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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This must be a troll. I don't understand this at all.

I don't know anyone who says cookout. It's BBQ. [b]But I'm from TX, not the South[b], so maybe it's different there but never heard that.

I will say that while I have hints of Texas-isms in my speech I don't force that on my kids. My kids speak like they're from NOVA, which is how it should be. How odd. [/quote]

Pssst  Texas is the South.

OP, it sounds like a mental disorder.[/quote]

Yeah, so you missed the part where it says, I"m from Texas, not the South explicitly in the post, huh?[/quote]

No, he was correcting the PP.  Wasn't that obvious?

Texas was part of the Confederacy.  It's the south.  I know Texans take pride in being unique, or thinking they are, at least, [b]but to the rest of the country, they're part of the South, geographically, culturally, and politically. [/b] [/quote]

That's because you're too lazy to understand nuance in culture. The cultures are not the same at all. But if you're not really familiar with either, you wouldn't be able to identify the differences. 
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Uh huh.  You know, people who grew up in Montgomery County, MD, and Arlington, VA, insist that there are dramatic differences between the two counties, they'd never live in the other one, yada yada yada.  To the rest of the thinking world, they're exactly the freakin' same.

That little parable seems relevant here.  [/quote]

As is the saying: Everything is relative. Both counties now have a lot of residents who moved there from other places. It’s likely that the two places and cultures are a lot more similar than they used to be, and reflect the influences of transients.  There used to be quite a bit of difference between the two, particularly for some minorities.  Even within the counties there are regional differences.

And yes, things change. PG, as an example, shifted from tobacco farms to areas with large populations of highly educated Black professionals.  Transients in what they call the DMV might not know, notice, or even care about this, much less be able to discern differences in accents.

As an aside, I go to cookouts where sometimes barbecue is served.  Northerners notice my Southern accent and Southerners think that I talk like someone from Up North.  I put hot sauce on my grinders! [/quote]

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