Re: AX

>From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
>My hometown is an example of this. There is not one noticeable majority of
>ethnicities here, and all of the neighborhoods are mixed (no ethnic
>ghettos or neighbor hoods at all), and among the younger generations I
>hear the word "ax" all the time. I really think that here it's more of a
>slang way kids talk. I used to say "ax" occasionally when I was in High
>School (I tend to talk like whoever I am around, if I'm with my twin I
>talk one way, with my friends from school another, etc.).
I identify with that wholly!  You don't live in Lufkin, Texas perchance?

Seriously, this pluralism is caused by this town being traditionally
working-to-lower-middle-class and industrial, and more politically
left-center, even though most people here are evangelical Christians (and
most Southern Baptists and Assemblies of God/Pentecostal at that).  People
are just colorblind here in general.  Not to mention this is a true
bilingual city, and we're dealing with a population of thirty thousand!

Even among upper-middle-class to upper class, you have whites mixed with
east Indians and Asians.  There's even a Malankara Orthodox church, St.
Thomas of Lufkin, in this town.  You'd be shocked.

My other hometown, Nacogdoches, 20 miles (32 km) north, is a completely
different story.  Blacks live in the Black part of town, Latinos live in the
Latino part of town, and everything is run by WASPs (but there is a
noticeable Mormon community).

Danny
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