Garden & Gun

BY ROY BLOUNT JR. Life Coach

Idon’t like to make rules. If you do, a guy goes out and steals an airplane. He says, ‘It wasn’t in the rules.’”

“In Oklahoma, you got to obey the white man’s law: Never steal anything smaller than a state.”

“I don’t jog. If I die, I want to be sick.”

The man who uttered all those words was from Oklahoma. Are Oklahomans Southern?

Take Reba McEntire. As far as I am concerned, she is enough to be Southern. But her roots are in the rodeo. Her state wasn’t even a state until long after the War between the States.

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