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To: ManyMoose who wrote (66997)5/20/2008 11:28:20 AM
From: DanD  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543665
 
Many,

When people call me a southerner I get pissed and I tell them, "I ain't no southerner, I'm a hillbilly!"

Virginia is geographically northern, but politically southern. But the hills is the hills :)



To: ManyMoose who wrote (66997)5/20/2008 11:41:07 AM
From: KonKilo  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 543665
 
I was watching a program last night on the History Channel that profiled the "Hillbillies" -- no offense intended, that's what they called the program -- and her story was one of the vignettes covered.

I was hoping you'd seen that.

Hillbillies and Westerners have much in common, in terms of valuing personal freedom above all and in self-reliance.



To: ManyMoose who wrote (66997)5/20/2008 2:04:24 PM
From: Suma  Respond to of 543665
 
The stories of the Appalachia region where I am now are numerous. I saw PBS do a brief series on Appalachia. The locale was West Virginia and it had to do with the lives of those poor miners who worked under hazardous conditions and received very little pay. Naturally it led to the mine workers union which when you watch the plight of those poor Scotchmen was badly needed in that industry...


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