[Ads-l] Possible relation between Hebrew, US South saying

[Steven Losie]

I don't know how useful this is, but here is a slight variation on the same
saying used a few years earlier, also in the U.S. South:

[begin quote]
It has been waggishly said that you can get the boy out of the country, but
you can not get the country out of the boy.
[end quote]

"The Country Boy", Jackson (Miss.) Daily News, 6 Aug 1909, p.4, col.2 (
newspapers.com)
https://www.newspapers.com/image/199690698/?match=1&terms=%22country%20out%20of%20the%20boy%22

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