Originally Posted By: Dignan
I live in northern Virginia, and the people 20 miles south of here consider themselves a different state. I guess it's how you define "culture".

Consider: New Orleans and Brooklyn are probably about as far apart culturally as exists in America, and they still share the same language, albeit significantly different accents, same pop culture, etc. The same distance in Europe takes you from Barcelona to Copenhagen, or London to Belgrade, or, uh, Milan to Minsk.

And San Diego to Boston is about the same distance as Lisbon to the northern tip of Norway, or London to Baghdad.
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