Reading this thread reminded me of something I read from
Country Living, by Lewis Hill of Greensboro, VT: (Rodale Press, 1987)
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There's a story of a family that moved from a small town in New Hampshire, on one side of the Connecticut River, to a town on the Vermont side, just six miles away. Their baby girl was six months old at the time. Although she lived the rest of her 93 years in the Vermont home, the minister said at her funeral, "We loved her, even though she wasn't one of us."
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Is "flatlander" a derogatory term? I don't know, but the thing I took away from Lewis' story above is that we might want to check our attitudes somewhat, just the same.
By the way, I'm from Mass., and I thought the official spelling was
Winnipesaukee. (No, I didn't have to look it up.)