True, but then again, most people make a distinction between parts of north east Africa and sub-saharan Africa… It’s true that there is very specific flora and fauna, especially in subsaharan, but these categorizations are still often political distinctions that change over time based on our political and social perceptions and less so on geographical and biological distinctiveness. I mean, those things are often invoked to justify the differences, but I doubt that Romans separated North Africa from the European side of the empire. Everyone would have understood the Mediterranean basin as a distinctive whole, because that’s where wealth was created and traded, so that’s where they would have been oriented (not north to those barbarians on the frontier).
To be fair (not really), we do have an awful lot of post-Katrina refugees still living in and around the ATL these days. I see quite a lot of LSU and Saints tags around the city. Somehow, though, I doubt that’s what he meant!
