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I understand what you are saying here completely, and of course there is nothing wrong with someone referring to a fine piece of real estate as "God's country". The only problem is, I do not believe the poster was referring to real estate at all, and I do not think my interpretation was inaccurate.

Being that you're done, I don't expect a reply. Good. Sorry, but the way the comment was phrased, little interpretation could be derived from it but arrogance.

It is rhetoric like this that alienates "the south" from not only the rest of the country, but the rest of the world. It's inflammatory. This attitude that God favors the South first, the rest of the old U.S. of A. second, and that he couldn't care less or is contemptuous about the remaining world at large facilitates all of the negative stereotypes of the south and its southerners. Quite a thoughtless comment.

Okay---- yes! And it is also unfortunate because most of the people that I have found myself the most comfortable with upon first introduction have that mountain twang. I'm a place about 1 hr. from hardcore appalachia, but I just wanted to add that around here, we don't even get out the "you-uns". It is simply "y'uns". It can be very endearing.

I think you got my original meaning across better than I did. I did not intend to offend anyone. I am from the rural foothills of NC and the only way I "escape" heavy regional accents and thick dialect is at school which is in a more educated region in the central part of the state. When I come home after being away for a few months, they are always there to welcome me back and remind me where I am.

Hahahah! No, I actually do not say "y'all", at least not anymore. I've compromised-- I say "you all". Better or worse? I don't know.

LuvMyGamecocks, you have not thoroughly read my posts. I answered this question before you asked it. Ignorance to English grammatical rules and phoenetics, blah blah blah. I feel like you are on the defensive with me as though I am personally attacking you, someone else from the south. Well, I'm telling you now that I am not, that was never my intention. Ignorance is not limited to any specific region of the country/world, SES-- it exists at all "levels" of human society, everywhere-- you and I both know that...tell me how to better clarify my intentions because I am out of steam.

To the first part, applies to anyone with a dialect so heavy and english so broken that it prevents a fellow english-speaker from understanding them. To the second part, I'm not saying it is a "RULE" in the way that I think you interpreted it. I'm still speaking about the assumptions. And by the way, I do not have an attitude. This is just my impression of the interactions I have witnessed and taken part in.

You are entirely right Marie-- they could have "some other issue aside from intelligence or education" that prevents them from speaking correctly, but that would be the exception, not the rule

Perhaps that was poor clarification on my part. As I said, I was born and raised in the south, and I attend a southern university. As to whether other parts of the country give a better education that southern schools, I am not going to make that call. When I said "it is not unreasonable to assume....." I am not referring to a strong accent in general-- look at Dixie Carter. I love her speech. No, I was really referring to dialect, which can infer ignorance, that being to standard english grammatical rules and the rules of phoenetics. Please read my previous post.

I do agree with you that ignorant or stupid people can come from any part of "the world" and sloppy accents are certainly not limited to the south. It is the heavy bias of the poster's reply that I quoted in my op that compelled me to write what I did. No, I do not consider Bill Clinton uneducated, and yes he has a southern accent although I am unsure whether I would consider it "heavy". However, I have not heard him botching off consanants or completely omitting or switching vowel sounds in his speech either. Also, jmho, but it is a bit hypocritical of you to say that "anyone who assumes ignorance OR stupidity based on the way someone else speaks REALLY needs to get out more". That is not reality. I think it would be hard to find someone who would not question another's intelligence, especially an adult, who mispronounces words, speaks with flagrant grammar, etc. That is the real world. Most well-educated people are familiar with the most basic rules or english grammar. I will even go as far as to say that most of them do not go around speaking as follows: "He be xxxxxx..." "She be......" "They does...." "He do xxxxxx..." "Are then any coffee in there?!?!"" "Where you at?!?!!" It kills me when people end sentences with prepositions.....

Well, way to write an entirely biased reply. I was born and raised in North Carolina where the accents may vary from southern aristocratic to hillbilly mush. Personally, I find some very thick southern accents sloppy and at times irritating especially when the pronunciation strays far from the standard rules of phoenetics. I HIGHLY doubt that people from other regions of the country are jealous of southern accents. Prejudice is never excusable, but it is natural, and it is very true that quite often when someone from another region of the country, especially a better educated one, hears the speech of another person with a heavy southern accent, the first person will assume ignorance on the part of the speaker with the southern accent, and in some respects it is not an unreasonable assumption. Most people do not want to be pre-judged as ignorant or stupid.

Keep your GPA up in the undergrad studies!!! That can not be stressed enough (and I mean above a 3.5). The higher the better. Also, I'm assuming you realize that you will not be accepted into a Nurse Anesthesia program without a BSN. Critical Care experience (at least one year) is usually manditory for consideration because you have to be familiar with certain procedures and techniques that only critical care will teach you. Also, even though one year may be the minimum for some schools (many are going up to 2), the length of time spent is critical care is not as important as what you actually learn while there-- you may learn enough in 2 years, you may not. Good luck.

I'm pretty sure your hair stylist gave you some inaccurate information. The testestosterone levels in the body do not change significantly for women as they get older-- the estrogen levels do. When you are young higher estrogen levels help to mute those undesirable male secondary sex characteristics such as facial hair, but once after those begin to drop in middle age the testosterone already present in the body is more readily expressed in those secondary sex characteristics.

This is silly. No one is "born". There are certainly some that are more naturally caring than others, but experience and life plays a major role in developing and expanding those tendencies. If you feel that you received some calling to be a nurse, than that is wonderful but I certainly do not believe that one has to think they have received a calling from the beyond to be an exceptionally talented and competent professional in the field of nursing.