Since you are a Moderator, I will be as respectful as I can, and will be happy to be so.
To be honest with you, you are correct. I have lived in the Midwest, North, Southeast, but never heard this expression until I lived in California, when in my twenties.
However, it is not good to label or smear other Midwesterners unfairly or in a negative light based any connotations with my last name. This is a kind of guilt by association.
Your last remark does not merit my response as it is churlish.
I think it is important at this point, to note that my name, which I am proud of as it is the right of anyone to reasonably be if such is held in good reputation, is derived from the German surname, Spicker. There are several notable Jewish people with this surname. Perhaps, you should be aware of them. They are:
Max Spicker, who is listed in the Jewish Encyclopedia, a Jewish German musician around the turn of the 20th century who was famous as an orchestra conductor and opera conductor. He became such when he relocated to New York City and in 1891, he was the musical director of Temple Emanu-El in New York.
Irene Spicker, author, concentration camp survivor, who wrote a book on her experiences under Nazi occupation and imprisonment, They'll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist's Coming of Age in the Third Reich. Her story is inspirational.
Professor Paul Spicker, of Robert Gordon University, also presently Vice-Chairman of the Scottish Council of Jewish Communities.
I doubt that I am Jewish however, but you never know because of assimilation and forced conversions to the church. I became a member of this site because of my interest and admiration for Rabbi Meier Kahane.
My great-grandfather Julius Spicker, came over to the United States or rather the British Colonies about 1748. Julius was from the German Palatinate, which he fled from because of religious persecution, economic hardship, and the threat of constant war and terror from the French Government at that time. He married and produced George, who is my great-grandfather, fourth. They both fought for General George Washington in the American Revolutionary War with the Eighth Virginia Regiment. Julius died early in the conflict attributed to disease while in army service. George fought meritoriously in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown.
George is called a hero on a Simon Kenton website.
Their name was Anglicized to Spickard.
I maintain two websites and have published recently a book. I live presently in Latin America and have contact daily with more Hispanics than you have in a month, or a year, probably. I am a permanent resident of this Latin American country and am in the process soon of becoming a citizen here. I have a Latin American wife. Our children are both registered in the country in which I live as citizens of that country, along with the added citizenship, of the United States.
This is who I am, yet I am slandered on this website by overzealous and ignorant folks that do not know me to make such assessments and judgments as they have. This is bias and bigotry. The same people that you think you are protecting... I am.
If you knew me, you will be apologizing. I apologize for offending anyone with a superficial knowledge of me or my last name, but it is my name and I am not responsible for other peoples who have used an odd variation of it to malign and mistreat others.
Sincerely, Joseph S.
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