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Old Wed Dec 23, 2015, 02:57pm
Eastshire Eastshire is offline
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Originally Posted by BadNewsRef View Post
You don't live in Virginia. People still call each other Sir and Ma'am on a regular basis if they are not personal acquaintances. And everywhere I travel in the South I make to sure to especially address older blacks by Sir or Ma'am in deference to all those years they were addressed disrespectfully as a matter of cultural norms.
That escalated quickly.