NationStates Jolt Archive

We all know the old stereotypes, right? West Virginians are one-toothed inbreds. Texans are nationalistic rednecks. People from Massachussets are liberals wankers with weird accents. But what about some new stereotypes, based on your own experiences?

From my time as a telesurveyor (oh dear god...) I had the oppertunity to talk to people from around the country on a variety of different topics, and it seemed that patterns definately arose.

People from the northeast were always too busy. They had things to do, people to see, places to go, and if you managed to catch them, they almost never had time for even a five minute survey...either that...or they just like making lame excuses instead of actually telling you no.

People from the south were much nicer, but MUCH slower. They'd call me sir, and be willing to take the surveys, except that they took twice as long as they should have. Black people from the south in particular were a good time. They ALWAYS had something to say, and more often than not it was in good humor.

That brings me to the midwest, which I must say from my experience, is filled with the rudest assholes on the face of the planet. They're also mostly dumb, with the questions and scales needed repeating a god-awful number of times, coupled with stupid explanations: "What do you mean, overall?"

Interestingly enough, my three favorite states to call were Arizona, Nevada, and especially California. Never have I talked to nicer people. My completion percentage in California had to be at least 90%.

As for me, I'm from Pennsylvania. People here are lame and boring, with small-town and outdated mindsets even if they aren't from a small town or old. After college is completed, I won't be here much longer.

So what about everyone else? What's your experience been? Feel free to generalize and slander, haha.

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

People in the Midwest LOVE their buffets. Believe me, I have noticed this and have grown to love them myself. ;)

People from chicago are bastards...oh wait..thats always been the same.

I've got nothing :p


-edit- it would seem people from NYC are elitist dicks. Chicagoans are now "bastards"

We all know the old stereotypes, right? West Virginians are one-toothed inbreds. Texans are nationalistic rednecks. People from Massachussets are liberals wankers with weird accents. But what about some new stereotypes, based on your own experiences?

Uh...I was born in New Jersey, grew up in West Vrginia, now live in Massachusetts, and would like to move to San Antonio. I must be royally fucked up. :D

People from chicago are elitist dicks...oh wait..thats always been the same.

I've got nothing :p

No, you've got something. You've got the possibility of the Hack Hammer whomping you in the head. ;)

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

Jersey's not a state, it's a suburb.

Jersey's not a state, it's a suburb.

Reminds me of the old "I'm from Joisey" sketches from SNL. :D

Jersey's not a state, it's an armpit.

Oh, and fixed. :p

People from the south were much nicer, but MUCH slower. They'd call me sir, and be willing to take the surveys, except that they took twice as long as they should have. Black people from the south in particular were a good time. They ALWAYS had something to say, and more often than not it was in good humor.

I have, depending on who you talk to, a slight Southern accent. When I was flying in the Marines, part of my job as a Bombardier/Navigator was to file and copy clearances from ATC. One day, somewhere in the Western Pacific, I was trying to activate the portion of our flight plan that would notify Japan that we were coming back through the FIR. This poor guy couldn't understand me and just quit talking to us. My pilot, a midwesterner, finally made up a new callsign, got the controller to start talking to us again, and got the clearance we needed.

I can sympathize with that guy. I made a trip to Boston, recently and I was trying to get directions to take the T to my hotel. I ended up making the fellow spell out Government Center, just because it kept coming out of his mouth as some unidentifiable sound. So is there another stereotype for people down East? Nah, they're still the same.

No, you've got something. You've got the possibility of the Hack Hammer whomping you in the head. ;)



Does this face (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a192/piggy_g87/DCFN0014-1.jpg) look like the one of some one who is scared?

Does this face (http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a192/piggy_g87/DCFN0014-1.jpg) look like the one of some one who is scared?

No, it looks like someone who's stoned. :p

No, it looks like someone who's stoned. :p

Oh, you should have seen the other pics i took that day. :D I found an old wrestling belt dating back to when i was a wrestling fan(Like 5 years ago or so), in my closet, and I took it out, and took some pics with it. Oh...the fun times. And I swear I wasn't stoned.:p

And I swear I wasn't stoned.:p

LIES! :p

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Here are some things people from far away are surprised about:

1. We have HOUSES here. Not everyone lives in hotels here.
2. Not everything in the Vegas Valley is Las Vegas. We also have Henderson, North Las Vegas (NLV is a seperate town with its own police force and mayor), Spring Valley, etc.
3. Just because we have legalised prostitution doesn't mean the town is full of prostitutes. I found several in California. I searched all over the valley for some. Couldn't find any. I checked the Strip. The bad side of town with all the gang activity and most of the crime. None.
4. There's a bitter rivalry between Northern Nevada (where Reno and Cason City, the state capital are) and Southern Nevada, which includes the Vegas Valley. I think they should move the state capital to somewhere that isn't so north.
5. Even though we live in the middle of a desert, people are surprised to find out that you have to pay to keep your water running. Nevada is the driest state in the Union. Las Vegas is in the driest part of the driest state.

I have, depending on who you talk to, a slight Southern accent. When I was flying in the Marines, part of my job as a Bombardier/Navigator was to file and copy clearances from ATC. One day, somewhere in the Western Pacific, I was trying to activate the portion of our flight plan that would notify Japan that we were coming back through the FIR. This poor guy couldn't understand me and just quit talking to us. My pilot, a midwesterner, finally made up a new callsign, got the controller to start talking to us again, and got the clearance we needed.

I can sympathize with that guy. I made a trip to Boston, recently and I was trying to get directions to take the T to my hotel. I ended up making the fellow spell out Government Center, just because it kept coming out of his mouth as some unidentifiable sound. So is there another stereotype for people down East? Nah, they're still the same.

I called for tech support once, got a person on the line with a really thick accent....can't place it, probably foreign, anyway, they claimed they couldn't understand me. :eek: I have an accent, I don't think it's hard to understand, but then again, I am me, so I listen to myself all the time. :p

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

Bullshit! Even George Carlin(who is a well known New Yorker) owns a t-shirt that says, "Kiss her where it smells; take her to New Jersey!"

:D

Jersey's not a state, it's a suburb.

Jersey is a British Crown dependency off the coast of Normandy, France.

Bullshit! Even George Carlin(who is a well known New Yorker) owns a t-shirt that says, "Kiss her where it smells; take her to New Jersey!"

:D

I've lived in both NY and NJ and find both to be quite wonderful places to reside. You want to talk about smelling, Staten Island ring a bell? One giant trash heep, oh and there's houses there too. Sorry, being from both Brooklyn and NJ it's easy to pound on SI. ;)

From my time as a telesurveyor (oh dear god...) I had the oppertunity to talk to people from around the country on a variety of different topics, and it seemed that patterns definately arose.


I did that for a bit. Man alive. It made me actually afraid of the people in New Jersey (more than one of them asked me what I thought thier answer should be...Look, lady, even if this survey is trying to get a specific response (and it was) they aren't actually giving me directions to have you respond that way, they're letting the leading questions do the job. Now just answer...)


Anyway...Neveda is just California's backyard, like where your uncle has that trailer with the poker game and the Playboy channel? That.

Let's see.

Massachusetts is filled with people who can't speak the letter "R". They're also a bunch of tree hugging liberals, many of whom are gay, who can never vote a Kennedy out of office no matter what they do. And those who aren't gay, you're Irish or anti-Irish. All the Irish vs. Anti-Irish feeling makes the place the most racist part of the country, only really good at hiding it.

Connecticut are a bunch of spoiled stupid brats who hire illegal immigrants to do simple chores for them. They drive around in expensive cars and live in million dollar McMansions.

RI: Rhode Island? Really Italian. And oh yeah, can't drive to save their own lives.

New Yorkers don't know how to drive, as you can tell by them weaving in and out of lanes at 90 miles an hour in their giganto SUVs and yapping on cell phones. Biggest attitude problems in the country, bunch of total whiners too. Think their shit don't stink.

New Jersey: Wish they were New York secretly and suck at emulating everything New York does. But in the meanwhile, act like New Jersey is the greatest thing on God's green earth: even with a 12 lane turnpike surrounded by hundreds of oil tanks, warehouses, and the most disgusting unsightly environmental disaster on the planet. For real, the place is ugly as shit.

Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.

Guess which one I live in.

Let's see.

Massachusetts is filled with people who can't speak the letter "R". They're also a bunch of tree hugging liberals, many of whom are gay, who can never vote a Kennedy out of office no matter what they do. And those who aren't gay, you're Irish or anti-Irish. All the Irish vs. Anti-Irish feeling makes the place the most racist part of the country, only really good at hiding it.

Connecticut are a bunch of spoiled stupid brats who hire illegal immigrants to do simple chores for them. They drive around in expensive cars and live in million dollar McMansions.

RI: Rhode Island? Really Italian. And oh yeah, can't drive to save their own lives.

New Yorkers don't know how to drive, as you can tell by them weaving in and out of lanes at 90 miles an hour in their giganto SUVs and yapping on cell phones. Biggest attitude problems in the country, bunch of total whiners too. Think their shit don't stink.

New Jersey: Wish they were New York secretly and suck at emulating everything New York does. But in the meanwhile, act like New Jersey is the greatest thing on God's green earth: even with a 12 lane turnpike surrounded by hundreds of oil tanks, warehouses, and the most disgusting unsightly environmental disaster on the planet. For real, the place is ugly as shit.

Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.

Guess which one I live in.

All of them? :D

California - land of hyper liberals, even a California conservative is a moderate anywhere else.

Colorado - I've only been here a few months, but, everyone is courteous and respectful. After California, I find that astonishing and delightful.

Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.

Are you seriously calling Johnstown and Scranton cities? o.O

Let's see.

Massachusetts is filled with people who can't speak the letter "R". They're also a bunch of tree hugging liberals, many of whom are gay, who can never vote a Kennedy out of office no matter what they do. And those who aren't gay, you're Irish or anti-Irish. All the Irish vs. Anti-Irish feeling makes the place the most racist part of the country, only really good at hiding it.

Connecticut are a bunch of spoiled stupid brats who hire illegal immigrants to do simple chores for them. They drive around in expensive cars and live in million dollar McMansions.

RI: Rhode Island? Really Italian. And oh yeah, can't drive to save their own lives.

New Yorkers don't know how to drive, as you can tell by them weaving in and out of lanes at 90 miles an hour in their giganto SUVs and yapping on cell phones. Biggest attitude problems in the country, bunch of total whiners too. Think their shit don't stink.

New Jersey: Wish they were New York secretly and suck at emulating everything New York does. But in the meanwhile, act like New Jersey is the greatest thing on God's green earth: even with a 12 lane turnpike surrounded by hundreds of oil tanks, warehouses, and the most disgusting unsightly environmental disaster on the planet. For real, the place is ugly as shit.

Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.

Guess which one I live in.
Well, you're not from NJ. All you've seen of my state appears to be the turnpike and the industrial areas that surround it.

Well, you're not from NJ. All you've seen of my state appears to be the turnpike and the industrial areas that surround it.

South Jersey is all farms and Camden.

South Jersey hates New York. If anything, we secretly hope to be Philly.

And we should be a separate state, btw.

*sigh* This is why New Jersey needs to declare it's independence. Or at least Central Jersey.

Floridians apparently don't know how hot their state is. Seriously, it's like 100 degrees there all the time. Fortunately all their hotels have pools and they have plenty of water rides :)

Native North Carolinians (meanign the ones who were born there and lived there all their lives) are very arrogant and love North Carolina. Ain't no otha state inth' Yewnyun bettr th'n Cackalacky. Then you have locals who have been there since they were very small children, who are a bit like Natives, only much nicer.

Then you have Virginians... OH MY GOD. Virginians must be the most imperialistic people ever. If you say that the US is imperialistic, you're really talking about Virginia, not the other 49 states. Virginians, for some reason, just love to move to North Carolina and right before they're totally moved in, they rant and rant about how lovely North Carolina is and how god-awful Virginia was. Then within a week they whine and cry and snivel about how there's nothing to do in NC because there's no shopping malls, and how NC needs more shopping malls, even though the native and locals just go to Virginia (provided that they're close enough to the border) and mooch off the Virginians, while the Virginians sit at their new NC homes and cry themselves into a midafternoon nap while listening to the grass grow.

Damn Virginians.

Floridians apparently don't know how hot their state is. Seriously, it's like 100 degrees there all the time. Fortunately all their hotels have pools and they have plenty of water rides :)

Native North Carolinians (meanign the ones who were born there and lived there all their lives) are very arrogant and love North Carolina. Ain't no otha state inth' Yewnyun bettr th'n Cackalacky. Then you have locals who have been there since they were very small children, who are a bit like Natives, only much nicer.

Then you have Virginians... OH MY GOD. Virginians must be the most imperialistic people ever. If you say that the US is imperialistic, you're really talking about Virginia, not the other 49 states. Virginians, for some reason, just love to move to North Carolina and right before they're totally moved in, they rant and rant about how lovely North Carolina is and how god-awful Virginia was. Then within a week they whine and cry and snivel about how there's nothing to do in NC because there's no shopping malls, and how NC needs more shopping malls, even though the native and locals just go to Virginia (provided that they're close enough to the border) and mooch off the Virginians, while the Virginians sit at their new NC homes and cry themselves into a midafternoon nap while listening to the grass grow.

Damn Virginians.

Note to self: Don't move to Virginia.

Arizona is not being invaded by illegal immigrants.

Arizona is being invaded by armies of 60+ year old blue haired old ladies from Wisconsin who drive at 10 mph down the streets with their dresses hanging out the door and left blinker perpetually on. And their cranky cowboy wannabe husbands.

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

I'm from Mass, and i deny your state's existence. I think pretty much everyone does.

P.S. Yes all of us from this great state speak funny and we are all liberals and we all are unpatriotic and we all want our soldiers to burn in hell. </sarcasm>

Floridians apparently don't know how hot their state is. Seriously, it's like 100 degrees there all the time. Fortunately all their hotels have pools and they have plenty of water rides :)


It's only in the 80's now, but I guess it can get kind of hot here in the summer.:)

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

NY owns that statue I tell you!



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I'll just do local stereotypes.

We have deep vioces, don't eat anything that isn't a potato, we use the word "yous" a lot, and we're pros at ditching pot holes!

I will not tell you if those are correct or not. :)

Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.

Philly is not old and grimey. Sure there's shit loads of hobos, but the buildings are perfect!
Guess which one I live in.

PA?
Are you seriously calling Johnstown and Scranton cities? o.O

:p

If SMU actually goes through with building the Shrubbery as it is on its campus, Texans will downgrade in reputation from nationalistic rednecks to Dubya-worshipping rednecks.

Philly is not old and grimey. Sure there's shit loads of hobos, but the buildings are perfect!

yeah downtown's pretty nice just there are plenty of bums but other than thats its quite clean

South Jersey is all farms and Camden.

South Jersey hates New York. If anything, we secretly hope to be Philly.

And we should be a separate state, btw.

join PA that way i can finally go to Wildwood and not even leave the state :D


Are you seriously calling Johnstown and Scranton cities? o.O

Theres Philly and then theres The Arm Pitt (jk jk love ya Pittsburgh), with nothin in between

yeah downtown's pretty nice just there are plenty of bums but other than thats its quite clean

And it shall be nicer with teh Comcast center. *nods*
join PA that way i can finally go to Wildwood and not even leave the state :D

Ahh, Wildwood; where it take 3 hours to get from the boradwalk to the ocean!

I called for tech support once, got a person on the line with a really thick accent....can't place it, probably foreign, anyway, they claimed they couldn't understand me. :eek: I have an accent, I don't think it's hard to understand, but then again, I am me, so I listen to myself all the time. :p
Oh, you people from Oklahoma all sound alike. It's that twang thing. And the singing. I'll bet you were spelling O-k-l-a-h-o-m-a to Rogers and Hammerstein, weren't you? :)

Are you seriously calling Johnstown and Scranton cities? o.O

They technically are, even though they're much much smaller than Philly and Pitt. Scranton's got at least something out there, and it's a whole hell of a lot bigger than the 50 miles (and that's being nice) of nothing surrounding it in every direction.


Well, you're not from NJ. All you've seen of my state appears to be the turnpike and the industrial areas that surround it.

Well, this is the topic about stereotypes, meaning everyone knows about the Turnpike and the wasteland around it. There are some really nice areas I've been to. Jersey Shore can be rather nice. Del. Water Gap is nice country. Suburban areas even like Livingston and The Caldwells have their charm. At least it's not as decrepid as along the Turnpike north of the Freehold Exit. Eeeek.


South Jersey is all farms and Camden.

South Jersey hates New York. If anything, we secretly hope to be Philly.

And we should be a separate state, btw.

Aware. However, most people are only aware of the North and not South or Central. Then again, being from not the south or central, I really have no purpose of going to your Philly loving, God forsaken part of the state.


Philly is not old and grimey. Sure there's shit loads of hobos, but the buildings are perfect!

Oh, I wasn't talking about the hobos. And I wasn't talking about downtown either. Get about 15-20 blocks away from Market (east of 30th St) in either direction and welcome to hell. Or at least that's my particular view in the neighborhoods I ended up stumbling into (and quickly getting the hell out of.)

Chester is a hellhole, don't you agree?

Oh, I wasn't talking about the hobos. And I wasn't talking about downtown either. Get about 15-20 blocks away from Market (east of 30th St) in either direction and welcome to hell. Or at least that's my particular view in the neighborhoods I ended up stumbling into (and quickly getting the hell out of.)

Well, yes. I'll have to agree on the grime and the getting the hell out fast, on those areas. I got lost deep in the wasteland that is South Philly, once.. :(
Chester is a hellhole, don't you agree?

Not worse than Camden, though. :p

People from chicago are bastards...oh wait..thats always been the same.

I've got nothing :p


-edit- it would seem people from NYC are elitist dicks. Chicagoans are now "bastards"

I'm on the phone with the Blackhawks right now and I've contracted them to kick your ass!

People from Rhode Island are pirates. I'm serious. I'm from Connecticut, and I have to tell you, I've never met a Rhode Islander guy who didn't seem like he belonged swabbing the decks, or a Rhode Islander chick who didn't seem like a dirty pirate whore.

EDIT: Providence-ians? are also 'hardcore gangster'. Black and Italian.
LOL!

People from Florida and the Midwest seem to be the most genuinely stupid and ignorant.

Southern California people are airheads.

Despite how dumb southerners seem and how annoying it is to talk to them and listen to their drawl, I get the impression they have cultivated the slow-speaking to spite northerners, and that it is not indicative of slow brains.

Arizona is not being invaded by illegal immigrants.

Arizona is being invaded by armies of 60+ year old blue haired old ladies from Wisconsin who drive at 10 mph down the streets with their dresses hanging out the door and left blinker perpetually on. And their cranky cowboy wannabe husbands.

Quoted for truth. Especially the cowboy wannabe old guys...I hate those bastards. They always drive H2s or something similarly monstrous, and can't drive for shit.

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*

*ducks before Kat sees this*

True dat.

That brings me to the midwest, which I must say from my experience, is filled with the rudest assholes on the face of the planet. They're also mostly dumb, with the questions and scales needed repeating a god-awful number of times, coupled with stupid explanations: "What do you mean, overall?"

Oh, we in the midwest are extremely polite to everyone except people like telemarketers. We had some of the most evil strategies ever until the Do Not Call List. Also we indirectly harass door-to-door religious people. We'll try to convert them to satanism, say we're jewish and slam the door, if they walk behind us on the street we'll start talking about "tonight's meeting of the gay jewish wiccan abortionists".

Or maybe that's just my city.

Massachusetts is filled with people who can't speak the letter "R".

No, they just put all the "R"s on the ends of words that shouldn't have them. I hate every time I hear an old JFK speech and he says "Cuber".

I live in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Oh... I am so sorry. *sighs* I guess it gets the best of us. :p

1. We have HOUSES here. Not everyone lives in hotels here.

Yup, I don't know how many times I had to tell people that, no, I have never worked at a casino nor did I ever live in one.

3. Just because we have legalised prostitution doesn't mean the town is full of prostitutes. I found several in California. I searched all over the valley for some. Couldn't find any. I checked the Strip. The bad side of town with all the gang activity and most of the crime. None.
True story, a family I was giving a campus tour to from Oregon asked me, in all seriousness, if there was a legal brothel on the campus. I think the mother was rather put out when I told her that Reno does not allow legalized prostitution within city limits.

4. There's a bitter rivalry between Northern Nevada (where Reno and Cason City, the state capital are) and Southern Nevada, which includes the Vegas Valley. I think they should move the state capital to somewhere that isn't so north.
Where? Winnemucca? It's not our fault that you guys down south don't have any history and got started after the state was founded. ;)

5. Even though we live in the middle of a desert, people are surprised to find out that you have to pay to keep your water running. Nevada is the driest state in the Union. Las Vegas is in the driest part of the driest state.
The other fun one I've gotten is people asking me if I knew what grass, trees, and snow look like. Showing them a picture of Lake Tahoe in winter usually shut them up. ;)

No, they just put all the "R"s on the ends of words that shouldn't have them. I hate every time I hear an old JFK speech and he says "Cuber".

Which is why I refer to Massachusetts as the Land of the 25-1/2 Letter Alphabet. They don't use it when it's there (like in "car") and tack it onto words where it's not, usually those that end in "a."

Hey, I thought it was a good idear... ;)

I've lived in both NY and NJ and find both to be quite wonderful places to reside. You want to talk about smelling, Staten Island ring a bell? One giant trash heep, oh and there's houses there too. Sorry, being from both Brooklyn and NJ it's easy to pound on SI. ;)

>.> Just because Staten Island is a weird mix of NYC and NJ, does not mean you have a right to pound on it! (I just moved here two years ago from Brooklyn. -sigh-) Anyway, the Staten Island dump was a long time ago and I haven't smelled anything here since long before I moved.

Also, eastern Indiana is hicksville. The very epitome thereof. (Or at least West Harrison is...) and it's only thirty miles away from Cincy, OH!

New Jersey: Corrupt
Louisiana: Even more corrupt
Hawaii: "Hey round eyes! Get back to the lower 48!"
Alaska: Ignore us, we're not here.
Texas: - the Bill of Rights speaks only of God, Guns and Football
Florida: retired carpet-baggers and scallywags, right-wing Cubans
Georgia: Alabama with an Atlanta
Mississippi: The civil war never ended.
South Carolina: We second that.

Haven't been anywhere else in the US, so I can't stereotype.

The Northeast: Elietest assholes
The Midwest: Boring, laidback people who are nice to you if you are nice to them.
The South: Nice and polite people but horribly racist, and I'm not just talking about the white people either.
The Left Coast: Says it all right there ...

The Northeast: Elietest assholes
The Midwest: Boring, laidback people who are nice to you if you are nice to them.
The South: Nice and polite people but horribly racist, and I'm not just talking about the white people either.
The Left Coast: Says it all right there ...

I can't speak for the South as a whole, but when I was in ATL I found that everyone - black and white (men that is) - just wanted to get into my pants .... and I'm a guy. So my impression of that Southern City is that it's one big gay rompfest all year round.

Georgia: Alabama with an Atlanta

Now THAT is funny! :D

Alabama: Hell Yes, We Have Electricity

Alaska: 11,623 Eskimos Can't Be Wrong!

Arizona: But It's A Dry Heat

Arkansas: Literacy Ain't Everything

California: By 30, Our Women Have More Plastic Than Your Honda

Colorado: If You Don't Ski, Don't Bother

Connecticut: Like Massachusetts, Only The Kennedy's Don't Own It-Yet

Delaware: We Really Do Like The Chemicals In Our Water

Florida: Ask Us About Our Grandkids

Georgia: We Put The "Fun" In Fundamentalist Extremism

Hawaii: Haka Tiki Mou Sha'ami Leeki Toru (Death To Mainland Scum, But Leave Your Money)

Idaho: More Than Just Potatoes ... Well Okay We're Not, But The Potatoes Sure Are Real Good

Illinois: Please Don't Pronounce the "S"

Indiana: 2 Billion Years Tidal Wave Free

Iowa: We Do Amazing Things With Corn

Kansas: First Of The Rectangle States

Kentucky: Five Million People; Fifteen Last Names

Louisiana: We're Not ALL Drunk Cajun Wackos, But That's Our Tourism Campaign

Maine: We're Really Cold, But We Have Cheap Lobster

Maryland: If You Can Dream It, We Can Tax It

Massachusetts: Our taxes are less Than Sweden's (For Most Tax Brackets)

Michigan: First Line Of Defense From The Canadians

Minnesota: 10,000 Lakes... And 10,000,000,000,000 Mosquitoes

Mississippi: Come And Feel Better About Your Own State

Missouri: Your Federal Flood Relief Tax Dollars At Work

Montana: Land Of The Big Sky, The Unabomber, Right-wing Crazies, And Very Little Else

Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest

Nevada: Hookers and Poker!

New Hampshire: Go Away And Leave Us Alone

New Jersey: You Want A ##$%##! Motto? I Got Yer ##$%##! Motto Right Here!

New Mexico: UFO Spotting For 50 years

New York: You Have The Right To Remain Silent, You Have The Right To An Attorney ...

North Carolina: Tobacco Is A Vegetable

North Dakota: We Really Are One Of The 50 States!

Ohio: At Least We're Not Michigan

Oklahoma: Like The Play, Only No Singing

Oregon: Spotted Owl... It's What's For Dinner

Pennsylvania: Cook With Coal

Rhode Island: We're Not REALLY An Island

South Carolina: Remember The Civil War? We Didn't Actually Surrender

South Dakota: Closer Than North Dakota

Tennessee: The Educashun State

Texas: Si' Hablo Ing'les (Yes, I Speak English)

Utah: Our Jesus Is Better Than Your Jesus

Vermont: Yep

Virginia: Who Says Government Stiffs And Slackjaw Yokels Don't Mix?

Washington: Help! We're Overrun By Nerds And Slackers!

Washington, D.C.:Wanna Be Mayor?

West Virginia: One Big Happy Family... Really!

Wisconsin: Come Cut The Cheese

Wyoming: Where Men Are Men ... and the sheep are scared
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I remember that from years ago, but they changed it. Washington originally read, "Help! We've been overrun by geeks, liberals, and other slackers!" Likewise, California was, "As seen on TV - sin, sex, sun, and fun." And I love New Hampshire's alternate motto the best.

Hmmm...what can we say about Ohio.

All we care about is Ohio State football. OK, this one seems to be pretty true. And we're fucking mean about it. Even when our team's winning, it's not good enough. And when we lose a big game, it's worse than if someone important dies. And no matter how good the Buckeyes are, plenty of people want to fire the coach. Just for the sake of firing him.

All there is in Ohio is Cincinnati, Cleveland, and a bunch of cows. Yes, overlook that big city in the middle that's the fucking capital and has the largest population in the state. It's a piddling college town that it home to a bunch of cattle farmers. After all, the airport code "CMH" stands for "Cows Meet Here." In actuality, my wife grew up in Columbus and didn't see a cow up close until she was 19.

Columbus tries to be a big city, Cleveland tries not to be the Mistake on the Lake, and Cincinnati tries to be known for something other than the racist who used to own the Reds. Ohio has contributed many things to the world - White Castle, Skyline Chili, Wendy's, and Bob Evans. Yet, as far as their culinary prowess, everyone knows that the better food comes from places like Texas Roadhouse and California Pizza Kitchen.

And yes, most of us pretty much want to get the hell out of Ohio. But at least no one named Taft is the governor anymore.

The Northeast: Elietest assholes

What about the Mid-Atlantic?

>.> Just because Staten Island is a weird mix of NYC and NJ, does not mean you have a right to pound on it! (I just moved here two years ago from Brooklyn. -sigh-) Anyway, the Staten Island dump was a long time ago and I haven't smelled anything here since long before I moved. !

HAHAHAHAHAhahhaa..... Staten Island.... Hahaha... ha... ha...

Where were you in Brooklyn?

Oh, we in the midwest are extremely polite to everyone except people like telemarketers. We had some of the most evil strategies ever until the Do Not Call List. Also we indirectly harass door-to-door religious people. We'll try to convert them to satanism, say we're jewish and slam the door, if they walk behind us on the street we'll start talking about "tonight's meeting of the gay jewish wiccan abortionists".

Or maybe that's just my city.

I'm still trying to figure out what he means by midwest, are we talking like Iowa, Kansas and such or Ohio and places like that that like to claim at being some how part of the midwest, despite being as close to the west as Idaho is Idaho is to the east. I'll agree though we tend to be quite polite and frankly its rather idiotic to judge the politness of people in regions based on how they respond when complete strangers call them in the middle of dinner and harass them by trying to either sell shit or asking a bunch of questions. As for the questions things maybe if you people would speak in an understandably like us, after all thats why so much telecomunication buisness is done from here, it wouldn't be a problem.

http://www.area51newmexico.com/statemottos.php

:)"Nebraska: Ask About Our State Motto Contest" :confused: I don't get it.

PS:yes I see the irony of this post.

Let's see.

Massachusetts is filled with people who can't speak the letter "R".
So what? You got a fuckin' problem with people who can't pronounce "ah". aww damn, I did it again.
They're also a bunch of tree hugging liberals, many of whom are gay, .
not me
And those who aren't gay, you're Irish.
Damn, you got me
All the Irish vs. Anti-Irish feeling makes the place the most racist part of the country, only really good at hiding it. Bullshit
Connecticut are a bunch of spoiled stupid brats who hire illegal immigrants to do simple chores for them. They drive around in expensive cars and live in million dollar McMansions.
I agree with you there. Connecticunts should secede from New England.
New Yorkers don't know how to drive, as you can tell by them weaving in and out of lanes at 90 miles an hour in their giganto SUVs and yapping on cell phones. Biggest attitude problems in the country, bunch of total whiners too.
Damn, I thought the speed limit was 90:confused: I gotta drive 90 to prevent my car from getting rear ended. I drive 65 but as soon as I hit New York I floor that motherfucker. It something about that state that just makes me want to get out in a hurry. Must be the New York Yankees.:p
Pennsylvania: Two parts: Cities like Philadelphia, Chester, Scranton, Pittsburgh, Johnstown... old grimey buildings and filled with scum people. Everywhere else: middle of nowhere and home to your grandparents.
You forgot Harrisburg, another shithole you left out. People there and everywhere in PA suck. Can't wait to get the hell out in June

And it shall be nicer with teh Comcast center. *nods*


Ahh, Wildwood; where it take 3 hours to get from the boradwalk to the ocean!

I saw a projected version of what it'll look like its awesome :cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Comcast_southeast_elevation.gif



You forgot Harrisburg, another shithole you left out. People there and everywhere in PA suck. Can't wait to get the hell out in June

hey Harrisburg may be a little dirty but we definatly have the coolest state capitol building in the US

Despite how dumb southerners seem and how annoying it is to talk to them and listen to their drawl, I get the impression they have cultivated the slow-speaking to spite northerners, and that it is not indicative of slow brains.

Shhhh... someone might be listening. ;)

hey Harrisburg may be a little dirty but we definatly have the coolest state capitol building in the USPfft, our capital building is cooler, bet is has a beter nickname too.;)

Hmmm...what can we say about Ohio.

All we care about is Ohio State football. OK, this one seems to be pretty true. And we're fucking mean about it. Even when our team's winning, it's not good enough. And when we lose a big game, it's worse than if someone important dies. And no matter how good the Buckeyes are, plenty of people want to fire the coach. Just for the sake of firing him.

All there is in Ohio is Cincinnati, Cleveland, and a bunch of cows. Yes, overlook that big city in the middle that's the fucking capital and has the largest population in the state. It's a piddling college town that it home to a bunch of cattle farmers. After all, the airport code "CMH" stands for "Cows Meet Here." In actuality, my wife grew up in Columbus and didn't see a cow up close until she was 19.

Columbus tries to be a big city, Cleveland tries not to be the Mistake on the Lake, and Cincinnati tries to be known for something other than the racist who used to own the Reds. Ohio has contributed many things to the world - White Castle, Skyline Chili, Wendy's, and Bob Evans. Yet, as far as their culinary prowess, everyone knows that the better food comes from places like Texas Roadhouse and California Pizza Kitchen.

And yes, most of us pretty much want to get the hell out of Ohio. But at least no one named Taft is the governor anymore.
You need to get out more. Go down to Athens/Hocking County and camp in the park. That's a great part of the state. You also need to get up to Toledo for one of Tony Packo's hot dogs.

People from New York are elitists dicks who deny my state's existence. *nods*



Only the atheists deny New Jersey exists.

The rest of believe in Hell.

I seem to notice that there is a general decrease in good drivers, freedom, etc. as you get closer to the coasts of the country. The people in the center seem the nicest (not midwest)

Here's one I remember reading.

Delaware: We put the "Del" in "Delmarva!"

Northern California: *sound of a bong rip*

And thats all I got. Funny thing is, it appears to be true.

You need to get out more. Go down to Athens/Hocking County and camp in the park. That's a great part of the state. You also need to get up to Toledo for one of Tony Packo's hot dogs.

I won't deny that there are a few good parts of the state (and I went to college in Athens...nothing wrong with that) but, in terms of the big cities, it's shithole after shithole. And the rest of the state is nice, but completely without cell phone reception.

I won't deny that there are a few good parts of the state (and I went to college in Athens...nothing wrong with that) but, in terms of the big cities, it's shithole after shithole. And the rest of the state is nice, but completely without cell phone reception.

I grew up on a farm near Findlay. I thought that Columbus was fun during my Ohio State years -- '75 to '79.

I don't understand why psople keep saying that Southerners are friendly. I spent 20 years in CSA and they were mostly rude, suspicious, judgemental, provincial people who couldn't keep their nose out of anyone's business and then gossiped about it to anyone who would listen.

Here's one I remember reading.

Delaware: We put the "Del" in "Delmarva!"

Or, imagine being magically transported to... Delaware!

. . .

Hi, I'm in Delaware. . .

:D

Pfft, our capital building is cooler, bet is has a beter nickname too.;)

no way :p

hey Harrisburg may be a little dirty but we definatly have the coolest state capitol building in the US

I hate the Harrisburg area. Just.. HATE. Lancaster sucks, also.

And it shall be awesome!