Anti-secessionists: come at me, bros!

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Mr Khan said:

sc94597 said:

outlawauron said:

I appreciate the pretty honest response. I would say you don't really know what's going on down here (with such a large difference of cultures just across state lines), until you come and experience it for yourself.

It's interesting because I'm also from Pennsylvania and I've visited the rural south (Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Tennessee)  many times. I've also met many southerners (Texans in particular) who have migrated to here. There isn't much of a difference culturally. As far as culture goes, a rural Pennsylvanian is more similar to a rural southerner than to an urban Pennsylvanian (especially today's Philadelphians.) 

There is a reason we call it Pennsyltucky, although the area i'm from can get pretty hicky, not nearly so much as my relatives who live in an old mining village near Danville

Ah, my mom's family are "hicks" I suppose, haha. They live in Carbon county (Jim Thorpe.) My great-grandfather died in a fishing accident, that's how "rural" he was. Pennsylvania does have the second largest rural population in the nation, only second to Texas. I live in Pittsburgh right now for college, and I feel almost as if I'm in a foreign land lol. But if I visit a neighboring town or small city, it's almost as if I'm back at home again. It's quite odd how ways of life can be so different within a distance of a few miles, yet similar across state boundaries. However; it's very nice as well, except for some of the political tensions caused by both groups living under one state.