'nother Texan

I'm a proud granola conservative who loves to vacation in the Pacific Northwest every hot, hazy, humid summer. This is a great place to make a living but that's pretty much it.

uncle sam

Houstonian,<BR><BR>how about a person born in Texas as opposed to someone that relocated like you and me.<BR><BR>wow that wasn't too hard to figure out!<BR><BR>US

Ivy League Texan

Liz, one sign of an inferior education is misspelling 'judgment'. Just my two pesos.

Hosutonian/Texan

U.S.: I was born in Illinois, moved out before my second bithday, and never been back. I definitely don't consider myself a native Ill-noiser.

American, but not native

Uncle Sam, I was born in America, but does that make me a "native American" May <BR>I check this off on a college application or census form or for some type of scholarship? Wishful thinking!

Texamexan

I was born in the backseat of a Chevy as it crossed the border. I'm a native Mexican Texan American.

Eagleclaw

Kind of like the term, “African-American”. The only one I know is blonde haired, blue eyed, of Dutch lineage. She emigrated here from South Africa and is, therefore, a true African-American. A black friend of mine points out that most who call themselves African-Americans were not born in Africa, nor were their parents, their parent’s parents and, quite possibly, their parents before them. He settles for “American” and being called a Yank doesn’t bother him a bit. There are much worse appellations.<BR><BR>Myself, I’m an American Indian. I’m not a “Native American” because I don’t personally believe that there is any such thing. Recent findings (including Kennewick Man) now shed light that perhaps we Indians were preceded here by an even older race of people. (Not a popular topic among “native” Americans.)<BR><BR>But for the most part, in casual, everyday conversation, we all tend to use labels that, if we think about them, are possible offensive. Some Indians take offence at the term, “redskin,” I do not. That’s the color of my skin, big deal. A particularly offense term though is calling an Indian woman a squaw. Many whites do it thinking they’re being cute, but among some Indians it’s tantamount to saying, “whore”.<BR><BR>When in doubt, stick with a proper term.<BR>

uncle sam

Websters...<BR><BR>Native...belonging to a particular place by birth &lt;native to Wisconsin&gt;<BR><BR>American, <BR><BR>I would say that I am a native American. I was born in America and am native to that particular place by birth. <BR><BR>Now whether you check "native american" on a government form designed to count minorities, that is your choice.<BR><BR>I say this "tongue in cheek" as I do not tell folks I'm a native americam even though I am one. The commotation is different and folks can easily tell I am not part of a tribal nation.<BR><BR>US

Sheila

So, Sam...tell us more about the Ryder Cup

kate

dammit Sheila, you beat me to it.

nospam

Ryder Cup? Is that some kind of horse race?

uncle sam

Sheila,<BR><BR>Here's more about the Ryder Cup:<BR><BR>1. The Europeans kicked our butts.<BR><BR>2. They did it with mostly "average" players that played with the heart of a lion while our highly ranked, highly favored superstars of the US under performed.<BR><BR>3. Sam Torrance outcoached Curtis Strange. Strange coached like he last played in the cup...poorly.<BR><BR>4. Bernhard Langer and Montgomerie were true warriors. <BR><BR>5. Phil Mickelson still cannot play well when the pressure is on. How exactly does the #2 ranked player in the world lose to the #119th? Lack of heart and inability to play well ender pressure.<BR><BR>6. The Europeans won because they deserved to win!<BR><BR>Hail to the Champs!<BR><BR>US<BR><BR>Wait till "04"

melby

Good lord, the prejudices that many people in this country still have toward "Yankees" is pathetic. The civil war ended a long time ago - get over it!<BR>It's so funny how patriotic Americans appear to the rest of the world - yet are really quite divided amongst their respective regions. Or in some cases, states.

kate

But Melby, surely that's true of everywhere. It certainly is in England. Northerners hate Southerners, Southerners look down on Northerners, people from the west are country bumpkins. Blimey, even in London, there's a north/south divide depending upon which side of the river you're on. I'll never forget when I first moved down to London (from the Midlands, which comes in for more stick than anywhere) I was talking to a Londoner who was talking about someone - "you don't want to listen to him, he's a southerner". I said "but surely, you're a southerner". "Nah, I'm talking about south of the river". Jeez.

Pedant

Just thought I'd point it out that it should be Styx not "sticks" as repeated ad nauseum above. i.e the river flowing through Hades.<BR><BR>Bye!

Wanda

Melby sez, “The civil war ended a long time ago - get over it!” which could apply to more than must Yankees.<BR><BR>Politically correct or not, most people don’t get over it in any way, shape or form. The Turks and the Greeks have been fighting forever and they don’t “get over it,” nor do the Jews and Arabs. The English and the French still haven’t really “gotten over it” even though they’ve fought on the same side throughout most of the last century. “Getting over it” is a lot like pretending racial prejudices or gender preferences don’t exist. In the Ultima Thule it would be swell; in reality it just isn’t so.<BR><BR>All in all and in the broad scope of things, the War of Northern Aggression really hasn’t been all that long ago. In many ways, including the loss of individual state’s rights, we all still deal with it daily.<BR>

uncle sam

The war of Northern agression has not ended it is still being fought and the South is winning!<BR><BR>Better weather, lower cost of living, friendlier people, better manners and on and on.<BR><BR>Want proof....the population is migrating from the NE to the South. That has been proven and there is a reason, life is better in the South!<BR><BR>Want more proof...ask all those Yankees that have migrated if they will return to those beautiful garden spots they left like NJ!<BR><BR>They won't and they don't and they are welcome in the South as long as they don't keep telling us how they did it up North!<BR><BR>US

Sheila

Thanks for that, Sam. I won't mention the courteous and quiet way Mickelson was allowed to putt out, after Price had won (by comparison with last time?).<BR><BR>And, no spam, it might as well have been a horse race for the way the Americans performed.

uncle sam

Sheila,<BR><BR>You're welcome. <BR><BR>Heck I'm even close to becoming a Montie fan. My wife likes him, primarily because he's a Scot and her maiden name is Graham. I'm beginning to like him because he is a classy guy.<BR><BR>We also went to the same church as Bernhard Langer when we lived in Florida and he is a gentleman!<BR><BR>Those two guys killed us. Nice to see nice guys win, but not so nice that I didn't want the US to win!<BR><BR>US<BR><BR>

RayJay

Personally I don’t think being a Yankee vs. a Southerner has a whole lot to do with the War Between the States, although that was a good jumping off point.<BR><BR>The bottom line is that most southerners (and Midwesterners too) just simply don’t have much use for big-city Yanks from Boston and New York City. (Feel pretty much the same about people from California and Colorado too, for that matter.)<BR><BR>Many people from those places are naive enough to believe that just EVERYONE envies them, which they don’t. Every time I’ve been to New York and have gotten in a discussion with a local they are convinced that I must be swooning just to be in the Big Apple. Kinda hurts their feelings when I tell them, nope, just here on business. Otherwise I would have to be dragged kicking and screaming into NYC. (Los Angeles is even worse, if that’s imaginable. It features all the hassles of a foreign city and none of the benefits. Folks from Colorado have become as elitist as the Yorkies and the Angelino’s, they just simply feel that if you don’t love it there you’re somehow deranged. )<BR><BR>As long as they all feel that they’re at the center of the world, great. It keeps them out of our hair. (An acquaintance of mine from NYC still gets mad when he recalls back a couple of decades ago when the city was going broke and no one, including the federal government, was willing to bail them out. He just can’t believe to this day that no one apparently gave a fig.) Sometimes the truth hurts.<BR><BR>You can call be Johnnie, or you can call me Sonny, but you doesn’t gots to call me, “Yankee.”<BR>