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The state "lost" the lawsuit because of corrupt judges, courtesy of the ninth circuit court, a judicial activist, anti-Constitutional, un-American court, home to left-wing ideologues.
Whatever the cause....the point is we lost.
We've since coined a new word for California: Mexifornia.
LOL. I dont believe that you can ban me from using that word.
Maybe people will start to realize how stupid they sound when they say it
It ain't any stupider than youse guys. English is seriously deficient in that it lacks a plural you. Until we develop one we can all agree on, I'll continue to use y'all. But unlike you, I will properly place my apostrophe in order to make it a little less "stupid" of a contraction.
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Again, the difference isn't in culture, it's in money. Urban areas have more money. Rural areas have less money. There are rednecks in every state. Even in big cities like Chicago and Boston. They're just outnumbered by people who care about being politically correct. For every hick you can find in rural Tennessee, I can find an artist, writer, or philosopher. Culture isn't just in books and museums. Culture is what's all around us. The man who goes hunting deer every fall may be someone with a deep appreciation of the beauty around him, someone who waits for the fall, for the silence in the woods when he can hear a twig breaking beneath a hoof, for the solitude of the early morning and the creeping cold that makes visible his breath. There's culture in the quilts pieced together by the ladies in the church, there's culture in the evening meal you sit down to partake. The "backwards" people are the ones who don't look around themselves to see what their culture offers, and long for the culture elsewhere. Certainly, I love the museums and galleries in New York City, the bookstores, the concerts, the opera and the plays. But it's not "backwards" to come home to Arkansas and to breathe deep of the clean air, to climb the hills and look across the green verdant landscape for miles and miles. It's not "backwards" to listen the lyrics of country music, and hear that poetry any more than it is "backwards" to listen to rap and hear the rhythms of the street. It's not "backwards" to look at a quilt, and to appreciate the colors and composition of it like any piece of modern art, and to know the hours of loving labor that created it. "Backwards" is putting down things you don't take the time to understand.
Good job. Whitman would be proud. And, like Whitman, you've realized it's possible to love both city and country without contradicting yourself. If you do contradict yourself? Very well then, you're large. You contain multitudes.
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When I think of backwards I think of infrastructure and of the states that I have been through Mississippi was truly the most depressing in that regard.
Most? Apparently you've never been to Louisiana.
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Whereas out west the open-minded ones are open0minded to EVERYBODY. Im not conservative, nor am I liberal, but I tend to lean more towards liberal.
Sorry. I did not know where the apostophe should be placed because I dont say yall.
Also, I dont care to learn where the apostophe in yall should be placed becuase I dont speak redneck
Bye Yall
It's actually "Y'all", and it is an acceptable contraction for "YOU ALL".
You think that it is "REDNECK" because Hollywood has told you that.
I do disagree, however, with people misplacing the apostrophe, as in "ya'll". I see this all the time, and wonder if these people even know what y'all stands for.
It ain't any stupider than youse guys. English is seriously deficient in that it lacks a plural you. Until we develop one we can all agree on, I'll continue to use y'all. But unlike you, I will properly place my apostrophe in order to make it a little less "stupid" of a contraction.
Good job. Whitman would be proud. And, like Whitman, you've realized it's possible to love both city and country without contradicting yourself. If you do contradict yourself? Very well then, you're large. You contain multitudes.
Most? Apparently you've never been to Louisiana.
And apparently you've never been out west.
^^^But I DO live in the east and can already tell you what I said about the west is true. And when I say west I include Texas, and I lived in Texas for 8 years. It's a VERY progressive state.
Massachusetts is backwards, considering that they allow their ideology to allow them to continuously elect a homosexual who having allegations of have sex with male subordinates, not to mention they continue to elect an individual who killed, intentional or not, an individual over thirty years ago.
I'm not sure I see why those things are backwards. The Ted Kennedy thing definitely is shady and wrong. Whatever the deal is with Bernie Frank (I'm assuming these are the people you're talking about) doesn't seem to be that crazy. If the sex is consensual, then who cares?
I'm just trying to see why these things make Massachusetts backwards. Care to elaborate a little?
Sorry. I did not know where the apostophe should be placed because I dont say yall.
Also, I dont care to learn where the apostophe in yall should be placed becuase I dont speak redneck
Bye Yall
NYC1Day? As I have said before, I know you (from the forum and our conversations) to be a good guy, and think of you as a friend. I mean that sincerely.
But posts like this make it hard to understand where and why you are coming from. And as I have said before too, the fact I DO consider you a friend makes me reply quite a bit more tactful than I would otherwise. But that goes both ways, I know.
But anyway, c'mon! "Y'all" is "redneck speak????"
As TexastheKid said, a plural "you" is lacking in the English language...so it developed and varied across the country with settlement patterns via that dating back to Europe.
In the South, "y'all" became the second person plural pronoun...a contraction of "you all." Of course, I am biased here, but I go to say it is lyrical, lovely...and, perfectly correct. Good gawd, how does it make better sense to refer to a group of females as "you guys"?
On the proverbial related tangent, IMHO, a reason why many yankees have a disdain for the use of the word, is deeply-rooted in a basic disdain for the South itself...
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