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[roamer_1]

That's a pretty good summary.  I always figured the nasally, fast, brief New England speech pattern was related to the cold.  As well as the attitude and general outlook on life.

Nah... Northern Rockies is north and we have a drawl... different from all y'all, but the same. I can normally talk eye to eye with a Texan, and barring normal regional colloquialisms, we understand each other just fine. the change is somewhere south of Colorado, and west of Oklahoma though desert rats down in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico sound like they talk like me... other than the Mexican flavoring...

But we understand your'in, y'all, fixin to, and etc, as it is part of normal conversation.

[Smokin Joe]

Nah... Northern Rockies is north and we have a drawl... different from all y'all, but the same. I can normally talk eye to eye with a Texan, and barring normal regional colloquialisms, we understand each other just fine. the change is somewhere south of Colorado, and west of Oklahoma though desert rats down in Arizona, Nevada, and New Mexico sound like they talk like me... other than the Mexican flavoring...

But we understand your'in, y'all, fixin to, and etc, as it is part of normal conversation.

Once you get outside the Scandawhovian immigrant envelope (Minnesota, Eastern ND) to the west, there are a lot of folks descended from dispossessed Confederates who moved to the territories after they lost all to the carpetbaggers. Imagine my relief when I got to Western ND and ran into folks who spoke purt'near like people did back where I grew up.

[roamer_1]

Once you get outside the Scandawhovian immigrant envelope (Minnesota, Eastern ND) to the west, there are a lot of folks descended from dispossessed Confederates who moved to the territories after they lost all to the carpetbaggers. Imagine my relief when I got to Western ND and ran into folks who spoke purt'near like people did back where I grew up.

That's probably right. I always believed Texans are rooted from the South by that means, and then came north with the cattle. I think it's the scots-irish thing... Their culture is deep in country folks... the form of dance, the fiddle, the wild spirit, the flowery descriptive language, the hardy make-do sense...

[Smokin Joe]

That's probably right. I always believed Texans are rooted from the South by that means, and then came north with the cattle. I think it's the scots-irish thing... Their culture is deep in country folks... the form of dance, the fiddle, the wild spirit, the flowery descriptive language, the hardy make-do sense...

All of that, from the foothills of Appalachia and even in clusters in the tidewater to the Rockies and beyond. Then, too, it hasn't been more than a generation or two since the great entertainments were playing and singing in get togethers or family gatherings on weekends and swapping tales was an art form.

I just got word that one of my granddaughters took third in a dance competition at Pow Wow, and won a $150 as prize money. I'm almost as tickled as she is!

[roamer_1]

I just got word that one of my granddaughters took third in a dance competition at Pow Wow, and won a $150 as prize money. I'm almost as tickled as she is!

HAHAHAHA! Good on her. She needs a steak dinner, proud Papa... or an ice cream sundae... sumpthin. :)

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[Smokin Joe]

HAHAHAHA! Good on her. She needs a steak dinner, proud Papa... or an ice cream sundae... sumpthin. :)

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You betcha! I think I'll take her shooting...I have a new rifle that hasn't been fired yet.