[wtbob]

> I have only lived at the West coast which largely seems at odds which some other parts of the country. Parts of the South come to mind immediately. The circumstances people live I seem so very different and thus are their needs and concerns. I rarely meet people who have social bonds to the South who fondly talk about them. I fact that might have never happened.

I think that might be an artifact of living on the West coast: the Southerners you meet are likely to be those who hated the South, hated their neighbours, hated their families — and moved as far away as they could. Believe it or not, a lot of folks love the South: good, decent, kind people who take an interest in one another (of course, if one is neither good nor decent nor kind, that wouldn't be appreciated, and if one is private then one might find them nosy).

Everyone's different.