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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:52:55 PM EDT
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The Colorado Territory was formally created in 1861 shortly before the bombardment of Fort Sumter sparked the American Civil War. Although sentiments were somewhat divided in the early days of the war, Colorado was only marginally a pro-Union territory [url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_in_the_American_Civil_War#cite_note-1][1][/url]
(four statehood attempts were thwarted, largely by Confederate sympathizers in July 1862, February 1863, February 1864, and January 1866). The New Mexico Campaign (February to April 1862) was a military operation conducted by Confederate Brigadier General Henry Sibley to gain control of the Southwest, including the gold fields of Colorado, the mineral-rich territory of Nevada and the ports of California. The campaign was intended as a prelude to an invasion of the Colorado Territory and an attempt to cut the supply lines between California and the rest of the Union. However, the Confederates were defeated at the Battle of Glorieta Pass in New Mexico and were forced to retreat back to Texas, effectively ending the New Mexico Campaign I could be either or both ? Depending on your feels.  I would have helped Gen. Sibley. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:53:19 PM EDT
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Yes, I only consider someone from the north east a yankee.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:53:49 PM EDT
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Everyone north of me I consider a Yankee. Well technically, you are a Southern Yankee Thems fightin words boy! 
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:00 PM EDT
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Another guy who obviously doesn't know Florida. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. You're a little off there Skippy, West Virginia was part of the Union and you forgot Florida. I know some of you like to think Florida is all Miami, but you'd be wrong again. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Virginia_in_the_American_Civil_War I live in the part of Florida that is a cultural extension of GA. The rest of the peninsula disqualifies the state. Only the part below I-4... Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Another guy who obviously doesn't know Florida. I always thought north Florida was an extension of South Georgia and South Alabama. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:11 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. Interestingly, at the start of the Civil War the Confederate government was very interested in getting Mormons to join them and thus essentially cut California out of the Union. The problem was while the Mormons were sympathetic to the state's rights argument, and had no love lost for the Republican Party, they were also still kinda angry over how Southerners (specifically Missourians) treated them in the 1830s. Plus, most Mormons were from Northern states or the British Isles, and were not terribly fond of slavery. So the South didn't really have a chance. However, that didn't stop the US government from stationing a regiment of troops from California in Salt Lake City to keep an eye on Brigham Young.... |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:20 PM EDT
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Right off the bat, you missed Tx. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:28 PM EDT
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Damn Yankees
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:33 PM EDT
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Texas threw in for the Confederacy.  Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Texas threw in for the Confederacy. Yes it did 
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:54:58 PM EDT
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Right off the bat, you missed Tx. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Right off the bat, you missed Tx. People in TX should consider moving to a free state. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:55:27 PM EDT
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I'd say the California border, but don't haven't spent much time in AZ, NM, UT or NV. Lived in Vallejo for ~1 year and San Diego for ~6-8 months. NV, AZ, UT & NM ain't no dirty yankton! |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:55:39 PM EDT
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Yankees are anybody north of the Red River.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:56:47 PM EDT
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People in TX should consider moving to a free state. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Right off the bat, you missed Tx. People in TX should consider moving to a free state. Texas isn't perfect, but its not NY/CA/NJ type shithole. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:57:01 PM EDT
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. This is how I see it. Texans are cool, but a separate group. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:57:33 PM EDT
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My family got to the USA in 1904 so I'm a nothing in this thread. Go Poland!!
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:57:49 PM EDT
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Folks from the North West are "pilgrims", not Yankees. Other than the 11 Confederate States, most learned Soitherners would exclude those from Kentucky, Southern Missouri, Maryland, and the territory of New Mexico from "Yankee" designation.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 10:59:06 PM EDT
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When I moved south to Missouri, they said I "wasn't no Yankee no more".
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:00:04 PM EDT
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Folks from the North West are "pilgrims", not Yankees. Other than the 11 Confederate States, most learned Soitherners would exclude those from Kentucky, Southern Missouri, Maryland, and the territory of New Mexico from "Yankee" designation. I don't give a shit where the Mason Dixon line is, Maryland aint the south. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:00:33 PM EDT
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North of New York City or around White Plains, NY to Maine is what I would call a Yankee country.
The biggest reference to a western limit would be Buffalo, NY. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:00:59 PM EDT
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Folks from the North West are "pilgrims", not Yankees. Other than the 11 Confederate States, most learned Soitherners would exclude those from Kentucky, Southern Missouri, Maryland, and the territory of New Mexico from "Yankee" designation. This is what I thought but the majority seem to feel western pioneers are Yankees |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:02:58 PM EDT
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Yankee to me is primarily anyone from New England, plus New York.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:04:48 PM EDT
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what if you're a yankee mormon southerner? From California. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:05:17 PM EDT
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Texas threw in for the Confederacy. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Texas threw in for the Confederacy. As did a lot of folks throughout the territories, including the native Americans. Hell, Texas was settled by lots of folks from Georgia. In my humble opinion, "Yankees" are folks descended from those that fought for the federals. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:05:25 PM EDT
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Quoted: Dumb thought of the day, I was just thinking thinking about it and my state was only a territory in 1863. I have always thought that a "Yankee" is someone from north of the Mason-Dixon line and east of the Mississippi river? If someone were to call me a Yankee I would probably give them a puzzled look and tell them "No I'm from the West" So I guess my question is, are people from west of the rockies, Yankees, soulless heathens, or just another non-southern non-Yankee American? |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:09:19 PM EDT
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Texas isn't perfect, but its not NY/CA/NJ type shithole. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Right off the bat, you missed Tx. People in TX should consider moving to a free state. Texas isn't perfect, but its not NY/CA/NJ type shithole. At least you can still have the buttsex there.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:09:23 PM EDT
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I renounce my disgusting Yankeeness and self identify as a southerner. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. I renounce my disgusting Yankeeness and self identify as a southerner. After living in the south for 5-6 years and being with my Ex for 12 who was born and bread in VA. I can say that I hate libtard northerners as much or more than any southerner does! I feel like im stuck behind enemy lines now! |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:11:13 PM EDT
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Quote HistoryQuoted: What's Arizona?  |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:15:13 PM EDT
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What's Arizona? California sided with the Union, and Arizona with the Confederacy. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:15:33 PM EDT
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My dad was from Georgia and said anyone from California was a "prune picker".
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:21:07 PM EDT
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Choctaw Confederate
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:24:31 PM EDT
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My German ancestors arrival post Civil War, in the late 1800's....
And subsequent travel to the large German community in Milwaukee ..... Has left me in what would have been considered as Yankee territory by Civil War standards. Having traveled to almost all states in our country, I find the people of the current-day South, very much to my liking. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:32:32 PM EDT
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My dad was from Georgia and said anyone from California was a "prune picker". 
sounds like my Papaw. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:36:23 PM EDT
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South of the panhandle Tallahassee and Jacksonville isn't southern, west of the Mississippi River isn't southern.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:36:39 PM EDT
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The flat horizontal northern border of Texas. Everything west and north of that line is not southern.
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:37:37 PM EDT
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There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. You have no idea what you're talking about... Sorry Brother Joseph, I call it like I see it. You need glasses. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:47:25 PM EDT
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There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. No! Washington falls into California territory! Wash Cal.....
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:48:52 PM EDT
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I wish I could be a Southerner... but I got all my teeth and didn't marry a relative.
God damn Yankee upbringing. 
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:50:19 PM EDT
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There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. That's just stupid. |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:56:20 PM EDT
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No! Washington falls into California territory! Wash Cal.....Quote HistoryQuoted:
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There's only four types of peoples: Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory. No! Washington falls into California territory! Wash Cal.....Nope complete distinct Territory unto itself |
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Posted: 2/8/2016 11:59:19 PM EDT
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South of the panhandle Tallahassee and Jacksonville isn't southern, west of the Mississippi River isn't southern. Another guy who knows nothing about Central southern Florida. And whose lack of geographical knowledge makes him miss the fact that most of Louisiana, a state as southern as you can get, is west of the Mississippi. |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:00:59 AM EDT
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South of the panhandle Tallahassee and Jacksonville isn't southern, west of the Mississippi River isn't southern. Oklahoma is most certainly a Southern state, as is Texas. Most of Missouri, for that matter. One of the stars in the Confederate Battle Flag is for Missouri (another is for Kentucky, both states claimed by the Confederacy and rightly so). ETA: And Oklahomans are proud of it. I lived there for 6 years. I may move back someday. |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:01:38 AM EDT
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Another guy who knows nothing about Central southern Florida. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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South of the panhandle Tallahassee and Jacksonville isn't southern, west of the Mississippi River isn't southern. Another guy who knows nothing about Central southern Florida. Seemed to recall.an article , that claimed there are cows in Florida than Texas. |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:02:33 AM EDT
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Do y'all spit in public and are adepts in the application of situational ethics?
If so, then you might be one of them damn sons of sausage makers |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:04:35 AM EDT
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Seemed to recall.an article , that claimed there are cows in Florida than Texas. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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South of the panhandle Tallahassee and Jacksonville isn't southern, west of the Mississippi River isn't southern. Another guy who knows nothing about Central southern Florida. Seemed to recall.an article , that claimed there are cows in Florida than Texas. Maybe not overall, but the largest cow calf operation in the United States is called the Deseret ranch, it's run by the Mormon church, and it's in Florida, not Texas or Utah. And my county, Okeechobee, has more cows than people, both beef cattle and dairy cows. And for people who are under the misconception that Florida is all Miami and Orlando, it's 25 miles each way from my house to the nearest grocery store. |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:07:57 AM EDT
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Anyone north of Dallas is a Yankee.
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:08:53 AM EDT
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Do you live in VA, WV, NC, SC, TN, KY, GA, MS, LA, or AL? No? That is because you are a Yankee. Wasn't Texas part of the losing team, too? |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:18:26 AM EDT
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If your state was in the Confederacy, you're a Southerner. The exception is Florida, which is Southern north of Ocala (roughly). Anything south of that is Northern Cuba/South New York. But there are pockets of Southern Resistance in south Florida.
The states of the Northern Aggression are all yankee. Virginia is being invaded by yankees from Maryland and DC. The struggle continues to this day. The western states are Cowboys, which ain't a bad thing. The west coast states are Communists. |
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:31:02 AM EDT
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Where I'm from we consider anyone north of I-10 a Yankee.
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:35:13 AM EDT
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There's only four five types of peoples: Texans Southerners Yankees Californians Mormons You fall into Mormon territory.
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:47:04 AM EDT
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If your state was in the Confederacy, you're a Southerner. The exception is Florida, which is Southern north of Ocala (roughly). Anything south of that is Northern Cuba/South New York. But there are pockets of Southern Resistance in south Florida. The states of the Northern Aggression are all yankee. Virginia is being invaded by yankees from Maryland and DC. The struggle continues to this day. The western states are Cowboys, which ain't a bad thing. The west coast states are Communists. More than just pockets of resistance. See all that dark area south of orlando and inland 10 or 20 miles from the coast? That is just as Southern as any place in the panhandle. Plenty of Confederate Flags, cattle , citrus and sugarcane. The biggest rodeo east of the Mississippi is in Kissimmee, and the southernmost rodeo in the United States mainland is in Homestead. And Miss Rodeo Florida comes from Okeechobee. 
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Posted: 2/9/2016 12:53:13 AM EDT
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If you're from California you really ain't nothin! You'd be hard pressed to find someone actually FROM Calif. In the 26yr's that I've been an 01FFL in Calif I've had a total of three (3) peoples who were born here... Born and raised there, left in 2001. Best decision I've ever made. In regards to the OPs question, back in 2000 my wife and I were debating moving to North Carolina, visited the Raleigh/Durham area and stopped into a gun shop to get a feel for the place. I asked the man behind the counter how things were in regards to gun laws, gun culture and such. His response, "Not too bad, except for all the DAMN YANKEES moving down here with their liberal views..." The venom in the term DAMN YANKEES was real. Pretty sure the War of Northern Aggression had just ended for him. I responded, "I'm from California, what does that make me?"... "You're from west of the Mississippi, you don't count for nothin..." |
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