Comments on: Where are you from? (Part 2)

By: Lo

Lo — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 23:03:48 +0000

Technically, pronouncing Missouri as Missourah is correct. I didn’t believe it when I heard it, but I did once I read
this article

By: haleigh

haleigh — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 15:36:55 +0000

I vote South too. I, also, was confounded by the number of people were so awed by a Maryland driver’s license last time I was in Springfield. Everyone assumed I lived in the ghettos of Baltimore and my life was just like “The Wire” on HBO. And people seemed actually disappointed that my town is almost identical to Springfield in every way. You’ve been to both - if you take out the racial demographics, it’s the same freakin town. And no one here is awed by my Missouri upbringing. The most common response is, “wow, you made it out.” As if Missouri is something that will eat me and keep me, that I need to escape from. (well, that might be true, but that’s a whole other debate!)

By: jr.

jr. — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 03:24:48 +0000

I would vote for the South as well, but possibly only because I doubt that many ‘coasties’ would have a problem with the labels Mid-Westerners and Southerners would pile upon them (like ‘liberal’, ‘granola’, etc.). While among those groups, such labels have a negative connotation, they don’t to those to whom they’re applied. Whereas calling someone a Bible-thumper or inbred could probably be mean no matter what (the former less so, obviously)

By: khb

khb — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 02:46:42 +0000

for another gloomy documentary check out ” The Florida Dream” (the full-length vid is posted on the site below)
www.daxorionbedell.com
My friend Dax was the creative director and although I had little interest in Florida, this was quite interesting. Another story of our country boldly pushing on, with no plan whatsoever. big mess, .. good stuff.