Southern comfort

Located near the historic/cultural dividing line between North and South, my understanding is that DC was historically more oriented toward the latter than the former. (Although John F. Kennedy perhaps said it most accurately: "Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm"...if that doesn't make sense, think of a place being described as having Italian efficiency and German charm.) In these modern times it can be easy to forget that, but all it took was a look into a butcher's case at Eastern Market--featuring such delicacies as pig ears, twitchers (pig tails), hog maws (stomachs), and chitterlings (intestines, also commonly known as chitlins)--to be reminded that the South isn't as far away as we sometimes think...