From: russell-watson@att.net   
      
   On 14 Aug 2003 05:53:12 GMT, drsmith666@aol.com (Bass Guitar God)   
   wrote:   
      
   >It's my understanding that the East and the West were two VERY different   
   >worlds, with the east being industrialized with cars and modern conveniences,   
   >while the Old West was stuck like in the last century with horses and   
   outhouses   
   >and such.   
   >   
   >Of course a lot of this comes from movies that I have seen and books I have   
   >read, but what are your thoughts? Growing up, I never really liked westerns   
   >because it seemed like thier way of life was so backward and primative, and I   
   >just assumed that it was a thing of the times, but perhaps it was actually a   
   >thing of geographical location, as the east was more civilized and had more   
   >modern conveniences and even radios and electronics. Heck, in the west even if   
   >you HAD a radio there were no signals to pick up.   
      
   I think that was the case in several regions of the country. Here in   
   th rural south, my folks (father from Georgia and mother from Alabama)   
   both lived at least part of their childhoods in farm households   
   without indoor plumbing or electricity and where everybody rode around   
   on wagons and such, plowed with mules instead of tractors, etc., and   
   this was well into the 1940s.   
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