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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2969)	1/25/2001 2:06:11 AM
From: Constant Reader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

I can hardly believe my eyes.

To: Bald Eagle who wrote (2969)	1/25/2001 12:37:26 PM
From: cosmicforce	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 82486

Naw, anyone who has ever dealt with, lived near, been hassled by same, knows it is not just a stereotype. Sure there are some really lovely hicks, but the state of "hickness" is not defined by where you live (we have them in California) but by the set of often contradictory values. The contradiction is never a problem for them. But I guess that is true of most people. When I was 15,passing through Bakersfield with my mother to get gas for our car at a diner-gas station, about 6 hicks in their 20's were making comments and saying threatening things about me and my mother because of my hair-length. I also lived in Georgia and Tennessee for about a year each. Met my share of hicks there. Hicks are typically uneducated, reactionary, xenophobic, and pretty much anything that differs from their idea of how things should be is taken as a personal offense. Now, guess what? Some of these people can be pretty nice but all of a sudden in some context, the hick part will come to the surface in a rather shocking way in the form of an action, suggestion or comment. For example, one of my hick friends in the Navy was a pretty nice kid from Texas. But he had this thing about "faggots". He hated them. Wanted to go kick their asses, especially when he had been drinking. It wasn't like we hung out in places where "faggots" were but when he drank he would sometime start talking this sh!t. End of rant.