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Really? NC is the 9th most populated state in the USA. Bigger than Michigan & New Jersey. Maybe you missed a few things on the way.
Ever been to Eastern NC? You get outside the Triangle, The Triad and Charlotte and its pretty rural. Two towns north of where I live (Youngsville and Franklinton are pretty rural and I'm in a fully fledged, developed suburb)
Not sure I would even call Greenville or Goldsboro hopping let alone Faulkland and Bath. 64 East takes you through what I would think most people would consider "rural".
Sometimes I wonder if any of you actually talk to your neighbors. I grew up in Dayton and moved to California in my late twenties. My next door neighbor in California had an unusual name I had heard before. Turns out he was related to my next door neighbor in Dayton. The guy two doors down was from Springfield, and the school librarian was raised on a farm in Butler County. Here in Colorado, my kid's chemistry teacher is also from small town Ohio, the librarian is from Urbana, and the history teacher's sister lives in the same Dayton suburb I grew up in. I can't escape my Ohio roots. They're everywhere I turn!
Yes, but the predominant culture is the native culture.
I'm from the rust belt part of Ohio. No place has seen a mass exodus to first CA then later the Carolinas and Florida as my part of the state.
So a bunch of bubble people just went off on other bubble people telling them they are more bubbly.
Just because you travel somewhere doesn't mean you are there long enough to understand anyone who lives there. Goes both for coastal elitists who've been to the Kentucky Derby and Texas gun nuts who've been to Times Square once. You know absolutely nothing about either culture in both cases.
When I was 15, I moved from Flint, MI to Helena, MT.
No body at the school would accept me, prolly cuz they didn't walk, talk, or act anything like me.
I made a good fast friend right off the bat, though, with a guy who just moved in from Wichita, KS.
We were both rejected, but on the way home from school every day, he tutored me by impersonating Andy Griffith and Foghorn Leghorn. I cracked up on the way home every day. (I had never seen either of them.)
So, one day, I asked him if everyone in Wichita talks like him - he had a twang.
He said yes.
I asked if people in Wichita had TV.
He said yeah, and everyone has one.
I said, do they watch CBS news?
He said, yeah, they all do.
So, finally, I asked him why didn't that cause them all to talk normal, like me.
He said it was because when they watch TV, they regard that as TV talk, not normal talk.
I got my education in the best places.
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LOL -- I live in the Charleston SC area -- everyone seems to have left Ohio -- folks from OHIO everywhere.
First time we stopped in at a fast food chain in Summerville, SC -- college football day and most of the folks had Ohio State gear on -- lol. They weren't together -- it was purely coincidental. Some local person made a crack about it and there was a good laugh in the restaurant.
LOL.
I'm from Ohio. I still love the North Coast and go back when I get the chance. Once you get older the winters wear on you. That's why people move.
Best leave us alone in our bubble or we will make a new one. Don't poke the bear in other words.
You liberals think you can screw with our world and our reality? You exist at our pleasure. Just remember that.
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