I know this is off the point, and I know they haven’t sold cars in the U.S. for twelve years, but I can’t stand two people getting the name of the car wrong. It’s Alfa Romeo.
NJ south of the Mason-Dixon line? Really?
Delaware:
that about sums it up.
As many have, basically, said, stereotypes are , today, a fantasy. I doubt you could get Texans right in one sentence. Or two. Or three.
Awright, go ahead and nitpick.
The phrase “south of the Mason-Dixon line” scans better than “south of the east/west segment of the Mason-Dixon line”, and does a better job of conveying the connotation of southernness than “south of the southern border of Pennsylvania”.
Sure, stereotypes are a fantasy; rooted in just a little reality. Most Europeans would agree that Italians are fashion-conscious, family-oriented, easy-going tax-evaders; Germans are organized, calculative and not very creative; Belgians are boring.
Many here have been describing the places they live in. My OP was about trying to understand how different americans see each other, not how they see themselves.