# US states and their image / stereotypes **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 10:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681 "2015-07-20T10:38:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/61 "2015-07-22T21:30:27Z")
Michigan: obese union auto workers out deer hunting. ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/62 "2015-07-22T23:23:53Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Ever hear of virginia City? Ah, good one!! Just thought of another one - Nevada City, CA. And Colorado City, AZ (the polygamist hangout). I guess there are a few out there! ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/63 "2015-07-22T23:37:59Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > Ever hear of virginia City? There are actually a number of those. One notable one is Indiana, Pennsylvania home to Indiana University (of Pennsylvania). I had a family member that was a college professor there. I was always amazed when she complained that people from other places constantly got confused about where she lived and taught. The only other one that is more confusing is Miami University. You will need winter clothes if you go there because it is in Ohio. ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2015, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/64 "2015-07-22T23:43:05Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > Ah, good one!! > > Just thought of another one - Nevada City, CA. > > And Colorado City, AZ (the polygamist hangout). > > I guess there are a few out there! California, Maryland. Just down the road from Hollywood, Maryland. ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/65 "2015-07-23T14:02:26Z")
> [@garygnu](#): > > Oregon and Washington have reputations of raining all the time, and full of self-righteous tree-huggers who are standoffish to new arrivals. It’s true, it’s always wet and go away. Now listen here! I grew up in Washington and you’re…ah. Absolutely right. The place is a complete dump–a hellhole, actually, devoid of all of life’s pleasures. The only reason the natives got displaced is because they tricked White Man into moving in under the shadow of a brooding volcano. [Really](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://greatamericanadventure.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/spaceneedle.jpg&imgrefurl=http://greatamericanadventure.net/mt-rainier-washington/&h=338&w=500&tbnid=PnJD7XJDbW9jsM:&docid=4rS-ZG6LfOJPuM&ei=d_CwVYbqLZWtyAT83LWwBQ&tbm=isch&ved=0CBIQMygPMA84ZGoVChMIxoH9ibLxxgIVlRaSCh18bg1W)! (See that bump on the left side of the volcano? It’s the remains of Barad-dûr.) Colorado is a similar kind of [shithole](http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://coloradoguy.com/taylor-river-road/colorado-mountains1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://coloradoguy.com/taylor-river-road/colorado.htm&h=445&w=1041&tbnid=h82iBh2heBpBcM:&docid=hNMDmPso_m6DDM&ei=KfOwVZjiE4i7yQS40ZvwBw&tbm=isch&ved=0CE8QMyhMMEw4yAFqFQoTCNia5dK08cYCFYhdkgoduOgGfg)–flat, barren wastelands until you run up against a wall of inhospitable rocks beset by lethally unpredictable weather. There’s a reason the two states legalized marijuana, and why even our iron-fisted federal government mercifully abstains from enforcing the prohibition there. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/66 "2015-07-23T15:34:57Z")
Massachusetts: One large city populated by Kennedys and snobbish people who talk funny, with the rest of the state still peeking out from behind trees. Maryland: Crabs and Navy midshipmen, sometimes in one place Montana: a giant open pit mine, and a river runs through it North Dakota: a vast expanse of absolutely nothing, where it’s either 90F or -40F. Actually, that’s reality, not a stereotype. Idaho: Lumberjacks and survivalists Wisconsin: cheese, brats and Norwegians ---
**Author:** ![JuliaSqueezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/82dd89/32.png) [@JuliaSqueezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JuliaSqueezer)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/67 "2015-07-23T18:31:52Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > Michigan: obese union auto workers out deer hunting. Or playing euchre in a sports bar. Restaurants and bars have multiple flat screens blaring various sports events. Even the schwanky ones. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/68 "2015-07-23T21:25:19Z")
> [@snowthx](#): > > I have been to Kansas City, MO a few times and I like it. However, I always wonder why they kept that name. I mean, it’s a place named after another state than where it resides. I am not sure there is any other city like that(?). Well, the town was settled, named as a village and incorporated as a city all before the state of Kansas was even made a territory. The better question is to ask why a state would name itself after a city in another state.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2015, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681/69 "2015-07-23T22:01:11Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > Idaho: Lumberjacks and survivalists And right wing militias. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/us-states-and-their-image-stereotypes/725681.md?page=3)