This is why I don’t particularly understand team loyalties; it’s one thing when you’re supporting a small local team, you know everyone on the team, and you want them to win because you like them and care about their feelings, but it’s something else entirely when a corporation owns a team full of people who aren’t from the area (sometimes aren’t even from the same country), and who moves them from area to area at will.

However, in describing myself I would say that I am a Southerner first and an American second. That’s only because I have been shaped by the particularities and culture of the area so much that I have nothing in common with, say, west coast Americans while having a great deal in common with Southerners. It’s not said with any particular pride. Though there’s nothing like my grandmother’s biscuits and gravy anywhere else in the world.