I Love Tennessee

When can you get to officially say you are from somewhere? I mean I have only lived in Tennessee for 6 years. Can I now say I am a Tennessean, because I sure want to. Who wouldn't want to be from Tennessee, the volunteer state?
We see catastrophe on the news all the time and people volunteering and helping others. We saw it when we lived in Florida after hurricane Andrew, then in New Orleans after Katrina, the help sent to Haiti, you know we could go on and on. But I have to say I have never in my life witnessed people jumping into action as I have after our floods here in Nashville, it has just been remarkable, a beautiful thing to watch people touching the lives of others. My daughters Alexandra 24 and Cailey 16, have really become the princesses of volunteering even before the flood, they were helping paint homes at Weary Housing, started a branch of Love Bags for the homeless, volunteered at the Music City Marathon in the medical tent wrapping wounds (now that is really something Cailey hates the site of blood) and caring for the dehydrated, just days after the flood they were in a warehouse helping organize donations. So the question is, is this something that they were born with, or something they found here in Tennessee, the Volunteer State??? Whatever it is, and wherever it came from, I have never been prouder of my daughters, and hope that we are truly entitled to say I am a Tennessean!!! I love Tennessee!!!