Maggie Rice (maririce@mars.utm.edu) from 170.143.229.103 at 09/29/98 09:06AM
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    I don't really agree that southern women are the more loving, hard-working, ambitious, and courageous section of the United States. My grandmother was born and raised in eastern South Dakota. She was the middle child of six children and lived on a farm. She knew the value of being recourceful, especially during WWII. She is the mother of five children and has been expected to be able to pick up and move to several places in the U.S. because my grandfather was in the Army. She had to adjust to several different parts of the country and made friends with many classes of people. She raised her children to appreciate life and the people in it, as well as to make the ends meet when you are in financial trouble. According to the description of a lady, my grandmother has earned the title. I do agree that southern women have come a long way in society, but haven't all women? A person's address really has no bearing on the individual they become, although stereotypes follow you any place. All of us should stop and ask ourselves, "What kind of life am I living? And how am I treating those around me?" The unfair stereotyping stops when we all take time to see the real people, regardless of where they are from and what they do in life.