I just wanted say one more thing.
I personally think Okeetee has gone beyond local and should be used as a look and not a local.
I think if someone wants to define a snake as an Okeetee hunt club local snake they should label it as a Hunt Club corn or Jasper County corn.
Language evolves.
What ment one thing five years ago can easily mean something else today.
Sometimes you have to go with the changes.
One of the main reasons I say Okeetee should not be used as a local name is simple.
You can ask ten different people what the true borders of the "okeetee" region are and you will get ten different answers.
Some say only the hunt club.
Some say up to a few miles around the hunt club.
Some say Jasper county.
There has to be an agreed upon border, there is not.
Then there is the simple argument that snakes can cross in and out of the hunt club at will.
A snake born 4 miles from the hunt club, to parents who have never been in the hunt club borders, can cross into the hunt club borders and be found the next day has now become an Okeetee.
Guess what? it isn't.
A snake born in the hunt club, to parents who were born in the hunt club, crosses the border outside the hunt club and is found the next day. It has now become a non-okeetee. Guess what? It's an okeetee as true as okeetee can be but because it was on the other side of the border it can not be called an okeetee. strange to say the least.
That is why I want okeetee to be separated as a look like Candy Cane, sunglow or even Miami.
There might be a little argument there but miami is a look not a locality.
Like I said if you want it to be locale specific call it hunt club or Jasper county or hunt club road or whatever.
That's all I have to say about that



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