Aww, be nice to Asheville. It's one of the only civilized places in the South. It's just overrun with hippies, is all. I'll take hippies over rightwing religious rednecks any day!
Asheville, NC, is in fact a lovely town and a fairly significant hippie/hipster gathering spot on the east coast (not that those two things are necessarily related).
Inanities of Twitter? Why, just last evening Susan Orlean was agonizing over whether or not to tweet what she had for dinner! (She did, it was pasta.) Stephen Fry left his wallet on a plane in Dubai. (Qantas employees retrieved it for him.) And, worst of all, Alec Baldwin has his phone stolen while feeding half of his no-sugar muffin to the pigeons at 105th & Broadway. (No cellphone pics of "Little Alec" have surfaced yet.) Do these sound like inanities?????
Graham, as a former resident of North Carolina, where I was surrounded by people who wore shorts year round, lived wholly on grits, barbecue and extremely sweet iced tea, and spoke with an accent that would befuddle most Oregonians, may I ask you to back up your claim that North Carolina isn't the South?
@sgp: I have to agree with Graham on this one. North Carolina must logically be the North, just as South Dakota is the South. Words mean more than extremely sweet iced tea.