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Fic question: I'm terrible with accents (American accents. Gimme Irish or English folks and I'm golden, but, ah, I can just barely tell an American accent from a Canadian one. And then only if the person says 'about') Anyway. Does Tara (or one of the family members we saw in Family) have any kind of identifiable accent that places her/them from a certain state?

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doyle_sb4.livejournal.com

Thank you! Think I'm going to go with Oregon - any idea if there's a particular area that would be rustic but a little run-down, maybe near forests?

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viciouswishes.livejournal.com

Depends how strange you want it. :)

Here are some towns that I thought of:

La Pine - Not really a town. As in the people are scared of the government and won't incorporate. Mostly trailer type homes. Average age of populace is around 45 years old. Logging town. People who live there can't afford to live in Bend, my hometown (which used to be a logging town and turned into a tourist destination for skiing and such about 30-40 min drive). Lots of scary people holed up with their shotguns and not at all tolerate toward diversity. And they hate environmentalists. Basically all loggers blame environmentalists for the logging industries collapse. Population 5,800.

Gilcrest - Population under 1,000. Old logging town. Most the people gone. I believe there's one school and a state police station. Most people live in trailers or small homes. About 45 mins up the road from La Pine and about an hour from Crater Lake. Densely forested.

Crooked River Ranch - Population under 1,000. A lot like La Pine. Mostly old ranchers who have a few cattle or horses and don't like all these Californians moving to Oregon. Madras is the nearest town (20 mins away), which is mostly farming. There's a lot of tension between the migrant Mexican workers who work on the farms, the white farmers (who are also poor), and the Native Americans who live a little further up the road.

Klamath Falls - Population 20,000. While bigger than the rest was a logging community and also farming. There was a big drought a few years ago and major environmentalist vs farmers on water usage - basically save the fish or the crops. K Falls and the area around it is a hot bed for KKK and Aryan Nation activity (and you thought it was only in the south). Klamath Falls is near the Oregon/California border, where as the rest are in the middle of Oregon.

Basic attitude: People dislike expanding government, expanding cities, new people (which often includes diversity), lack of privacy, and recall the 'good ole days.' Most basic Christian, everyone else is going to hell attitude.

Geographic stuff: High desert, which means pine and juniper trees. There's snow in the winter, and it's wicked hot in the summer. Lots of sage brush and dirt. It's always sunny even when it snows and it doesn't rain very much. The Cascade Mountains are very close, and from where I live I can see about 9 mountain peaks. Mt. Bachelor is the closet mountain to Bend (20 mins from downtown). Other geographical things: Crater Lake, lots of rivers, streams, and lakes, all volcanic mountains, and Smith Rock. Lots of outdoor sports - rafting, skiing, rock climbing. If you've ever seen the movie, Swordfish, John Travolta shoots the senator near Smith Rock. Wildlife: birds (including hawks and once in a while an eagle), lots of deer (people tend to feed them and they'll come right up to your front pouch and eat your flowers), cougars, bob cats, quail, jack rabbits, raccoons, chipmunks, and squirrels.

Here's some landscape pics that Chris took: http://www.trejbal.net/pix