> I am afraid the fact that you have to point all the way to the outer
> reaches/colonies of the country -- Puerto Rico, Wasilla and Maui --
> pretty much makes Chris' point!
If the geographic edges are also the cultural edges, then is the geographic center of the USA also its cultural center? How appropriate is your geographic metaphor, anyway?
Re: Puerto Rico - I was discussing how the very large Puerto Rican population here in the Amish heartland, who are all USAers, makes *me* identify more with the territory of P.R. than I do with other parts of the USA.
I do agree with Chris that other than the things that are different, things are the same. There is an infinite list of generalizations which can be said prefaced with "other than...". Hopefully we don't need this much discussion to work all of them out.
Matt
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