re: Your mind will wrap itself in knots if you ponder the term 'African American'

I still think of myself as Anglo-Scottish in some regards, as my genealogical records and DNA testing back it up, but I am so far removed from any sense of those places that it is much more productive to think of myself as a Southerner - a region which I am very much not removed from, and very much in practice with its customs, mannerism, culture, cuisine, etc.,