Hi! South korean hear, I’m asking this just because of the light curiosity.
Is there a severe reginolism in side of the state? Not by state A to state B but county to county or even between more smaller administrative districts.
South korea is a size of Kentucky but we have a pretty severe reginolism that clearly hugely affecting to the politics and presidential election. Lots of the states of the USA is bigger than the SK or even bigger than the entire Korean peninsula but I think I never heard about the regionalism of the America that not a state to state.
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Yes, for example North Alabama is closer to Appalachia when it comes to tropes/stereotypes. The rest of the state is closer to straight southern tropes/stereotypes. As we joke with our cousins from South Alabama, they are rednecks while we are hillbillies.
Funny you mention Kentucky. We have pretty big regional differences between East and West Kentucky.
Western KY is usually seen as the more “wealthy” area of the state and East is (unfairly) seen as the more redneck area of the state. But in the end there’s no actual hate between the two.
Also there are big differences depending on if you live in Louisville or Lexington VS out in the countryside.
Yes. Northern and Southern California have a rivalry for sure.
Sure. Florida for instance can be roughly divided into three chunks.
* North Florida is the South
* Central Florida has so many transplants, it’s kinda like the Midwest+New England
* South Florida is heavily influenced by Hispanic culture.
Very much so. See flair.
Yes. My joke about Minnesota is there are 3 regions. Southern Canada, Northern Iowa(my neck of the corn field), and bum fucked urbanite. Thier is major tension between the ladder two when it comes to politics.
Yes. Indiana has at least three distinct regions.
* Central Indiana is the most urbanized part of the state. The state capital and largest city (Indianapolis) is right in the center, and then you’ve got the surrounding suburban counties. Except for one of the 9 counties, they’re all growing at either a decent or rapid rate. Tech, health care, warehouses , some manufacturing are major industries here
* Northwest Indiana or **The Region** is Chicago suburbs. This is a more blue collar area and it still heavily relies on industry/manufacturing for employment. Of the five counties up here, only one is having any real population growth, and two are actually losing population.
* Southern Indiana is kind of like Diet South. Lots of small towns, some of which have become regional tourist attractions. There’s some manufacturing here but also just tons of agriculture. The one larger city here is Evansville, in the southwest corner of the state. Closer to central portion of the southern end is part of the Louisville, KY metro area.
Absolutely. New York is split into New York City Metro area,, Upstate New York and Western New York (at least) New Jersey is regional in North Jersey, South Jersey and The Shore (at least)
This is very common, especially with larger states.
There’s regionalism within the US states. The differences will vary from state to state, and sometimes are not noticeable to outsiders. The most obvious one is urban vs rural. This generally holds throughout the country- urban areas are more liberal/progressive/tend to vote Democratic, urban areas are more conservative/ tend to vote Republican. This plays out very noticeably in North Carolina, where the legislature is generally controlled by more rural representatives and is generally hostile to the cities.
But there are also cultural variations beyond politics. North Carolina barbecue is an example- there are two distinct styles of NC barbecue, popular in different parts of the state. People talk about the Southern accent, but there are multiple Southern accents. The Charleston, South Carolina accent is not quite the same as other parts of the state, for example, and Gullah is a different language altogether. People in the Low Country of South Carolina are more likely to eat rice with meals than the rest of the state.
Apart from the political divide though, most of the differences within each are relatively minor (in my opinion). Regionalism within states is mostly overshadowed by regionalism among the states.
If New Hampshire has any regionalism, it’s probably a part I’ve never visited that dislikes the part I live in, but I’ve never heard of it. As far as I know, the entire block of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont is respectful to itself. There are a couple of negative stereotypes about the neighboring state of Massachusetts, but it’s not very serious and you’d have to go at least as far as New York to see a meaningful cultural divide.
Oh yeah. Atlanta and not Atlanta is the big one in Georgia. It can even be broken up further with ITP (in the perimeter) and OTP (outside the perimeter). Which refers to 285 as the perimeter.
It can also include county to county. Cherokee county will talk crap about the Cobb snobs. Glynn and other surrounding counties might call McIntosh Crapintosh. Or Chatham county calling Effingham methingham. It’s usually all in good fun.
My experience in Washington was that the rest of the state was not a fan of King County.
Plenty of regionalism within the country and the states themselves. Sometimes even cities. I live in Michigan Half of my state calls the other half trolls, the northern part of the lower calls the southern part flatlanders. That’s just on the large scale
There are big differences between east and west Texas, also between north south and central Texas.
Yes, very true. Some common divides are North/South and East/West although there is very often a divided in states that are relatively sparse with a major metro area
The rest of Illinois periodically tries to kick Chicago out of Illinois and make Chicago a city state. That is true hate when legal eviction is on the table. However, Chicago isn’t even aware or care what “downstate” is doing. Which, of course, is the whole problem.
There is definitely in Connecticut, though it’s not as severe as other states. We definitely have a split between the side of the state that is influenced by New York City and the side influenced by Boston.
The three western counties (Litchfield, Fairfield, New Haven) are heavily influenced by New York for a number of reasons, one of the biggest being how many people commute there to work.
The three eastern counties (New Londan, Tolland, and Windham) are heavily influenced by Boston and are more stereotypically New England.
The two middle counties (Middlesex, Hartford) are a blend of both.
There is also some “rivalry” between the shoreline and the inland parts of the state.
Sure, lots of emnity between Chicagoans and Egyptians. Those downstate resent Chicago for controlling everything with their large population, those in Chicagoland resent financing the rest of the state.
It’s not hate, but there’s grumbling.
In Maine the divides are south/north and coastal/inland.
South/coastal is wealthier. North/inland is less populous. Coastal gets more tourists while inland is more secluded. You get up into the north and well inland it’s like living in the wilderness. You get into northwest Aroostook and Piscataquis counties and it is the least populated place on the Eastern seaboard. Very forested with lakes and very locale development or infrastructure. Very very different than the area from Portland and south along the coast which has huge influxes of tourists to the beaches and a lot of development.
There isn’t really any animosity between those areas but they just realize they are very different.
Yeah, there is. Sometimes people don’t even sound the same in the same state, and there can be some dialect differences, too. I live in northern Ohio; people here sound different than people in southern Ohio. More specifically, I live in Northwest Ohio, which is very flat and therefore good for agriculture, so there are a lot of corn and soybean fields around here. Southeastern Ohio, on the other hand, is much hillier as it’s closer to the Appalachian Mountains (so it’s also known as Appalachian Ohio), and coal mining was/is an important industry. This area is also heavily forested, so hiking, hunting, and fishing are popular activities (this isn’t the only part of Ohio where you can do these activities, however).
Very very much so. In Maryland we have at least 7 distinct regions:
* The Eastern Shore
* Southern Maryland
* Western Maryland
* The central region roughly bounded by DC, Baltimore, Frederick, and Annapolis
* Baltimore City
* Baltimore County
* North of Baltimore
Even within those areas there are distinct regional differences, like MoCo vs PG County vs Howard County, etc.
Very much so. The two peninsulas of Michigan are quite different. The lower peninsula is arguably 4-5 different regions. There’s the TVC area, western Michigan, northern lower, mid-state, and southeast/Detroit/manufacturing core.
Western MA vs Eastern MA is definitely a thing. Eastern MA is very urban while western MA is just a bunch of farms and rural colleges
Washington state is very much East and West. Same with Oregon
Yeah. It’s not super intense, but even in Delaware there’s quite a regional difference between northern Delaware and lower slower Delaware
Yes, in Maryland there are I’d say six distinct divisions, DC suburbs, Baltimore, and the commuter suburbs in between are the at all good parts. These are generally where people either work or commute from to work good jobs. Southern Maryland, the Eastern Shore, and western Maryland are the parts where people are more likely to be protesting covid lockdowns months after they’ve all ended, buying drugs then working, or harassing minorities.
There are of course small exceptions Pasadena is a suburb between Baltimore and DC that falls into the second category and Fredneck is a city out west that is pretty DC suburb-like