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What are the cultural regions of USA? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 years ago by kozel@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago (14 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

[–] mojo@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

As an American I pretty much agree this is decently accurate

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