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If you are reading this, it means you too managed to be born. How and where we come into this world affects our experience of the world, and I hasten to add that none of us asked for the adventure. However, once here on earth, the adventure is often delightful and occasionally destructive. I arrived in New York, which was the right place for me, even if it is in Yankee territory. Technically, therefore, I am a Yankee. I've been called worse. I have, since moving to Tennessee from New York, been teased and have heard all the "You know you're a Yankee …" jokes. You know the ones I mean: "You know she is a Yankee because she doesn't have any problems pronouncing "Worcestershire sauce" correctly," "You know she is a Yankee because for breakfast, she would prefer potatoes au gratin to grits," or one of my all time favorites, "You know she is a Yankee because she doesn't know what a moon pie is."
Seriously though, the phenomenon of the cultural divide has assumed particular......

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