Ben,
I am hoping his post was tongue in cheek...but you will notice that not
many Southern California folks come to Nationals as compared to those from
Northern California. Of course, my post could raise the old North vs. South
thing again. :)
--Pat Kelly
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>From: bthatch@juno.com
>To: autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Cal as race center of universe
>Date: Fri, Aug 17, 2001, 6:31 PM
>
>Mr. Chapman your prejudice against the southeastern United States drips
>off your post. You obviously haven't spent much time here because you
>have just trotted out every stereotype of the South in one sentence.
>BRILLIANT!!! Yep, that's all we do down here is WATCH stock car racing.
>Of course I have no idea where all these racers come from. I guess they
>all moved here from California!!!
>
>You have just disenfranchised the whole country east of the
>California-Nevada border, of course in your view, that's fine because
>there isn't anything of any value to the east of there anyway.
>
>If the racing universe is as you say, I don't know why California drivers
>bother to compete in Topeka. You guys have all the great drivers so just
>run against each other and declare yourselves the champions of the
>universe!!!
>
>Ben
>>
>>
>
>So, Mr. Johnson, if you're out there, you should really stop considering
>moving the SCCA HQ anywhere eastward, and bring it, the Nats, the
>Runoffs, and
>every other important paricipant event in the SCCA universe to sunny
>California... where it's warm in the winter, you have no need to master
>an
>alternative American dialect, the skeeters won't carry off your cat, and
>the
>gators won't make your beloved rottweiler disappear.
>
>
>
>- --- Ron Chapman
>
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