It seemed like a Calvinist “it’s always better to suffer” mindset. Of course I’m generalizing, but it was quite a cultural shock going from NY to TX as a 9-year-old (and I say this as someone who was raised Protestant by people who were from Tennessee, pre-Civil Rights Act). On top of that, we were in LA before NY. I went to UT Austin and quickly decided that Arlington was a place best seen from a rear-view mirror.
