The North South divide

Nope this is not another post about the North South divide in India……its about the attitudinal difference between the North and the South of the USA. I drove down to New Orleans, LA for a conference recently and was amazed by how green the south was. I was even more amazed when I saw a bridge traveling parallel over a river. It was then that a colleague, who had done her undergraduate education in Alabama, told me that the South is a lot more nature friendly than the north. Whereas in the North, they cut off trees to build roads and develop the infrastructure, in the South they try to avoid it. Interesting, I thought!