[Centropolis]

If we all go back and read everything, I don't see what is controversial about what The Urban Politician said in post 1185.

I remember being a kid and visiting relatives in the mid south, coming from my very mainstream suburban culdesac, and being very aware of the sort of individualistic flair and character that everyone had down south, and the sort of laid back way people lived - gravel driveways and tireswings - and i liked it. It was very different from the sort of cold, mechanical quality of the way everything moved around me in the outer ring suburban midwest where people mowed their yards diagonally - all TUP said is that this same process of people living in massive outer ring expressway dominated suburban worlds has now taken root in the south at a sort of cultural critical mass and domination the same way it did on the fringes of midwestern cities a generation ago. This seems to be less a commentary on the south than it is a commentary on the sickness of mainstream american culture - i guess if that's offensive to anyone or you are in denial about the deep, deep problems inherent to explosive hyper auto dominated growth - i can't help you, but his argument at it's heart doesn't seem to me to be anything about bashing the south.