Reply #63: It's love/hate for me [View All]

[Zomby Woof]

One half my lineage is southern, and in similar fashion, I divide my emotions equally.

The physical beauty is there to be sure, and the cooking... and the literature. Perhaps, best of all, the music. There are friendly people, but some are just phonily sweet. Much too syrupy.

And per capita, I have never been around a density of more narrow-minded, WILLFULLY ignorant people, and I am not fond of there being a church every where you turn around. I have lived over 15 years of my life (almost half) in both Tennessee and Virginia, and have lots of family in North Carolina right now. So I know of what I speak.

I think I love the south more when I admire it from a romanticized distance, and hate it - or feel like an alien there - when I am in it. I have lived in the western US a lot longer, and it's a better fit than the east coast or south.

It does edge out the dreary and dull midwest, just for the landscape alone. And don't get me started on the overcrowded, filthy northeast.