Someone the other day gave voice to his apparently deeply held prejudices and with colorful language cast aspersions on me for being born in the north and moved to the south. I came here from the north alright and it just occurred to me that that happened forty years ago last month with everything I owned in my '57 Chevy. I was not quite 20 at the time and my retired father and still working mother had moved here three years earlier. I figured since dad was already in his 70's I'd better get down here in case my folks needed my help. A few years later I helped dad hang Christmas lights the day before he dropped dead. By then I had my own family and my mom needed help so here I stayed. I've worked here, played here, buried a wife here, watched the little town where I've lived all this time get shattered by a hurricane and helped rebuild it - I put down roots here. This has been my home for two thirds of my life and I'll probably die right here. Two of my boys still live here, one a U.S. military veteran and the other a corrections officer for almost 20 years. If moving from one part of the country to another is offensive then I guess my son who moved to South Carolina is bad but the real heinous offense must be my daughter who has lived in Texas for several years now. So if if all that is reason to hate me then hate away.