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50 Stars: Americans, teach us about your country.

^^Hahah the "UH oh" smiley? Tell me something interesting about Sugar Land



EDIT: Oh and I don't find the word 'redneck' to be offensive at all. I'm a self-proclaimed redneck. Hillbilly, now that's pushin it. :D
 
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KStoner6tb said:
^^Hahah the "UH oh" smiley? Tell me something interesting about Sugar Land



EDIT: Oh and I don't find the word 'redneck' to be offensive at all. I'm a self-proclaimed redneck. Hillbilly, now that's pushin it. :D
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It's the headquarters of Imperial Sugar Comany? The median income per household is somewhere around $100,000. I had a good time there as a kid but I'm glad I left as a kid. The people who I were friends with are undoubtedly huge snobs now. It's, not surprisingly, one of the most Republican places in the country... I guess those conservatives wanted their kids to know their state's rights are super important early on. ;)
 
KStoner6tb said:
Oh and I don't find the word 'redneck' to be offensive at all.
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indeed, as a outsider i use to see that word as a bad thing
but now that ive hang out with some redneck ive realize that ive got some redneck roots in me
there is more than uneducated inbreed retards to it

(btw for those who dont know , ive spent 10 month in southern georgia this past year, tho im from canada)
 
Riverwalk...

Good view...Yes the water does appear green Pharc, good call
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My mariachi band on Cinco de Mayo..
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Man we wa so drunk on the riverwalk, we went to get a table at joes crab shack and some black dude asks me for a light, then not 10 seconds later my buddy goes "yeah we need a table for four" and the dudes like "what the fuck" Im dying of laughter and jeff goes "you work here dont ya" FUCKING AWESOME!!! I died.

We got drunk and made a bet that whoever didnt make it out of the house of mirrors (by the Alamo) had to drink the riverwater. I lost. It was nasty.
 
Viginia is for lovers. The last time I was in Virginia it was by sea. Me and a good friend were hired to bring an yacht down to Houston, Texas from Maryland. We traveled the entire length of chesapeake Bay. Most of which is the coast of Virginia. It was the spring of 1990. The boat was a 57 foot antique wooden yacht.....beatiful. a 1926 DeFoe. the top speed of it was about 10 knots. It took us almost a month. the coast of Virginia is very beatiful. there are many seaside resorts and communities. Lots of old architecture from the civil war era. You had to go a little inland to see the sights. We had to stop every night because its not advisable for a wooden boat to run at night.....you don't show up very well on radar and it would be a big bummer to get run down by a 900 ft supertanker. Virginia beach is a very nice resort town. It reminded me, somewhat of Key West, Florida.
 
- Richmond is the capital.

- Radar detectors are illegal in Va.

- home of the largest naval base in the world at Norfolk

Notable people born in Va: Patch Adams, June Carter Cash, William Clark (of Lewis & Clark), Katie Couric, Chris Daughtry, Jimmy Dean, Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliot, Luke Skywalker aka Mark Hamill, Sam Houston (1st President of Texas), Stonewall Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Gen Douglas MacArthur, Dave Matthews and several Presidents most notably George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
 
  • Virginia Beach is great. My boyfriends parents have a second home there. LOTS of military. You can see dolphins all the time swimming not so far from the shore. It's pretty neat and cute!

  • Northern Virginians (mostly) joke about seceding from the rest of the state because they're SO different. I think most of the revenue (like significantly) comes from Northern Virginia due to it's location being basically the suburbs of D.C.

  • There is a dead person on the driver's licenses of Virginia. It has something to do with the state motto: "Sic Simper Tyrannis" (thus always to tyrants). Obviously a response to the Revolutionary War that ensued before Independence. The background image is one from a Roman battle, though (I think).
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  • "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" use to be their state song.
    Carry me back to old Virginny.
    There's where the cotton and corn and taters grow.
    There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
    There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

    There's where I labored so hard for old Massa,
    Day after day in the field of yellow corn;
    No place on earth do I love more sincerely
    Than old Virginny, the state where I was born.

    Carry me back to old Virginny.
    There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
    There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
    There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.

    Carry me back to old Virginny,
    There let me live till I wither and decay.
    Long by the old Dismal Swamp have I wandered,
    There's where this old darkey's life will pass away.

    Massa and Missis have long since gone before me,
    Soon we will meet on that bright and golden shore.
    There we'll be happy and free from all sorrow,
    There's where we'll meet and we'll never part no more.

    Carry me back to old Virginny.
    There's where the cotton and the corn and taters grow;
    There's where the birds warble sweet in the spring-time.
    There's where this old darkey's heart am long'd to go.
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    It was written by James A. Bland shortly after the ending of the Civl War. He was an educated black freeman and Howard University graduate living in New York. He wrote hundreds of folk songs. I think it's fairly obvious why VA sort of doesn't talk about the song anymore.

  • It's the #1 producer of tobacco, still, I think.

  • I know a LOT about Jamestown (took a course on it) but it's mostly boring stuff to most people lol. Basically, it was England's first colony which was largely built on an infrastructure to get rich off the Virginia Company in London. Jamestown was both a disaster and a magnificently lucky colony.

    One of the reason for the disaster part was many of the men who came over refused to work with their hands. They thought it was below them. Thus, they didn't plant enough food and started to starve. During 'the starving time' only a handful, 60 out of 214, survived. IMO, the person who saved many lives, John Smith, was only able to do so because he had such a good relationship with the Natives.

    That said, there was a massive raid on the colony called the Indian Massacre of 1622 killing hundreds of men, women and children. Jamestown (this is part of the magnificently lucky part) was mostly saved because an indian boy who was living with a Jamestown settler learned of the attack and told the plantation owner he was living with.

    There is a tourist attraction to the original site of the colony though I found it mostly boring unless you love archeology. There is very little left and they haven't made much of the 'reconstruction' movement. Queen Elizabeth did visit the site when she came to the states. There has been a massive archeological 'rediscovery' team that is constantly uncovering new artifacts of the original colony due to the Bicentennial birthday.

    Ok, so tl;dr at this point, right? =D I'll stop with Jamestown, for now. ;)

  • If you want to visit a tourist trap go to Williamsburg. I really enjoyed visiting it. Really family oriented but fairly close to VA Beach and they have everyone reenacting the whole time you're there. lol. Nerds!

  • There was a giant uproar when advocates wanted a statue of Arthur Ashe (famous Virginian black tennis player, civil rights activist, died of AIDS from a blood transfusion amongst other things) in a Richmond neighborhood where there were many statues of notable Virginians (see: dead white guys). The African Americans against the idea thought it was disgraceful for Ashe to be amongst Confederate 'hero' statues. The white residents against the idea stated that it disgraced the legends of the past already on the avenue. The people who were for the idea, both black and whites alike generally stated that they thought it was a sign of healing and that Ashe genuinely belonged there. The statute was eventually erected but the whole scuttle made many Virginians (and Americans alike) question how far the country really had developed in terms of race relations.

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    God, I know too much history of VA. I'll stop.
 
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