Ben Ruset wrote:
>
> While some may call me "anti-hick" I'm in the process of trying to find a job
> and move to South Jersey -- a place with over a million square miles of pine
> forest. You can't get much more rural than that, and if you ignore some of the
> inbred residents (forget about West Virginia -- South New Jersey has a
> higher %
> of inbreeding than W. VA has) and ignore legends of the "Jersey Devil" than
> you
> might find it a nice place to live.
Ben is right about S. Jersey, it is like it is a different planet. Plenty of
refrigerators and car seats on the porches. As for the inbreeding I have a
theory. In south Jersey we have a large Air Force base (Fort Dix/McGuire). I
figure that
some of the southerners that join the AF, wind up stationed at McGuire. Then
the
day comes when they are discharged. At this point they have already spent all
of
there money on cheap beer and ammunition and have no money left to buy a bus
ticket
home. So they decide to settle in south Jersey. And there is the explanation
of
the inbred Southern Jersey residents. Of course I could be wrong.
All of this fails to explain why do "hicks" put refrigerators on the porch
in the first place?
All of the above intend with humor.
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William M. Gilroy
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