<p>@katliamom – LOL! My late mom was the embodiment of Eastern provincialism – more specifically, Greater Boston provincialism. When my husband and I moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana, in the early '80s, my mom was convinced that we were lost in a cultural wasteland. “But do you get Channel 2?” she asked anxiously (referring to the Boston TV channel that’s home to WGBH). I replied that we did have a 2 on our TV dial. (I didn’t mention that it was the channel for the 700 Club, LOL.) “Oh good,” she said, relieved, “you get Channel 2.” (We did have a public-TV channel in Louisiana, of course. It just didn’t happen to be WGBH, and it wasn’t on Channel 2.)</p>