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I was puzzled, until I saw it was from Reuters.

Southern U.S. cities top poll as worst for allergies

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - For allergy sufferers, the arrival of spring is always unpleasant, but if you live in Tulsa, Oklahoma, this could be a particularly miserable season.

Tulsa was listed as the most challenging place to live with spring allergies in the United States, according to a new ranking by the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America (AAFA).

The study looked at data from 320 metro areas across the country. The south ruled the top spots with Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas, Fort Myers in Florida, San Antonio in Texas, and Tucson in Arizona rounding up the top five. [...]

Now I realize that Tulsa, Dallas, San Antonio, and Tucson are all south of the North Pole, but I don't think anyone who lives in any of those places think of them as being part of the South. Or south. I mean, if they WANT to be part of the South, that's fine--they share a lot more with us than they do with folks in Yankeeland--but I think they much prefer to think of themselves as Westerners.

Of course, I suppose such subtle nuances don't matter so much to Reuters, considering that all those places are in that amorphous little region between New York and California that's full of filthy gun-toting conservative God-bothers who've ruined Mother Earth with their beef-eating and SUV driving. So, you know, the allergy thing they had coming to them.

Posted by Terry Oglesby at April 5, 2007 01:23 PM