[Ebrey]

For many people on the West and East Coast of the US, The Homeland is the Midwest or South. It's the setting of your high school stories, and the place you go back to once a year for Christmas, but my God, you really don't want to live there again. It might be interesting to write about since it's the opposite of homelands that people want to return to.

[Ebrey]

That might be true with Greeks from Arcadia, but isn't it a minority case? The typical immigrant is working hard so he can bring his wife and kids over to his new country, and never wants to back to the homeland.

And then they start waxing nostalgic for 'the homeland' when their daughter starts dating a black guy.