the south is an area that has taken a while to conform to the rest of the country on societal change. My idea is that for the culture to change, one has to drown it out. What do you think would happen if a lot of jewish and/or secular liberals from NY, CT etc started moving to areas like the northern Atlanta suburbs or the DFW exurbs? I almost think about starting a website on this. It could be called "Blue State Project".
People from the coasts are not exactly gems either. I enjoy going to the South for it's simplicity. When someone in the South asks me what I want for dinner I can say steak or barbecue or fajitas and they will take me to a good straight forward place. Someone asks you that in New York they will try and talk you into tofu or raw fish or vegan or whatever their favorite performance artist friend is into at the moment. We really don't need the South polluted with that type of pretentiousness.
Caring about what is in your food isn't pretentious.
Now, copying articles and underlining certain parts, on the other hand...
