What are some known "stereotypes" or common conceptions that people in your area have about other areas?
For example, "Pittsford is full of snobs", "East Rochester is a dump", "315 area code = redneck" and so forth. You can be honest, but please nothing racially or politically charged.
Here in Rochester we have the East side vs West side stand-off, which is more percieved than reality. West side folks think we're hoity-toity snobs, and we think they're poor farmers and rednecks. Of course, it's not the case, but there are fundamentals to blame for the misconception :)
Ithe Cental Valley of California the stereotype is that everyone is a farmer which thinks building more dams up heavily controlled rivers in the Sierras will somehow create more water for irrigation.
So many stereotypes concerning Spain:
We sleep in the afternoon (the so-called siesta) (This is debunked by the many times I've been online around 9:00 a.m. Central, i.e. 4:00 p.m. Central Europe, when is the supposed siesta time)
We like bullfighting (I don't like it, especially the part where they kill the bulls, and there's an increasing opposition)
We dance flamenco (That's a Southern thing, my area doesn't have that)
Locally, the MSP suburb of Edina's residents are referred to (both endearingly and pejoratively) as "cake eaters" due to historic perceptions of the city's wealthy demographics, although there's probably more overall wealth in the suburbs closer to Lake Minnetonka these days.
northern inner suburbs of Minneapolis- dumps
Maplewood - "Mapleweird"
West Duluth - dump
Downtown Duluth - annoying students/hippies
Canal Park (which is not downtown) - tourist hell
East Duluth - rich assholes
Superior - sketchy
Richmond - Brooklyn with confederate statues
Petersburg - dump
Colonial Heights - Colonial Whites (was a white flight town back in the day)
Everywhere else locally - boring suburbs
Boise (especially the north/east ends) - hippies
Eagle - rich conservative Californians
Meridian - Mormons
Nampa/Caldwell - the hood. A good rule of thumb is that if you see a car with a 2C (Canyon County) license plate, leave a wide berth
Arkansas has a reputation for being redneck/backwater. Admittedly, there are some areas that come across that way but there are also good people (tm)
San Francisco area "Techies are snobs who caused income inequality"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sand_Hill_Road
Sand Hill Road specifically has been accused of causing the Bay Area to escalate income inequality.
Sacramento area "Politicians and Lobbyists are screwing downtown"
Quote from: US71 on May 06, 2018, 07:05:56 PM
Arkansas has a reputation for being redneck/backwater. Admittedly, there are some areas that come across that way but there are also good people (tm)
You mean Madison County isn't really backwater? :-D
MOST of Fairfield County, Connecticut is rich and snobby white people. People outside of the state fail to realize that Bridgeport, the state's largest city, is in Fairfield County. Big cities such as Stamford, Norwalk and Danbury are also in the county, but aren't quite as bad as a whole like Bridgeport.
There were times in the past when people heard Connecticut and thought the ENTIRE state was super rich. I can attest while New Britain does have a couple decent areas, most of the city of roughly 72,000 gets called "Hard Hittin'" for a reason. I don't mean with a Stanley brand hammer either. :(
In Florida many call the latest Spanish Invasion "Takeover People." I cannot tell you how much it disturbs me to run into someone who I knew 20 years ago, who says " Oh I had to leave as too many Spanish are invading our area turning this country into their own by not wanting to learn our language and also taking away jobs!"
To me they are the one's that should be stereotypes as they are the one's to fuel the fire by moving out! Anyway, not to change this into the great political and culture debate so I will just leave it at that.
Quote from: cl94 on May 06, 2018, 07:20:55 PM
Quote from: US71 on May 06, 2018, 07:05:56 PM
Arkansas has a reputation for being redneck/backwater. Admittedly, there are some areas that come across that way but there are also good people (tm)
You mean Madison County isn't really backwater? :-D
Well, they DO have a traffic signal now ;)
I gather you are referring to stereotypes people in our area have about other areas and the people who inhabit them.
Lexington -- elitists who look down on the rest of the state and overlook the fact that people from eastern Kentucky keep Lexington's economy going.
Louisville-- out-of-touch liberals who don't understand why the rest of the state hates them because they don't share our values.
Ohio -- people who can't go hiking without falling off cliffs, and left-lane hogs.
Quote from: US71 on May 06, 2018, 07:05:56 PM
Arkansas has a reputation for being redneck/backwater.
I think every state has their redneck areas. Up here, Orleans County is about as backwater as it gets. But if I had to pick the top three states overall, yeah, it would probably be Alabama, Mississippi, and Arkansas :-P
Quote from: hbelkins on May 06, 2018, 10:03:17 PM
I gather you are referring to stereotypes people in our area have about other areas and the people who inhabit them.
Basically, yes. The more localized the better, although comparing perceptions of different states and regions can be interesting as well.
QuoteOhio -- people who can't go hiking without falling off cliffs
Is there a specific story or incident behind this? :hmmm:
You want stereotypes?! I got your stereotypes right here!
http://judgmentalmaps.com/ (http://judgmentalmaps.com/)
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And many more...
Quote from: Hot Rod Hootenanny on May 06, 2018, 10:45:14 PM
You want stereotypes?! I got your stereotypes right here!
http://judgmentalmaps.com/ (http://judgmentalmaps.com/)
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/78fb5bf95dfe1327b56b9a61182702a7/tumblr_ngrjj3KSPx1s4df8ko1_1280.png)
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And many more...
That's where I got the "Brooklyn with confederate statues" phrase from! :-D
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/d9579874c4369557a20b7083b7fa7a65/tumblr_ow8wvv3zWK1s4df8ko1_1280.png)
Madison County is more hippie than redneck.
Quote from: Takumi on May 06, 2018, 05:57:02 PM
Richmond - Brooklyn with confederate statues
Petersburg - dump
Colonial Heights - Colonial Whites (was a white flight town back in the day)
Everywhere else locally - boring suburbs
OLD stereotypes. The civil war is a rare topic among Richmonders, Colonial Heights has diversified a lot over the last 30 years and plenty of African-Americans live there today, Petersburg still has a ways to go but there has been much improvement (new library, hospital, bus transportation center, golf course, many loft apartments built in old industrial buildings).
I can’t get it to display in the forum, but here’s one for Salt Lake County, UT: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/167952385990 (http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/167952385990)
Chicago has at least two of them:
North Side--Rich white people, luxury apartments and condominiums
South and West Sides--Poor black people, where the slums are
In Los Angeles:
Hollywood, Beverly Hills and northern suburbs (including Pasadena)--Wealthy white well-to-do residents
South Central and surrounding suburbs like Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach--Poorer black residents, most of who become gangsters
Elsewhere--All Mexicans, Latinas and Asians
Quote from: bing101 on May 06, 2018, 07:08:53 PM
San Francisco area "Techies are snobs who caused income inequality"
Also applies to Seattle, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Boeing are headquartered.
Quote from: Henry on May 07, 2018, 09:49:05 AM
Chicago has at least two of them:
North Side--Rich white people, luxury apartments and condominiums
South and West Sides--Poor black people, where the slums are
Also on the North Side, hipsters who do stupid shit like refuse to sell iced coffee at coffee shops.
Also, North Side = effete, South Side = hale and hearty.
New Hampshire – Live free or die:
Certain things are legal in New Hampshire that aren't in Massachusetts, such as alcohol in grocery stores and fireworks. There are also fewer restrictions on guns, and there seem to be more adult stores and cigarette shops just across the border. Also, "free" as in no sales tax, which is the main reason that people in Massachusetts go to New Hampshire to shop.
West Virginia:
Charleston. Metronym for screwed up state government. Ungrateful lawyers, accountants, and other white collars who make their living off coal, yet hate coal.
Charleston neighborhoods:
South Hills. Elitist rich limousine liberals.
Kanawha City. Pi**ed off white retirees and near retirees.
The Flats. Rat hole apartment living thrice divorced men, gays, and newlyweds, all working at the capitol.
Elk City. Hipsters.
East Side, East End, West Side, and North Hills. Welfareland.
North Charleston. Black people that work for a living.
Other Kanawha and Putnam County places:
South Charleston. Slightly richer version of Kanawha City.
Dunbar. Slightly poorer version of Kanawha City.
Anyplace south of Charleston. Redneck coal miners.
Anyplace north of Charleston. Farm country.
St. Albans. White people that work for a living.
Anyplace west of Charleston (Cross Lanes, Nitro, Teays Valley). Suburbia. Half long terms that moved to Putnam to escape Kanawha schools, half newcomers who are already figuring how to get Dow to transfer them to Houston.
Huntington. "Little Detroit". Drug addled life welfarists.
Huntington neighborhoods.
Park Hills and Beverly Hills. Rich White Landlords of Huntington.
West Huntington. Unemployed white people.
Fairfield and Northcott. Little Detroit, drug addled criminals.
Highlawn. Huntington's Kanawha City.
Guyandotte. Where poor white people live.
Downtown. Hipsters.
University City. College kids increasingly living in what is becoming a gated campus.
Other place in Cabell and Wayne counties and nearby OH and KY.
Barboursville. Rich white suburbs.
Chesapeake OH. Where all the racists moved to avoid sending their kids to Huntington High.
Fairland OH. Where all the pointy headed Marshall college professors live, far left.
Anywhere else in nearby Ohio. People that grow dope.
Ceredo-Kenova. White people that work for a living.
Ashland KY. Little Houston.
"Out Wayne". Meaning the town of Wayne and environs. Hick talking rednecks.
"Way Out Wayne". Meaning past that. Hick talking rednecks that will kill you.
Rest of WV:
Southwest coalfields. Bunch of ex coal miners, mostly now retirees, that won't leave. Poverty by choice. Necks.
Southeast. Retired Charleston hippies who grow their own dope.
Parkersburg. Snooty people with no real reason to be.
Central WV and Potomac highlands. Lumberjacks.
Clarksburg and Fairmont. Slick politicians and poverty.
Morgantown. Bunch of drunken northerners turned down by their own state's colleges having a non stop drunken quasi riot.
Wheeling, et al. Like Pittsburgh, only more so. Bombed out.
Eastern Panhandle. DC suburbs. Nobody there has ever been anywhere else in the state, nor would want to.
Nearby KY and OH.
KY Coalfields. Yet thicker hill accents, but otherwise just like SW WV.
Athens, OH. Like Morgantown, except it is kids from northern and western Ohio doing the drinking.
Rest of SE Ohio. Pot growers.
Florida, especially after Dick Scott took office in Tallahassee, is known as the state that that is "Open For Business" as Welcome To Florida signs emphasize that clearly.
It seems to be the state that thinks agricultural land is a place for economic growth and therefore to many its just a place that cannot get enough development despite in reality its too much development already and has been for decades.
Quote from: bugo on May 06, 2018, 11:17:29 PM
Madison County is more hippie than redneck.
Not as much as Carroll County ;)
The Lexington judgmental map is pretty much spot-on.
Quote from: Takumi on May 06, 2018, 11:11:27 PMThat's where I got the "Brooklyn with confederate statues" phrase from! :-D
(https://78.media.tumblr.com/d9579874c4369557a20b7083b7fa7a65/tumblr_ow8wvv3zWK1s4df8ko1_1280.png)
The description of Danville is spot on.
I also stumbled across this Waze screenshot that someone posted on Reddit: (https://i.imgur.com/qGKuycK_d.jpg?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium)
Quote from: Henry on May 07, 2018, 09:49:05 AM
Chicago has at least two of them:
North Side--Rich white people, luxury apartments and condominiums
South and West Sides--Poor black people, where the slums are
In Los Angeles:
Hollywood, Beverly Hills and northern suburbs (including Pasadena)--Wealthy white well-to-do residents
South Central and surrounding suburbs like Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach--Poorer black residents, most of who become gangsters
Elsewhere--All Mexicans, Latinas and Asians
Quote from: bing101 on May 06, 2018, 07:08:53 PM
San Francisco area "Techies are snobs who caused income inequality"
Also applies to Seattle, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Boeing are headquartered.
South San Francisco, where Biotech run the city also Venture Capitalists are rich snobs are true in San Jose, Santa Clara, Menlo Park, Cupertino and Mountain View.
Solano County, Yolo County and Sacramento County the place the rest of California likes to scapegoat when it comes to certain issues like water deals and bankruptcy and the reason the rest of California always talk about splitting the state in different parts. But also Yolo County and Solano County has been talked about as alternate hubs for Biotech for some time though.
Also Redding area in the persistent debate over Jefferson.
Sacramento and Solano counties the epicenter for the long running conspiracy theory that a Serial Killer was a cop as in the Golden State Killer and Zodiac Killer if you are outside these areas.
If you lived in Solano County in the 1960's there was a long running Conspiracy that the Zodiac Killer was a Vallejo Police officer or a San Francisco Police officer.
In Sacramento if you lived there in the 1970's there was the long running conspiracy that the Golden state Killer was an Auburn cop and that part was confirmed.
Quote from: bing101 on May 07, 2018, 02:37:09 PMYolo County
I bet the residents have a real
carpe diem outlook on life :-D
For where I live now:
Ann Arbor: Tree huggers and hippies
Ypsilanti: Young people that can't afford Ann Arbor rent
Saline: The 1%
Dundee: Cabela's
Livingston County: Suburban sprawl and Jesusland
For where I grew up:
Manistee: Part industrial wasteland, part redneck, part ghetto, part condos nobody wants, part Victorian downtown
Onekama: Doctors who moved there to get their kids out of Manistee schools
Wellston: Rednecks that send their kids to Manistee schools
Irons: The South will rise again
Baldwin: Blacks and rednecks co-existing
Arcadia: Only known for the golf course that the 1% fly in to play at
Scottville: Drive Your Tractor to School Day
Personal stereotype -
Being a cyclist in eastern Massachusetts means I am commie fodder for anyone with a Trump bumper sticker on their diesel pickup.
Here's a more detailed look at all three:
Chicago: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/43010771109
Los Angeles: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/78473663186
Seattle: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/157571876790
Quote from: abefroman329 on May 07, 2018, 02:51:59 PM
Quote from: bing101 on May 07, 2018, 02:37:09 PMYolo County
I bet the residents have a real carpe diem outlook on life :-D
In real Life Yolo County is where People who got rejected from UC Berkeley and UCLA go to and they they enter UC Davis after spending time at community college.
In real Life UC Davis is where the Biotech Nerds go to when they realize that they can't afford South San Francisco's high costs.
Quote from: SectorZ on May 08, 2018, 10:42:02 AM
Personal stereotype -
Being a cyclist in eastern Massachusetts means I am commie fodder for anyone with a Trump bumper sticker on their diesel pickup.
They have those in eastern MA? I suppose Republicans do come out of the western hills to buy their milk every now and then.
The People's Republic of Ann Arbor.
Hazel-tucky (Hazel Park)
Arkansas: inbreeders (partially true), rednecks (completely true), bad Interstates (not as true as it once was), bad state highways (very true), fried chicken (very true), Bill Clinton (true).
Oklahoma: flat (only part of the state is flat), wastelands (the state is very diverse geographically), toll roads (true), bad signage (partially true), bad roads (partially true), Native Americans (partially true), rednecks (true), pickup trucks (true), rodeos (true), earthquakes caused by fracking-related wastewater injection (very true), tornadoes (extremely true).
Quote from: Rothman on May 08, 2018, 06:07:40 PM
Quote from: SectorZ on May 08, 2018, 10:42:02 AM
Personal stereotype -
Being a cyclist in eastern Massachusetts means I am commie fodder for anyone with a Trump bumper sticker on their diesel pickup.
They have those in eastern MA? I suppose Republicans do come out of the western hills to buy their milk every now and then.
Essex County and Middlesex County:
Ashby, Townsend, Pepperell, Tyngsborough, Billerica, Tewksbury, Dracut, Groveland, Salisbury, Rowley, Middleton, Lynnfield, and Saugus all voted for Trump.
Quote from: Henry on May 07, 2018, 09:49:05 AM
Chicago has at least two of them:
North Side--Rich white people, luxury apartments and condominiums
South and West Sides--Poor black people, where the slums are
In Los Angeles:
Hollywood, Beverly Hills and northern suburbs (including Pasadena)--Wealthy white well-to-do residents
South Central and surrounding suburbs like Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach--Poorer black residents, most of who become gangsters
Elsewhere--All Mexicans, Latinas and Asians
Quote from: bing101 on May 06, 2018, 07:08:53 PM
San Francisco area "Techies are snobs who caused income inequality"
Also applies to Seattle, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Boeing are headquartered.
There are parts of the Northside of Chicago that are pretty rough. Generally anything along the Red Line north of Wrigley Field isn't the best area (Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park). The area around the Wilson and Lawrence Red Line stops aren't the greatest and around the Howard stop bordering Evanston there are some rougher areas of Rogers Park right there.
Quote from: ftballfan on May 07, 2018, 04:24:02 PM
For where I live now:
Ann Arbor: Tree huggers and hippies
Ypsilanti: Young people that can't afford Ann Arbor rent
Saline: The 1%
Dundee: Cabela's
Livingston County: Suburban sprawl and Jesusland
For where I grew up:
Manistee: Part industrial wasteland, part redneck, part ghetto, part condos nobody wants, part Victorian downtown
Onekama: Doctors who moved there to get their kids out of Manistee schools
Wellston: Rednecks that send their kids to Manistee schools
Irons: The South will rise again
Baldwin: Blacks and rednecks co-existing
Arcadia: Only known for the golf course that the 1% fly in to play at
Scottville: Drive Your Tractor to School Day
Baldwin has always struck me as an odd area mainly because Lake County is the poorest county in Michigan and it seems like being in that part of the state it wouldn't be like that. I'm always interested in seeing what people say about Saginaw, it's like a mini Detroit.
Saginaw: A mini Detroit. There use to be a thing between the east and west sides (the Saginaw River divides the city between east and west) but it doesn't seem as much anymore due to the west side becoming just like the east side in many areas.
Flint: Another mini Detroit and about 40 miles closer to Detroit than Saginaw.
Midland: A safe community for the most part.
A general one in Michigan (at least from when I lived there) was that anyone owned a lawn was hyper picky about it. God forbid you make the mistake of stepping on someone's property line or otherwise molest the grass somehow with your presence.
Interestingly an older Michigan stereotype seems to be dying, the classic middle class smoker. When I was growing up almost everyone smoked at school, work, in the house, car and even when you had dinner out on the town. It was interesting to see almost nobody under the age of 30 smoking this past year. Even more odd I saw people jogging/biking all over Metro Detroit and talking about all the great things to do outdoors. Considering I left back in 2001 it felt like I had landed on some alternate dimension/reality where Michigan didn't become a rust belt state.
Quote from: Flint1979 on May 09, 2018, 11:18:13 PM
Quote from: Henry on May 07, 2018, 09:49:05 AM
Chicago has at least two of them:
North Side--Rich white people, luxury apartments and condominiums
South and West Sides--Poor black people, where the slums are
In Los Angeles:
Hollywood, Beverly Hills and northern suburbs (including Pasadena)--Wealthy white well-to-do residents
South Central and surrounding suburbs like Compton, Inglewood and Long Beach--Poorer black residents, most of who become gangsters
Elsewhere--All Mexicans, Latinas and Asians
Quote from: bing101 on May 06, 2018, 07:08:53 PM
San Francisco area "Techies are snobs who caused income inequality"
Also applies to Seattle, where Microsoft, Nintendo and Boeing are headquartered.
There are parts of the Northside of Chicago that are pretty rough. Generally anything along the Red Line north of Wrigley Field isn't the best area (Uptown, Edgewater and Rogers Park). The area around the Wilson and Lawrence Red Line stops aren't the greatest and around the Howard stop bordering Evanston there are some rougher areas of Rogers Park right there.
What odd statements these are.
Quote from: Henry on May 08, 2018, 10:51:15 AM
Here's a more detailed look at all three:
Chicago: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/43010771109
Los Angeles: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/78473663186
Seattle: http://judgmentalmaps.com/image/157571876790
I love how the top one, the "No shades of white walk out at night" is literally plastered over 95th (which is also my hometown). I'm proof that is a bad stereotype :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 12:04:41 AM
Interestingly an older Michigan stereotype seems to be dying, the classic middle class smoker. When I was growing up almost everyone smoked at school, work, in the house, car and even when you had dinner out on the town. It was interesting to see almost nobody under the age of 30 smoking this past year.
I'd make the case that that's happening everywhere, not just in Michigan. It's becoming increasingly rare to see people smoking in public (although that's not
necessarily an indication that fewer people are smoking).
Quote from: webny99 on May 10, 2018, 09:49:32 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 12:04:41 AM
Interestingly an older Michigan stereotype seems to be dying, the classic middle class smoker. When I was growing up almost everyone smoked at school, work, in the house, car and even when you had dinner out on the town. It was interesting to see almost nobody under the age of 30 smoking this past year.
I'd make the case that that's happening everywhere, not just in Michigan. It's becoming increasingly rare to see people smoking in public (although that's not necessarily an indication that fewer people are smoking).
Yes, but the difference between people actually pursuing healthy lifestyles now versus virtually nobody when I was growing up was the real shocker. My brother and I used to make jokes about how unhealthy people in Michigan were in addition to how much they smoked. It was fairly amusing to watch a Red Wings game in Phoenix due to almost everyone outside in intermission was wearing red and holding a smoke. IRC Detroit at the turn of the century was even rated the most obese city in the country.
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 09:53:56 AM
Quote from: webny99 on May 10, 2018, 09:49:32 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 12:04:41 AM
Interestingly an older Michigan stereotype seems to be dying, the classic middle class smoker. When I was growing up almost everyone smoked at school, work, in the house, car and even when you had dinner out on the town. It was interesting to see almost nobody under the age of 30 smoking this past year.
I'd make the case that that's happening everywhere, not just in Michigan. It's becoming increasingly rare to see people smoking in public (although that's not necessarily an indication that fewer people are smoking).
Yes, but the difference between people actually pursuing healthy lifestyles now versus virtually nobody when I was growing up was the real shocker. My brother and I used to make jokes about how unhealthy people in Michigan were in addition to how much they smoked. It was fairly amusing to watch a Red Wings game in Phoenix due to almost everyone outside in intermission was wearing red and holding a smoke. IRC Detroit at the turn of the century was even rated the most obese city in the country.
Well, quitting smoking DOES slow down your metabolism...
When I was a senior in high school (1992), I went to Washington, DC for National Young Leaders Conference. We learned how Congress passed/failed bills.
There were 360+ high school kids from across the country. When the kids in my group found out I was from Louisiana, the crazy questions started to fly:
1. Do you live in a swamp? Is your house on stilts? Apparently everyone thought that once you crossed the Louisiana state line, everything was swamps, gators, & raised houses.
Speaking of gators...
2. Do you have a pet alligator? I kid you not...I had the largest audience of straight-faced kids staring me down when that question was asked.
3. How do you say the word "onion"? In order to understand this one, you need to youtube the name "Justin Wilson".
4. Are you a Cajun? I guess the world thinks that all Louisianians are Cajun. We ain't. In fact, most cajuns think that everybody living north of I-10 are yankees!
There were 13 other students from Louisiana at this conference I attended. I met & talked with most of them the week I was there. They were all asked the same questions!
Quote from: abefroman329 on May 10, 2018, 10:50:31 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 09:53:56 AM
Quote from: webny99 on May 10, 2018, 09:49:32 AM
Quote from: Max Rockatansky on May 10, 2018, 12:04:41 AM
Interestingly an older Michigan stereotype seems to be dying, the classic middle class smoker. When I was growing up almost everyone smoked at school, work, in the house, car and even when you had dinner out on the town. It was interesting to see almost nobody under the age of 30 smoking this past year.
I'd make the case that that's happening everywhere, not just in Michigan. It's becoming increasingly rare to see people smoking in public (although that's not necessarily an indication that fewer people are smoking).
Yes, but the difference between people actually pursuing healthy lifestyles now versus virtually nobody when I was growing up was the real shocker. My brother and I used to make jokes about how unhealthy people in Michigan were in addition to how much they smoked. It was fairly amusing to watch a Red Wings game in Phoenix due to almost everyone outside in intermission was wearing red and holding a smoke. IRC Detroit at the turn of the century was even rated the most obese city in the country.
Well, quitting smoking DOES slow down your metabolism...
Might have been that 1980s lifestyle in the Mid-West catching up with a lot of folks. There wasn't much attention to things like personal health really until the 1990s.
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 04:46:15 PM
When I was a senior in high school (1992), I went to Washington, DC for National Young Leaders Conference. We learned how Congress passed/failed bills.
There were 360+ high school kids from across the country. When the kids in my group found out I was from Louisiana, the crazy questions started to fly:
Don't lie. I saw your pet gators during the LA meet. :D
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 12, 2018, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 04:46:15 PM
When I was a senior in high school (1992), I went to Washington, DC for National Young Leaders Conference. We learned how Congress passed/failed bills.
There were 360+ high school kids from across the country. When the kids in my group found out I was from Louisiana, the crazy questions started to fly:
Don't lie. I saw your pet gators during the LA meet. :D
Yep...their names are Boudreaux & Thibodeaux. :-D
New Jersey would get stereotyped as having few exits on its numbered exit freeways in that joke "What exit number?"
BTW I once stunned someone when I answered it as Exit 135 (which was my exit on the Parkway when I lived there) and he almost did not believe me that we have exit numbers in the 3 digits. Of course we have them on the Parkway up to 171 and if one wants to get technical we can say the exit on I-76 for NJ 76C is got one in the 300's thanks to the Delaware River Port Authority using PA mileage along I-76, but it not within NJ travel though.
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 10:21:13 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 12, 2018, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 04:46:15 PM
When I was a senior in high school (1992), I went to Washington, DC for National Young Leaders Conference. We learned how Congress passed/failed bills.
There were 360+ high school kids from across the country. When the kids in my group found out I was from Louisiana, the crazy questions started to fly:
Don't lie. I saw your pet gators during the LA meet. :D
Yep...their names are Boudreaux & Thibodeaux. :-D
Louisiana should have a text mod that auto-corrects any instance of the letter 'o' or 'ou' to 'eaux'. :-D
Sorry, I meant "Leauxisiana" :biggrin:
Quote from: paulthemapguy on May 16, 2018, 01:17:42 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 10:21:13 PM
Quote from: TheHighwayMan394 on May 12, 2018, 08:41:52 PM
Quote from: cjk374 on May 12, 2018, 04:46:15 PM
When I was a senior in high school (1992), I went to Washington, DC for National Young Leaders Conference. We learned how Congress passed/failed bills.
There were 360+ high school kids from across the country. When the kids in my group found out I was from Louisiana, the crazy questions started to fly:
Don't lie. I saw your pet gators during the LA meet. :D
Yep...their names are Boudreaux & Thibodeaux. :-D
Louisiana should have a text mod that auto-corrects any instance of the letter 'o' or 'ou' to 'eaux'. :-D
Sorry, I meant "Leauxisiana" :biggrin:
That sounds awesome!
Quote from: bugo on May 08, 2018, 07:51:04 PM
Oklahoma: flat (only part of the state is flat), wastelands (the state is very diverse geographically), toll roads (true), bad signage (partially true), bad roads (partially true), Native Americans (partially true), rednecks (true), pickup trucks (true), rodeos (true), earthquakes caused by fracking-related wastewater injection (very true), tornadoes (extremely true).
In the OKC metro:
NW OKC: suburban hell
Nichols Hills: the 1%
Edmond: suburban hell, but with people who think they're the 1%: soulless, conformist, anything remotely interesting is stamped out
Moore: Tornado bait, if you don't like your house just wait a year and wait for the insurance check to rebuild it
West Norman: Rich folks that just sleep in Norman and spend all their time in OKC otherwise
East Norman: Hippies, college kids, i.e. the goddamn liberals
Goldsby: You mean Norman, right?
Southside OKC: ¿Tienes muchos panqueques en tu mochila?
Del City: Don't go here or you'll die
Midwest City: You must have at least this many stripes on your sleeve to enter
Yukon: Where the people who are too quirky to live in Edmond, but not enough to live in Norman go
Judgmental Map for Wichita (http://judgmentalmaps.com/post/92171855770/wichita)
Traditionally--and this is reflected to an extent in the Judgmental Map--Wichita has had an east-west divide where the west has a lower income Gini coefficient than the east (middle incomes generally on the west side; extreme poverty and extreme wealth on the east side). However, ZIP code 67205 on the west side now functions essentially as an outpost of rich east Wichita. And in some respects east versus west is eclipsed by a north-south gap. While the north has some economically stressed areas, including the traditional black part of town (bounded by Washington, Oliver, Central, and 29th) and the Hispanic part of town (generally near northwest with 25th and Arkansas at the heart), most people from white-collar backgrounds with middle incomes and higher live north of Douglas, while the south side is usually thought of as the home of blue-collar workers. South Broadway (former US 81) is motel row and traditionally associated with prostitution. It is also full of used-car lots, many of which engage in shady practices such as advertising cars in the private-sale section of Craigslist, as well as the only auto auction house locally that allows members of the public to come in and bid.
Among older Wichitans, there is a mental divide between people whose families are from Wichita or moved there from elsewhere in Kansas and people who moved in from Oklahoma or Arkansas to work in the aircraft plants during the 1940's and 1950's. This is often telegraphed through statements such as "X is a fourth-generation Sedgwick Countian."
When the original redlining maps were drawn up in the 1930's, Wichita ended up with some areas that were redlined because they were majority black (per the norm elsewhere in the country), as well as others that were redlined because they were occupied primarily by retired farmers, who in Kansas were generally of white European descent.
Per a Wichita Eagle report several years ago, ZIP code 67212 has the lowest infant mortality in Kansas while ZIP code 67218 has the highest. I was born and raised in 67212 and went to school in 67218.