On Monday, February 25, 2002, at 09:38 AM, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> It would be as calling any USA citizens were called "Californians":
> although
> there is nothing particularly good or bad in being a Californian, it is
> not
> generally deemed appropriate to call Texans "Californians". (Or, anyway,
> I'm
> told that it's not advisable to should "You're all Californians" while
> entering a truck driver's diner in the middle of Texas).
>
OTOH, when we lived up near San Francisco and would drive down to LA to
visit my wife's siblings, she would often tell people that we were going
to drive to "California" for a vacation. :-)
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