You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.
I'm in Alabama. First thing I want to say is Roll Tide! I was at the Alabama/Georgia game last year sitting right in the middle of the Alabama section and saw that they rolled all over them!
Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.