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On Fri, 5/2/14, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU> wrote:

 Subject: Re: [TML] Rules for fleshing out balkanized worlds?
 To: "xxxxxx@simplelists.com" <xxxxxx@simplelists.com>
 Date: Friday, May 2, 2014, 3:34 PM

 On May
 2, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk>
 wrote:

 >
 > My daughter has chosen to go to university
 down in Cornwall (about 5
 > hours drive
 west of me but not actually that far in miles) and it can
 > feel like a different country there. 
 Heavy accents, strong sense of
 > regional
 identity, their own flag.  Even some of the language can be
 a
 > bit different.

 As the old joke goes: “Americans think a
 hundred years is a long time, Britons think a hundred miles
 is a long way.”

 Then
 again, 5 hours east of me is Texas. Heavy accents, strong
 sense of identity, their own flag, and the language is a bit
 different :-)

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And then there's California, socal, bay area, even some timy little counties up in the mountains...