the driver does take me to the motel. The manager comes out, I tell him what happened to me, I must have had this horrified look on my face when I said "that driver lied to me!" Because this guy, wrapped his arm around me and says "Oh honey, where you from?" I told him Michigan and he asked East or West...I said West...and he said "Ok darling, I understand" So thats my first clue that maybe the rumor about western michigan has spread! Just edited to add. Don't believe the travel commercials....there is absolutely nothing to do in Michigan. Maybe I'm jaded though. What I see as normal might be vacation material for someone else... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bornagain2011 Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Senior Member Followers: 6 Topic Count: 82 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 602 Content Per Day: 0.14 Reputation: 233 Days Won: 0 Joined: 04/15/2012 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 I've been told by numerous persons, from Michigan and outside. That I'm from Hicksville. I've had comments like...."Do you need me to talk slower for you?"....etc..... I've been to Texas and my trip there was so full of a comedy of errors..... Praise God for wonderful people...Texas has alot of them by the way! I get to the motel after a taxi driver kidnapped my daughter and I....he said he was sent by the motel and he wasn't! GASP! I'm in this(messy by the way) taxi on the biggest highway I've ever encountered, and the other taxi calls my cell asking me where I was. (I immediately thought of everything I've ever seen on CSI) with my eyes saw a suitable weapon on the floor of the backseat....(a flashlight) to defend my daughter (LOL) anyway the driver does take me to the motel. The manager comes out, I tell him what happened to me, I must have had this horrified look on my face when I said "that driver lied to me!" Because this guy, wrapped his arm around me and says "Oh honey, where you from?" I told him Michigan and he asked East or West...I said West...and he said "Ok darling, I understand" So thats my first clue that maybe the rumor about western michigan has spread! Just edited to add. Don't believe the travel commercials....there is absolutely nothing to do in Michigan. Maybe I'm jaded though. What I see as normal might be vacation material for someone else... I just took a driving trip over to Vermontville Michigan a few months ago, it was beautiful! I love the old buildings! I want to move there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,262 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,989 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 Well, if someone can tell me what the perception of Maryland is, I can mention if it is true or not. believe it or not Neb, when I hear Maryland, I think Antietam. I visited there a time or two when at our school in Leesburg Va. Then one weekend some of my work friends at school there wanted me to take them to vie the battlefield. Since I was the driver for our rental car, I really didn't have a choice. Long story short, about a mile south of there we topped a hill and it looked like about ten thousand Blue and Gray uniforned soulders where everywhere. I'm sure there were nowhere near that many, but the shock of that vision has never left my mind..... and it was one of the best weekends I can remember having when away from home That day they were replaying for us was the most costly in American History. We lost over 24,000 people to death or normal life ending injuries in that one battle....... The last time the Union charged across that corn field, those of us of us standing on the top of the hill watching them fall simply couldn't hold back tears..... it looked so real. We were told that when the last charge happened on that actual day, not a single solder stepped on the ground coming across that corn field, they ran across dead bodies until they dropped and joined their fellow solders laying dieing on the ground.. In one day, we lost half as many as died in Viet Nam during the whole war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
refugepsa91 Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 331 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 5,961 Content Per Day: 0.76 Reputation: 61 Days Won: 0 Joined: 10/25/2002 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 I've been told by numerous persons, from Michigan and outside. That I'm from Hicksville. I've had comments like...."Do you need me to talk slower for you?"....etc..... I've been to Texas and my trip there was so full of a comedy of errors..... Praise God for wonderful people...Texas has alot of them by the way! I get to the motel after a taxi driver kidnapped my daughter and I....he said he was sent by the motel and he wasn't! GASP! I'm in this(messy by the way) taxi on the biggest highway I've ever encountered, and the other taxi calls my cell asking me where I was. (I immediately thought of everything I've ever seen on CSI) with my eyes saw a suitable weapon on the floor of the backseat....(a flashlight) to defend my daughter (LOL) anyway the driver does take me to the motel. The manager comes out, I tell him what happened to me, I must have had this horrified look on my face when I said "that driver lied to me!" Because this guy, wrapped his arm around me and says "Oh honey, where you from?" I told him Michigan and he asked East or West...I said West...and he said "Ok darling, I understand" So thats my first clue that maybe the rumor about western michigan has spread! Just edited to add. Don't believe the travel commercials....there is absolutely nothing to do in Michigan. Maybe I'm jaded though. What I see as normal might be vacation material for someone else... I just took a driving trip over to Vermontville Michigan a few months ago, it was beautiful! I love the old buildings! I want to move there! Yepp, its very nostalgic. The business I own is located in an old bank, built in 1901. So I now own the first bank to hit our town! Still has the old safes and doors. The resturant here in town is a old train station. Very rustic. Although it is right next to the tracks, so when the train goes by is a good time to put your creamer in your coffee, you don't have to stir..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,262 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,989 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 A lot of people in the East think we still have lots of indians living in teepees on reservations here in Oklahoma.... and the Westerners seem to think we're a bunch of poor farmers. Texas people just don't like us because of our football skills.' Truth is that our farmers drive half million dollar tractors and the only Indians in Teepees are on tourist traps..... Most of that land they received in the western part of the state has a lot of oil and gas under it...... bunch of rich old dudes. the the Eastern half of the State they are getting even through Casino's a lot of wealth.. We have flat lands in the east and low mountains in the East... the eind blows that wheat around in the west and ...... well here is one of my favoriate fishing places. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other one Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Worthy Ministers Followers: 29 Topic Count: 599 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 56,262 Content Per Day: 7.56 Reputation: 27,989 Days Won: 271 Joined: 12/29/2003 Status: Offline Share Posted July 12, 2012 And oh my goodness...... the sunrises in this state are just awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He giveth more grace Posted July 12, 2012 Group: Royal Member Followers: 2 Topic Count: 123 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2,049 Content Per Day: 0.32 Reputation: 267 Days Won: 9 Joined: 10/22/2006 Status: Offline Author Share Posted July 12, 2012 Louisiana (seceded from the Union, deep South) is a Republican state, fact is because of the Acadian's (Cajun's, predominately Catholic's), and African-American's (predominately Catholic's), and other Catholic's, we are a big Democratic state, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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