Dreher lives in Louisiana. I believe he was born there.
Really? He writes like he hated it and hopes never to go home. Like Sinclair Lewis, who gained status and fame by despising his Midwestern roots and noisily repining, in his novels about Gopher Prairie, for the leafy boulevards of Paris, afternoons spent drinking wine and dissipating, and the idle palaver of 19th-century left-wing intellectual wannabe's about the latest French novel. But perhaps I'm overcharacterizing him a bit.