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Merle Haggard wrote that song "Okie from Muskogee" and although he was born in California, his parents were Okies. It is a very interesting song that talks about the 2 Americas: Liberal and Conservative. What I saw in Oklahoma is a kind of simplicity and quality of life that was long lost in places like California and the East Coast.
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Merle Haggard wrote that song "Okie from Muskogee" and although he was born in California, his parents were Okies. It is a very interesting song that talks about the 2 Americas: Liberal and Conservative. What I saw in Oklahoma is a kind of simplicity and quality of life that was long lost in places like California and the East Coast.
I agree with that....BUT I have family ALL OVER Oklahoma and I'll tell you what else has been lost there...EVERYTHING....get off the interstate and look at the closed diners,gas stations,grocery stores,feed stores etc etc etc....A simple life is sometimes code speak for a BROKE life.I love the state myself,but they have nothing to offer their children to stay but low wages and very little hope of a brighter future.
It's now nice area if you are a cow that is smart enough to get the hell out of the way of a tornado.
Are Conservatives the real Americans? I visited a small town in Oklahoma last month after having lived here in Minneapolis for so long, I just realized that this urban-uber Liberal city is about as unamerican as it can get!
I drove through Main Street small town Oklahoma and I realized, you know what? This is true America! People walked down the street, greeted each other, the little feed store was filled with people chatting and pick up trucks lined the street, I could hear a tune by George Strait coming from one of the trucks that were parked. Couple men with their cowboy hats walking down the street, a few hunters chatting by the Wal Mart in their orange suits, children riding their bicycles down the street. I did not hear any talk of welfare, crime, robbery, murder, Affirmative Action, gay marriage, illegal immigration, La Raza, and all this other garbage associated with living in a urban environment.
For all these years, I have been looking for real America and I think I found it!
Are Conservatives the real Americans? I visited a small town in Oklahoma last month after having lived here in Minneapolis for so long, I just realized that this urban-uber Liberal city is about as unamerican as it can get!
I drove through Main Street small town Oklahoma and I realized, you know what? This is true America! People walked down the street, greeted each other, the little feed store was filled with people chatting and pick up trucks lined the street, I could hear a tune by George Strait coming from one of the trucks that were parked. Couple men with their cowboy hats walking down the street, a few hunters chatting by the Wal Mart in their orange suits, children riding their bicycles down the street. I did not hear any talk of welfare, crime, robbery, murder, Affirmative Action, gay marriage, illegal immigration, La Raza, and all this other garbage associated with living in a urban environment.
For all these years, I have been looking for real America and I think I found it!
I'm sure it's a great place as long as you're white, heterosexual, evangelical Christian, and into country music. Sounds like pure hell to me. Oklahoma is a state a don't care to ever step foot in again in my life.
You're also very insulting by insinuating that city dwellers, non whites, gay people, etc. are "garbage" and not real Americans.
I was in the Texas/OK panhandle last month and that is a very interesting part of our country that few people know about. There is a town there called Guymon, OK which is pretty isolated but I always thought about retiring there. Now, I noticed the town is almost majority Hispanic, I absolutely do not recognize the town anymore, it is beginning to look a lot like Mexico, I may consider a small town on the TX side.
I'm sure it's a great place as long as you're white, heterosexual, evangelical Christian, and into country music. Sounds like pure hell to me. Oklahoma is a state a don't care to ever step foot in again in my life.
You're also very insulting by insinuating that city dwellers, non whites, gay people, etc. are "garbage" and not real Americans.
That's odd. I thought America was supposed to be a big melting pot.
Merle Haggard wrote that song "Okie from Muskogee" and although he was born in California, his parents were Okies. It is a very interesting song that talks about the 2 Americas: Liberal and Conservative. What I saw in Oklahoma is a kind of simplicity and quality of life that was long lost in places like California and the East Coast.
Actually, Haggard wrote the song to make fun of the small town, conservative values of the 60s. In Mr. Haggard's own words:
"It started out as a joke. We wrote to be satirical originally. But then people latched onto it, and it really turned into this song that looked into the mindset of people so opposite of who and where we were. My dad's people. He's from Muskogee, you know?" Haggard once noted about "Okie from Muskogee."[1] In fact, critic Kurt Wolff wrote that Haggard always considered what became a redneck anthem to be a spoof, and that today fans - even the hippies that are derided in the lyrics - have taken a liking to the song and take humor in some of the lyrics.[2]"
Are Conservatives the real Americans? I visited a small town in Oklahoma last month after having lived here in Minneapolis for so long, I just realized that this urban-uber Liberal city is about as unamerican as it can get!
I drove through Main Street small town Oklahoma and I realized, you know what? This is true America! People walked down the street, greeted each other, the little feed store was filled with people chatting and pick up trucks lined the street, I could hear a tune by George Strait coming from one of the trucks that were parked. Couple men with their cowboy hats walking down the street, a few hunters chatting by the Wal Mart in their orange suits, children riding their bicycles down the street. I did not hear any talk of welfare, crime, robbery, murder, Affirmative Action, gay marriage, illegal immigration, La Raza, and all this other garbage associated with living in a urban environment.
For all these years, I have been looking for real America and I think I found it!
Funny, you just described a scene similar to many parts of Maine that are still very liberal. Go figure. People and patriotism can't be pigeon holed.
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