[Gallagher]

I consider myself to be a Southern American... Specifically, I'm a mix of several brands of white, German included, and a bit of Native American. We're fairly sure there's some Cherokee and Powhatan (specifically), but I'm not actually sure. The whole lot of us are very Southern, though. I'm the only one in my entire family that's blonde. Honestly, a lot of my family is right on the borderline of being country hicks. Where I live specifically, there's a fair bit of Northern mixing though, and it shows up with a few of us... Mostly the ones that don't quite mix well with traditional ideals. I get singled out sometimes because I don't share the same religion as the rest of my family. My mother is the same way, but more intimidating to them because she does do rituals and such, whereas I am still in the wide wide world of Christianity. I've got a gay cousin that gets... mixed reactions. His mother can be seriously dangerous, so it's mostly limited to certain looks and tones when talking about him, but... The lack of approval is there from quite a few members. I know that my adoptive parents find anything homosexual to be outright wrong, and my adop. mother isn't a fan of mixed marriages, either. I don't really want to think about how they'd react if I told them what's in my head doesn't match what's in my pants.

In any case, our food leans towards the very soulful. It'd be a lie if I said I didn't look forward to breakfast with some good grits, or special dinner with a big batch of collard greens. And the more relaxed or worked up I get, the more my drawl comes out. "Y'all", "ain't", and double negatives are a common part of my vocabulary. My little sister lives on a farm with her dad, she used to live in a trailer park, quite a few of us have old pick-up trucks, and I personally have two guns I keep in my room. Yes, one is a shotgun. Yes, we can all also bake and cook. Yes, most of us get married/have kids young. I enjoy country music (a lot of my family does not) and I love how the banjo sounds.

Us Americans, it can be hard to define our own culture in a lot of places, but y'all best believe me when I tell ya that I ain't got no problems with knowing who I am or where I come from.