re: The difficulty in living in Alabama......

I am an eighth grade English teacher in Mobile. There is not a day that passes that I do not hear about the greatness of Alabama, Roll Tide Roll, and what not (If I had a nickel for each time an adolescent told me "LSU stands for Loser State University" and thought he was being original, I would have retired years ago).

I remind my students daily that wearing a crimson A in my room is profanity and sign of poor home-raising (we have a strict uniform policy, which makes getting the crimson out of my room that much easier). I give even less respect to the Auburn fans in my room. I remind that that they are in enemy territory.

Anyway, this year started the same way until about three weeks ago. Amazingly, all I have heard is the quiet tones of "Ya'll are probably going to beat us this year." This is from both students and my rabid colleagues as well (I think this is the psychological warfare setting in from seeing LSU win on TV week after week).

Everything Tigah posted in his link is what we live with daily. But, when given the accountability afforded by dealing with them face-to-face and LSU's current level of dominance, the natives can be quite civil. : )