Born and raised in the Spanish Caribbean well before it was that, when it was still part of the Deep South. Southern is my native language and heritage, y'all.
Lived in Yankeedom briefly, couldn't get away fast enough.
For the last 25 years have made my home in the Far West (the best place I've ever lived by a long, long, long shot) although for the last few years in a city with creeping inroads from the Left Coast, something which unfortunately plagues most larger cities in this area.
