re: Benito Jones Landmassed Alabama

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Well I'm black and I rep the state every chance I get and I live in Texas now. Pride in where you come from is nothing new.

Tell Cody Prewitt, Tony Conner, Chris Jones(MSU) and some of those guys that repping the state isn't important. Prewitt mentions it all the time, and Conner mentioned it as one of the reasons he chose Ole Miss over Bama.

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Huh. That's odd. I guess you don't know black people as well as I do.


Seriously, though, I'm only speaking from personal experience. I grew up in Vicksburg and that was the impression I came away with in regards to my friends. I'm not saying they didn't love Mississippi. Obviously that's far too general a blanket statement. I'm just saying the people I knew seemed to value other, more personal things than the arbitrary lines (well, arbitrary except for the river, of course) that formed the state. I actually admired that. It was the difference between standing up for your family and standing up for the ground your house happened to be located on. You have your own value system, and that's what informs your perspective. Vive la difference and all that, right?