Circling around a theory

[mrissa]

I had a brief but interesting conversation on e-mail this afternoon, and I'm circling around a theory, so I'd appreciate it if you could humor me here:

[Poll #519570]

Elaborate in the comments if you'd like, by all means.

Comments

[pameladean]

I was twelve in 1965, but frankly I haven't got a clue about any of this. I've spent most of my life strenuously avoiding having to know about or to meet expectations of that kind. My very vague impression is that geography has more to do with variations of that kind than chronology, but that's probably not accurate.

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[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I suspect geography has a great deal to do with it, but probably chronology also: no one would mistake Minneapolis for Atlanta in terms of social mores, but no one would mistake Atlanta 1965 for Atlanta 2005, or Minneapolis 1965 for Minneapolis 2005, either.