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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

A good friend of mine is from the hollers of West Virginia.  Her family 
was a coal mining family: Poor.  She considers herself Southern.  She 
seems as Southern as anyone from TN or KY.

I don't think Geography defines Southern as much as other things...

bob ford wrote:
> I think it depends on where you are from, and how long your "people"
> have been there.  S. LA (where you are from) is very different than
> the rest of the South  (and the rest of LA), but still definitely
> Southern.  W VA might have many Southern characterisitics, but where
> I am from, would never be considered a "Southern"
> state.........................

>

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