America and Americans (and Brits)

[Wilcox, Rose (ZB5646)]

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When I was born in Southern Illinois, it as "Little" (not "New") Egypt.

dInIs

>Completely tangential, but as long as we're renaming state and state
>residents...
>
>For MANY MANY years, those of us from Southern Illinois (roughly below
I-64)
>have tried to seperate ourselves from the rest of the state.  No, we're not
>from anywhere NEAR Chicago (and get Really Annoyed by the mistake).
Sometime
>around the Civil War we tried to split and call ourselves "New Egypt" or
>something like that.  The idea pops up every now and then.  I always stress
>the "southern" part when someone asks where I'm from.
>
>-dsb
>Douglas S. Bigham
>Southern Illinois University - Carbondale
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I was raised in the Illiana area (near Danville) and went to SIU-C in the
80s.  In Arizona, I tell everyone that Illinois is truly three different
states: Cook County, mid-state, and Southern Illinois.  I visited this
summer and was struck by the terrain variation between the later two.

Rosie Wilcox