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Re:Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding by olefoo on Sunday September 20, 2009 @04:31AM (#832902)
The short version:

People who grow up on farms or in farming communities are widely supposed to be honest, plain spoken, unassuming and religious.

People who grow up in the big cities of the east coast are expected to be cunning, devious, greedy, atheistic and untrustworthy.

People who grow up in the affluent suburbia of the west coast are generally thought of as creative, decadent, and prone to inappropriate cultural exploration, believing in strange gods, making love to trees, etc.

In reality these regional stereotypes are as misleading as any national caricature.

Re:Billionaire SAS co-founder keeps on coding by njharman on Sunday September 20, 2009 @10:48AM (#833096)
I thought it had a lot more to do with the puritan/protestant work ethic than farming.