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Tue Aug-22-06 10:09 PM
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Poll question: With what region of the country do you most identify yourself? |
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Anyone able to read into my boredom here? :D
It could be the place you were born, a place you lived in the past but no longer live, the place you live now, anything. Do you consider yourself a Northeasterner? A Midwesterner?
I'm a Northeasterner--specifically a New Englander. We are undoubtedly a weird bunch. :P
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:11 PM
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1. Right now, some combination of Southwest and Midwest. |
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Though I was born on the East Coast so a little bit of that, too, I guess. :shrug:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:12 PM
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5. You're just all over the place. |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:11 PM
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Not really the Southeast or the Southwest.
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:11 PM
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:14 PM
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11. I've been mostly spending my time |
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in GD and the Texas forum. But it's nice to be back in the Lounge for a visit.
Hope things are well with you. :hi:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:12 PM
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It's its own place, I suppose.... :D
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:11 PM
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3. I grew up in Upstate NY |
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So I most definitely consider myself a Northeasterner. I object strongly to being called a Midwesterner. Not that I think any less of Midwesterners....I just am not one. :)
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:13 PM
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:29 PM
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24. Anything north of Yonkers may as well be Iowa. |
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:56 AM
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65. No, you aren't because Michigan is not part of the Midwest |
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It's a Great Lakes state. :hi:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:13 PM
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7. Southern girl at heart and birth |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:13 PM
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9. Oh, no...Here comes the Southern brigade. |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:14 PM
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Yeah, I'm one hell of a one person army :eyes: :P
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:15 PM
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14. Well, you're up against some damnyankees. |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:26 PM
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21. Southern girls unite! |
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:D Midwestern words were always kinda wierd, anyways... :P Like don't they call soda pop or something? http://www.blogthings.com/whatkindofamericanenglishdoyouspeakquiz/I took this and got 35% Dixie...:rofl:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:29 PM
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:puke: That is one word I honest to god cannot stand x( I got 45%! It's been a long time, too :D
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:34 PM
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26. Everything to me is Coke, imho. Even if it's like Sam's Club Dr. Thunder |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:44 PM
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I crack up every time I see that... and hell yeah, it's all coke. :yourock:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:46 PM
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31. My cousin gets that when we go to Wal Mart |
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(okay, i admit, i go to wal mart...but only when I'm with my cousin and my aunt). And some of them nasty chicken nuggets from the food place or whatever...:rofl:
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:06 PM
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68. Actually it's pronounced "cocola" round hea'. |
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:16 PM
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76. I'm a Southern girl too! |
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NC-TN-GA. I've always lived in the Southeast.
Hi tt! I like your sig pic! :hi:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:13 PM
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10. Illinois Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin |
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just my kind of people and 30 years in f***ing TEXAS has not changed that
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:14 PM
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13. No love for Texas, apparently. |
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sometimes I think the only reason I am here is to torment asshole southern conservatives
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:16 PM
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KICK YOUR ASS!!!!!!! :)
Hey Skittles. :hi:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:22 PM
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16. 14th generation Yankee... |
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...and would never consider living anywhere else, despite the flagrant desecration and overdevelopment of at least southern New England...would love to settle up in Maine someday...who knows. But you don't leave your home when it sees difficult times...you stick with it to the end...a very old Yankeeish attitude, I guess...
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:23 PM
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18. Maine is lovely but kooky. |
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...grandfather was from Frankfort, and I spent summers in Bucksport with my Mom's relatives as a kid...so I know--knew--it pretty well...but think I'd fit in nicely...
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:46 PM
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Up the coast a wee bit, unless I am very much mistaken. :D
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:08 PM
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69. I hear Innsmouth is pretty creepy |
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I hear they all look and smell fishy there!
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:23 PM
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17. Southeast baby! Repersentttttttttt |
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Hi. I'm tinfoil tiaras and I reppin' Jacktown!
:D :D :D :D
As soon as you hear me talk, you would know I'm from the southeast... :blush:
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:24 PM
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:P
I suppose my usage of "wicked" would give me away, but other than that, I'm not a very good Mainer. :D
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:27 PM
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My use of y'all and "cool" pronounced like "kule" would give me away. I suck at doing most accents exept for Southern... :P
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:26 PM
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20. Just South, down South.... |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:31 PM
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My family members have been here since the 1820's, so this is home.
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:43 PM
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27. Well, I said Northwest |
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before I realized you had an Alaska/Hawaii category there. Could somebody who was going to vote Northwest check Alaska for me? I love it here, I'll never leave.
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:53 PM
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32. Pasty white Midwestern corn-fed small-town girl, right here!! eom |
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Tue Aug-22-06 10:59 PM
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I feel at home wherever the politics are liberal.
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:06 PM
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35. West, but actually I identify as West Coast...n/t |
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:07 PM
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36. You're missing a section of the country very few remember |
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I am a proud daughter of the Rust Belt.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:11 PM
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74. Isn't most of the Rust Belt in the Midwest? nt |
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:10 PM
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<hijack>"Double helix in the sky tonight, Throw out the hardware, Let's do it right"</hijack>
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:12 PM
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even though i'm from alaska, se alaska has more in common with the pacific northwest aka weather, environment, trees, things like that, than the most part of Alaska(IMO)...:)
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Which in my mind, is really MA, VT, NH, and ME...not RI or CT. :P
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:32 PM
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41. Pacific North-westerner. |
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:50 PM
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:D
to me, that's a bit more specific than simply "West".
There you have it. :hi:
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:00 AM
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I identify most with the people who live in the narrow strip of land that runs along the Pacific. I feel little affinity with the Mountain West, even thoughI go to Colorado to visit family every year. I'm a Coaster through and through, Baby! :woohoo:
And, even though it's across the country, I feel more at home on the East Coast than in the middle of the country, even though I was born in the Midwest.
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Tue Aug-22-06 11:53 PM
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43. I was born, raised, and will probably die in California |
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In other words, I'm a total left coaster.
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It's not where I live, but where I want to live.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:29 AM
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47. I am a very proud blue West Coast Gal! |
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I've been here since I was 13, and everyone else in my family (husband, and both daughters) were born here!
California to the max! :patriot:
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Wed Aug-23-06 01:19 AM
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50. Northwest girl, through and through. |
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Born and raised here. Did have a year out for bad behavior and was sentenced to live in Texas. No offense meant to my brother and sister Texan DUers. I lived there in the mid 70's when sexism was the favorite sport next to racism, so it wasn't exactly the best time to be there. Other than that, I have lived in Washington and Oregon my whole life.
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:52 AM
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51. Pacific Northwest, no doubt |
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I'm a Western WA girl through and through
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Wed Aug-23-06 03:43 AM
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I'm a Pacific Rim person and always will be -- I've lived far away from the Pacific and it just didn't feel right. And I love the wide open spaces. I've (by a slim margin) lived most of my time in the US in Southern California/Nevada, though I lived almost as long in the South (southeastern US), but the Pacific Northwest is more like where I grew up. Although I am still in love with the southwest and its spectacular topography, if I had to pick one part of the US to live in it'd probably be somewhere near the cost from about Santa Barbara on north to the Canadian border.
I love the South, too, and some aspects of that region relate well to aspects of my natal home, but the West is what I'd be if I were a geographical part of the US. when I was outside the US, dreaming of a return, it was not my most recent home -- in the South, much as I loved it -- that I thought of, but the West, mostly California and the Four Corners states...and, specifically, zooming across it on a dream motorcycle (that turned out to be the same model I own now).
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Wed Aug-23-06 05:14 AM
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53. Someplace not part of the US! :>) |
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Not least because I've never been to the U.S.
South East England - close to London but still in the countryside. Best part of the whole universe.
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Wed Aug-23-06 06:29 AM
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Born and raised in Atlanta, then moved to NC. I've traveled extensively all over the US and been to four European countries and Canada, but I'm a Southeast girl. :D
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:24 PM
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Clinton to be exact. Collard greens cornbread the whole bit.
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Wed Aug-23-06 06:35 AM
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55. Midwest...born and raised in/around Milwaukee, WI... short stints |
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on the east coast in the Carolinas and Northern New York...back to WI..settled in the burbs of Detroit, MI.
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Wed Aug-23-06 06:36 AM
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56. Otherish (voted outside US) - country bieng taken over by the yanks. |
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Wed Aug-23-06 06:48 AM
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57. It's beautiful here but my heart has always belonged to the southeast. |
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:21 AM
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Montreal, Quebec to be exact. I now live in Ottawa, but MTL is just 90 minutes away by car.
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:29 AM
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60. Other - Western Pennsylvania |
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We're not quite midwest, not quite northeast. People from Pittsburgh probably, if they had to pick, would say northeast because of where our state is, but we're far more related to midwest culture and cities like Chicago, than we are to the northeast corridor.
We're neither. We're both.
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:15 PM
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Atlanta resident for 17 years, but Western PA will always be home.
Soft drinks are POP. COKE refers to a certain brand. A SODA has ice cream in it. End of discussion. Thank you.
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:38 AM
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61. Co. Durham, England, U.K. n/t |
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:41 AM
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62. californian -- a region apart. |
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63. Northeast, specifically New England too. |
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Mostly Northern NE. But I do like CT and RI too.
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Wed Aug-23-06 07:54 AM
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64. Other: Michigan, Upper Great Lakes |
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I've lived my whole life in Michigan and I love it. A close second is New England; just got back from a trip to Boston and New Hampshire. I do feel at home in New England.
But Michigan will always be #1.
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Wed Aug-23-06 11:04 AM
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66. Born and raised in the SE, but everyone here is from the NE |
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:04 PM
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67. Split between Texas and West Coast (WA/CA) |
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Born in Tejas, lived in Califa for 11 years, lived in PNW for 14 years.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:08 PM
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70. I'm not sure what you'd call Kentucky, but I picked SouthEast... |
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...and it's definitely how I feel.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:09 PM
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71. I'm a Midwesterner. It's all I know how to be. |
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Springfield, OH Beloit, WI Racine, WI Waukesha, WI Cleveland, OH Milwaukee, WI
I like going to Chicago. I like to eat freshwater fish. I'm a stinking drunk. Once, I got peed on by a pig.
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Good times. Try and explain the beauty of that to some Eastern elite :)
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:10 PM
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72. The Mid-Atlantic, really. |
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I wasn't born here, but it's where I've lived for most of my life. I'd like to live some where else for a change, though.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:11 PM
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73. Sixth generation midwesterner |
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Born In Iowa, raised in Illinois, worked in Illinois, then Iowa, now Illinois again--will definitely retire to Iowa. I just keep bouncing back and forth across ol' Muddy!
Went to seminary in Boston, but came back home.
There is nothing more beautiful than the golden color a soybean field turns just before harvest. I couldn't live where I couldn't see that.
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Wed Aug-23-06 12:17 PM
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77. I've spent more years in the South/Southwest, but I am a Northeasterner... |
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:33 PM
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80. I'm in the cold northwest. |
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It's fun, though.
I understand your boredom, WIMR. However, I have a bari sax now, so I can cure my boredom :evilgrin:
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:35 PM
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81. I think of TX as just plain "south" |
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We're kind of in the middle....
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Wed Aug-23-06 02:44 PM
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I was born in NY, raised in CT, moved back to NY at the age of 27, then onto Maine. I guess i am a New Englander too.
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Texas kind of falls into a couple or three different regions but the area where I live is about the most "Deep South" it gets. So, that's what region I identify with the most, and even if I leave here (which I hope to eventually) I guess there will always be enough of it in me that I won't be able to totally abandon it.
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Wed Aug-23-06 05:02 PM
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85. I'm still a Midwesterner. |
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I love my newly adopted city, but I'm still a Nebraskan at heart. 10 months doesn't erase 27 years. :)
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