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...of the myths and stereotypes that he confronts, not only when he returns to Minnesota to visit his relatives, but also when he travels to the southern part of the state. First of all, when he travels to Minnesota, relatives, in an effort to make small talk, inevitably ask how close David, who is from Yuba City which is near Sacramento, lives to Los Angeles and patiently explains that he is quite a long distance from L.A. Having established that California is a very long state, his relatives immediately jump to the conclusion that he must, then, live close to San Francisco. David remarks that this is typical of the out-of-state mindset about California, which conceives of Northern California (or NorCal, as David refers to it0. as being synonymous with the Bay Area and how this is “simply not true” (Rigsby).
Yet Rigsby sees the symmetry in how L.A. tends to dominate the public mindset when it comes to Southern California, while San Francisco overshadows the North. Nevertheless, he...