Regional Stereotypes
 

No matter where you're from, someone from some where else has a misconception about all people from you're area. Just silly little stereotypes that are completely blown out of proportion. Whether it's one part of the city or town or another, or one part of the state or one part of the country, there's always some funny stereotype that people from other places have. Which stereotypes about your area drive you the most crazy and/or do you think are the funniest?

For me, I always find it funny that if I'm in certain places in the U.S., people will find out I'm from Canada and SERIOUSLY say to me 'Hey! 'so and so' is from Canada. Do you know him?'. Some people seem to think all Canadians know eachother!!!

"So you're from California... Do you surf?"

"Oh your from Texas...so do you live on a ranch and ride horses?" Or everyone thinks we have a country accent...:rolleyes:

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A friend of mine lived in Kansas City and his family was going to move to Cincinnati. Everyone in KC said, "There's nothing in Ohio but farms!" When he moved to Cincy, everyone said, "KC? There's nothing there but farms!"

To people here in WA, everything east of Idaho is "back east." Like even South Dakota! They don't believe me when I call Cleveland the Midwest.

I went to high school in southern Oregon. Even here in Washington, people say, "So, you were near Portland, right?" Try five hours by car!

Everyone still thinks grunge is still alive in Washington. Actually, we gave it up about when it stopped being popular, like everyone else.

I used to live in Michigan. "Where on the hand?" I wasn't on the hand, I was in the UP! "The what? You mean there's another part of Michigan?"

There was a commercial for a Canadian beer a while back, but I can't remember which one. Anyway, these Canadian guys are out drinking and they run into some other guys, I think they're British. The Brits look tough and want to beat them up, but then they ask, "You know (someone) in Canada?" So the Canadians look at each other, and you can tell they're just faking it, but they're like, "Oh, yeah! She's cool," and they all end up hanging out and drinking together.

"So you're from Miami, huh? Gonna bust a cap in our asses any time soon?"~kids from Miami are ghetto.

or "I'm not surprised that you're from Miami...you're such a girly girl." ~girls from Miami are prissy and high-maintenance, and kids in general are jet-set and think of themselves as ultracool.

I hope people don't actually think that we all whiz around in our Beemers and then plan drive-by shootings.

You're from British Columbia so you must be a pot smoking, tree hugging, granola eating hippie out protesting the latest global/environmental problem or have many times have you hit Starbucks today... :rolleyes: :p

or you're from Canada eh?, do you know so and so from Moose Jaw... I so cannot wait to use the "Office Glen" line.

Heh, my friends at UM use to get annoyed by that :)


I'm from New York so I get.......

"Say Cauw-fee (coffee)" and people start talking to me like they have a Brooklyn or Queens accent and people assume Im stuck up and mommy and daddy pay for everything. FAR FROM IT!! I tell them Im not from the city but upstate NY near Buffalo. Their response....

"Oh, so you're actually from Canada (or Can-naid-ia) eh?!

:rolleyes:

"You live in Orlando?! Oh my gosh...have you ever met N'Sync or Britney Spears?"

in northern california where, where i live, if people find out that i grew up in Linden they always ask "are your parents farmers?" Linden is a small farming town, but not everyone is a farmer...lol

you're from california-- where are your piercings? is everyone gay? do you surf?

Did you know that everyone in Oklahoma lives in trailers and chases tornadoes on horseback and in pickup trucks?

When they interview an Oklahoman for national TV they always pick the biggest hick they can find....

Wonderful image most people have of my state.

I was driving through NW New York once and the gas station attendant said "We know about you all"...

To this day have no clue what the hell she meant.

:confused:

people hear i am from md and usually assume

a) that i add the word HON to everything (which is really a trashy east baltimore thing)

b) that i play lacrosse (which i NEVER have)

geesh!!! where do people get their information???

By the way, I should mention that we DO have our own currency up here, it doesn't snow ALL year, we DO have paved roads (don't laugh, I actually have been asked that before!) and we do not really put 'eh' at the end of EVERY sentence :rolleyes: .

When we moved to Annapolis I had NEVER even heard of lacrosse, or field hockey. Yet it seemed like EVERYONE that was a Maryland native played those sports. To this day I associate those sports with Maryland. :p

I lived in New Orleans for about 10 years.... so when I tell people this the first tihing they ask is "So do you know vodoo?":rolleyes:

People assume the following about Louisianians:
1.) We're all cajun. Sorry, but that's just a small group of people. My ancestors are from France, not Nova Scotia (where the Cajuns were exiled from).

2.) We're all stupid white trash, just because we're southern.

3.) That New Orleans is full of people with cajun accents (try Lafayette for that). The only time I've ever used the word "cher" at the end of my sentence is when I was speaking French.

4.) That we all live on the Bayou or in the swamp.

Movies like The Big Easy and The Waterboy give outsiders such bad pictures of New Orleans and Louisiana in general. Granted, my boyfriend's roomate IS Bobby Bouchet, we're not all like that.

This is SOOO true!

Another popular one is:
Where are you from?
I'm from Michigan.
Oh, you mean Detroit!

the south
 

Was actually in an argument about this earlier today...so here are the facts:

Being Southern does not make a person:

-stupid
-racist
-sexist
-an alcoholic
-tip cows
-naive
-have an accent
-farm
-drive tractors

Not that theres anything wrong with the last three, but theyre generalizations I had to shed light on :D

Ha ha!! Too funny...I always loved having a traveling map.

Hey you CAN make the UP with your other hand. Just hold your left hand (palm down) over your right hand (palm up).

I live in Ohio now so it's hard to tell people where I live.

everybody from michigan drinks beer and goes to hash bash, right?

i'm from Kentucky. fortunately, i do fit some of the stereotypes;
like calling girls hon, sweetheart, and sugar. i do like
riding horses. i love grits. i don't need no proper learnin'
in readin, writin', or 'rithmatic. all that uppity, high-fallutin'
nonsense.

However, i'm an only child. not one of 40, so i couldn't have married my sister. and i do where shoes. not just barefoot or booted.

Every now and again, i run into someone who thought that my fraternity was "the racist one." ain't that a kick in the nuts?

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Well I'm from KY, and I think I needn't even go into the stereotypes about my region.

No one here wears shoes,
all we do is drink bourbon constantly,
everyone has an enormous twang,
everyone lives on a farm,
everyone loves country music,
no one here is remotely educated,
banjo is the instrument of choice,
and so on and so forth

People who meet me generally don't believe I was born and raised in KY as I speak like I've moved around my whole life with no distinctive accent, I've only been to a farm once before I went to college, I have grown to love bluegrass but country music still is crap, and I'd like to consider myself educated

KY isn't the greatest place in the world, but it's not THAT bad

true that, sigma chi card
 

true that, dude. i do have a little accent though.

Ah, Boston
 

I am straightBOS.. I am from Boston, and yes, I have heard of the letter "R", in fact, I can actually pronounce it.

-no, not everyone hates NY or the Yankees.
-yes, we will apologize for NKOTB
-yes, there are Black people in Boston
-no, it does not snow in the summer

I'm another one from Louisiana,
-we don't all sit around drinking bloody mary's
-we don't all live in huge plantation homes
-quite a few of us are educated
-we aren't inbreeders
-New Orleans isn't the only city in Louisiana, even if it is the only one anybody has ever heard of.

ARKANSAS! Enough Said! (I hope!)

LMAO!!!!!:D

This pretty well sums up La.
 

Two Black Eyes

Thibodeaux saw Boudreaux sitting in the perot boat and noticed that Boudreaux had two black eyes. Thibodeaux axed, "Boudreaux, how did you got dem two black eyes?"

Boudreaux, wink and say, "Well you see, Marie was sitting up in front of me in de Church when we all had to stood up and sing Amazing Grace."

"UN -huh", say Thibodeaux.

"And," Boudreaux continued, " I noticed that the material on Marie's Dress had kinda ridden inside her crack."

"UN -huh", say Thibodeaux.

"And," Boudreaux continued, " I figgered I would be a gentleman and pull the material out of the crack. I did pull the dress out of the crack and Marie punched me in the eye. "

"UN -huh", say Thibodeaux, and what about the other black eye?"

Boudreaux say, "Well I figgered she musta liked the dress inside the crack so I pushed it back in there."------------------------------

When you fish in South Louisiana, the alligator try and get your bait.----------------------------------------

Boudreaux died
Well suddenly while fishing Boudreaux died. Marie send his obituary into the newspaper. It said Boudreaux died yesterday while fishing. Well the newspaper people called her and said you can put a little more in the paper. You have 10 lines. So the next day the obituary appeared in the paper. Boudreaux died while fishing yesterday. Boat For Sale.

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That pretty much sums up the list for Alabama. Although I was born and raised here, my parents are from New York so I was taught not to speak with a distinctive accent. I constantly get people telling me that they can't believe I was raised in Alabama. Also, I don't live in a trailer!!! (no offense to anyone who does) But one of my best friend's mothers is really close minded and she didn't want us to be friends (mind you, this is in college) because she didn't want her daughter hanging around with Alabama trailer trash!! :eek: :eek: I know most of the teasing is in good fun though and well, c'mon I live in Alabama... ;)

Wild Wonderful West Virginia
 

Welcome to true hick-ville!

~no one has ever seen a pair of shoes, let alone owned a pair of their very own.
~we all live on dirt roads that cut through a valley. (otherwise known as a hollow (or hawlla as it is pronounced)
~indoor plumbing has yet to be introduced here
~we're all one great big family thanks to inbreeding
~every shack has at least 6 hunting dogs
~there is not a person in this state that has been past the 3rd grade
~we all wear overalls and plaid shirts, with the ever important straw hat
~country music is god here
~wait God made our land just for us
~if you ain't got twaing, you ain't nothin'

welcome to west BY GOD virginia

Quote:

a) that i add the word HON to everything (which is really a trashy east baltimore thing)

That's funny, I never heard that one. Whenever I say I'm from Maryland, people are like, oh Baltimore, like that's the whole state. And surrounding states and even instate people (usually from Baltimore) think that we (people in my area near DC) are country and have an accent, and we call everybody "young" and "joe" (ie, Wassup Joe! or Whatever young!)

And when I went to school in Philly, which is only 2 hours away, they acted like I was talking a whole nother language. Local dialect is a serious thing.

hahahhaha - obviously dude

LOL!

I'm from New York City. People always tell me that they are so surprised that I'm nice. :rolleyes: especially the people from Arkansas. :)

Colorado....Do you ski? (not everyone skis. Im from south east CO, theres not even much snow!)

or

Boulder, CO... how are the riots? what do you protest? have you ever been tear gassed? you must be high...etc.

I am currently living in Oklahoma (small south eastern OK town)...
lets just say most of those stereotypes are real. Its a city and my neighbors have a rooster and a goat. nuff said.

I'm from Idaho. Actual questions I've been asked, from most frequent to least:

Do you grow potatos?
Doesn't eating potatos for every meal get old after a while?
Is there TV?
Are there cars there?
What kind of tractor do you have?
Is it hard to ride a horse? and where's your hat? (referring to cowboy hat)
Do you have to go a long way to get food?



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I'm from Edmond, so these things don't really apply so much here (Edmond, AKA yuppie town!) I was driving on HWY 33 the other day from here to Cushing.... I think I noticed a contest of who could have the strangest stuff sitting in their front yards.

1st place: Random office desks and an old automatic car wash brush apparatus with a for sale sign on it.

Runner up: Tables full of random stuff and a TOILET sitting out in the middle of the yard.

You just try to drive EXACTLY the speed limit (small town OK relies on speedtraps to actually have a GDP) and mind your business and you'll make it ok.

NO KIDDING!!! I thought people were joking, but we've been pulled over in Savannah and Stringtown now! These towns you sneeze and you miss!

I was in a parade in Kinta today (helping with a D.A. campaign) and the highlight of the afternoon was a tobacco spitting contest!

Two words: Culture Shock

OMG YES!!!
I am from Miami, and was born here and raised here..and for some reason they all seem to think miami is ghetto or that you are cuban...

i am hispanic but in no way do i resemble what many people consider a "typical hispanic"
very frustrating...but i think you hit the stereotype reallllllly well!!!

:D

Ahhh....Nebraska
 

Hmmm not that I don't toally love Nebraska, but here at school it is so so so annoying when people say stupid stuff when I tell them that's where I'm from. Some of my personal favorites are:

Do you guys go cow tipping for fun?
Do you live on a farm?
Is there corn in your backyard??
People never believe me when I'm tell them I don't like meat at all, because I'm from Nebraska, I HAVE to love beef, apparently.....:rolleyes:

And like Hootie said, I too have had people ask me if I have indoor plumbing etc. And not everyone in Nebraska is obsessed with the Huskers either!!! Arrgh!!:mad: :D

Random regional thoughts: Southern Illinois is stereotyped as very backward, rural and filled with people much like described by SigmaChiCard.. Some of that is true, but you find those characteristics of people all throughout the country. People only realize that Illinois in Chicago. After living in a St. Louis suburb, in Illinois, I refer to my hometown as a St. Louis suburb, rather than Southern Illinois. When you go out to a bar in St. Louis, a common question asked is "Where did you go to high school?" And finally, I went out to Los Angeles last summer and when people knew we were from St. Louis, the first two words out of their mouth were Nelly and Mark McGwire.

On another hand, I think I don't conform to stereotypes. My tastes and experiences in life are pretty diverse. I live in the third largest city in the U.S. but have lived in small towns as well and even overseas. I go out in the city but also can go to a small town beer festival or cornfield party and have a blast. I like everything from country music to Tom Petty to Nelly. I think its all about life experience and how it defines you as a person.

Well, just some things... not really stereotypes but more like mistakes. A lot of people-more often than not think Chicago is its own state.... I was at a sorority convention and a sister asked where I was from, after replying Chicago, she was like "what's up East Coast!" hmmm last time I checked, Chicago was dead smack in the middle of the Midwest.