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     Kommentar till en text av GLEN JAMIESON
Ärende: STATELY HOODS 71120
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Howdy Glen!
->  
->  ->  ML> Anyhow. Geography lesson time. 
->ML> Southern USA refers to, roughly,
->  ->  ML> the area between Texas (inclusive 
->ML>or exclusive) and Florida.
->  ->  ML> Arizona, though south, is in 
->ML> the Southwest (which goes from
->  ->  ML> Nevada to Texas inclusive). 
->ML> Interestingly, California, the
->  ->  ML> southwesternmost (though not 
->ML> southernmost nor westernmost) of
->  ->  ML> the lower 48, is usually 
->ML> not included in the Southwest. Florida,
->  ->  ML> Georgia, and South Carolina 
->ML> are generally considered "the
->  ->  ML> Southeast," though this region 
->ML> is most often treated as a subset
->  ->  ML> of the South.
->  -> 
->  -> Interesting. Is that an official 
->group classification of those states?
->  -> How, then, is California classified?  It is, after all, the
->  -> Southwesternmost.  Or do the residents 
->consider themselves as superior,
->  -> and not quite united with the other States?
-> 
->  HN> I think you'll find that each 
->  HN> state seems to consider itself as
->  HN> slightly (or more than slightly) superior
->  HN> to all the others. (grin)With the possible 
->  HN> exception of New Jersey. Each "region" 
-> 
-> Poor New Jersey!  Lowest in the pecking order?  
-> Runt of the pack?  Why
-> is that state so ill-starred?
-> 
New Jersey and perhaps Mississippi are oft named 
as places you'd never want to really live in. New
Jersey is (or at least used to be) full of chemical
plants, refineries and industrial pollution, and 
while rich in "corpor-rats" has a working poor 
population and the cities are rife with unemployment
and crime. Or at least thats the observation
of most who DON'T live there. The New Jersey 
Pine barrens are lovely and some of the small towns 
are really quite pleasant! Mississippi is one of the
poorest of the southern states and it's image 
suffers as a result of that as well.

->  HN> (Northeast, south, Midwest, southwest, 
->  HN> northwest etc) also considers itself to 
->  HN> be slightly superior to other regions
->  HN> as well! I think people just like to be 
->  HN> smug about themselves and where they live.
-> 
-> Interesting that most of the people in this Echo have migrated between
-> other states and/or countries at different times in their lives.  Are
-> they more peripatetic than most other Americans?
-> 
->
And a bit more adventurous perhaps as well! 
chat with you soon
ha
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