>I wonder how this story might have been different if it had happened in other parts of the country?

Well, let's put it through the dialectizer's "Redneck" accent (OK, not that original, but It's still hillarious- "'Excuse me,' Indignant B said indignantly, approachin' her at th' register, 'but yo' jest lop in front of all these varmints.'"- you get the idea):