"Many sociologists now maintain that the South is no longer distinctive. Scholarly books ...(recently)... make the point that "the idea that the South is exceptional, a region apart from the rest of the country, is no longer true." Q

I don't know whether the differences have decreased but I'm here to tell you that there is still a *great* difference between the American South and the rest of the country.

Whenever I visit the south - where I spent my teen years eons back - I'm charmed all over again at the *warmth*, the laughter, the vitalness of life itself, in the south.

I live in the north and I like it. But mostly the reason I don't live in the south is that it gets too durn hot.