re: Ranking the SEC states in terms of "Southernness"

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What a goddamn joke.

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You realize that Ochs (the guy responsible for the NYT succeeding a century ago) was from E. TN? There's a strong case to made against us but really it matters a whole lot where in Tennessee you are if you're judging 'southerness.' The East is a mixture - southern but definitely a mixture - and the Upper South as a whole is very different from the Deep South.