Are you America’s wang?
Do you have the dumbest criminals?
Are you a sunny place for shady people?
Is the heat bad, but the humidity’s worse?
If yes, you’re Florida!
Does your city/state/region have the only genuine bona-fide (once-upon-a-time) royal palace in the United States?
If yes, you are in Honolulu, Hawaii. (Iolani Palace).
(ETA: Okay, upon re-reading the thread title: No, not actually my region currently, but was some years ago.)
Have you seen people wear green and gold to a funeral?
Yes = Wisconsin
(I have, in fact, seen this, on numerous occasions.)
Do you drink from a bubbler?
Yes = Wisconsin
We had a young woman get up to read the bible verse before the sermon (keep in mind, this is a huge, medieval-looking cathedral, very classy). After the service, I said “Thanks to you, the Packers have GOT to win today.” She was embarrassed… “I’m from Green Bay where everybody wears their gear to church! I didn’t even think I might stand out…”
It’s fair. I haven’t lived in SoCal in years but I used it since I’m familiar with it.
Do you know what a Salmon Run is? Western Washington
If you’re trying to identify yourself via St. Louis pizza, maybe “is my hometown pizza flavorless cheese on a nearly inedible cracker?” Because Detroit pizza is cut square as well. It’s also cut square in Indiana at the bazillion Pizza King restaurants.
Let’s be specific or snarky.
Do you know what chili is? No = Cincinnati
Do you complain about “people from away.”?
Maine. I only summer there so I am one.
Do you use “wicked” as an intensifier?
Maine
Beware of false positives! This also applies to Southern Ontario.
Can you see a Big Blue Bug right off the highway in the state capitol?
Yes=Rhode Island
Is your state house a replica of the US Capital building in Washington D.C.?
Yes=Rhode Island
Is your state named like a geographical formation but isn’t?
Yes=Rhode Island
Is it fair that the Statue of Liberty’s island belongs to New York?
Yes = New York
No = New Jersey
The island is really in NJ territorial waters, but Liberty Island is within the territorial jurisdiction of New York state.
Don’t you mean Washington?
Do people brag about the Longhorns as if they still a relevant football team? (yes)
Does your independent state power grid do any good? (no)
Have you had a 108-Fahrenheit heat wave experience at some point? (yes)
Are there deep-fried Oreos at the state fair? (yes)
Does one of your universities have a slogan, “Keep College Station Normal?” (yes)
Does one of your state universities begin with “The…”, even though it wasn’t the first?
Yes = Ohio
Can you legally hunt from a helicopter using fully automatic weapons (machine guns) with no license required?
Yes=Texas (hogs only)
Is “eat a bag of dicks” an insult?
No = Washington
Clearly a copy of our copy
That was the first thing I thought of as well.
One of the priests at the church my parents go to was well known for rushing through mass, cutting it down by about 15 minutes if he knew it was going to be bumping up against the beginning of a Packer game. I don’t know if he wanted to watch it, if he knew a lot of people in the congregation wanted to get home (and he knew people found it the practice amusing) or he knew/assumed that people would skip out early anyways. Probably a combination of all three.
I’m guessing that’s pretty common all along the shores of the Great Lakes. Similarly, the phrase “Cooler by the lake” is something heard so regularly in weather reports that there’s bands named after it, beers and wines named after it, you can get ‘cooler by the lake’ t-shirts etc. I’m assuming that’s a common phrase in all the cities along the lakes as well.
Do you have “stop and go lights”? Yes = Wisconsin