I'm from Vermont so I must smoke Pot: Regional Euphemism Poll.

[Yorikke]

@What Exit?

I live in and grew up in Jersey. We have a bunch. Most false, some true.

>> "You from Jersey? What exit do you live by?”
This is mostly true of Jersey residents, though of course not universal.

>> We all speak as if we were all raised in Joisey City.
Not at all true, the Joisey accent exists, but is not heard in most of the state.

>> Jersey Girls are something special, brassier and sexier at the same time.
Well of course that part is true. Love me them Jersey Girls.

>> We all know someone in the Mob or at least a friend of a friend.
This is not true, but I did know some, but they lived in NYC and are long gone now.

>> NJ is a manufacturing cesspool.
This is not true at all. We still have some regions that are, but a very small part of the state. We also have the vast Pinelands region, The Jersey Shore, Mountains and many suburban towns where the deer still roam our backyards.

Jim

From NJ, lived there for most of 23 years.

Never heard the “What exit” joke until I hit these boards, 7 years after I left the state.

People are shocked when I tell them from NJ - “Why don’t you have a JOIIIISEY accent?” The accent I recognize more readily from the region is Phluffya.

Jersey girls had big, big-ass hair when I was there. It’s famous here in CA.

NJ is considered a cesspool by people who’ve never been there, IME.

Joe

[Yorikke]

@Snooooopy

Does your state’s recent reputation for being the spawning ground for crazy separatist militias at least mix things up for you? As a Kentuckian, I face many of the same stereotypes that you do; sometimes I really wouldn’t mind if my state became known for, say, producing bloodthirsty serial killers – at least it would be different!

[simpsons]"We had quitters in the revolution too. We called them “Kentuckians.” [/simpsons]

Joe

[Kevbo]

I was raised in Colorado, yet somehow I have never owned a down vest. I now live in New Mexico, yes you can drink the water, and no you don’t need a passport to visit, and no, I don’t personally know Dennis Weaver.

[Carol_the_Impaler]

The assumptions about my home state are reflected in my user name. When people hear Nebraska, they see corn.

[silenus]

Actually, if you ask, most of us regard the state as at least two seperate entities, each with their own stereotypes. Northern California is full of granola-eating, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing gay Commies. (This is true, BTW.) Southern California blames our reputation on LA. LA blames it on Hollywood. Hollywood revels in it. We are seen as a sea of egotists in a cultural wasteland. This stereotype is put forth by people who live on the Right Coast, who wish, deep in their hearts, that they could live in the Land of Wonder, where the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and store-bought titties abound.

[KSO]

@NinetyWt

P.S. Phlosphr: I have a cousin in Middlebury. We went to visit him one time and his kids followed my son around for two days just so they could call someone “Bubba”

I grew up in CT and have a cousin, also a native Nutmegger, nicknamed Bubba.

[freckafree]

@Crafter_Man

When I tell someone I’m from Ohio, they give me a blank stare. I can read what they’re thinking: “Ohio? What a boring state. Borrrrrrring…”

Their only verbal respose is that they - or someone they know - used to live in Ohio.

I live in Ohio, but I’m a native West-by-God-Virginian, so all the Ohioans around me feel compelled to entertain me with all the West Virginia jokes they’ve ever heard. (How did West Virginians get across the river into Ohio? The first one swam across and the rest walked over on his scum.)

The incest stereotype is the one I hear a lot. And I HATE it when a news story confirms some of the other stereotypes: “THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL and Prevention reported in 1999 that West Virginia had the highest rate of toothlessness in the nation, with 47.9 percent of people older than 65 having lost all their teeth.”

[dalej42]

I live in Texas.

Lol, way too many stereotypes here. I just moved here two years ago and don’t conform to any of them.

I used to live in Ohio…

[cornflakes]

Born and raised in Texas. I do own a pair of boots but haven’t worn them in a year; I go to church but I’m not a fundamentalist, and I have never driven over an ice cube, lost control and crashed into a car with Colorado plates.

[Millit_the_Frail]

I used to live in Ohio too.

I once heard someone quote his HS teacher (from Pennsylvania): “People from Ohio are practically born bland.” People confuse Ohio with Iowa and/or Indiana.

[garygnu]

@silenus

…Northern California is full of granola-eating, tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing gay Commies. (This is true, BTW.) …

Just like you and Hollywood, most of that is to be blamed on Berkeley. But all Californians surf.

I’m originally from Oregon, where, apparently, everyone rides horses for day-to-day transportation. (But those fancy, new aw-toe-moe-beels are supposed to be coming soon.)

[Diceman]

Michigan:

No, we don’t vandalize Japanese cars, but owning one won’t win you any friends. (Our special hatred is reserved for Mercedes )

Yes, Detroit really is a run-down shithole of a city, with a useless gangsta thug for a mayor. It’s not racist to say this; the fact that black people are moving out of Detroit as fast as they can tells you pretty much all you need to know.

Yes, we’re all flag-waving uber-patriots. The war isn’t any more popular here than anywhere else, but critcizing the troops (as murderous or stupid or whatever) is very unwise.

No, we don’t all hunt or own a boat (I don’t do either), but a sizeable chunk of us do. Both are pretty popular activities.

[Little_Nemo]

I live in New York. So, of course, I live in New York City.

[scotandrsn]

@niblet_head

…When people hear Nebraska, they see corn.

I’ve driven the length of Nebraska a number of times.

When people SEE Nebraska, they see corn (occasionally puncuated by wheat and soybeans).

[Paintcharge]

Raised in Maine. And yes I do have relatives with accents so think that I can’t understand them. We had lobster every day and everyone in the state works for L L Bean.

@silenus

the Land of Wonder, where the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and store-bought titties abound.

Mmmmm store-bought titties.

[Paintcharge]

Raised in Maine. And yes I do have relatives with accents so think that I can’t understand them. We had lobster every day and everyone in the state works for L L Bean.

Now I live in an isolated bastion of liberalism in otherwise conservative upstate NY. The stereotype of the town is that everyone here is a lesbian or a hippie or both.

@silenus

the Land of Wonder, where the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and store-bought titties abound.

Mmmmm store-bought titties.

[Ludovic]

@silenus

Southern California blames our reputation on LA. LA blames it on Hollywood. Hollywood revels in it. We are seen as a sea of egotists in a cultural wasteland. This stereotype is put forth by people who live on the Right Coast, who wish, deep in their hearts, that they could live in the Land of Wonder, where the sun shines, the flowers bloom, and store-bought titties abound.

Note that you didn’t say the stereotype’s false…

I prefer real

[silenus]

PS. So do I.

[Little_Nemo]

Now I live in an isolated bastion of liberalism in otherwise conservative upstate NY. The stereotype of the town is that everyone here is a lesbian or a hippie or both.

Ithaca?

[msmith537]

@wheresgeorge04

Jersey girls had big, big-ass hair when I was there. It’s famous here in CA.

NJ is considered a cesspool by people who’ve never been there, IME.

Joe

I hate New Jersey and I’ve lived there 3 years, not including a few summers spent down the Jersey Shore. I think the state is full of coked up bimbos and meatheaded Guidos…oh…kind of like this.

Of course, I grew up in Connecticut where my parents drove Volvos. I’ll have to post some pictures of me and my girlfriend in our J Crew pullovers playing in the snow with my pet Labrador retreivers.