Winter Texans (1975)

[Charles Doyle]

In Georgia we have the "halfbacks" (a term almost never used in connection with football anymore, with the ubiquity of the I, the Shotgun, and the "empty backfield" formations; perhaps the phrase was left looking for a referent).  HALFBACKS are Yankees (often retirees) who descended to live in Florida, didn't like it there (who WOULD?!), so moved "half(-way)back" northward to the hill country of Georgia. There, they regularly vote against public school financing; hey, they don't have kids in school!

--Charlie
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>Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 23:54:18 EST
>From: Bapopik at AOL.COM
>Subject: Winter Texans (1975); OT: Billy the Kid
>
>WINTER TEXANS
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>Any HDAS or other help on "Winter Texans" (called "snowbirds" in  Florida):
>...
>(http://www.barrypopik.com/index.php/texas/entry/winter_texan/)

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