Eh, not far off
Add a bubble for “backwoods removed” from Georgia (minus Atlanta), the Carolinas, Tennessee, and the Virginias and you’re dead on.
That’s more what an American thinks a European perspective is.
As a European with a higher than average interest in North America, I can say with some confidence that Europeans don’t think about the Upper Peninsula at all.
Their loss, it’s a rather tastefully done Peninsula
Yoopers in shambles
Boston is very disappointed
As a Canadian, this is largely my perspective.
My partner is Turkish. She said that this is how America looks in her brain.
You mean USA.
Hawaii and Alaska are just ???
Hawaii is hula dancers and Alaska is Eskimos.
We forgot to tell Europe about those 2.
hawaii is “wait that’s part of the US?” and alaska is “discovery channel”
European here, these are what different states or areas of the USA remind me of (like what’s the first think I think of when I hear it’s name):
- Southern states: right wing twats
- Alabama: incest
- Florida: gators and really, really weird news headlines
- Texas: stupidly large trucks, guns and cowboys
- Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
- California: expensive, liberal
- Ohio: those fucking memes
- Hawaii: warm, colonialism
- Mississippi: riverboats
- Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
But it’s all colonialism.
Washington’s name is everywhere because there was this guy named Washington and he did some cool things a couple hundred years ago.
Hey, if you ever do anything memorable, something might get named after you.
I heard that guy had like 30 god damn dicks
Washington: why the hell is the city of Washington not in Washington?
There’s also Washington Island. It’s nowhere near Washington state or DC. It’s in Lake Michigan, and is part of Wisconsin, not Michigan.
And both University of Washington, in the state, and wash U, in St. Louis. Both are major medical centers.
Aside from the island, Wisconsin has 7 different towns named Washington, though most of them have a population in the hundreds.
Of course they have nothing on Indiana, which has 46 towns named Washington, or Iowa, which has 49.
A disambiguation page of disambiguation pages. Damn.
Alaska: cold, that one goldrush
Hawaii: warm, colonialism
I think you know more about our history than we do
I just read a ton of Don Rosa when I was 8-11.
On that last point, George Washington is still considered the most popular president of the USA. In his own time he would come to cities and people (all of them) would swarm the streets. When the Constitution was signed Washington was in retirement, but the writers of the Constitution assumed Washington would be the first President. There were roughly 8 candidates running for the position, Washington wasn’t one of them, and when Washington announced he would come out of retirement the other candidates dropped out of the running. Washington won the first election unanimously.
A lot of Europeans don’t realize this, but the Constitution wasn’t the first government of the new USA. First there was the Articles of Confederation which went from 1777-1789 so Washington had been gone for quite some time and was still so popular.
It’s not at all surprising that it’s one of the most popular landmark names in the US (street and city names).
Some other popular names include Lafayette, MLK, Lincoln, and Jackson, Jefferson, and Madison.
Similar to the names Elizabeth and Victoria in the UK. The first being mostly named after Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII) and the second being Queen Vic. Although we don’t tend to name towns after people since most of our town names stretch back to Roman/Saxon/Celtic/Norman times. But train stations, schools, pubs, etc commonly incorporate these names.
The confederation of states is the American version of people in Russia who think the USSR still exists. They go around trying to act like the Articles of Confederation still exist.
I’m not sure how you got onto this point, but you’re referring to Sovereign Citizens and they’re mostly crazy ultra libertarians.
I wasn’t trying to make the point you brought out, I was simply saying that 12 years had passed with Washington being in relative retirement and he was still the most popular man in the country. Many Europeans might think that the US Constitution was right after the Revolutionary War and thus Washington went straight from General to President.
California: That other goldrush
Hawaii: Funny you pick that state out of 50 for “colonialism.”
Ohio: Home of the buckeye, a useless nut.
Washington: The federal capitol city, Washington D.C. is on a small bit of land along the Potomac river sandwiched between Virginia and Maryland. It was founded in the late 1700s early in the nation’s history before we laid any claim to the West coast. The state of Washington–the top-left most of the lower 48–was one of the last settled and named. There were several plans drawn up to create several states in the region, and name them Washington, Jefferson, and possibly one or two other founding fathers. Washington was the only one that went through with it.
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You’re mostly on the nail with these but it’s worth mentioning that political leanings are split a lot closer to “rural vs urban” differences than they are regional. For example, the city of Austin, Texas, is a lot closer politically to somewhere like Seattle, Washington, than it is to Odessa, Texas. Similarly, somewhere like Redding, California, is closer politically to Decatur, Alabama than it is to Los Angeles. This is a pretty recent development.
I grew up in Odessa. I left and I never want to go back. Ever. Last time I was there was to take the dog, my father’s ashes, and any remaining belongings back to a saner part of the country. I have seen and heard it has only gotten worse since and nobody should live there. Ever. Just leave. Run away. Scorched earth. Fuck Texas. Fuck Wasps. Fuck all of the hateful, bigoted, racist, sexist pieces of shit that live there and anywhere else.
Sorry. I may have been a little triggered…I am going to smoke a bowl and chill out now.
Texas used to be a huge fudd state until very recently, at least I assume that things changed.
They required a permit for carrying hand guns but not long guns.
You have no idea how offensive this is to literally all of us.
I’m just glad Florida is “gator” and not “Florida man”.
I don’t know about you but having Michigan being represented by the UP is extremely funny to me.
Nah, not all. I thought it was pretty funny.
Come on, you mean to tell me the United States of America were a real country? How ludicrous!
Used to be. We won WWII
That’s all a conspiracy theory made up by Vancouver, the real Hollywood. There’s no such thing as a landmass between Canada and Mexico. The “States” are made up to scare European countries so they won’t privatise healthcare and deregulate gun control. Are you that naïve? Geeesh!
I also know where Vermont (or rather home in the USA) is thanks to Bernie Sanders. But otherwise, pretty accurate.
As a Vermonter I can tell you all you need to know about Vermont is it’s a uninhabited forest pepperd with weirdos who are obsessed with maple syrup and farming who also don’t like outsiders non Vermont stuff
I feel like all I’ve ever needed to know about Vermont is whether it’s on the left or the right, vis-a-vis New Hampshire. I never remember which one is which. At least Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania had the decency to line up north to south in alphabetical order.
Vermont is the one shaped like a V.
Cowboys, incest, but no meth?
Meth is implicit.
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Remember Cocaine Bear? Now there is: Meth Gator!
*Also Meth Bear… there are plenty of black bears in FL. Some even go for a swim at the beach.
Shut your mouth before someone for the SyFy channel decides to make this a cinematic universe.
Methgatornado!!!
That’s actually the title, with 7 exclamation points.
I mean thats what happens when you murder or drive out all the original inhabitants. Then you get to start your own history, that was the point, right guys?
incest needs to span further upward i think, but other than that it’s a surprisingly accurate depiction of the US lolol
Not entirely inaccurate…
Interesting that your perspective includes less incest than mine… And I live in Alabama!
Put some respek on the peninsula! It’s gorgeous up there!
Florida is the Penisula and it has gator
Penisula?
No, but yes.
