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  • From: Clansgian AT wmconnect.com
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] Elitist bastards
  • Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:18:59 EDT


> >My one wish, before I die in my chosen state of TN, is to meet someone
> from here who will not say to me "you're not from here are you? :)))))

There are many of my imported neighbors I like, espceially the Mexicans. But
none of them will ever be 'from around here'. Some years ago I went do some
ruiral enclave or the other here abouts to look into buying a pottery wheel
from some arteeeest type who was giving up the business. She showed us all
and
sundry things she had for sale, all the time describing them in an outlandish
accent and non-monuntain mannerisms.

Finally she said, "Are you from around here too?" Too?? She explained that
she had been here for eleven years and so that made her 'from around here'.
Nope. There are people living here, for instance, descendents of people who
came here in the '50's to work at Tennessee Eastman in Kingsport (referred to
as The Eastman, and pronounced Th'Eastman) who are taken aback a that they
are
not considered to be 'from around here'.

"But I was born here!" they protest.

Yes, and if cat has her kittens in the oven, it don't make them biscuits.
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