Drafting away from it all.(ESSAY)(National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing)

Southern Cultures, March, 2006 by Marcoplos, Lucas

I loved sweet tea, fried chicken, and pulled pork sandwiches. I drove an American-made car and enjoyed old country music. I had a fishing license and drank domestic beer, preferably cheap, on a regular basis. I lived in Nashville, and to the outsider I was living a life in accordance with my geography.

Since the antenna broke on my car's radio, I had been limited to listening to only one station. It was dedicated to sports talk, and inevitably the subject of NASCAR would come up. I would normally have just changed the station, but silence was my only other option, so I listened. It was alienating. I had no idea what a "restrictor plate" was. I thought Daytona was for spring break. I had seen folks clad in NASCAR clothes and stickers of Calvins pissing on Fords...

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