Indiana stereotypes? (Bloomington, Kokomo, Peru: houses, live, military)

[rebelyeller]

Well my grandpa was born and raised in Medora, Indiana and he had a sort of backwoods/southern talk about him which I though was odd but it wasnt very strong and he was from Southern Indiana and all his Ancestors were from way down South so I figured that was what it was.

[Future Trooper]

Originally Posted by Interpol76

Extremely conservative, dumb hicks, full of white trash, very antisocial, un-neighborly, introverted people who tend to marry early in age. I've lived out of state (Cali, Montana and Texas) and have never heard anybody say anything nice about Indiana except: "isnt that where Michael Jackson is from?".

I TAKE BRUTAL INDIGNATION TO YOUR STATEMENT
INDIANA IS NOT FULL OF WHITE TRASH, WE ARE NOT ANTI-SOCIAL, WE ARE NOT UN-NEIGHBORLY,AND WE ARE NOT INTROVERTED INDIANA IS FULL OF KIND, HONEST AND HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO WOULD ALWAYS HELP A NEIGHBOR IN NEED OR HELP A STRANDAD MOTORIST THERE IS ALOT OF GREAT THINGS ABOUT INDIANA. INDIANA HAS A LOW CRIME RATE, GREAT SCHOOLS, LOTS OF FUN STUFF TO DO, PEOPLE IN INDIANA ARE HONEST GOD FEARING AMERICANS WHO HAVE GOOD MORALS AND ARE NOT INTROVERTED IF YOU HEARD YOUR INFO ABOUT INDIANA PROBABLY THAT INFO IS FOR INDY OR NW INDIANA IF THATS WHERE YOU HEARD IT THEN JUST BECAUSE YOU HEAR BAD THINGS ABOUT ONE AREA DONT JUST ASSUME THE WHOLE STATE IS BAD INDY AND NW INDIANA DONT REPRESENT INDIANA IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL INDIANA YOU WOULD GO OUT INTO THE COUNTRYSIDE AND SEE REAL PEOPLE BESIDES YOU AREN'T FROM INDIANA SO WHY IN THE WORLD ARE YOU SAYING BAD STUFF ABOUT A STATE THAT YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO? WOUD YOU LIKE IT IF I SAID CALI OR MONTANA WAS A PIECE OF SH** NO YOU WOULDNT! YES MICHAEL JACKSON IS FROM INDIANA BUT HE IS A ABOMINABLE EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE FROM INDIANA!

[lyndsaynicole]

Originally Posted by Jay_F

I'm a Pittsburgh area native living in S. Indiana, and fully agree with everything you wrote, but you dig forget buggy for your groceries . Funny how these folks have no idea what a jagger bush, gumband, or that it's ahiah, not Ohio. How do do yinz like Indiana and that?

Haha-Yinz-my grandma says that all the time! I like it okay I suppose....I don't like Indianapolis that much. I would move to Northwest Indiana to be near Chicago. I would move back to Cleveland. But I'm not staying in Indianapolis.

Oh-here's another one for you. Tree lawn. I say that to people...and they have NO IDEA what the hell it is. I'm like "it's where you set your trash cans on garbage day...it's the area of grass between the street and the sidewalk".

[j33]

gdude - whoa there, this thread is about stereotypes, not reality, and turn off your 'caps lock' key while you are at it, would ya?

[skyeINIL]

I don't know if this is an Indiana thing or just peculiar to the small town I lived in, but I've heard people refer to a vacuum cleaner as a "sweeper".

[Haaziq]

I was born in Indy and moved back just last year. I'll be here until I go off to college. I'll just talk from my own experiences.

There is a lot of white trash in some areas. Not all, but some.
There are a lot of racists here. I experienced it firsthand a few weeks ago.
People drive so bad in Indy, I'm surprised they don't get arrested. Almost nobody uses their turn signals, including the police.
You can turn and still be on the same street (they have many streets that stay the same when you turn and others that change when you go straight).
There are a lot of Haitian cab services.
The people here talk like they're from Alabama. I swear I thought I was at a family reunion when I moved back to Indy (most of my family is from Birmingham).
There are a lot of homosexual people here and they're not in the closet either (nothing against homosexuals). I've seen some as young as middle school age.
People don't accept job applications in person with the exception of fast food restaurants.
They say education is good, but Indianapolis has so many colleges, it's unbelievable. They probably have more than Los Angeles and New York. Don't see how they need them when Indianapolis Public Schools reported that less than 50% percent of high schoolers even graduate. Must be out-of-state people for the most part.
The mayor wants the word black taken out of everything. Here there is a Black Expo every July. It's about a week long and it's all about black culture. He wants to change it to the Indianapolis expo, yet, he doesn't say anything about the Italian festivals or any other cultural events.

I think that's it.

[ChickeyDuck]

Originally Posted by skye1974

I don't know if this is an Indiana thing or just peculiar to the small town I lived in, but I've heard people refer to a vacuum cleaner as a "sweeper".

LMAO Oh pooo, I need to go sweep my carpet with my sweeper. I know, I know it sounds funny doesn't it....but I have always been guilty. I too call it a sweeper

[Interpol76]

Originally Posted by gdude

I TAKE BRUTAL INDIGNATION TO YOUR STATEMENT
INDIANA IS NOT FULL OF WHITE TRASH, WE ARE NOT ANTI-SOCIAL, WE ARE NOT UN-NEIGHBORLY,AND WE ARE NOT INTROVERTED INDIANA IS FULL OF KIND, HONEST AND HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO WOULD ALWAYS HELP A NEIGHBOR IN NEED OR HELP A STRANDAD MOTORIST THERE IS ALOT OF GREAT THINGS ABOUT INDIANA. INDIANA HAS A LOW CRIME RATE, GREAT SCHOOLS, LOTS OF FUN STUFF TO DO, PEOPLE IN INDIANA ARE HONEST GOD FEARING AMERICANS WHO HAVE GOOD MORALS AND ARE NOT INTROVERTED IF YOU HEARD YOUR INFO ABOUT INDIANA PROBABLY THAT INFO IS FOR INDY OR NW INDIANA IF THATS WHERE YOU HEARD IT THEN JUST BECAUSE YOU HEAR BAD THINGS ABOUT ONE AREA DONT JUST ASSUME THE WHOLE STATE IS BAD INDY AND NW INDIANA DONT REPRESENT INDIANA IF YOU WANT TO SEE THE REAL INDIANA YOU WOULD GO OUT INTO THE COUNTRYSIDE AND SEE REAL PEOPLE BESIDES YOU AREN'T FROM INDIANA SO WHY IN THE WORLD ARE YOU SAYING BAD STUFF ABOUT A STATE THAT YOU HAVE NEVER BEEN TO? WOUD YOU LIKE IT IF I SAID CALI OR MONTANA WAS A PIECE OF SH** NO YOU WOULDNT! YES MICHAEL JACKSON IS FROM INDIANA BUT HE IS A ABOMINABLE EXAMPLE OF SOMEONE FROM INDIANA!

Whoa there stallion.....First of all, these are things people have said to ME when I have told THEM that i am FROM Indiana. I never said I agree with all of these stereotypes, but I do find it humerous that most people believe we live in such a backwards state. I've even had two people tell me that they were so horrified by Indiana's ugly scenery and scary towns that they refused to stop while traveling through the state. Which makes no sense because Ohio and Illinois is just as boring, and have just as many freakish dives (but, doesnt every state?).

[regionrat1]

35% Dixie. You are definitely a Yankee. Oh yeah yankee!!! Lets go Union

[regionrat1]

Originally Posted by ChickeyDuck

LMAO Oh pooo, I need to go sweep my carpet with my sweeper. I know, I know it sounds funny doesn't it....but I have always been guilty. I too call it a sweeper

I know never heard it being a vacuum cleaner till I was in school. Even then all the teachers still called it a sweeper. I laughed over my stereotypes in California when my Ex-Wife's family got up set when I said sweeper or pop they kept correcting me and I LMAO so hard I almost peed my pants because thier family believed the only place you should live is California and the only way you should talk is California style as my Ex called it. They told me that "all Indiana people need to go to California to get speech lessons to talk normal" they said. She also said what was wrong is "how your family raised you to say these horrible things was just not right". I thought wow they really had nothing better to do but insult the way I talk.