My Fellow Americans, how many of y’all have all 4 grandparents from the same state?

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1. 2 from New Jersey & 2 from West Virginia

2. I had two born in California, one born in Colorado, and one born in Denmark.

3. Wow, never thought about it.

   Both my mom’s parents are from Georgia.

   While both my dad’s parents are from Kentucky.

   So? I’m 50/50???

4. They’re all from Ontario but that’s not a state

5. Is “Dead” a state?

6. 2 from Alabama, 2 from Virginia. The set from VA moved to Alabama when my mom was in high school (military). My mom was born in New York, dad was born in San Diego.

7. They’re all dead, and they were all American, but two of them weren’t even from *A* state. (Soy boricua)

8. My grandparents all lived in the same state during my lifetime but came from different states. Both grandfathers served in the military and were stationed all over the country and overseas until they retired from military service. My mom’s mother came from a neighboring state, where her and my mom’s dad met and grew up together. My dad’s mom immigrated to the states with her family from Germany as an adolescent.

9. I do! None of them are alive, but all born in Wyoming.

10. I am the only person in my whole extended family (that we know of) not born in the tri-state area.

    I’m from New Jersey, everyone else is Southern.

11. All but one of my four grandparents came from the same state. My maternal grandfather was living in Ohio, born in England

12. Nope.
    Italy, New York, and Massachusetts. All long passed now though.

13. All of my grandparents were from Virginia and all of my husband’s from Texas. Our children have two gps from Virginia and two from Texas.

14. Two from the Texas/Mexico borderlands, and two from Brooklyn, so 50/50.

15. My paternal grandparents were born and raised in Iowa. My maternal grandmother was too. My maternal grandfather was born in Scotland though. He came to the US and ended up in Iowa after awhile where he married my grandmother. They spent a few years in another state while he worked on a construction job but moved back to Iowa and spent the rest of their lives there.

    My spouse’s grandparents were all born in Nebraska.

16. Mine were all from Vermont, as were all of their parents and grandparents. My kids will be the first generation in a while not born here. I hope. I’m still in the process of getting the hell out of here.

17. Never really thought of that. On my Mom’s side, my grandpa was originally from Ohio or something like that, but moved to California when he was in the Navy. So that’s how they met.
    My Dad’s side, honestly I have no idea. My grandma is from Mass and my Grandpa is from Illinois.
    Same with my parents though. Mom from California, Dad from Illinois. Dad was stationed in California after Vietnam, so they met there.

    Interesting.

18. Two from Oklahoma, two from North Dakota.

19. My son is a 6th generation Arkansan. Pretty much my entire family has lived here for over 100 year. Not just my grandparents, my great and great great grandparents were all from Arkansas.

20. Me:

    * Paternal Grandparents: Grandmother born in New York, grandfather born in Arkansas
    * Maternal Grandparents: Grandmother born in California, Grandfather born in Ohio

    My partner on the other hand:

    * Paternal grandparents: both born in North Carolina
    * Maternal grandparents: Grandmother born in South Carolina, Grandfather born in North Carolina

21. All four of my grandparents grew up within 15 miles of each other. 3/4 went to the same school.

22. All four grandparents were from New Mexico. The great grandparents were a lot more spread out.

23. Two from California and Two from North Dakota. Iv’e never really thought if it was weird for Americans to marry other Americans from different states. It seems like the norm lol

24. I had one from Wisconsin, one from Kansas, one from Mississippi, and the last one…Florida, I think. My mother’s parents settled in Pennsylvania, my father’s in Ohio, and I grew up and still live in Texas. So we’ve been all over the place.

25. I am from CA which is a huge state so its probably more likely people here get married to people born here as well. But that’s not the case for me.

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    My grandparents on my dads side were not from the same state, my moms side they were. My dad was from WA but my mom was from CA. Then it gets a bit more complicated … my wife is Russian. I don’t really know if her parents or grand parents are from the same territory in Russia but I suspect they probably are.

26. All of them were born in Cuba does that count?

    But when they were alive and living in the states two lived in Florida and two lived in NJ.

27. My all husband’s grandparents lived in NY state (3 born, one immigrated there) .

28. All 4 grandparents from different states/countries. Damn, never thought about it like this

29. ~~I don’t. My paternal grandparents and my maternal grandmother all were from PA, but my maternal grandfather was from Poland.~~

    A quick check on Ancestry.com says it was all a lie. Apparently all of my grandparents were from PA. Family apocrypha was wrong.

30. All my grandparents came from different places. Italy, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, and Kansas

31. All 4 of my grandparents graduated from the same high school

32. All four of my grandparents were born in Pennsylvania (3 in Philadelphia, 1 in Sunbury). Weirdly even though both my parents grew up in PA I was not born nor ever lived there as a child, I only moved here as an adult through pure happenstance.

33. 3 born in Minnesota, 1 from Iowa.

34. Not just the same state. All of my grandparents grew up in Brooklyn.

35. all my parents and grands were born in DC

    Now you have a security question answer

36. All four from PA.

37. People tend to marry people they know. They are more likely to know people who live close to them than people who live far away.

    Duh.

    Of course, the world is changing, travel is easier, and young people meet each other online now.

    Still, one is more likely to meet, date, and marry someone who lives in the same city.

    A lot of young people also go away from home to university, and often they’ll meet someone there that they fall for. People are more likely to go to college (university) in their home state, because tuition is lower. Most schools charge significantly more for students from out of state.

    So of course most people marry someone from their own state, but that’s just because of proximity. It’s not as though anyone thinks people from other states are different.