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maxbond 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Delve removed from Y Combinator

The ironic usage makes for compelling dialogue and comports with stereotypes about Southerners as formal/restrained. So that's what ends up on television. At least that is how I think I came about having that impression.

guzfip 4 months ago [–]

> So that's what ends up on television.

Maybe 7-8 years ago I met an Iranian. They were genuinely shocked I wasn’t a cowboy hat wearing racist when I told them I was from the south.

I grew up in the Atlanta area.

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