

Places: Embracing Regional Cultures
A recent local headline read: People vote self interests. Whatever happened to: People vote the nation’s interests. Was “America’s best interests” a 20th century paradigm? If we ever hope to close the political and cultural chasm separating America today, we must learn to appreciate and understand the problems other Americans face each day, celebrate rather than ignore the nation’s regional differences, and be willing to be part of a solution - rather than part of the probl