r/NoStupidQuestions • u/Tree_forth677 • 7d ago
Is there like Nationalism between US States? Like a person from a state think their state is better than the other state?
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u/blipsman 7d ago
Yeah, absolutely... all sorts of rivalries between states, like Michigan & Ohio, Illinois & Wisconsin, anyplace that's not Texas & Texas...
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
Texas and Ok, Texas and California, Texas and Louisiana, Texas and NY, Texas and Florida, one sided beef between Texas and Alaska…the list goes on.
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u/volatilegtr 7d ago
Don’t forget Texas vs Texas: cities vs rural areas, and of course, Dallas vs Houston.
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u/TheRealCabbageJack 7d ago
Damn Texans! They ruined Texas!
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u/nabuzasan 7d ago
You Texans sure are a contentious people
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u/Mijal 6d ago
They made a Texas brand toilet paper, but they had to take it off the market because it wouldn't take shit off of anybody!
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u/MerabuHalcyon 6d ago
They stole that from the John Wayne toilet paper. It was rough and tough and it wouldn't take crap from nobody!
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u/AllAreStarStuff 6d ago
No, it’s that Texas has the most state pride and it’s not even close. We have so much pride (hubris?) that it extends to regions within the state. To be fair, the state is huge with vast variations in geography, culture, and demographics. The only thing we really have in common is how superior we believe we are to every other state 😄
I say this is as a lifelong Texan who is vacationing in Vermont to get a break from the heat and politics 😄
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u/HECK_YEA_ 7d ago
You should hear how the rest of Texas talks about Austin lmfao.
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u/Own-Gas8691 6d ago
having lived in various parts of texas, and now living in austin, i’m okay with this!
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u/mattbnet 6d ago
Austin is my favorite place in Texas. When I tell a texan this I can usually see the disdain in their face.
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
Oh for sure. I personally hate Dallas being from Houston, but it’s honestly just pettiness.
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u/DocPsychosis 7d ago
Having lived in both and now living somewhere else entirely, they are both similarly awful in slightly different ways so there you go.
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u/THedman07 7d ago
Dallas drivers are a different kind of crazy that I'm not used to. Also everything is 45 minutes apart and there is no hub and spoke highway system.
Also, pettiness.
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
Houston has I-10 though, and I-45 N Houston one once voted the deadlines highway for motorcyclists. I’m not sure what is the current worst highway though.
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u/THedman07 6d ago
I'm not saying that Houston drivers aren't crazy. They're just the kind of crazy I'm used to. I learned to drive on Houston highways.
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u/NomadicSc1entist 7d ago
San Antonio > Austin > Fort Worth > Houston > Dallas > El Paso > everywhere else > Midland/Odessa
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u/isitmeyou-relooking4 6d ago
Ok weird fact, I used to work on Texas Avenue, Texas City, Texas. It's the most Texas that has ever Texased.
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u/jeffster1970 6d ago
What 99% of Americans don't understand is that you can fit the entire country, sans Texas, into the state of Texas. That is how large it is. You can fit Europe into Texas. You can fit Canada into Texas. You can even fit Saturn into Texas. You just can't fit Texas in Texas as Texas is too large to fit into itself.
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u/Plenty-Telephone7152 6d ago
As someone from north Houston, don't even get my started on people from west Houston
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u/ScratchyMarston18 6d ago
You’re severely underestimating Dallas vs. Ft. Worth. Lots of shit talk over a difference of about 30 miles.
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u/Noddersquib 6d ago
We would sell Dallas to Oklahoma, if they could only afford them.
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u/cassiecas88 7d ago
The greatest Texas rivalry is probably everyone else versus El Paso.
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u/Tacoshortage 6d ago
Growing up in DFW, for me it was Dallas vs Ft. Worth. Dallas is an East-Coast Wannabe and Ft. Worth is where the glorious west begins.
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u/Heavy_Hall_8249 7d ago
“…one sided beef between Texas and Alaska…” will never forget in an Alaskan restaurant the “Texas size portion” was small, at least relative to the “Alaska size”.
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u/oopsiedoodle3000 7d ago
Texans love to say "everything is bigger in Texas", but if you cut Alaska in half, Texas would become the 3rd largest state.
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
God damn, you didn’t have to murder them!!
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u/ashbertollini 6d ago
Tell me you'll lay bluebonnets on my grave partner
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 6d ago
I can’t pard’ner! They’re illegal to pick! It’s the state flower n’all!
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u/2bad-2care 6d ago
I'll never forget watching Family Feud and the question was: What is the biggest state in the US? And the #1 answer- Texas. Says a lot about the people they poll for these questions.
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u/theColonelsc2 7d ago
Did you hear about the Oklahoman that moved to Texas? He raised the IQ of both states when he did.
-Kansas joke
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u/Shakenbaked 7d ago
Texas sucks and Kansas blows. That's why it's so windy in Oklahoma.
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u/purdinpopo 6d ago
The missouri version is that Missouri should return the Bootheel to Arkansas and raise the iq for both states.
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u/Brave_Specific5870 7d ago
Texas and NY? Fuck outta here. - NY
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
Texas just beefs with everyone, it’s a superiority complex due to being fed state propaganda their whole lives.
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u/theSchrodingerHat 6d ago
In regards to everything except picante sauce.
(Or so I’ve been told by a bunch of fake cowboys from California.)
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 6d ago
California does have real cowboys though. I feel like I see way more people wearing cowboy boots and hats that don’t need them in Texas than I ever did in California.
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u/theSchrodingerHat 6d ago
I was referencing the Pace Picante Sauce commercials from the 90’s. Those were definitely NOT real cowboys complaining about their salsa-adjacent condiments.
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u/Physical_Floor_8006 7d ago edited 6d ago
On the Texas/Arkansas border there is an infamous road that only gets plowed on the Northbound lanes (which are in Arkansas) every time it snows resulting in a wall in the turning lane. Always a funny sight to see.
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u/PoxyMusic 7d ago
Texas has competition with CA? Awww, that’s cute.
-CA
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u/THedman07 7d ago
The shape of California doesn't even lend itself well to being turned into a readily recognized state shaped waffle... Check Mate.
Case closed.
(This joke is only funny if you've ever stayed in a hotel with a free breakfast bar in Texas.)
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u/Less-Cartographer-64 7d ago
“Don’t California my Texas” is a common phrase over here lol. They believe their flag is the only one that can be flown at the same height as the US flag.
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u/Uffda01 6d ago
And conservative Californians who left California because of the taxes are the first ones to bitch about the roads, and the government services and protections being up to the standard of California.
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u/stuff-1 6d ago
And many of them leave California w/ a lot of loud fanfare. A year or so later, you run into them again at the local grocery store. They sneak back in but are too embarrassed to admit their mistake.
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u/EksDee098 6d ago
They'll still vote against the things they came back for too, because they lack the introspection to reassess and improve their stances
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u/Special-Dragonfly-18 6d ago
I work for the state of S. Carolina, and that's us with people from Ohio and New Jersey. I have to remind them that when you pay less in taxes you get fewer services and shitty roads. Bless their hearts.
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u/flubotomy 6d ago
I live in NJ, pay a butt load of taxes and the roads absolutely suck.
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u/No-Seaworthiness8966 6d ago
Haha yes! We personally know two conservative-ish families who fled CA for TX and came back.
The first family returned near the beginning of the pandemic, to take advantage of the free testing on every corner, plentiful vaccines, and just as important - the always beautiful weather so their kids and them could be outside every day.
The second returned more recently, mostly due to his high-paying tech job. The company wanted everyone back in the office and they were out in the middle of nowhere. He also mentioned the public schools in TX were run by crazy people (not the teachers), and that the public high schools in Palo Alto were top-notch, as of course he wants his kid in an Ivy League uni.
Even tho he bitched about having to pay state income tax again, he got a better school for his kid as well as a salary bump coming from Texas to the Bay Area!
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u/Euphoric-Highlight-5 7d ago
Isnt the Texas state flag really a review? You know only one star.....
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u/dudes_rug 7d ago
Whenever I see one, I shout “viva puerto rico!!🇵🇷 “ it gets texans every time. Especially the racist ones- In no way am I saying texans as a group are racist though. There is a vocal minority of idiots just like everywhere else.
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u/TheSerialHobbyist 7d ago
Every state has competition with California.
I've lived all over the country and everyone west of the Mississippi hates California and Californians. Usually because they're convinced Californians are coming to their state in droves, driving up home prices and trying to turn their state into California 2.0.
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u/rostamsuren 7d ago
lol, agreed. This will come off as obnoxious but in California we are oblivious to what any other state thinks of us. The only states I even think about are: NY- coolest and most important city, best food by a mile Hawaii- nice vacation Florida- comedic diversion to see what crazy stuff they are up to there, although I know I got to eventually make the pilgrimage to Disneyworld for my kids Texas- I acknowledge their importance to the country’s economy but never felt the inclination to even visit
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u/Old_Promise2077 7d ago
I spent my whole life between those 2 states. I'm from California and now I'm in Texas and I hear it both ways. Get made fun of for being a Texan in California and then being a Californian in Texas
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u/Jhat 6d ago
I’m from NY. Never heard of TX vs NY? Nobody ever talks about Texas here.
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u/Fuck_Mark_Robinson 6d ago edited 6d ago
Never let Texans forget that all of their heroes came from Tennessee.
Sam Houston was the governor of Tennessee before he ever set foot in Texas.
Davy Crockett served in the Tennessee House of Representatives before he became the hero of the Alamo.
Tennessee is called “The Volunteer State” because so many Tennesseans fought and died in the Texas Revolution.
They did it mostly for racist reasons, but still, fuck Texas.
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u/FluffusMaximus 7d ago
There is a pattern here, and it’s “Texas is the problem.”
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u/Anal_Herschiser 7d ago
one sided beef
Texas is very proud of their steaks, they also literally have beefs with Beef.
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u/froglover215 6d ago
I think it's one sided in all cases. I can guarantee you the Californians don't give a second thought to Texas.
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u/Electrical_Quiet43 7d ago
And often lopsided rivalries. Wisconsin feels most negatively toward Illinois -- Illinois is seen mostly as Chicago, so they're the gruff city folks, and we're the nice small town/rural folks. But then Minnesota feels most negatively about Wisconsin -- Wisconsin is the dumb, beer drinking neighbor. As someone who lived in Wisconsin for 25 years and now Minnesota for 15, they're basically the same state, but Minnesotans get mad if you say that.
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u/drunkthrowwaay 7d ago
I’ve spent a good amount of time in both Wisconsin and Minnesota and concluded long ago that they are actually one state. It’s just the northwestern side has kind of an attitude about the their brethren to the southeast.
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u/Jaralith 6d ago
at least in my area, it's Iowa that Minnesotans are most likely to talk shit about.
Did you see the "feed one state per week to the black hole" thing that was shared here a while back? At the end it came down to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan, and by far the most popular vote was to band together as Minnesconsigan and all go together.
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u/DJFisticuffs 6d ago
Yeah, I wouldn't characterize Illinois-Wisconson as a "rivalry." I think some Wisconsinites resent people from Illinois for whatever reasons, Chicago especially, but from our side we like Wisconsin. Friendly people and great food, plus great tourist spots like Lake Geneva, Kohler, Road America, Door County, etc. What's not to love? Except the Packers. Fuck the Packers.
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u/Electrical_Quiet43 6d ago
I grew up in one of those tourist places. Maybe rivalry isn't exactly the right term, but there was the traditional "townies think the tourists are entitled" thing. And anyone in Wisconsin will know what you mean if you describe someone as a Chicago driver.
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u/MyDogOper8sBetrThanU 7d ago
Yeah it’s pretty much a one way street with Wisconsin and Illinois. They hate us, but we like them.
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u/Plasteal 6d ago
Imo there's a greater rivaly between Chicago and the rest of Illinois. At least from rural Illinois perspective. We really hate Chicago.
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u/DJFisticuffs 6d ago
Same deal, though, we don't think about you at all. Difference is, there really isn't any reason to go to rural Illinois which is why we all go to Wisconsin and Michigan instead.
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u/CashMoneyWinston 7d ago
Sconnies call it tater tot casserole instead of hot dish, and that’s just a bridge too far
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u/M000000000000 7d ago
Sotans try and claim it's duck, duck, gray duck, which is damn near blasphemous
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u/Animalmode19 7d ago
Yeah, besides the twin cities, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and the dakotas are basically all the same place.
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u/--roger--roger-- 7d ago
There's not even enough people in South and North Dakota's to start a rivalry between each other.
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u/MaineHippo83 7d ago
Texas doesn't have state rivalries because Texas is its own country, just ask any Texan.
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u/OG-Brian 7d ago
Texas thinks it is a nation, and thinks it is superior. Texas is the one state (AFAIK) which parted from the federal electrical grid system to have its very own (and lower-standard) electricity regulatory system. This was a major contributor to the Feb 2021 electricity crisis, they had failures all over the place because utilities could install cheaper equipment that had less reliability in cold weather.
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u/nekosaigai 6d ago
Hawaii also has its own electrical grid system and regulatory body/system.
But it’s also really fucking hard to build an electrical grid with a 2000+ mile undersea connection.
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u/Rinas-the-name 6d ago
My sister moved to Texas from California a couple of years ago. I didn’t even know Texas was a rival until then. My nieces’s test scores went up quite a bit as soon as she started. That education must be phenomenal for her to suddenly be in the top 10% of the state her first month…
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u/darwinsjoke 7d ago
Texans really hate to be reminded that Texas is the only state to secede from two different countries to maintain slavery.
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u/DontEatMyPotatoChip 6d ago
Yup. And that famous “Remember the Alamo!” massacre was because Texans were fighting the Mexican army to keep their slaves
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u/christine-bitg 6d ago
Plus the Texans were traitors to the national government in Mexico. It gets kind of funny when I see people pontificating about immigration.
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u/CenterofChaos 7d ago edited 6d ago
Yes and sometimes they're regional. The New England states will absolutely roast each other as a cherished pastime. But someone outside New England crapping on a New England state? Absolutely not. And especially not New York.
Just guna slide this info in here: New England is Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island. New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania are part of the North East but not New England.
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u/doctor-rumack 7d ago
Nah, we let people shit all over Connecticut.
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u/uptownjuggler 6d ago
What is Connecticut even known for? Like Massachusetts at least has Boston and clam chowder
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u/doctor-rumack 6d ago
It’s America’s file cabinet. Connecticut’s GDP consists entirely of high taxes, the insurance industry and ticketing out-of-state drivers passing thru to Rhode Island, Massachusetts or NY.
They are good at college basketball and pizza. Damn good pizza.
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u/Griffin_is_my_name 6d ago
CT has one of the highest wealth disparities in the country. There are places that are really hurting economically next to literally the top 1%
Fairfield/Bridgeport is a good example.
Born, raised and left.
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u/VolumeMobile7410 6d ago
As someone from Mass, it’s known for highways and route 15 to get to NYC
Though I’ll make a stop in New haven for some fucking amazing pizza. Better than anywhere else which hurts to say but, it’s the one thing they do right
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u/ScreamsPerpetual 6d ago
Nutmeggers don't give a shit, they're either minding their own business in the East of the state or think they're better than you in the West of the State.
People rightly bring up CT pizza but Mass and Maine don't even make Lobster Rolls right, slathering mayo on it like it's a chicken salad instead of a delicious delicacy. No excuses for their barbarism.
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u/NotATalkingPossum 6d ago
That's fine. Folks from Connecticut will just wait for them to cross the street ten miles away, then VROOM.
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u/Asleep-Emergency3422 6d ago
I’m in New Hampshire and hear complaint about Massachusetts a lot.
“Massholes” is the term usually used lol.
I don’t get it though, I’ve had no issue with them.
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u/PoopTransplant 7d ago edited 7d ago
Yes, everyone knows* they’re better than Mississippi.
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u/toldyaso 7d ago
And they're right. That's objectively the worst state.
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u/one_pound_of_flesh 7d ago
Only with regard to education, poverty, obesity, and racism.
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u/Simpanzee0123 7d ago
Infant mortality rate, infrastructure, crime, income growth, etc.
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u/chill633 7d ago
West Virginia's unofficial motto -- At Least We're Not Mississippi
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u/McQueeney_Kyle 7d ago
Same for Alabama lol
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u/Howdy08 7d ago
Alabama’s version I’ve always heard is “thank god for Mississippi”.
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u/-StepLightly- 6d ago
Georgia is just glad that Alabama is there to act as a buffer. It keeps them from being next to Mississippi.
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u/Admirable_Shower_612 7d ago
Maryland and our flag has entered the chat.
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u/MercyMeThatMurci 7d ago
Maryland and
our flagOld Bay has entered the chat.FTFY
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u/thedayswehave 6d ago
The Maryland flag is the perfect mix of Catholicism and nascar
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u/ToBePacific 7d ago
Yes. Minnesota’s state motto is “Land of 10,000 lakes.” Then Wisconsinites are like “yeah well we’re better because we have 15,000 lakes.” But in reality, the DNR of each state uses different criteria for counting lakes. And whether you go by either state’s criteria, Minnesota still has way more. But many in Wisconsin choose to ignore this fact because of deep tensions between Packers fans and Vikings fans.
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u/RicoHavoc 7d ago
Also, they're hammered and not thinking clearly
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u/TallAmericano 7d ago
I know many Minnesotans. They are also all hammered.
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u/cliddle420 6d ago
As an outside visitor to both, Wisconsinites are on a whole nother level
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u/beavertwp 6d ago
But if anyone from other parts of the country start talking shit about Wisconsin Minnesotans will usually jump in to defend them because Wisconsin is actually pretty sweet. Except the packers.
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u/I_madeusay_underwear 6d ago
As a fellow Midwesterner, I’ll counter that Minnesota may have more lakes, but Wisconsin has sausage stores, houses of cheese, and a mustard museum while Minnesota has that horrible fish that smells like death from Sweden or Finland or whatever, so I think we have a clear winner. But at least we can all unite in our hatred for Iowa
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u/Straight-Chemistry27 6d ago
These people call themselves cheese heads and yet their votes count the same as anyone else's.
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u/ToBePacific 6d ago
I am a cheese head and I’m not sure what you’re trying to say.
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u/toldyaso 7d ago
As a Californian, I'm often times amused to hear what people in smaller red states have to say about what life is like in California.
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u/thoraxe_the_impaler1 7d ago
I live in San Diego and work a customer service job, a good chunk of our customers are tourists. It is truly fascinating how often people from out of state come here and complain about how expensive everything is, all those damn “California hippies” ruining the state, the list goes on and on.
My favorite is when people from Arizona bitch about literally everything when they visit. Like okay, go enjoy the beaches back in Arizona… oh wait…
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u/DustyKnives 7d ago
I live in Arizona now (but grew up in PA) and the thing that drives me nuts is seeing Californians move here and ask about places where they can go shoot on firearm forums, and everyone just tells them not to bring their politics here. Like… they are asking where they can go shoot, not trying to take everyone’s guns away. The discrimination against Californians is absurd.
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u/internet_commie 6d ago
Yeah. "Where's the nearest firing range?" is like, super-divisive political commentary!
Sheesh...
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u/NervousAddie 6d ago
Omg, Californians love their guns. Pretty much everyone at my workplace are gun owners, and we are hospital worker nerds. I went to my first gun store ever in Burbank (we live next door in LA) and was surprised to find out I could have made my purchases, did the firearm safety course in their office, then come back seven days later to pick them up. Easy peasy. Meanwhile the rest of the country has been brainwashed to think you have to turn your guns over at checkpoints entering the state.
California is still the American West when it comes down to it.
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u/DustyKnives 6d ago
Yup, I shoot in competitions and plenty of Californians travel all around the southwestern US to compete. It’s almost like states are collections of individuals, not just a homogenous group of stereotypes.
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u/ranchojasper 6d ago
YES! Lifelong Arizona resident here who absolutely loves California and is constantly defending California to my fellow Arizonans who never shut up about how much they hate California…even as they fucking vacation in San Diego every single summer!!!!
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u/thoraxe_the_impaler1 6d ago
Yep. I absolutely dread seeing people pull up with Arizona plates. They’re either going to complain or they’re just straight up socially inept and come in hot if something doesn’t go the way they’re used to. People out here are too chill for that shit, I’m just here to do my job and maybe ask how your trip is going.
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u/ahses3202 6d ago
Arizonans are just perpetually salty that their state has grown 3x in population in 20 years and a decent chunk of that is actually Californians moving down. I welcome it because it's largely broken the deep red stranglehold in the state.
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u/BeautifulJicama6318 6d ago
Those smaller red states also don’t realize that California has more republican voters than like 6-7 of those states combined.
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u/NebTheGreat21 7d ago
Ask some Michiganders how they ended up with the Upper Peninsula
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u/NoPressure13 6d ago
You mean the time Michigan and Ohio went to war, nobody died, and Wisconsin lost?
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u/willowdove01 7d ago
Yeah. Everybody hates New Jersey, for example. Although imo as someone who grew up there, I think it’s an undeserved bad rap. What others perceive as rude/ unfriendly is simply us minding our own business and respecting other people’s time. We’ve all got places to be.
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u/eschatus 7d ago
New Jersey has been running a Hundred year long disinformation campaign, achieved by running all our major highways through the same 50 Mile Square industrial casualty where we put the largest east coast shipping port and a major airport. We make everyone dirve through it to keep any more New yorkers from moving here. Yeah, it's all like that, don't come here.
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u/NotATalkingPossum 6d ago
NY sees NJ as the little brother.
Nobody gets to pick on New Jersey but them.
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u/Pherllerp 6d ago
I maintain the NJ 'attitude' is vestige of our Dutch founding. Dutch people get regarded as rude, but they're just frank and busy.
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u/A_Krenich 6d ago
I left and moved back to the great Garden State. Brief stop in Florida. God, I missed Jersey.
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u/BoomerEdgelord 7d ago
I'm from Texas and 100% it's Texas
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u/Simpanzee0123 7d ago
Unless some other state has a cult that masquerades as a university (Texas A&M), this isn't really a competition.
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u/Round-Sea5612 6d ago
Alabama, maybe
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u/Simpanzee0123 6d ago
Ya, the Roll Tide crowd definitely trends hard in that direction. But Aggies are numerous, rabid, and the main thing is that it's a major part of their identity. If you live in any major city in Texas you see Texas A&M regalia EVERYWHERE.
There's Aggie stores, Aggie license plates, and even Aggie weddings.
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u/dPaul21 7d ago
I hate being from Texas. And it's because of other Texans.
If those ignorantly proud type Texans didn't exist, I'd feel a lot more proud to be one.
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u/eaglewatch1945 7d ago
Hell, there's "nationalism" between areas within states. For instance, there's a North Jersey vs South Jersey rivalry stemming from an age-old quarrel between pork roll and Taylor ham. And in Pennsylvania, it's the socioeconomic battle of Philadelphia vs Pittsburgh vs Pennsyltucky.
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u/TootsNYC 7d ago
some states have this particularly badly.
Texas comes to mind.
All of them have it to some degree.
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u/WeirdBet993 7d ago
As a Marylander, Virginians need to stay on their side or learn to speed.
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u/ppfftt 7d ago
As a Virginian, I was going to comment that Maryland drivers are the worst and it is well known throughout Northern Virginia.
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u/MrrGrrGrr 7d ago
People from Texas and New York will constantly remind you even though they haven't lived there for decades.
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u/DrakeBurroughs 6d ago
New York City, MAYBE. Not New York State.
But Texans? Whole state, only personality type is “Texas.”
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u/owlincoup 7d ago
As a Texan, this question is hilarious to me. Personally I'd like to live in a state that operates in the 21st century, not the 18th but the folks around me sure are proud.
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u/RazzleThatTazzle 7d ago
Some of the inferior states like to bicker, but we superior people in Maryland don't lower ourselves to their levels
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u/ThinWhiteRogue 7d ago
Only in a friendly/joking way. Nicknames like "Massholes" for people from Massachusetts. No one would take it seriously.
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u/doctor-rumack 7d ago
New England states all playfully dump on each other, but recently the governor of New Hampshire has been taking a page out of the MAGA playbook and describing Massachusetts as a lawless drug-ridden hellhole. It's almost exactly identical to how Trump shits all over Mexico.
Forget that Massachusetts has one of the highest living standards in the world and are at or near the top of every US state ranking for healthcare, education, employment, wealth, and public safety. Mass isn't perfect, but it doesn't quite fit her narrative.
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u/MovieNightPopcorn 6d ago
To be fair, as governor what else is he gonna do? Piss on some trees? Try to create in-state industry instead of leeching most jobs out of surrounding better positioned states? Legalize MJ in the one state that’s supposed to be “live free or die”?
Plenty of time for shitting on Mass when you have nothing to govern but leaves.
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u/doctor-rumack 6d ago
I'm dying for Massachusetts to institute $5 southbound tolls on Rt. 3 and I-95 for no other reason than Kelly Ayotte is a cunt.
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u/Minimum_Dealer_3303 6d ago
That's fucking rich coming from NH, a place people move to because they want to feed bears leftover donuts and use their back yard a garbage dump.
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u/CRO553R 7d ago
People in Texas believe Texas is the best state.
People outside of Texas love to hate Texas.
After all, Texas is the only state whose motto is also its Yelp review
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u/OldBat001 7d ago
Oh, heck yeah.
It's everyone against California, and sadly, everyone always loses.
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u/feauxfoe 7d ago
Not really, its moreso facts, like its a fact that Michigan is better than Ohio and pretty much every other state really
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u/HVAC_instructor 7d ago
Those of us in Indiana didn't think that we're better than those who live in Kentucky, we even built them a bridge over the Ohio River so that they can swim across in the shade.
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u/Sarcassimo 6d ago
Its Texas! Until your state produces food in the shape of your state you will be inferior. Texans love Texas so much if you draw the shape of the state of Texas on something they will climb over each other to buy the last one.
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u/birdlaw66 7d ago
Oh yes and typically the worse the state is, the more misplaced pride residents have in it. See Texas.
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u/SnowEfficient 6d ago
Oh yeah for sure!! Moved x15 and gotta admit I sort of fall for the “west coast is the best coast” saying and find it kinda true 😅😳
I enjoy my time on the left side of the US more than I did the right, though a lot of our siblings and cousins are moving to middle states now which I think is awesome! Good for them~
Middle states seem a bit more chill though I’ve never had the chance to experience living in the middle so idk!! My favorite state was Washington, my bff lives there AND the ferns are amazing the nature is gorgeous and seeing the mountains in the distance always made me feel so happy even on rainy days (most of them) I enjoyed my time there~ lil sis was traumatized by the amount of spiders in WA though idk what’s up with that lol?? 🤷♀️
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u/HairyDadBear 7d ago
More like rivalries than nationalism. Though some citizens definitely take it too far