<p>South? Like sweet tea, huge white mansions. Yes ma’am, no ma’am. People are supposed to be warm and endearing. HUGE accent.</p>
<p>^That’s all deep south stuff</p>
<p>Then you have Kentucky that gets made fun of a lot (no shoes, you married your cousin?), Tennessee (Country Music capital) that are in between the Deep South and the Midwest.</p>
<p>but is there a difference between eastern and western south?</p>
<p>I love Midwestern stereotypes the most because most of them are relatively accurate. Sausage eating, Pilsner drinking, overweight individuals.</p>
<p>Well, Texas is sort of a different animal. As you know, Texas is the lone star state (since there was a time when it was its own country before it joined the USA) and it’s also the biggest state in the contiguous 48. The people of Texas are REAAALLY proud of this fact.</p>
<p>So, Texas, more than any other state is considered to be very loud and arrogant. There are many such stereotypes and idiosyncrasies that are Texas’ alone.</p>
<p>But at the same time, Texas was a Southern state that had ties with the Confederacy during the civil war, so sometimes it gets thrown in with the the whole “racist, uncultured bigot” stereotype that the Deep South is known for. BUT, Texas also borders Mexico and is basically a desert, so some of the stereotypes about the Southwestern states (that you must be a Mexican, or a cowboy, or a tanned-skin, dumb blonde if you live there) are things that one might expect to be true about Texans as well.</p>
<p>When I think of Southwestern states like Arizona, New Mexico or Nevada, there is a tendency to think of them as being filled with Mexicans (whether legal or illegal), dumb, tanned blondes, and cowboys. </p>
<p>When I think of the Southeastern states like Alabama, Mississippi or Arkansas, I sometimes think of trailer parks, NASCAR, lynch mobs, rednecks and plantation folk. </p>
<p>Neither set of stereotypes is entirely true, of course, but they are different, I promise.</p>
<p>Thank you! That’ll probably be useful to know at some point in time. On a similar note, I’d be interested in knowing what the usual stereotypes are for various colleges.</p>
<p>Harvard we know but it’s always funny to repeat.
Yale?
Dartmouth = partyin’, partyin’
Brown?
UPenn?
Williams?</p>
<p>Of course, not all stereotypes are negative. I hear that Southeasterners are very outwardly polite, and that Southwesterners are fun-loving and relaxed.</p>
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<p>Correct! I suppose my location made it a little obvious…</p>
<p>Hmm…well, in the most general sense, all of those schools with the exception of Williams are Ivy League schools, and all Ivy League schools (plus, some other top schools) tend to be viewed the same way by the general public here in the USA. </p>
<p>I guess I wouldn’t know what subtle nuances differentiate them as far as stereotypes go, only to say that Brown is the pothead Ivy and Harvard and Yale are very much rivals.</p>
<p>only on CC would someone be more interested in stereotypes about colleges than stereotypes about states. apologies for narrow-mindedness.</p>
<p>Haha well, suffice it to say that all of those schools (except Williams, which I don’t really know too much about) and especially Harvard and Yale are viewed as being well-guarded bastions of intelligence, meant for only those who have proven themselves worthy to enter and attend class. They’re sort of transcendent, detached from the day-to-day trials and tribulations which the average American faces–respected for the knowledge they hold, but feared for their exclusivity and east coast elitism, which many (well, most) Americans can’t exactly relate to.</p>
<p>State: We are all country people who don’t live in modern housing. That we all go to rodeos and etc.</p>
<p>School: We are all super nerds.</p>
<p>“OOOOklahoma! Where the wind comes sweeping down the plain…!”</p>
<p>State: “don’t cha know”, hockey, Scandinavians, cow tippers, very very very nice</p>
<p>School: our nickname is the cake eaters, basically everyone hates us cause were the best, dominant at hockey, snotty girls, but they’re freaking babes.</p>
<p>^Uh oh. I knew it wouldn’t be long before we got someone from Minny to show up…</p>
<p>O ya. Also, f*** the packers ;)</p>
<p>Humph. Tell me, when you go cow tipping, do you cross the border and find a dairy farm? Or do you just head over to the sorority houses at U of M? ;)</p>
<p>Oooooo big dawg!! Well first off I’m an Irish fan, so get at me. And I also have mad respect for Madison so no hate here. What city are you from? Not trying to be creepy btw.</p>
<p>Alright, respect. I’m closer to Lake Michigan than Minny, so it probably wouldn’t be a town you’ve heard of.</p>
<p>Ahh alright. I’m a suburb of Minneapolis. Seen mighty ducks? Yep.</p>