I don't think it's just old southerners. I know quite of young people for whom Google basically is the internet. They never enter addresses in the address bar,

I don't think it's just old southerners. I know quite of young people for whom Google basically is the internet. They never enter addresses in the address bar, and always do a Google search for the site they're trying to get to. These aren't dullards, either. They're smart people who are talented in their own fields. They're just not techies and the Googling-for-everything workflow works well for them.