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Message: <blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2068506" data-attributes="member: 1535">Intimidating? Naaa.I'm a native Californian but I've been going back and forth from California to Oklahoma practically my whole life since my parents both were raised in Oklahoma and when my mom divorced my dad when I was a kid she headed back home to Oklahoma to live. I've been back here predominantly now the last 6 years since marrying a Tulsa girl even though I still work and live in California too. The accent here sticks with you when youve been here a bit I think. Im in east Wagoner county and theres kind of a drawl out here I guess. My older brothers and sisters have never left California and since I still have a business and a house there I go there and stay quite a bit, and they say I carry my Okie back there with me. My older brother is a fancy pants professor of sociology at Berkley with a PHD and he thinks he needs to 'de-program' me when I come home. I really dont care cause I actually kind of like it. Hell I was into my 4x4 trucks and hotrods, shooting, fishing, and beer when I lived there in the mountains of northern Cali, so being here isnt that much different. Ive lived in alot of places and there are hillbillies with accents every where, not just in Oklahoma. Ive even had girls when Im playing music come up to me after shows and ask me to say things and then they giggle and say the accent is cute. Every year I look forward to going down to Mardi Gras in Louisianna, SXSW in Austin Texas, and the blues fests in Memphis in the spring. I have relatives in all those areas and spend quite a bit of time there and love all of the mixes of cultures and accents.</blockquote>

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