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To: Ilaine who wrote (35325)	11/8/2000 7:43:14 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Respond to of 436258

>Easterners, and Californicans always think Southerners are dumber than they >really are. Yup. The derision is really pretty thick. When I went away to college in the northeast, I was shocked out how the other students would ridicule any other student who happened to have a southern accent. I never picked up any accent whatsoever, even though everyone in my family has a pretty thick drawl. And I thought us feeble-minded redneck hicks were supposed to be the ones who held baseless stereotypes. :)

To: Ilaine who wrote (35325)	11/8/2000 7:48:07 PM
From: GraceZ	Respond to of 436258

Just south of the Mason-Dixon line here.... Northerners, Easterners, and Californicans always think Southerners are dumber than they really are. My mother-in-law is from Alabama and one time I was trying to explain to her why I had such a difficult time with the way Italian Americans were portrayed on TV and in movies. (Yous got a problem wid DAT?) She thought I was nuts until she thought about how incensed she gets when she sees the way they portray Southerners. (suth-ah-naas) I think both those guys were trained by their media handlers to dumb it down for the public. I know I never underestimate the level of anti-intellectual sentiment in this country. OTOH its hard to get further north than Andover, but I can imagine it don't set too well with Texans to sound like you came from there.