[Walter]

Briefly, I think it is a matter of distrusting government. In Texas, we are 1 for 2 in disposing of odious governments: we disposed of Santa Anna, a singular service to Mexico, and we gave the Federal Government a good fight in the 1860s. If you include ancestral rebellions, we are 2 for 3, having sent King George’s men back to torment the Irish. That we have had sufficient concensus in two centuries to think three governments odious enough to merit armed rebellion either demonstrates a consistent bad attitude or a rational basis for our distrust.

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Name : Walter, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Disability : getting old, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Jewish, Age : 51, City : Austin, State : TX, Country : United States, Occupation : historian, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Lower middle class, 

[Walter]

Lynne, I get to see this three ways because Texas has blacks, whites, and browns. To complicate it worse, some of the browns are ‘tejano’ (long native) and some very recent immigrants. Talking ‘ghetto’ probably differs here from Ann Arbor, too, but I will try to answer your question. First, some people are uncomfortable either with who they are, what they think you are, or simply with the difference between these two. One way to compensate is to try to be like you, to negate the difference. Most of the time, they end up sounding silly, but the effort is not meant to be insulting and I’d guess they didn’t mean to sound silly either. Also — and this is something for you to answer for yourself because I don’t know what it’s like in Ann Arbor — but I live in a university town, too, and I notice that the people who try to mimic the way other people talk here are usually young, in the age range of university students. This is an insecure age and, for young suburban white kids, it may be their first time dealing with people who are much different in language, class, or skin color from themselves. I hope I gave you a decent answer, at least something to think over, even though I am culturally a long way from Ann Arbor. Walter

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