[randywebb]

We might as well keep this thread going...

"Parts of Southern California ARE different, aren't they?"
- Sure. But I think the same thing could have happened in Miami -- or maybe even Dallas. I grew up in the South and all the behavior is geared towards impressing other people. Here in Oregon, nobody wants to live on a big street and the houses look pretty crummy on the outside - the insides are always very comfy and well fixed up tho. In Louisiana, every family aspired to live on a boulevard (so all the people going past in cars could see the house) - so they could show off.
- That was after the basic transition to living in a brick house was made -- that meant you'd made it up into the middle class -- a brick house instead of wood, or even tar paper.

So I think it's a regional thing -- and a cultural one. Malibu (the one we stereotype, David) is just the acme for one broader expression.


Yes, there were Indians in all those places. Every spot on this continent has layers of history over and over on top of it. Mamy many different Indian groups, then the Spanish, Russians, French, or British or all of them. The best recent line is from the trailer for the film 'Bobby' - a Hispanic guy says we didn't move over the border, the border moved over us.