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I have my car packed so full

Do hope all goes well for you and yours during this season of change.

Yes, you are fortunate to be transferring to the south, not the other way around.

Whenever my southern born/bred daughter, now living in the greater LA area, comes home, she will comment how, in comparison, happy and kind most southerners are. Her extended California family through marriage is based in Malibu, an area surprisingly more conservative and friendly than most of LA, but we do love our myths.

I spent my early childhood in the north and midwest. I was nine before I ever met a black person. How many Southerners can say that? Or would even want to?

I too travel extensively and have found most fervent equal rights advocates are those not living in racially diverse areas, but filled to the brim with their particular brand. The ones still bitching about it while living in our very segregated nation, are usually those out to feather their nest somehow. You've seen them around. . . the usual tacky poverty pimps.

Have a great trip and relocation adventure!