Side note to Whimpering Dogs
This is PS to my entry on Harlan Ellison's short story. In that entry I discussed how the horror of the story was that of becoming part of a city. I talked about the fear that rural dwellers have that city will eat us alive. I left off one thing that was important to that entry, but I think is something to say anyway.
Southerns have a similar fear about areas that are not Southern (ie Northern). We have Yankee fear if you will. Remember that as a true Southerner, anything north of Tennesee, Virginia (which is questionable itself), Arkansas and Texas (again questionable) is Yankee.
When I travel North or West or anywhere out of the old Confederacy, I have a fear that something is going to happen to me. We are told (we being Southerners) that Yankees are rude and very mean. We get told urban legends about gangs of people who will kill you if they hear you have an accent. And you never ever tell them you're from Alabama. (I suppose other Southern states have similar issues.) We fear the rudeness of the Yankee. It is because we are a vanquished people who were occupied.
I jst though maybe Harlan Ellison could write a story about Southern fear of Yankees.
