<p>Skate, if you’re going to Tufts in the Fall you’d better get used to NY accents!</p>
<p>Regionalism is just as bad in Cali. and the South. I’ve met plenty of people who think that California is the only part of the country that is worth living in. And I haven’t seen in person but has heard of plenty Southerners being a little too proud of being from the South. </p>
<p>So, it’s nost just in the NE.</p>
<p>And to whoever said NYC is in a league of its own… Not everybody wants that. If I had to stay in NYC for more than three days, I’d shoot myself. I’d much rather live in a city like Boston. (Or do you not consider that a city…)</p>
<p>LogicWarrior said: “California has the most regionalism, almost no one goes to school outside California. The top students go to Stanford and Pomona, then the rest of the top tier goes to UCs and USC . . .”</p>
<p>Yep, helps to stay in-state if your state funds and values top notch public universities.</p>
<p>Not so in the NE, which relies much more on private institutions, and tends to look down on public institutions as a class, independent of location.</p>
<p>Which is how the UCs and some CA state colleges stayed an in-house secret for so long, and fed into the NE view that CA wasn’t worth the plane flight for college - except for the begrudged respect for Cal Tech.</p>
<p>Cat’s out of the bag now.</p>
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<p>Yeah I knew some people like that in my own northeastern school. They were supremely annoying.</p>
<p>I quickly ran through the USNWR top fifty liberal arts colleges, and thirty of them are easily within a day’s drive for me. Why apply to the [comparatively few] colleges I wouldn’t be able to visit, that would require expensive plane tickets to come home? I suppose I can’t speak for the entire Northeast, but for me personally it’s more of an issue of distance from home than wanting to be in this region specifically. And I definitely don’t believe that the only colleges worth going to are in the Northeast-I’ve said the sentence “Why does _____ College have to be so far away?” more times than I can count.</p>
<p>Regionalism is definitely rampant in California and the Northeast.</p>
<p>The Midwest, from their perspectives, is considered flyover country. The Midwest has some excellent public and private universities.</p>
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<p>I don’t think you quite understand why southerners might not want to move out of the South. My reasons personally are the fact that I don’t like the weather outside of the South and the people are simply not as friendly in the northeast/out west.</p>
<p>Having spent 40 years traveling around the country, I think each region has its misperceptions about how it stacks up vs. the rest and this thread has featured many of them. Much of it results from failing to understand that all regions have their internal differences–New York State, for example, has beautiful mountains and the people there relate better to people on Iowa farms or the Rockies more than New York City dwellers (who have no trouble relating to people from Chicago, Atlanta, San Francisco, etc).</p>
<p>And when people describe why they like their own regions, it is “pride”; when they describe people who like other regions, they say they are “parochial” or “prejudiced.”</p>
<p>One trait all regions have in common is believing their own people are the most genuinely nice, with the others being either more hostile or more phony.</p>