On Wed 16 Jul 2008 11:14:00a, told us...

> On Wed, 16 Jul 2008 09:41:33 -0700, "Dimitri" >
> wrote:
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>>"George Shirley" > wrote in message
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>>> Dimitri wrote:
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>>>> "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).
>
>

I think most Florida natives consider themselves more as "Floridians" than
"Southerners". There does seem to be distinction between states.

--
Wayne Boatwright
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