The YouTube video that I linked to a month ago of the one episode of "It's a Dog's Life?" I linked to it in 2012 as well and promptly forgot it. I could swear I had never seen it before
Re: tribalism and sports teams, it's always struck me that professional sports teams are purely mercenary without even any local connection to the locality from which its tribe originates. At least the University of X is really tied to, and mostly drawn from, State X.
States themselves are this way too. I frequently see people wearing ballcaps with an image of North Carolina on it. Why? There's almost nothing coherent about it as an entity; the coastal part is nothing like the central part, where the big cities and industry and government mostly are; and that's nothing like the western part, which is mountains and quite rural. The mountainous region, where I live, is much more like north Georgia or east Tennessee than any other part of North Carolina.
Yet these artificial boundaries are very appealing.
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Re: tribalism and sports teams, it's always struck me that professional sports teams are purely mercenary without even any local connection to the locality from which its tribe originates. At least the University of X is really tied to, and mostly drawn from, State X.
States themselves are this way too. I frequently see people wearing ballcaps with an image of North Carolina on it. Why? There's almost nothing coherent about it as an entity; the coastal part is nothing like the central part, where the big cities and industry and government mostly are; and that's nothing like the western part, which is mountains and quite rural. The mountainous region, where I live, is much more like north Georgia or east Tennessee than any other part of North Carolina.
Yet these artificial boundaries are very appealing.
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