[lbo-talk] The North's burden of enlightening the South (wasRe: The "NAFTA Superhighway" Urban Myth)

[Dennis Perrin]

> Yep, Joplin was Texas-born for sure.  And as I recall, she hated the
> place.  She once said, "I got treated very badly in Texas. They don't
> treat beatniks too good in Texas. Port Arthur people thought I was a
> beatnik, though they'd never seen one and neither had I."
>
> Carl

Terry Southern was also Texas-born. Talent and insight can come from 
anywhere. Regionalism rarely drowns the muse, assuming the muse can swim --  
or at least tread sewage.

Hoosier Boy