>>why is it that so many people in New York are Freudians and so few in Los >>Angeles? is it a simply an unexplainable matter of culture? > >All those German Jews who came to the Upper West Side in the 1930s and >1940s brought it with them. > >Besides, people in LA are shallow and unreflective (except for their >sunglasses), right? yeah, we all look like Tom Cruise or Nicole Kidman (as the case may be). We're all in Scientology, too. (We should remember that there are all sorts of working-class and minority populations in LA. Beverly Hills is not a good representative of LA. Read Mike Davis.) Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://clawww.lmu.edu/Faculty/JDevine/jdevine.html