It’s very possible. While there aren’t many people around here from the south, there are many, many people from small towns and rural areas of Wisconsin, and a certain percentage never shut up about how awful it is here, how expensive everything is, how stupid every who disagrees with them is, and how much better everything is in Wisconsin.
They well could feel a sense of loss and dislocation.
Next time you get this, take out a coin and ask them: What’s the most you ever lost on a coin toss?
I grew up in the South, but I no longer consider myself a southerner. Then again, I really don’t know what I consider myself - I’ve moved around a lot in my adult years. I feel like I have no home.
I probably could not bring myself to live in the South again unless it were some place like Asheville, NC. That’s probably the only place in the South I’d consider living.
Nobody would like living here in the South, probably shouldn’t move here.
Northern Virginia ain’t so bad. Some parts of North Carolina aint’ so bad. And don’t get me twisted, there are a lotta good folk in the South – I like a many of 'em as individuals. Shit, I love 'em as individuals, considering most of my folk are still in LA, TX, Bama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina. I cain’t escape who I am (was) and where I’m from. But the fucking collective culture, the fake piety, the racism…fuck that. I’d point out the misogyny, but honestly, I’ve seen more misogyny in supposedly ‘progressive’ places all over the map than I have the South. Misogyny is everywhere - in some ways, the South, with its patriarchy, is more honest about it.