re: What is SEC culture?

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You called me a Yankee. Pay attention.

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I didn't call anyone a Yankee. Even if I did, this is about SEC culture, not the civil war. The war ended. Most of us have moved on. Try to keep up. Your insecurity about your state straddling the fence in the 1800's is troubling at best.

If people in Rhode Island had a good team and the state were as insanely devoted to college football as states in the SEC are, I'd have no problem letting them in. I know the SE stands for SouthEastern, but it's not about geography. It's about a tenacious devotion to college football. It's about getting up at 4am to go stake out a good tailgate spot. It's about undying devotion to a team even in the worst seasons imaginable. I could give you a thousand examples of what it means to be a part of the SEC, but you still wouldn't get it. I'm hoping at some point you do, but for now you're a foreign kid on his first day of school. We want to like you, but you're not even speaking English, let alone understanding what it is to be one of us.