Jeff Culbreath's neck of the woods

"Land spreadin' out so far & wide,
Keep Manhattan just give me that countryside"

This smacks of Ireland, what with the farmland surrounded by patchwork foothills. Ohio has a nice variety of natural beauty too. The west central part of the state has farmland and the south east is a "little West Virginia" of Appalachian hills covered in forest. My grandmother was born in western Ohio and still refers to it as "God's country". I don't know, it's hard not to see the North Carolina mountains ("from whence cometh my strength") given that appellation. And in Texas they think God not only blessed it but has a ranch there!