Quote Originally Posted by davidlpope View Post
The problem is that the US is a large country with strong regional identities. As such, I don't think that any one regional identity would be adopted by the other regions in the same way that Traditional Highland Civilian Dress (THCD) has been adopted by the rest of Scotland as national attire.
This is spot on. My wife is a pretty traditional southerner, and ribbed me pretty hard once (lovingly of course) for drooling over bolo ties! ("If you were from Arizona, I'd understand. But you're not.")

Trying to understand the United States as a single culture is an exercise in futility, for the most part. We can't even agree on Ford and Chevy!
(And I drive a Toyota...)