Laura Caton (laujcato@mars.utm.edu) from 192.239.147.197 at 09/23/96 10:27AM
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    To us--it's just not funny. We Southerners find nothing wrong with contracting a sentence into one word (didjaeat) or eating "dinner" at lunch or having entire festivals for members of the plant kingdom (Strawberry Festival, Soybean Festival, Kudzu Festival). Boots and overalls are a major fashion trends. Prestige is measured by the number of wheels you can get on one pick-up truck and clogging is one of the "finer" arts. We live in our own microcosm of idiosyncracies and honestly don't know it. The humor of the situation is that "the outsiders" may all be laughing at all the "simple Southerners" but always, the south thrives. Somehow it works and secretly "they" might be jealous that they don't belong to a region where humor and spirit create a unique and unduplicated culture.