(05-31-2012 02:44 PM)mufanatehc Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 12:57 PM)gdunn Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 09:42 AM)mufanatehc Wrote:  Besides, the north/south identifying marker is dying. Rising in its place is a urban/rural marker. People in Atlanta have more in common with people in New York, Philadelphia, and other major metros than they do with people in rural southern areas. And people in rural Pennsylvania have more in common with people in rural southern areas than they do with the average person in Philadelphia...

The man is right. My fiancee is a western PA girl. When I go there they are more like my hometown in South MS except they talk funny and they don't serve sweet tea. Same could be said for Oregon folks that shower and don't hug trees.

From my stint in NY I don't know if I could say if there were any resemblance to my hometown anywhere in that state.

Did you try the Upstate area around places like Olean, Jasper, and Horseheads?

I did not. I was mainly working out of Staten Island and Manhatten on the NY side and Newark, Trenton, and Bayonne on the NJ side. I didn't get a chance to go upstate. Now I will say my fiancee's parents have a camp up in Bradford, PA (Home of Zippo lighters) and it's roughly a 15 minute drive to the NY state line. Prettiest part of NY I'd ever seen.

(05-31-2012 01:39 PM)OLD DIRTY Wrote:  Q: What do West Virginians do on Halloween?
A: Pump kin!

Q: Did you hear that the governor's mansion in West Virginia burned down?
A: Almost took out the whole trailer park.

Q: What's the difference between Virginia and West Virginia?
A: In Virginia, Moosehead is a beer. In West Virginia it's a misdemeanor.

Q: Why do ducks fly over West Virginia upside down?
A: There's nothing worth craping on!

Q: Why couldn't the baby Jesus be born in West Virginia?
A: Because they couldn't find 3 wise men or a virgin.

Q. What's the difference between a Marshall University sorority sister and a scarecrow?
A. One lives in a field and is stuffed with hay. The other frightens birds and small animals.

Q: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?
A: If it was invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

Q: Why do Marshall grads keep their diplomas on their dashboards?
A: So they can park in handicap spaces.

That's OK, we've heard it all before. You aren't man enough to make it in WV anyway.. you moved off to the big city because it was easy.

Thought it was funny when the recession hit and everyone all over the country was whining and crying about their jobs and how hard it was to make it and boo hoo!

People in WV just laughed at them and said "Welcome to our reality, now be a man and do something about it!"

Go off and enjoy your easy life in the big city and be-little what you don't know about only because it makes you feel better about yourself.

(05-31-2012 01:53 PM)gdunn Wrote:  I'd rather have a sister working in the whorehouse than be from Virginia.

(05-30-2012 09:10 AM)OLD DIRTY Wrote:  

(05-30-2012 07:15 AM)johnnylightnin Wrote:  West Virginia? The south? Virginia is a big stretch IMO.

I could take you to some places in VA that would leave no doubt in your mind that it is most certainly the South. Some examples - Dickinson County (home of Dr. Ralph Stanley), Buchanon County (the only county in the US that had 0 blacks for many years & one of the last courthouse lynching sites), and Russell County. Even closer to civilization like Floyd County/Amherst County/Pittsylvania County will convince you.

Being from the coal fields of VA, I can tell you that though the Hatfields & McCoys get the most publicity people have been hung and strung... stuck like pigs.. and disappearing for centuries in that area. The term "redneck" came from coal wars in where the companies abused miners to the point of war. Even today, the union miners will flatten your tires (or lips) if you cross them wrong.

I would advise watching "The Wild & Wonderful Whites of WV", produced by Jonny Knoxville. That's more a of a WV twist to the VA south.

I am a little confused about this statment. I thought that when Virginia voted for Succession, Northern Virginia aka West Virginia broke away from Virginia. Plus Kentucky never left the Union.

(05-31-2012 02:49 PM)GreenBison Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 01:39 PM)OLD DIRTY Wrote:  Q: What do West Virginians do on Halloween?
A: Pump kin!

Q: Did you hear that the governor's mansion in West Virginia burned down?
A: Almost took out the whole trailer park.

Q: What's the difference between Virginia and West Virginia?
A: In Virginia, Moosehead is a beer. In West Virginia it's a misdemeanor.

Q: Why do ducks fly over West Virginia upside down?
A: There's nothing worth craping on!

Q: Why couldn't the baby Jesus be born in West Virginia?
A: Because they couldn't find 3 wise men or a virgin.

Q. What's the difference between a Marshall University sorority sister and a scarecrow?
A. One lives in a field and is stuffed with hay. The other frightens birds and small animals.

Q: How do you know the toothbrush was invented in West Virginia?
A: If it was invented anywhere else, it would have been called a teethbrush.

Q: Why do Marshall grads keep their diplomas on their dashboards?
A: So they can park in handicap spaces.

That's OK, we've heard it all before. You aren't man enough to make it in WV anyway.. you moved off to the big city because it was easy.

Thought it was funny when the recession hit and everyone all over the country was whining and crying about their jobs and how hard it was to make it and boo hoo!

People in WV just laughed at them and said "Welcome to our reality, now be a man and do something about it!"

Go off and enjoy your easy life in the big city and be-little what you don't know about only because it makes you feel better about yourself.

geez, its just some light hearted humor...

lighten up.

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PS: My Deep South relatives in Alabama even laugh at my Texas accent.


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You should know, it's a drawl not an accent.

(05-31-2012 02:49 PM)GreenBison Wrote:  That's OK, we've heard it all before. You aren't man enough to make it in WV anyway.. you moved off to the big city because it was easy.

Thought it was funny when the recession hit and everyone all over the country was whining and crying about their jobs and how hard it was to make it and boo hoo!

People in WV just laughed at them and said "Welcome to our reality, now be a man and do something about it!"

Go off and enjoy your easy life in the big city and be-little what you don't know about only because it makes you feel better about yourself.

My VA town has maybe 150 people, my entire VA county under 40,000... and guess what, we live in houses not trailers.

Back to the original topic.

I'm really enjoying this series. Gots to love the History Channel. They're at great pains to get the story right.

PS: My Deep South relatives in Alabama even laugh at my Texas accent.


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You should know, it's a drawl not an accent.
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They called it a, uh, accent in 'Bama. Franklin and Parsons were the last names of most our clan in that state.

Actually, there are also 5 regional dialects within the state of Texas.

The H & M's? I finished the TV series and could not understand why all the killing among whites.

Hell, we didn't have that kind of deep hatred or disdain for Santa Anna's Mexicans or the Commanch' and Kiowa Indians, and
that was the group my Texas ancestors were involved with & quite violently to say the least.

GMG!

For the record, I was just messing with you Marshall guys. I hope that's obvious to most.

WV got crapped on for a long time, and has been in nasty feuds like the Hatfields/McCoys & miner battles for a long time. But it seems the tides are changing a little with some alternative career options working in... so that's progress.

(05-31-2012 02:33 PM)49RFootballNow Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 01:53 PM)Jassbale Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 01:47 PM)goherd17 Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 01:45 PM)Jassbale Wrote:  

(05-31-2012 01:44 PM)goherd17 Wrote:  anybody would win the democratic nomiantion in WVA other than that socialist we have in the white house. And yes the power plants are closing and the mines because again of the socialist in the white house. And have you ever been to SW Virginia ? Just as bad or worse than WVA. And btw your a jacka$$

You guys don't happen to be named Hatfield and McCoy, do you?

and there are no redneck idiots in TN either uh?

Yeap. They're called Vols fans. -

She's looking at the situation all wrong. That's a free, padded back and head rest.

The look is knowing how hapless her team is.