On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:41:33 -0700, "Dimitri" >
wrote:

>
>"George Shirley" > wrote in message
.. .
>> Dimitri wrote:
>>>
>>> "sf" wrote in message ...
>>>>> I wasn't gonna say it, but you're right.
>>>>
>>>> So, being a Southerner is like being in a club where your membership
>>>> can be revoked on a whim? Didn't know that either. I'm liking being
>>>> a born & bred Yankee more and more.
>>>
>>>
>>> Nor really.
>>>
>>> Being a Southerner is for all intents and purposed a state of mind or
>>> attitude which is nurtured from birth. Florida is the Indian revenge on
>>> the white man for stealing Manhattan Island. They are selling
>>> uninhabitable insect infested swamp to unsuspecting northerners. There
>>> are too many transplants from the north for a proper Southern attitude to
>>> prevail.
>>>
>>>
>> And most of them finally figured out they got screwed royally and have a
>> bad attitude because of it.
>
>Been there have you?
>
I don't think "transplants" consider themselves southern. I was
talking about the state (and native residents).


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