﻿<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>kryan1974's Xanga</title><link>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/</link><description>Latest Xanga weblog from kryan1974</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>60</ttl><image><title>The Weblog Community</title><url>http://s.xanga.com/images/xangalogobutton.gif</url><link>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/</link></image><item><title>Hello</title><link>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548825/hello/</link><guid>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548825/hello/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:19:06 GMT</pubDate><description>Hello&lt;br&gt;My name is Kent. I grew up in Southern Oklahoma. After college, I moved to Phoenix, AZ to work for &lt;a href="http://www.nextstudent.com" target="_new"&gt;NextStudent&lt;/a&gt;. We are a student loan consolidation company that focuses on getting money for students to go to school.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The reason I started this blog is to discuss some of the pitfalls that Southerners encounter when they leave the Bible Belt. I have many experiences of my own that I will gladly share on here. I want to hear about bad food, rude people, lack of culture and intolerance to our ingrained values (that most southerners share). I have seen almost everything you can imagine. I have heard all the stereotypes, all the hillbilly jokes and constant cracks about my accent. I would like to hear similar experiences and the pride that other southerners share.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Let's try to keep it clean.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Oh, and by the way. In case y'all are unclear about what states constitute the south: The U.S &lt;a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/1/gen/95statab/preface.pdf" target="_new"&gt;Census&lt;/a&gt; Bureau defines the south as Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, Georgia and Kentucky.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I don't want to hear about who belongs and who doesn't. I can assure you that Oklahoma and most of Texas are not anything like New Mexico or Arizona. Oklahoma is nothing like Wisconsin either.</description><comments>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548825/hello/#firstcomment</comments></item><item><title>Hello</title><link>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548567/hello/</link><guid>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548567/hello/</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 21:16:42 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;a href="http://www.xanga.com" target="_new"&gt;Xanga &lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><comments>http://kryan1974.xanga.com/560548567/hello/#firstcomment</comments></item></channel></rss>