FIB == 

 FIB ("Fucking Illinois Bastard") isn't a racial slur, but rather a regional one. Should it be removed?   

 In Southern Cal. the word became synomynous to mean a newcomer from another state like 'okie', 'yankee', and 'snowbird'. In other US states, Californian move-ins are refered to as "greek lifers" and "prune pickers", and share the same New York Liberal stereotype (not everyone here is gay, Jewish, yuppies or movie stars). FIB is another Midwest term not well known to most American linguists. It's like some Iowans, Kansans and Nebraskans call themselves in a comical way 'Hogs'. The term was supposedly to make fun of Midwesterners as fat or corn-fed, then the word changed to a sign of regional pride. Imagine one says "Hey...Iowa is a first prize/blue ribbon hog", one way to fight back an insult and make it appear like "so what? it's how we are, prune picker". +   

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