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I could easily take a plausible position that people within the same town have so much difference between them that trying to lump regional characteristics toge

• quesera 3y ago
  Of course. People are people, but Bob is Bob. There's more variation on the street I live on today, than between MA and CA taken as a whole. I'm not sure what I "don't" in your comment above, but clearly my intent is not clear, so I'll restate: (Parts of) MA and CA have a lot of similarities. Some of the places physically between them are very different. You may disagree. If so, you are surely measuring by a different metric than I am, or have not seen the places I've seen. But that's all I intended to say.
  • emodendroket 3y ago
    It doesn't really seem like you've understood what I've said either, then: I'm saying is that there are essentially two American cultures, the urban one and the non-urban one, and these two parallel national cultures have almost entirely subsumed what were formerly much more varied regional ones. Anyway, you're being glib about how much I must not know about the various other states since CA and MA are "so similar" as if Los Angeles is just like Bakersfield or a California farm town, so it's no less facile.