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I would imagine Southern stereotypes are similar to what the rest of us hold, but what about the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast? Do these areas come off as boring and stuck in the past, or conversely as full of interesting history?
As someone that grew up in California and Colorado, I find that the eastern part of the country is very underestimated and dumped on. Now that I live in the Midwest, I find it so much different than what the stereotype suggests.
I work with a good amount of West Coast natives and a large portion of them seem to be pretty oblivious about anything that goes on east of the Front Range, especially my Californian friends. It was pretty surprising when I first
moved here. Just my own experience though, can't speak for others.
There's obviously much more history in the Eastern US (excluding NM and some of AZ), and you can feel it as you walk around. Old buildings are just not there in quantity in places like CO Springs where most things were built post 1950. Small (non tourist) towns in the west feel just as much if not more stuck in the past than smaller towns in the east, say places like Leadville CO or Trinidad CO.
Unless they have family there, it seems like people in the west are generally clueless about the interior of the country in between the coasts, with Californians being the most detached.
One thing about driving west to east is going through the arid high plains feels like you drop off the face of civilization until it re-emerges in the eastern part of the plains states. There's so many ghost or near ghost towns.
I would imagine Southern stereotypes are similar to what the rest of us hold, but what about the Midwest, Mid-Atlantic, and Northeast? Do these areas come off as boring and stuck in the past, or conversely as full of interesting history?
Much of the south is in the eastern half of the US hence the term southeast.
Unless they have family there, it seems like people in the west are generally clueless about the interior of the country in between the coasts, with Californians being the most detached.
Let's not pretend that exclusively a western thing. There are plenty of elitist east coasters who think there's nothing worth their time between the Appalachians and Sierras as well.
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