So I never particularly felt like a Pennsylvanian (Philladelphia/Pittsburgh/“Alabama in between” were always different identities, and that’s just white Pennsylvania before accounting for Great Migration ah, motownphilly, or the reactive white flight suburbs which are really their own thing.)
And I was just passing through Ithaca, and NYS-not-NYC identity was weird and thin
And LA well, California identity is still tied up in what it was at midcentury and isn’t anymore
I absolutely consider myself an Oregonian now, though, a Cascadian too.
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