Xenos RP Gripe

[Agmen of Eladesor]

thats where the geographic ignorance steps in - for those that are not too familiar with the USA, like me being from most northern europe...

what exactly is the difference between those? - for me - the USA can roughly be separated into 3 parts only. - the north-east ( new england etc. ) - the midwest and the westcoast. - i guess what you describe as rednecks would fall into the "midwest" category, but i guess that my understanding is of course not even close to detailed enough.

by the way .... are there "really" ( i mean.. really in real life ) people that say "yeehaa", have a gun on their backseat and have like no sense of fashion like the stereotype "red-neck"? or is that only made up by the media. ( never been to the midwest - only to boston... and the people there are pretty much the very same you can find in any european city )

if there are no "real life" red-necks anyway... its all fiction and i guess can be made up anyway one likes it to be.

Just to interject a bit of 20th Century American geography, just for our European buddies...

Over here in America, we actually have:

1: Northeast - consists of the New England states (Basically from Delaware on up, although Virginia sometimes wants to be part of this region - very urban compared to the rest of the country, and tends to act, well, European, actually

1a: Midatlantic - we're confused - we want to be north, but we're also southern...

2: South - The Confederacy, suh. There may be some damn Yankees down here (by definition, a northerner that moved south - and stayed) - but we will rise again. Your pickup is NOT dressed out if it doesn't have a gunrack in the back window with either a hunting rifle or shotgun in it. There are bastions of infection, notably Atlanta and most of Florida, but otherwise, if you've seen the movie Forrest Gump, you're seeing the south. (Florida is national retirement home, where most of the old folks want to go. Seriously...)

3: Midwest - Pennsylvania to Missouri. Dairy farms with assorted large cities and factories. Lots of woodlands. I'm in Indiana, right in the middle of this.

4: Great Plains - Kansas out to Colorado, and I'm including the northern plains (Montana and Idaho) in this as well - either farms, grazing lands, or desert. Doesn't really include Texas, but sometimes can include Oklahoma. And yes, riding a horse and being a cowboy - literally, including with a six-gun on your hip - does still exist out there.

5: Southwest - Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, and half of California - again, primarily open lands, with the start of the Rockies

6: West Coast - northern part of California, Oregon, Washington - primarily urban areas with large portions of wilderness

7: Hawaii and Alaska - they're totally on their own

In total area - about 9.8 million square kilometers, or twice the size of the EU - with just a little more than half the population of the EU (303 million compared to 500 million).

My brother and his kids and grandkids live in Mississippi, and yes, they do speak with that southern accent, drive pick-ups, eat crawdads, and holler, "YEEHAW!"

My in-laws live in Oklahoma, right in the middle of the Indian Nations, and yes, there really is a working oil rig on the state capital grounds there.

As far as the Xeno's in Freelancer and Disco are concerned ... well, the wiki says:

The origins of the Xeno movement are found within the populations of miners and laborers of the Colorado and Texas systems, disenfranchised as Libertys economy shifted from one of production towards a system dependant more upon information technology licensing and trade-lane associated monopolies. This shift pushed the laboring classes of Liberty from being the core of her strength, to the peripheries of her society.

Wait - I thought this was in the future - not what's actually going on today in the US...

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Oh god... The end of days... Agmen agreed with me.