In general the people I trust come from the middle of the US. The trust happens before I know where they’re from. Obama was a good example. I felt “at home” with him from the start, then much later found out that his mother and I lived in Ponca at the same time in 1951.
The zone runs from Ohio to Oklahoma, and includes the places where I grew up plus the places where parents and grandparents grew up. Epigenes?
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