Posted on 12/31/2005 8:59:17 AM PST by ncountylee
Southerners are much better then Northeasterners with the exception of some Texans. Texas has long had a streak of socialists, from LBJ to Bill Moyers and Jim Hightower. A Texas socialists is responsible for the majority of gun control in California, State Senator Jack Scott, formerly of Sweetwater, TX.
The best California immigrants come from Oklahoma.
I just spent 4 weeks in Fla, Live Oak and St Pete, and NO ONE is from Fla....
Please define "redneck".
It's like Florida has as many sex-criminals as half the rest of the country combined.
That's not....actually....funny, though.
I thought this was going to be a Dave Barry column. He's made a career out of Florida weirdness.
Sorry, most have only three tines. A few have four. No pitchforks that will repeat six tines. (Sorry, couldn't resist it.)
That's one of the problems - no neighborhood roots.
I come from Long Island - I knew everyone on my block and for several blocks over. People lived in their houses 40 years, and sometimes generations owned a home.
Here in FL people barely know their next door neighbors. It's too hot to spend time outside. And up until recently rents and houses were so cheap people moved in and out. It's nothing to see 4 or 5 for sale signs on one street.
It's a perfect opportunity for lowlifes and scammers. They just move on after they muddy their water.
There are more New Yorkers in FL than any other state. This explains a LOT of the weird behavior.
Help clean up the South....buy a yankee a bus ticket.
This isn't weird. Beagles are used in Guam to search for snakes hitching rides from Hawaii.
Right idea, but bacwards. No snakes live in Hawaii, too many green snakes hitchhiked into Guam, and ate most of the native bird population.
Jack
Close. It is actually the Guam Brown Tree Snake that has Hawaii in an uproar.
The Brown Tree Snake is not native to Guam, but arrived there in the early 1950s, probably in cargo shipments. Apparently, they multiply like rabbits, and in some areas of Guam live in densities of 30,000 per square mile. At least nine of Guam's twelve native bird species, half of its lizard species, and perhaps a bat species or two are extinct as result of the Brown Tree Snake. (Those are conservative estimates; some reports will tell you that virtually all bird life on Guam is gone. The forests are now silent.)
It's mildly venomous -- and a female can carry fertilized eggs in her body for up to seven years, so the only thing you need to start a population of Guam Brown Tree Snakes is a single female who "got lucky" in the last seven years.
The airports in Hawaii have beagles to sniff the landing gear of planes arriving in Hawaii from Guam in an attempt to detect and destroy any Guam Brown Tree Snakes.
**giggle**
I've been living in South Florida for over 25 years and trust me.....it's ALL true. Just when you think that you've seen it all.......something else comes along!
Jarhead
They can be smug.
Upstate NY votes red; it's that ridiculous city that gets us.
Hey, I'm 16. I can't (legally) vote.
Enlightened liberal professors... moving into the middle of hurricane zone.
Redneck, in my experience, is the person (not necessarily Southern) who not only specializes in doing things that make no sense, but is almost proud of it. For example, take your typical trailer park resident...
Please define "redneck".
While we are at it, define influence too.
who's resume consists of being married to a guy who was president,>>>>>>>
Oh, let me take a wild guess, Hillary Clinton's resume?
This isn't weird. Beagles are used in Guam to search for snakes hitching rides from Hawaii.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
They are also very good at sniffing out cottontails, could they be trained to sniff out lying politicians?
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