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I'd lived in the west Texas region about 3 years when I was introduced to another person who had been born and raised in the same region as I. Cool! Another displaced Southerner, banished to the desert. Upon introduction, this stanger exclamed loudly "SOOOOOOO, You're a MUD-SUCKER?"
What?????
What exactly is a mud-sucker? Was it an insult? I thought so and blasted back with the most embarassing proclamation one can make in regards to a stangers introduction into puberty. Not feeling very proud of myself at that moment, I decided that I would find out what a mud-sucker is..... Apparently if you ask anyone from Alabama what they call people from Mississippi, that's what that say.
So now I'm a racist, prejudiced and suck mud? And all because I was born in Mississippi? Wow. Admittedly so, though, I will confess; many times I exclamed proudly, and sometimes sheepishly, "Don't blame me for where I was born, give me credit for...
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