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Jul 11, 2022Liked by Whitney McKnight

As a California surfer who moved from Australia to a New England liberal arts college and then an Ivy League grad school, I know exactly how you feel. In the end, I owned it and reveled in it. Now I live in the South and when someone here calls me a Yankee, I tell them, "Look at map, Southern California is further south than North Carolina." Freud's narcissism of small differences is alive and well.

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Hi! Fellow Substacker here.

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Jun 25, 2022Liked by Whitney McKnight

Whitney,

Just before reading your lament, I listened to a (good) diatribe by Matt Taibbi about the stoking of culture wars that distract attention from the wringer that the financial insiders are getting ready to put us all through, while they profit. I’ll send you a link.

Sam

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