I didn't know whether Dr. Pepper was still considered a
southern beverage
since it has had such national exposure in advertising during
the past
several years.
I grew up in a small town in south-central Kentucky (just
north of the
Tennessee state line) that has slowly been losing some of its
distinctive
southern traits during the past 40 years I've been around. I
wonder if this
is true of most southern states, and whether this makes it
trickier to
include those southern touches in contemporary novels without
making them
seem mere caricature. -- Duane
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