Hi y'all!!
We all get annoyed when people stereotype our states. Like associating Georgia with peaches, Maine with lobsters, or....Arkansas(where I'm from) with hillbillies. (ugggh)
BUT....
Have you ever really looked around and realized that, to some extent, sometimes those stereotypes have some truth to them?
I'm from a small town in Arkansas (Ravenden--population around 500), and here's things I see on a regular basis when I'm home during the summer. I didn't notice them so much until I had been at college and then came home.
1)all the good ol' boys driving beat up pick-ups with a dog in the back, usually the truck is camo-painted.
2)I see a lot of mullets. Some on women....
3)The "small town mentality", as I call it, is that after high school, you get married and have kids. Out of my class of 28 people, half of them girls, only me and one other girl are NOT married. And I'm only 20!
4)If you want to run into anyone you know, go to the nearest Wal-Mart. That's where everyone's at. There's nothing else to do in small towns but eat and go to Wal-Mart.
5)During hunting season, guys will come to school in full camo, all season long.
6)Small town people typically never leave. Go back years later, and they're STILL THERE, cruising the tiny strip, drinking beer, wearing the same clothes they wore when they were in high school a decade ago.
7)Small-town women don't catch onto changes in styles of clothing or hair. Most women still have the early 90's look going on.
8)features on a car such as power windows, keyless entry, or the like are seen as "fancy" and for the "rich".
We all get mad when people stereotype us. But how about we start a thread on the funny stereotypes that turn out to be TRUE about where we live?
And remember, I love Arkansas, and for all the things that annoy me, there's dozens more things that I love about it. I just thought it'd be fun to all laugh at our home states.
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