Question for tFlagship posters

Doesn't bother me. Some are way too sensitive about the image. To me, its just a shortcut that's easy to type.

No, I actually use it myself but I've seen some get offended. Who cares?

I don't find it offensive at all. It's just an abbreviation in most cases.

I have replaced Arky with just Flag

Doesn't bother me.

There's a MSU poster on here that constantly refers to us as PigU. THAT I can't stand.

or maybe it's just him

If you keep it on this site, its become the norm...

going to another hog board might ruffle some feathers...however, I'm not 60 either

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Posted by Message Quigley Question for tFlagship posters Is the term "Arky" offensive to you? I'd always just used it as an abbreviation for Arkansas, but one of your swine brethren told me it's a derogatory like calling some an Okie. What's the deal here?

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Honestly, I haven't been a fan of the term but only because of how most use AGGY when referencing TAMU.

Don't bother me at all.

AnArky!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Is the term "Arky" offensive to you? I'd always just used it as an abbreviation for Arkansas, but one of your swine brethren told me it's a derogatory like calling some an Okie. What's the deal here?

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It's like calling Cincinnati Cincy. I think people from Cincinnati probably do it. It doesn't bother me when people call Arkansas Arky, it's usually just an indication that they're from somewhere other than Arkansas ......perhaps Cincy.

During the depression, the term Arkie and Oakie were used to label the victims of the "dust bowl", i.e. "Grapes Of Wrath", when a lot of poor people from Arkansas, yet primarily Oklahoma, left their states in hopes of finding work in California and other places. (wmr touched on this) A lot of them were treated very inhumanely, and were despised, much like many people who come to the U.S. presently from other countries, for the same reasons, though they're not American. "Arkies" and "Oakies" were many times labeled as the dregs of society, though they were good people who had lost everything they owned. There were no government programs to help bail people out in those times. FEMA didn't exist.

Suppose the victims who came to Arkansas during Katrina were called "Louisies" and were welcomed as slave laborers. Would people resent it? Yes. Thing is, most of the people who lived through the tragedy of the dust bowl are no longer alive, though the slang survives. It's a matter of interpretation.