southern chatter

[mswisegrade3]

> Iggy McSnurd <CoyotesChild at c...> wrote:
> 5:  If a Southerner calls you a Yankee, and you're not from one of 
the "Union" states, they will listen to you explaining that you're 
not and accept it... if you're convincing enough.  (I've had a few 
people say "Yew
> shore do talk funni...Are yew a Yankee?" *sorry, that's the best 
thick Southern drawl I can write.*  My reply was "No, I'm not a 
Yankee, I'm from California, so I'm a Westerner.  We stayed out of 
the whole Civil War
> thing." They usually said "Oh, ok." and backed off.  *grin*)

Now Missy: 

I've got to respond to this out of guilt... After being raised in a 
small southern town (Well, it isn't really a town, but we do have a 
gas station!) I have noticed myself thinking along those lines 
whenever I meet someone with a 'non-southern' accent. The problem is 
that in some larger cities in the south that even the residents there 
speak with a different accent! So I have had to accept the fact that 
I live in one of those stereotypically red-neck places and remind 
myself that even if you talk like a Yankee it doesn't mean you are. 
My grandpa thinks I'm too open-minded :-)

Missy.... whose high-school football field was in a cow pasture... )
Hey it was the flattest land around!) And who just realized that it 
might sound like I mean being a Yankee is a bad thing... I didn't! 
Just a characterization that we give to all you people who talk like 
the ones on TV... lol