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<blockquote data-quote="Skeptic" data-source="post: 424564" data-attributes="member: 2175"><p>I don't know about that. I grew up in SW Georgia about 80 miles north of the Cracker Line, that mythical line dividing Georgia and Florida, which defined a swath of about 10-12 miles each side from Jacksonville to the Alabama line as a place you did not want to break down in after dark, without regard to color, creed or national origin. Somebody said it is more civilized now but I think he was trying to trick me. That godawful Big Daddy heat wrecked family farms. You started in those fields -- tobacco, peanut, cotton, corn, truck crops -- at about age eight and worked sunup to sundown, and the first lesson you learned was the longer you whined the longer you stayed in the heat. So it was that we all grew up and moved away, searching for management jobs with no sun attached. The family farms were bought up by Cadillac-driving men named Clarence or Buford who could afford tractors while the former labor force now is in the heat only from our front door to the car parked overnight in the shade. That is how we handle the Georgia heat.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Skeptic, post: 424564, member: 2175"] I don't know about that. I grew up in SW Georgia about 80 miles north of the Cracker Line, that mythical line dividing Georgia and Florida, which defined a swath of about 10-12 miles each side from Jacksonville to the Alabama line as a place you did not want to break down in after dark, without regard to color, creed or national origin. Somebody said it is more civilized now but I think he was trying to trick me. That godawful Big Daddy heat wrecked family farms. You started in those fields -- tobacco, peanut, cotton, corn, truck crops -- at about age eight and worked sunup to sundown, and the first lesson you learned was the longer you whined the longer you stayed in the heat. So it was that we all grew up and moved away, searching for management jobs with no sun attached. The family farms were bought up by Cadillac-driving men named Clarence or Buford who could afford tractors while the former labor force now is in the heat only from our front door to the car parked overnight in the shade. That is how we handle the Georgia heat. [/QUOTE]
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