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I have never really traveled around the country much. I’ve driven down what is basically the Appalachian trail from New York to Georgia and from Buffalo to Cleveland, which I’ll admit is more than a lot of people. But, well… New York culture I obviously understand, having grown up in the state, if not necessarily the city. From those frequent forays into the Old South and my Grandaddy’s strong influence I have a pretty good grasp of that culture as well. But a lot of those places are actually rather similar – rural Upstate New York is to rural Georgia like Bill Pullman is to Bill Paxton…. Essentially the same.

Of course, last time we drove through Georgia towards Thomaston, my mother kept looking around in amazement saying things like, “I can’t believe how built-up this is! This was nothing but farmland when I was a kid! Where did all these malls come from?”

Of course, in Upstate New York, people say, “What happened to all the malls? I can’t believe how run-down this is!”

So perhaps not as similar….

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