"Why The South Is More Violent Than The Rest Of America"

[LiberalLoner]

130. There do seem to be distinct regional variations in culture. I don't know

Anything about where the most violence is, or poverty, or anything else. But I've lived all over the US and sometimes I've felt so out of place, struggling to understand the rules of a different culture, a different way of doing things.

When I'm around natives of Montana or anyone from Colorado through Alaska, I feel at ease. I can be myself without fear of being laughed at or looked down on or despised. I can just relax, we speak the same language, somehow.

I often wonder if we will split into region states, instead of remaining as one gigantic country. To me it almost seems as if we are different nation states, and California is as different from Mississippi as Belgium is from Switzerland.

I wonder, when you travel to or live in a region far away from the one in which you grew up, do you find yourself feeling a stranger in a strange land?