Surprisingly accurate.
Other than the upper peninsula lol
Yea not sure what’s up with the upper peninsula. I feel like it’s someone who actually knows Michigan and just wants to irritate Michiganders
Could still be a real European perspective. I’ve found a lot of people who are only casually familiar with North America will be able to tell you the broad cultural strokes and then one or two bizarrely specific facts. Like, “Oh yeah, America is all New York, Texas, California, Florida, and who could forget the iconic Egyptian Theatre of Boise, Idaho.”
It could be yes, but generally people forget the upper peninsula exists instead of mistake it with the lower peninsula
Michiganders are like, “they sorta heard of me!” 😍
It’s Pure Michigan.
Those are UPers (Youpers) up there though.
Pasties and Caribou are all that exists past the Mackinaw Bridge.
Anybody who’s seen 8 Mile or Barbarian knows about Michigan. 😉
Michiganders, Yoopers and Trolls both.
Right? More like “pasties and trees.”
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I think they think that’s where Chicago is
Cars & crime would probably be Detroit though, wouldn’t it?
It’s definitely Detroit.
Nope! Incest should be bigger
Oh no, I’d rather not
You are missing out
Modt of New York should actually say “cheese”
I think “squawk !” would be more appropriate.
European here, these are what different states or areas of the USA remind me of (like what’s the first think I think of when I hear it’s name):
- Southern states: right wing twats
- Alabama: incest
- Florida: gators and really, really weird news headlines
- Texas: stupidly large trucks, guns and cowboys
- Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
- California: expensive, liberal
- Ohio: those fucking memes
- Hawaii: warm, colonialism
- Mississippi: riverboats
- Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
There’s also Washington Island. It’s nowhere near Washington state or DC. It’s in Lake Michigan, and is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan.
Aside from the island, Wisconsin has 7 different towns named Washington, though most of them have a population in the hundreds.
Of course they have nothing on Indiana, which has 46 towns named Washington, or Iowa, which has 49.
A disambiguation page of disambiguation pages. Damn.
And both University of Washington, in the state, and wash U, in St. Louis. Both are major medical centers.
On that last point, George Washington is still considered the most popular president of the USA. In his own time he would come to cities and people (all of them) would swarm the streets. When the Constitution was signed Washington was in retirement, but the writers of the Constitution assumed Washington would be the first President. There were roughly 8 candidates running for the position, Washington wasn’t one of them, and when Washington announced he would come out of retirement the other candidates dropped out of the running. Washington won the first election unanimously.
A lot of Europeans don’t realize this, but the Constitution wasn’t the first government of the new USA. First there was the Articles of Confederation which went from 1777-1789 so Washington had been gone for quite some time and was still so popular.
It’s not at all surprising that it’s one of the most popular landmark names in the US (street and city names).
Some other popular names include Lafayette, MLK, Lincoln, and Jackson, Jefferson, and Madison.
Similar to the names Elizabeth and Victoria in the UK. The first being mostly named after Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII) and the second being Queen Vic. Although we don’t tend to name towns after people since most of our town names stretch back to Roman/Saxon/Celtic/Norman times. But train stations, schools, pubs, etc commonly incorporate these names.
The confederation of states is the American version of people in Russia who think the USSR still exists. They go around trying to act like the Articles of Confederation still exist.
I’m not sure how you got onto this point, but you’re referring to Sovereign Citizens and they’re mostly crazy ultra libertarians.
I wasn’t trying to make the point you brought out, I was simply saying that 12 years had passed with Washington being in relative retirement and he was still the most popular man in the country. Many Europeans might think that the US Constitution was right after the Revolutionary War and thus Washington went straight from General to President.
Washington’s name is everywhere because there was this guy named Washington and he did some cool things a couple hundred years ago.
I heard that guy had like 30 god damn dicks
Hey, if you ever do anything memorable, something might get named after you.
Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
I think you know more about our history than we do
I just read a ton of Don Rosa when I was 8-11.
You’re mostly on the nail with these but it’s worth mentioning that political leanings are split a lot closer to “rural vs urban” differences than they are regional. For example, the city of Austin, Texas, is a lot closer politically to somewhere like Seattle, Washington, than it is to Odessa, Texas. Similarly, somewhere like Redding, California, is closer politically to Decatur, Alabama than it is to Los Angeles. This is a pretty recent development.
I grew up in Odessa. I left and I never want to go back. Ever. Last time I was there was to take the dog, my father’s ashes, and any remaining belongings back to a saner part of the country. I have seen and heard it has only gotten worse since and nobody should live there. Ever. Just leave. Run away. Scorched earth. Fuck Texas. Fuck Wasps. Fuck all of the hateful, bigoted, racist, sexist pieces of shit that live there and anywhere else.
Sorry. I may have been a little triggered…I am going to smoke a bowl and chill out now.
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
But it’s all colonialism.
California: That other goldrush
Hawaii: Funny you pick that state out of 50 for “colonialism.”
Ohio: Home of the buckeye, a useless nut.
Washington: The federal capitol city, Washington D.C. is on a small bit of land along the Potomac river sandwiched between Virginia and Maryland. It was founded in the late 1700s early in the nation’s history before we laid any claim to the West coast. The state of Washington–the top-left most of the lower 48–was one of the last settled and named. There were several plans drawn up to create several states in the region, and name them Washington, Jefferson, and possibly one or two other founding fathers. Washington was the only one that went through with it.
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Texas used to be a huge fudd state until very recently, at least I assume that things changed.
They required a permit for carrying hand guns but not long guns.
The blue one just needs to be switched to alcoholism and drugs. Then it’s perfect.
Robocop and Seattle for Frasier.
I love that the world’s idea of Seattle could be mostly based on Frasier, a show not filmed in Seattle, starring no one from the state nor written or created by anyone from Seattle, with hardly any plot line that has anything to do with the area. Basically the only thing Seattle in that show is the Space Needle, and they way they show it isn’t even possible in real life.
Possibly my favorite Lewis Black sketch is about drinking in Wisconsin.
"You are not alcoholics - you are professionals
They put Detroit in the wrong spot
And yet there’s nothing else in the UP, besides cold, and you will note it is a dark blue.
The Incest area is way too small. The Cowboy area is way too big.
I’ve always had this criticism of pornhub
Honestly seems too small to me. I’ve driven to every state in the US and I’ve met self-identified cowboys from western NY state to Montana and New Mexico to north Florida. Shit, Kid Rock called himself a cowboy while he was living in Detroit lol.
Conclusion: most American men identify as cowboys
The incest region needs to be way larger and be labeled incest/religious nutcases. Rest is pretty much spot on.
Honestly, Religious Nutcases literally run the House of Representatives rn so maybe a little more widespread than we’re giving credit for.
That’s really only because the U.S. government is set up all stupid to give the religious nut jobs over-representation. The House is capped at 435. It should be way bigger so bigger states with bigger populations had significanrly more represtatives than the tiny ones.
Also abolish the Senate or remove them from legislative duties. They exist to preserve wealth and the current power structure.
TBH probably more accurate than an American perspective.
As a European who doesn’t know much about the states: This is pretty accurate. I would exchange gators for florida man and I don’t know what the cars and crime one is but otherwise it’s spot on.
Detroit Michigan, “motor city”, is home to a lot of car manufacturers and also much crime.
Yet, Detroit is not included in the blue region
Ah, I have heard of Detroit from probably some movie but I didn’t know it was associated with cars or crime.
Detroit was the setting of RoboCop. Crime was pretty bad there in the 70s/80s. It’s much better now and the city is turning around.
However, worth noting that Detroit is in the lower peninsula of Michigan, and the blue “cars & crime” part here is the upper peninsula, which is basically super rural and low crime. I suspect this was done intentionally, lol.
I think it went cars -> crime -> house techno (in that order). Am also not American but maybe know a bit more than most. I was expecting great lakes in that blue part.
cars -> crime -> house techno
House music has its origins in Chicago. Techno music has its origins in Detroit.
Though the words are unfortunately being used almost interchangeably by unknowing people today, the genres are historically very different in terms of both technology, culture and other regional circumstances.
Yes, they do indeed musically have some elements in common, but even to this day, after years of evolution and borrowing of ideas, the two movements are still very different to each other, attracting different crowds, and the sum of the general sound of techno+subgenres is much different to that of house+subgenres.
To some people, everything with a 4/4 kick is the same. To me, it’s like not differentiating between e.g. reggae and funk, or rock and disco. However, I understand why so many get it wrong, because most people around them do the same. I just thought I’d let you (and other people) know.
Yeah I wasn’t sure which one it was so I put both to keep it light hearted and accessible in my joke comment, but I’m actually a pretty big electro-head myself, having been a raver, hobbyist D&B DJ and producer (trip hop) for like, what, 20 years ;) Thankfully at much slower rhythms for a long time already though, that stuff will kill ya.
But it gets even more fun once you realize that we don’t even really use the same definitions for things here in Europe as you guys do in the US. What I call techno probably isn’t even made there. Like, I don’t mean offence or anything but from my (limited) direct exposure but mostly all I see from online, videos, discussions etc it’s just so different there and doesn’t go nearly as deep/dark/hard as we do here, like everything has that sugar coating while we’re out there in our black hoodies under a damp bridge tearing it up if you know what I mean.
Honestly I feel like what you were explaining there is way better known these days though, like yeah when I was a kid people would just say anything electronic was techno and I’m sure some still do but also feel like it’s way more mainstream now so way more people understand a few different genres at least. I’m also not one to want to get uber-specific with my labels anyway, like I’m more a breakbeat guy myself so I slice it up a bit more there (jungle, jump up, neuro, liquid, technical, intelligent d&b, crossbreed and so on) but with 4 on the floor stuff I’ll pretty much just be aware of like, trance (but not the Tiesto trash I mean the good psytrance shit), what is called “Tekno” in France, the Berlin type stuff like Drumcode label, hardstyle, French core, speedcore etc but like, mildly. Miles away from any of the house style stuff.
These days I’ve softened up a lot and mostly listen to downtempo stuff and just a lot of random different kinds of music, both electronic, acoustic and everything in between.
Does it even still have a lot of car manufacturers? Or any?
Yes, GM and Chrysler are still big employers in the city. Ford is still headquartered in nearby Dearborn.
Michigan has more automotive manufacturing facilities than any other state, nearly 1,000 if you count all the suppliers and distribution hubs. And despite Stellantis now being French-owned and abandoning their headquarters, Ford and GM are still present with many dozens of facilities as well as their respective HQs.
Next closest is Ohio with only 600.
Give about 3/4 of the New York section to Incest, and it’s closer to reality. New York doesn’t make it across the Appalachian mountains, but Incest extends north at least to the Ohio river.
Sadly, Cowboy and New York are much smaller and incest is much larger.
They think Seattle is full of cowboys?
As a born Seattlite, all I can say is this town ain’t big enough for the two of us pardner.
Yeah that’s real good, cause law just don’t go around here, lawdawg.
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I’m retired.
The dancing kind, but yeah.
Maybe not two step, but the Sturgill Simpson kind
For me Seattle will always mean grunge and I’m stuck in the 90s.
Seattle: Jimi Hendrix, grunge, rain
Coffee and more rain. Although it’s beautiful and warm right now, shockingly.
Seattle sounds cowboy-like
I’m surprised anyone there knows that the UP of Michigan exists. It’s a sparcely populated area with low crime. Hunting, fishing, snowmobiling and drinking.
So it’s basically Canada?
Yeah but with pasties
Pretty sure the UP is catching a stray bullet fired at the rest of Michigan lol
So…Michigan as usual.
Mackinac Island!
Yeah they don’t deserve this shade lol. Smoked fish, nature tourism, and yooper sensibility.
To be fair, the incest is probably a bit more widespread than that. Also, potentially more popular in Appalachia than around that area. I think eastern Kentucky/West Virginia has the highest rates of inbreeding than any other part of the country, at least that’s what some other guy on the internet commented, so that’s a fairly trustworthy source.
You should look up Kentucky Blue People.
Eh, not far off
You forgot the “Country roads, take me home, to the place, I belong!” part.
Isn’t that the incest part? From my european point of view at least half of the “new york” part should probably be either “cowboy” and or “incest”.
Sometimes, there are a lot of small rural communities and the family tree branches sometimes touched tips a bit.
I’d change Florida to Disney World because that’s the main reason anyone would get a passport to go to Florida.
Not to see Gator World?
Sad gator noises
