tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post4846848776727363276..comments2024-03-26T14:20:38.103-04:00Comments on The Thought Criminal: In Denial Knows No Bounds - Do These Guys Ever Listen To What They're Saying? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-83132661109467977342019-02-01T12:33:01.725-05:002019-02-01T12:33:01.725-05:00I've heard the 2nd congressional district in M...I've heard the 2nd congressional district in Maine referred to as "Confederate Maine." <br /><br />I think most of American regionalism is based more in our mutual ignorance of our common features than it is any enormous difference. That and snobbery as well as envy and resentment. <br /><br />I blame a lot of that on the Electoral College which erases the large percentage of any state which is, obviously, not like most of the rest of it at any given time. If we didn't have that abomination I think a lot of the regionalism would evaporate as we were shocked that there were large numbers of people in this or that state who, against stereotype and sociological characterization, agreed with us. The Thought Criminalhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01381376556757084468noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4764506766343254616.post-23393255051868239162019-02-01T10:58:52.210-05:002019-02-01T10:58:52.210-05:00Having lived a year in Chicago, and two more years...Having lived a year in Chicago, and two more years in southern Illinois, I can say without doubt it is the Midwest. (Although southern Illinois identifies somewhat with the South, through somewhat identifying with Missouri. Regionalism is weird.).<br /><br />I can also say this constant and now apparently accepted usage of "southern border" to refer to the U.S. border with Mexico makes me think, not of the Rio Grande, but of the Mason-Dixon line.<br /><br />Regionalism, as I say, is weird. The Mexican border is not "southern" so long as California, Arizona, and New Mexico, are in the "American West."Rmjhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06811456254443706479noreply@blogger.com