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How did they form? What are their specific traits? Stereotypes (even untrue, if marked as such)?
If cultural differences coincide with geography, please mention in, too.

In the questions about weird things people from different continents do somebody pointed out, that Europeans have little knowledge of this, so please fix my ignorance.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • East coast: old money, lots of drinking, cold weather, violence, power, liberalism, deciduous forests
  • Southeast: southern hospitality, shithole school systems, conservativism, sweet tea, food influenced by french cuisine, nascar, lush vegetation
  • Southwest: cowboys, ranch homes, cultural mixing with Mexico, drugs, art, desert and mountains
  • West coast (basically california): hollywood, progressivism, new money, asian-pacific food influences, hippies, poop, surfing
  • Northwest: best weed, created grunge genre, rainy, dismal, chill, northern european food influences, rainforests
  • North-middle: liminal space, copy-pasted terrain, independent/libertarian, wheat, sparsely populated
  • Midest: mix of conservative and liberal, plains farmland, cozy houses, desperate to define itself culturally (see Chicago architectural publications), corn, soybeans, and pigs, neutral accent, german and polish food influence

source: memory

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Southeast: southern hospitality

Should be "southern hospitality" in quotation marks. Rudest bunch you'll ever meet unless you are exactly like them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Nah we're never rude, they're all compliments.

Well bless your heart, I would never have the courage to wear something like that in public like you do.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've found DC to be the rudest bunch of people I've ever met. Everywhere I've gone in DC the people are just totally rude assholes. Everywhere I've been in the south has just been nice, polite, helpful people.

[–] galloog1 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I found it to be exactly the opposite. Everyone in DC is doing interesting things. There is a lot of passion and hard work as well. They mostly shy away from direct politics in a town that is incredibly political by its very nature. I've been helped on the street more by average people than I ever was around Atlanta, New Orleans, or the spaces between.

[–] Cryophilia 1 points 1 year ago

DC might be part of the South, depending on who you ask

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Southern Hospitality, as long as you don't get to know them, and you're not black

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I’m literally talking about hospitality, as in the actions in the home, that others would call the hospitality industry.

I mean when you arrive they’ll offer you some tea and the furniture will look a certain way, and they’re likely to have a tray they carry those glasses on, and it’s already made, and there’s a whole set of food you traditionally entertain with, etc.

That whole set of behaviors is what I’m calling southern hospitality. Nothing beyond that.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The South(east) as a whole should not be lumped in with the Cajuns.

[–] Cryophilia 3 points 1 year ago

Louisiana and especially New Orleans are really their own thing. They just caucus with the South.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I was thinking specifically of an apple cobbler recipe I once did that had me dotting the whole pan with butter after the end, which I thought was a French technique. Turns out cobbler’s got English origins not French.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ah, okay. Yeah, IIRC Scotland also contributed a lot of the really grease-heavy dishes to the no-spice parts of the South.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What about breading on fish and chicken? Where does that originate?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I don't know, and a quick search doesn't turn up anything. If they had moved over from Reddit I'd say it's a good question for AskHistorians.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

West coast (basically california): hollywood, progressivism, new money, asian-pacific food influences, hippies, poop, surfing

One of these is not like the others.

[–] PP_BOY_ 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, most of the real hippies moved towards the rockies a few decades ago

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is pretty accurate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

As an American I pretty much agree this is decently accurate