...I am not from the South, although both of my parents were. But you didn't offend me in the least! I spent most of last Winter in Houston on a project for work and I would live happily if I never went to Texas again. Or at the very least, if I never had a bowel of tortilla soup. They don't even have decent Mexican food down there...it's all that Tex-Mex garbage! And the humidity is so bad that you can hardly breath. Ft. Worth and San Antonio aren't so bad, and I hear Austin is pretty cool...but I won't be moving to the Lone Star state.
I may go south...but it would be south of the border...or the south of France...or south of the coast in the Carribean. And no where near an Air Force base. Lordy, I rather live near a particular detention center on a special island that was home to Hemingway, makes the best rum in the world, has some of the most beautiful music, and where education and healthcare are free!