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The whole "Connecticut is a mini-NY" stereotype. It's really not. Perhaps Fairfield County because of all the NYers living there, but the rest of CT is very New England-y. Especially the area I live in (NW CT). Small towns, charming little shops and Victorian homes, people wearing flannel and John Deere hats, wilderness, long windy roads, Red Sox fans...
Eastern "quiet corner" CT is fairly New England-y too. NW CT just shares a bit of Western Mass culture since both are in the Berkshires.
Also, lived here all my life and never seen this so-called "Manhattan Clam Chowder" here. I've only seen the New England Clam Chowder.
Yes, there are NY Yankee fans here. So what? I've seen Yankees fans in Mass and Vermont too.
Most of us don't own a horse. Hell, most of us haven't been on a horse in decades - if ever.
We actually have a vibrant arts scene.
Texas has some very cosmopolitan areas.
One stereotype though strikes me as very true, and that is that Texans don't give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about them. We are very independent.
Regions. LOL @ that. That one is practically a relic. Useless as can be in the 21st century. American culture is unifying. We're mobile people and our numbers influence the rest of the country. Americanization. Welcome to the 21st century.
Yes, it is even hard to identify a southern accent in younger people, especially girls. Even in places like Richmond, Charlotte, and Raleigh, they sound like MTV.
More people move for work and wind up scattered around, and we are connected by tv and internet.
I don't know if it is possible to know a city or region, you can only know your part of it. Two different people can live in the same neighborhood and have different experiences altogether - frequenting different restaurants and living a different culture. You can know what people tend to do, but we are long past the times when everyone in town did one thing.
Most of us don't own a horse. Hell, most of us haven't been on a horse in decades - if ever.
We actually have a vibrant arts scene.
Texas has some very cosmopolitan areas.
One stereotype though strikes me as very true, and that is that Texans don't give a rat's ass what anyone else thinks about them. We are very independent.
Even I thought Texas was all flat, dry, empty. I pictured it like the images of the Coyote chasing the roadrunner type image for the entire state. I never imagined it to have major metropolitan areas like Houston or as lush as East Texas.
The biggest one is "there's nothing there" - in spite of the fact that Maryland is the 5th most densely populated state. lol.
Yeah, I think it's because there is so much farmland. It's weird that Pennsylvania and New York never get hit with that, though, despite all their farmland.
Delaware is also mostly farmland, but lacks the major population centers that Maryland has.
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