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Originally Posted by enuttage
Guys, I live in the South, too, and so does Kinky. His snub isn't against the South, it's against the Texas governor and his ineptitude.
Context, fellas. Context. Which I should provide next time. 
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No problem, enuttage.
Sometimes I am a little too sensitive. I lived in Cleveland for a year and my co-workers there were surprised that I was educated because my speech was slow and regionalized. I told them not to judge people because of a different speech pattern and their ethnic origins. It was no indication of their educational background. Not bragging, but they soon found out that I had a pretty good college education and had studied two languages and could function in both and was well-versed in history, politics, music, sports, movies and tv. One of them said I wasn't like other Southerners. I told her there were a lot more like me in the South.
How a Redneck from the South could have an education bewildered them.
They also couldn't under the fact that I was not prejudiced in racial relations as "all" Southerners are "supposed" to be.