[Sca-cooks] chowder - OOP

[Elaine Koogler]

That could be as well....I suspect that the panhandle should probably be
part of Mississipppi and Georgia anyhoo.

Kiri
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>
> Maybe. I always figured the Panhandle was immune to that... that it
> was The True South, while the peninsula was just a Yankee Annex.
>
> >
> >Kiri
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> >  Of course, this is Massachusetts, and just as
> >Floridians are sometimes apt to say Virginia isn't the real South, I
> >expect someone from Maine might argue that Massachusetts cheowdah
> >practices are of dubious orthodoxy.
>
> I think the general idea is that wherever you're from in the South,
> it's the only True South. Everyone else is a Yankee in disguise. ;-)
>
> I think, overall, in all my fairly extensive dealings with
> Southerners (I mean, for a Yankee), the most surreal experience was
> listening to a roomful of [maybe eighteen or twenty] Southerners
> cheerfully telling each other that, unlike themselves, the other guy
> or lady was from a state that was not truly Southern. Vectors were
> irrelevant, as was the Mason-Dixon Line; someone born to the south of
> you could still be a Yankee while you weren't. It got even better
> when they all realized that _all_ of them, without exception, either
> came from a town called Fayetteville, or lived sufficiently near to a
> Fayetteville as to use it immediately as a map locator. As in, "I'm
> from _______. You know. Twenty miles west of Fayetteville...?" But
> there were maybe eight or nine different Fayettevilles being
> discussed. Maybe more. Is there a Southern State that does not have a
> Fayetteville?
>
> Must be like Springfield in the North and Midwest, but, I suspect,
> even more prevalent.
>
> Adamantius (who does not put sugar in cornbread)
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