Which do you most self-identify with: city?, state?, US? (live, store)

[Tom Lennox 70]

I identify as a Southerner and American equally. ALthough especially with all the radical cultural changes on the national level in the past 10 years or so sometimes I wonder if I'm truly a typical American anymore. But here in the South, most people are like me culturally, religiously, and lifestyle wise. I watch the news and feel like the rest of America seems to have gone crazy sometimes but there is still a lot of common sense and good traditional values here in Louisiana (I live in an "exurban" area outside Baton Rouge and was raised in a conservative New Orleans suburb that is worlds apart from the city itself) and I find that very comforting. I do feel that the Deep South is where traditional American values and patriotism is strongest. (many people who hate the Confederate also hate the American flag such as Colin Kaepernick's supporters and the SJW always coming out of the woodwork these days....the people who want statues of Confederate heroes removed are cut from the same cloth as people who say we shouldn't honor George Washington or Christopher Columbus).

I lived 4 truly wonderful years in West Virginia in the southern part of that state and the culture there to me was still Southern with many similarities to Louisiana.

After that I think of myself as a Louisianan and then as an American. I definitely see myself as an American more than I see myself as a "World citizen" and I identify with being Southern, Louisianan, American, and Christian more than I do with my race/ethnicity. I do have equally sized American and Confederate flags hanging in my house.

[More Rock]

The Pacific Southwest....California, Nevada, Arizona.

[sean1the1]

The USA definitely has become the identity I agree with lately all I want is the very best for this nation, and the then the world comes after.

[Pemgin]

City. I find the majority of my state and much of the country embarrassing.

[Willamette City]

I'm from Oregon and proud of it!

[lvmensch]

USA all the way...USA USA USA.

For lots of reasons I will no longer live anywhere other than the Pacific SW. But I can be bought to anywhere.

Born in Manhattan. So NYC forever.
2 years in Elizabethtown OH.
12 years in Louisville KY. Took 50 years before I went back...for a family celebration..but it marked me
1 year on Long Island -finished High School. Nick named rebel because I talked funny. Mild southern with NYC.
1 year in Queens NY
4 years in Bronx NY
10 years in Rochester NY
2 Years in Orange County CA
3 years in Rochester NY
12 years in Orange County CA...Spent 2 days a week in Dallas TX for a couple of years and a week a month in London for a couple of years.
22 years in Las Vegas.

So wherever...as long as USA.

[JeepCSC]

I’m American when I’m talking to foreigners (they love it when I say it loudly). I’m Southern when I’m talking to Yankees (they love it when I slip “reckon” and “mercy me” into my sentences). I’m from Raleigh when talking to most people.

[JeepCSC]

Originally Posted by C24L

I see myself more as a Texan than American.

Take it from a non-Texan, we feel the same way about y’all.

[capoeira]

Originally Posted by Pemgin

City. I find the majority of my state and much of the country embarrassing.

I find my city extremely embarrassing and think my state is the worst in the USA. I identify as an individual. My self identity is not based any location.

[JJG]

City.