Originally posted by Blue That's funny! I live in Florida and people say similar things about us only its, a different rifle. Our best friends could be bears or gators, and the booze is diverse. Although its other people that talk funny and not us.
That's how all Those Other People are. When Europeans started conquering North America, explorers encountered Native Americans, sometimes peacefully, but were usually given glowing descriptions of all the Really Good Stuff that could be found Just A Few Days Away In That Direction. (Y'all better run right over before it's all gone.)
And when the Euros asked the names of the peoples-tribes-nations to be found in the area, the locals would reply with their friendly labels for Those Other People: dog-eaters, deer-f*ckers, lazy farts, sh!t-for-brains, booty bandits, etc. Only, in their language, it had a nice ring to it. So such labels became the Official Designations of many peoples.
Those Other People are always despised, are always perverts, and they eat and act and smell and talk weird, and They Want Our Women (or boys) (or sheep), etc.