Having been born in Southern California does not, in and of itself, make me a southerner, but it may have inclined me to embracing some of the wit and wisdom that emanates from my adopted region. Sayings like “what goes around, comes around”, which holds true even in in reverse, and contractions like “y’all”, efficiently clarifying the singular or plural nature of the second person pronoun, I assimilated long ago. Another very serviceable southern-ism that won me over is the axiom that when someone asserts “it’s not about the money, it’s the principle”, you can expect the issue indeed to be about the money.

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