Ya see, that’s what I mean about “curious” and “confusion”. In the North, it might be a show of genuine support but here in da south, “Bless Your Heart” is soft sarcasm and isn’t exactly a compliment about 99% of the times it’s uttered. Here in Alabama, one has to decide as to whether Bless Your Heart is a hand on the shoulder, a pat on the back or a verbal butt kicking. In the case of the latter, it is meant to provoke a “thank you” which proves that the one being “blessed” is not only an ass but an oblivious ass as well and must be said with a smile. Example: Well, Bless your heart. You managed to take up three parking spaces with that tiny car of yours. Or: (when speaking to someone who boasts of wealth). Bless Your Heart sister, I don’t know how you manage it but I saw you put a whole dollar in the collection plate last Sunday.
Yeah, I have lived in different states and am pretty much the same person. I move areas of semi rural so I can have what I want and wear what I want. People who knew me were horse people, cow people--animal people. I never dressed up to impress. I live on nothing as much as possible that even my friends see as weird. But even when I lived in a city, Milwaukee, I lived in a basement apartment, pretty much on nothing. I'm a bum.
What Does The State You Live In Say About Your Personality? Not much, except that we've moved a lot. LOL
Most states seem to have their own little culture and way of doing things. Some are more liberal, some conservative. I liked being from Atlanta till it changed so drastically, but then so has everything else, so guess that's just the way it is. Most places now the insane run the asylum. We needed change but we threw the baby out with the bathwater, so to speak.
Time changes things, including the society in our home states and change can be positive or negative. Looking at society today, we don't have to guess which one. When a child I could take a bus downtown Atlanta to see the movie, now I'd need an armored tank.
Maybe that's why you don't hear as much bad news coming from Tezas, then again it too is getting more liberal since the people are changing so is the Texas environment.
Mine too. while they put up monuments and statues of thugs and radicals, the want to blow up one of the so-called 8th wonder of the world, the largest rock aka solid piece of granite known with 2/3s of it being underground., Stone Mountain. So where I grew up is under attack, and gone forever, time does that. I still miss the times and places which helped make me who I am today.
(Highlighted in red): That sounds more like Wyoming and Montana. Ranchers there may do that for varmints they see that could attack/kill livestock.
I do understand the ranchers killing wildlife that kills their livestock, but do think too much wildlife is killed. We never see fox, bobcats, or the endangered Florida panther anymore. I do try to be extra careful about snakes, since mama got bit by a rattler in Stone Mountain Ga. when I was a kid, she also got shot in the chest by a thug at the back door in Atlanta hanging out clothes. Then in 1988 I got shot in the head by a drug dealer. Parted my hair tight down the middle, doctor was laughing and apologized to me, said,' I'm sorry but I've heard of parting the hair down the middle but never thought I witness it'. Don't want to keep the family tradition going with a snake.
Texas too, I've heard that one for years. My dad's men friends had a Gun Club and hunted deer, dad did NOT fire a gun and went along with the guys for food and booze...this was in PA my birth state. Living in CA for ab out 58 yrs, I've never seen any type of gun..
I grew up in NY state but was not in one of the less populated areas so, in my youth, we didn't see guns either. That is not to say there weren't rifles etc in the mountains. (such as they are)
A state is too large and too diverse, having both rural areas and large cities, to say anything about your personality. Philadelphia is in no way anything like NE PA. Here it's "small town-ish" and remains that way more or less since I grew up here. It's a mix primarily of eastern and southern European immigrants and their offspring who settled in town enclaves and gave the town it's character. I can get great Polish kielbasi in one town and the best Italian pizza in another. You can get Greek delicacies at their church's' bazaars sales.