Not at all surprising to me. I grew up calling anything carbonated a "coke". And it's indicated in my little county -- in the very tip of Texas, second in from the Gulf along the Mexican border.

Do you call it soda? I think that's a more sophisticated term, which may have something to do with your age and the more upper-level cultural environment you grew up in.

Just read about a very interesting book in the new Business Week that I'm going to send you. Title is "Who's Your City?" by Richard Florida, all kinds of pretty provocative stats about people's personalities, creative bents, etc. and regions of the country where they thrive. Haven't read it yet, of course, but I would guess that you're in exactly the right spot you should be. (Probably the city I should have been in, too. Oh, well.)

Love you -- talk to you later.

On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 11:56 AM, Barrett Brown <barriticus@gmail.com> wrote:

This is kind of interesting.

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