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ORIGINAL: Charles6682

Not everyone from NY is stuck up.People need to learn the difference bewteen UPSTATE NY and NYC.People from upstate NY are fairly intelligent,good natured people.NYC is where all the loud mouth's live.In fact,upstate New Yorker's are probaly more frustrated at NYC than anywhere else.See,the majority of voter's are naturally in NYC,because it's such a large city.Alot of people in NYC vote for people to Albany(NYS State Capitol)and they really only care about NYC need's.Alot of people from NYC look at upstate New York's as nothin but a bunch of hick's.The reason New York state has such high taxes are because of NYC.People in upstate NY pay's a huge amount in state taxes,yet get very little return on their money.NYC is greedy and reap's all the benefit's... NYC can drift away into the Atlantic Ocean for all I care.I'm sure there's alot of people from upstate NY who feel the same way.Thank's for nothing NYC,upstate NY will do just fine without you.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

Wiki defines it as 23

This I wanna see. Link please?

K.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

Wiki defines it as 23

This I wanna see. Link please?

K.

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ORIGINAL: Charles6682

I could careless what NYC think's.Go now,drift away into the Atlantic Ocean,NYC.NYC is more of a burden then a benefit to the rest of New York State.

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ORIGINAL: TribeTziyon

We better mind our manners (even if we are short on them) must not upset the Queen Mum and all.

(Psssst, Tribe, the queen Mum is dead, that would be Elizabeth's Mom).

Here in the Midwest, most people of Indian descent appear to operate convenience stores. Do other Midwesterners find that to be true??

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ORIGINAL: hlen5

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ORIGINAL: TribeTziyon

We better mind our manners (even if we are short on them) must not upset the Queen Mum and all.

(Psssst, Tribe, the queen Mum is dead, that would be Elizabeth's Mom).

Here in the Midwest, most people of Indian descent appear to operate convenience stores. Do other Midwesterners find that to be true??

  I missed that bit of news. I must have been out milking the cows.

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
....something like that.   I grew up out of the area- so I did not go to high school here- and because of that will always be an "outsider".    But even in the circles- they go back to who settled the area first- 6 generations back and who married who... argh!

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ORIGINAL: LadyPact

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
....something like that.   I grew up out of the area- so I did not go to high school here- and because of that will always be an "outsider".    But even in the circles- they go back to who settled the area first- 6 generations back and who married who... argh!

This is very true.  I actually grew up in the region that Pa is talking about here and when they say that everybody knows everybody, they mean it.  Most people will know you, your family, your family's family, what family you married into, and the history of that family as well.  In a lot of cases, they can tell you the whole family line all of the way back to when the first got there when they immigrated to the country.

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ORIGINAL: Kirata

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ORIGINAL: Jaybeee

Wiki defines it as 23

This I wanna see. Link please?

K.

I think that they count central America / Latin America and some islands to get that number. 
 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americas#Sovereign_states

North America is often divided into subregions but no universally accepted divisions exist. Central America comprises the southern region of the continent, but its northern terminus varies between sources. Geophysically, the region starts at the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in Mexico (namely the Mexican states of Campeche, Chiapas, Tabasco, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán). The United Nations geoscheme includes Mexico in Central America; conversely, the European Union excludes both Mexico and Belize from the area. Geopolitically however, Mexico is usually considered a part of the North American region.

Northern America is used to refer to the northern countries and territories of North America: Canada, the United States, Greenland, Bermuda, and St. Pierre and Miquelon. They are often considered distinct from the southern portion of the Americas, which largely comprise Latin America. The term Middle America is sometimes used to collectively refer to Mexico, the nations of Central America, and the Caribbean.

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ORIGINAL: hlen5
People generally don't consider Oklahoma to be in the Midwest.
There is Broken Arrow Resort in S Dakota, and Broken Arrow T-shirt shop in Iowa. There is no Broken Arrow town or city in Minnesota, Illinois, Iowa or Ohio. There is the Broken Arrow Wilderness in Nebraska.
As a foreigner, you could be given points for knowing the term "the Midwest", if not for the sloppy generalization.

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ORIGINAL: Charles6682
I could careless what NYC think's.Go now,drift away into the Atlantic Ocean,NYC.NYC is more of a burden then a benefit to the rest of New York State.

You shouldn't care what NYC thinks, you should care what most people think if they read your posts. Do enlighten us, what benefit are you to the country?   *SNORT*  I lubs Lady C! 
You say on your profile you're 28, at that age most people have mastered the basics of grammar, one could assume you were pretty much a burden on the education system...even more!
It's fairly simple, after each punctuation mark you press the space bar, plural s is without an apostrophe. I wouldn't blame that on the Upstate education but on you just being too lazy to put any effort in, or did NYC generously supply you with so many apostrophes that you need to get rid of them?

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ORIGINAL: hlen5
.......As a foreigner, you could be given points for knowing the term "the Midwest", if not for the sloppy generalization.

Yeah, I thought the same thing, but then again, I just considered the source.......

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ORIGINAL: Jeffff

I am from Chicago, which is also the Midwest and generally described as a world class city.

I don't like most people.

But I think I express myself rather well in the process.

Chicago is a superb city, I'm only sad I haven't had the pleasure of visiting it yet. Too enamoured of NYC, but I will make the trip.

Wait - YES, actually I was there in March, stayed overnight between flights but was too tired to go enjoying the nightlife. I see why they call it the "windy" city.

:)

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy
....something like that.   I grew up out of the area- so I did not go to high school here- and because of that will always be an "outsider".    But even in the circles- they go back to who settled the area first- 6 generations back and who married who... argh!

This is very true.  I actually grew up in the region that Pa is talking about here and when they say that everybody knows everybody, they mean it.  Most people will know you, your family, your family's family, what family you married into, and the history of that family as well.  In a lot of cases, they can tell you the whole family line all of the way back to when the first got there when they immigrated to the country.

Sounds like Iowa.

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ORIGINAL: DarkSteven

Actually, I find East Coast types to frequently be provincial.  Especially NYC and Washington tend to forget that other parts of the country exist. 

Midwesterners have an attitude of independence that I like.  And they of course are aware of other parts of the country and ways of thinking.

New Englanders drove me crazy with their passive stoicism when I lived there.  I prefer the frontier mentality of energetic optimism.

A book that I liked is The Nine Nations of North America.

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Not everyone from NY is stuck up.People need to learn the difference bewteen UPSTATE NY and NYC.People from upstate NY are fairly intelligent,good natured people.NYC is where all the loud mouth's live.In fact,upstate New Yorker's are probaly more frustrated at NYC than anywhere else.See,the majority of voter's are naturally in NYC,because it's such a large city.Alot of people in NYC vote for people to Albany(NYS State Capitol)and they really only care about NYC need's.Alot of people from NYC look at upstate New York's as nothin but a bunch of hick's.The reason New York state has such high taxes are because of NYC.People in upstate NY pay's a huge amount in state taxes,yet get very little return on their money.NYC is greedy and reap's all the benefit's... NYC can drift away into the Atlantic Ocean for all I care.I'm sure there's alot of people from upstate NY who feel the same way.Thank's for nothing NYC,upstate NY will do just fine without you.