[graciegirl]

I hope this helps. I can't imagine any problems at all with your husbands ancestors. I have yet to see anyone even pause at such a small issue here.

The interesting problem here to me is ....HOW you are raised. I always assumed that all people had pretty much the same values and attitudes, figuring in religious and political views, but I was really wrong.

Here it does really make a difference in small ways how you drive a car, whether you say "excuse me" when you bump into someone, or honk at them at a stop light and even flip them the bird. What you might hear if you stand in front of someone at the square....or sit in their seat.

It takes a little getting used to.

What is different and wonderful is that by the time people have reached the age that draws them here that most of them have worked hard, had a few bouts of extreme sadness and serious illness, have met a few major disappointments and have a lot of wonderful happy experiences. It makes them into compassionate and caring people for the most part....So you can forgive them if they just stand in the middle of the aisle at Publix. And stand and stand and stand.

Do any of you find background and regional origins make a small difference?

Not to start a war between the states.....