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u/David_Gordiienko
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As an American, this is how I see America
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u/Olorin_1990 Jan 27 '23
Texas is gonna have a word with you about who is yee hawing
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u/EnthusiasmFeeling428 Jan 27 '23
Hi, Carolinian here. Would Texas like to form a larger “Y’all” alliance?
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u/sidetablecharger Jan 27 '23
Y’alliance was right there.
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u/ebray90 Jan 27 '23
I had to reread their comment because I couldn’t accept that they missed that one.
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u/KloudAlpha Jan 27 '23
Another Carolinian here, love the fact that I made it into "Real America" but not "Carolinas" lmao
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u/EnthusiasmFeeling428 Jan 27 '23
According to OP Georgia is more Carolina than Half of North Carolina lol
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u/Olorin_1990 Jan 27 '23
We can accept a peace treaty, but what y’all call barbecue is not acceptable to the god fearing state of Texas and we cannot abide it.
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u/EnthusiasmFeeling428 Jan 27 '23
I think as long as what y’all call chilli stays on your side of the Mississippi, we can keep our barbecue on ours
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u/No_Contribution1900 memer Jan 27 '23
So would the rest of the real west, Arizona actually has the OK corral
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u/riverblue9011 Jan 27 '23
What is that, like 3 stars on reviews? Give me the good corral please, none of this 'adequate' shit.
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u/gaymer200 Mods Are Nice People Jan 27 '23
Ah yes, Washington state, dry america
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u/Mirphus Jan 27 '23
Yes most definitely dry here. The rain I'm listening to outside my window is definitely just my imagination.
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u/Byeuji Jan 27 '23
Well no it's just dry rain. Wet rain is an ancient concept only observed in the backwards east US.
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u/Rawesome16
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Have you heard of the Pacific Northwest? We have about a dozen names for rain due to how much it rains here.
Dry indeed
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u/jtc1031 Jan 27 '23
And southeast Texas looks a lot more like Louisiana than it does New Mexico. Houston gets lots of rain.
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u/Cheddar-Holt RageFace Against the Machine Jan 27 '23
Got hit by 5 inches in two hours on Tuesday!
And it rained!
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u/jtc1031 Jan 27 '23
And the River Walk that San Antonio is famous for was built for flood control.
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u/Mattpart58 Jan 27 '23
Thank you for your service. The pnw gang thanks you.
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u/Constant-Ad-1797 Jan 27 '23
Enduring 20-30 days of consecutive rain is the initiation….. and the dues come out to a yearly average of 155 rainy days.
I was unnerved by the never ending rain.
Days gone by looking out my window pane.
Seeing nothing but a vast grey sea.
Will it end and who can tell me.
“Tell me of summer, or it’ll be hell to pay”
Deep In thought the old man began to say
“Hmmm that’s a tough one last year it was on a Sun-day”
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u/torbiefur Jan 27 '23
Ikr? It’s literally a rainforest.
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u/clackersz Jan 27 '23
Except for the parts that are desert. somehow
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u/n0rsk Jan 27 '23
I miss PNW Taco Time.... The version everywhere else is just like a sad taco bell of microwaved Mexican food
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u/Round-Good-8204 Jan 27 '23
It’s because of the mountains. Look on google maps and you’ll see that the dry region starts just east of the cascades
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u/BanThisDick111 Jan 27 '23
Yeah I kinda don’t think OP is an American or they are and are very young
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u/odvioustroll Jan 27 '23
or someone who has never been west of the Mississippi.
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u/manofmonkey Jan 27 '23
You still have to be a dumbass to call the PNW dry. I’ve known that since I was a child and I didn’t visit until I was in my 20s
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u/lurkensteinsmonster Jan 27 '23
They're 100% from Ohio and currently attending an Ohio college. It's the only explanation for an American acknowledging Ohio exists as anything other than a place you would literally rather go to outer space than live in.
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u/TopazEgg Jan 27 '23
All those others desert dwellers would perish if they saw how much rain we get. We cannot be grouped with them
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u/Mechanicsanonymous Jan 27 '23
Sshhhhhh! We don't need anymore people knowing our secrets. Let them think it's just a dry wasteland that they don't want to visit. We already have too many tourists.
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u/MajCassiusStarbuckle Jan 27 '23
We have about a dozen names for rain
Anyway, like I was sayin', rain is the water of the sky. You can sing in it, dance in it, cry in it, walk in it. Dey's uh, warm rain, cold rain, cats and dogs rain. Sprinkled rain, intermittent rain, light rain. There's cutting rain, freezing rain, sudden rain, Spring rain, Summer showers, blustery rain, sheets of rain, ironic on wedding day rain, rain checks, rain delays. That- that's about it.
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u/chucksteaks33 Jan 27 '23
As a fellow American, Ohio does NOT deserve this much recognition
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u/OmegaGrind Jan 27 '23
Ohios one of those states you forget exists and then you're like 'wait is that the potato one? No that's Idaho. Hmm so what's Ohio have' Except no one has ever found out what Ohio has
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u/KatieCashew Jan 27 '23
Buckeyes!
I do not actually know what a buckeye is. It's just imbedded in my brain that Ohio is the buckeye state.
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u/OnlysayswhatIwant Jan 27 '23
It's a tree that produces poisonous nuts that look like eyes, later on a candy version was developed of chocolate balls with peanut butter centers.
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u/Hey_Chach Jan 27 '23
Nah absolutely not. Some state like Delaware or something would be one of the states you described.
Ohio is more like the state that no one will let you forget it exists. Like how your buds always annoy you with never letting you live down that-one-time-you-fucked-up.
Source: I am unfortunately down in Ohio.
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u/StoneGoldX Jan 27 '23
I am of agreement, Delaware is the most forgettable of states. Followed maybe by New Hampshire.
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u/Skatchbro Jan 27 '23
Ohio has “THE Ohio State University”. That’s the one thing they don’t let you forget.
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u/Tommyblockhead20 Jan 27 '23
Did you know Ohio has more people than Norway and Finland combined? Or Wisconsin and Colorado? It’s the 7th largest state, right behind Illinois. But once you get past the biggest 4-5 states, people start not knowing the states. And it doesn’t help that Ohio isn’t known for much, making it especially forgettable.
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u/lithium142 Jan 27 '23
Ohio is where you stop for the night on your way to Chicago or New York with no exceptions. Nobody actually lives there. Just some people stop for a few years to work kings island and the stuff around kings island
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u/balance_n_act Jan 27 '23
Just found out you’re from jersey. Makes sense.
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u/jfresh42 Jan 27 '23
And they're 14. This makes more sense the more you know about them.
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u/TheFlashFrame Selling Stonks for CASH MONEY Jan 27 '23
Ah, thus le funni comic sans
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u/balance_n_act Jan 27 '23
I feel bad now.
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u/Ooften Jan 27 '23
Is it child abuse if it’s an adult roasting a kid online? Asking for no particular reason.
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u/dfddfsaadaafdssa Jan 27 '23
Absolutely not. Consider it a welcome package to the internet.
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u/AbeRego Jan 27 '23
I feel like a 14 year old should know this, though. They learned it more recently. Hopefully this is in jest.
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u/Adamant_Narwhal Jan 27 '23
Yeah I don't think OP has traveled much.
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u/LoudMusic Jan 27 '23
I proclaimed that most, even the vast majority of, New Yorkers had never set foot on actual wilderness and a bunch of them got angry with me so I said prove me wrong and they all claimed Central Park.
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u/kudichangedlives Jan 27 '23
I was going to say, central Park is so massive and cool though. I've only been once but I would love the opportunity to see it again.
But on the same side a lot of us nature folks haven't been in large cities that often.
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u/LoudMusic Jan 27 '23
Central Park is "manicured nature". They have a staff of over 300 people maintaining it.
But you're right. I have friends in Arkansas who have never left Arkansas. Little Rock is the biggest city and its metro area only recently cracked half a million population.
Everyone should do everyone a favor and travel more before they pass judgement on others or other places.
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u/kenlubin Jan 27 '23
The author is clearly not from New York City, otherwise there'd be a separate section for NYC instead of lumping it in with Real America.
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u/iGotWurmz89 Jan 27 '23
Too much of this map is Ohio and Almost Ohio. Too much of the actual map is actual Ohio.
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u/PrincipleStill191 Jan 27 '23
When you are from Ohio, like I suspect OP is, and you have never left Ohio, which I'm pretty sure OP has not, it probably feels like that.
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u/iGotWurmz89 Jan 27 '23
I do like how they were humble enough to admit that they’re neither the Great Lakes nor Real America.
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u/Rude_Device Jan 27 '23
Did you just insult Lake Erie?! Sure, it isn’t as deep as Lake Superior but it still has feelings! AND algae bloom! Does your lake have that?!
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u/pseudo_nemesis Jan 27 '23
See, I suspected OP was from Ohio, up until I saw that they labeled the east coast as “real America” which, in my experience with Ohioans is something that they would not do. So I presume OP is from either NY or the surrounding area
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u/Lipstickhippie80 Jan 27 '23
All the Ohio and dry America makes me think OP doesn’t travel very much.
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u/westsound_bestsound Jan 27 '23
Like 70% of their land area is pretty dry, but I’m in the other 30% and had the same thought as you immediately.
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"Dry America" my boy, the PNW is like mother nature's pussy, it's always wet here and there's a fuck ton of trees
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u/Itchy_Focus_4500 Jan 27 '23
Uhh, what kinda pussy are you getting? TREES? ; )
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u/TannerJ703 Jan 27 '23
As an American your wrong
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u/Due-Somewhere9919 Jan 27 '23
As someone from the west I would replace “real America” with assholes and “cold America” with “cold assholes”. Reason: they are assholes
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u/martydidnothingwrong Jan 27 '23
50% facts. I haven't met many bad east coasters in real lufe, but online they're the definition of narcissism
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u/iRadinVerse Jan 27 '23
They think because all their streets were built for horse drawn carriages it makes them special.
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u/No_Refrigerator_8925 Jan 27 '23
Fuck you as a Texan I refuse to not be included in the yehaw territory
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u/SavingBooRadley Jan 27 '23
For real, really- the deep south is yee haw?? Not TX, the West, or SW??
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u/No_Refrigerator_8925 Jan 27 '23
Yeah Deep South is more of a “we don’t serve your kind here boy” than a yeehaw area.
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u/Cloud_Strife83 Jan 27 '23
But Michigan is just blank? Nothing?!
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u/tallulahfeathers Jan 27 '23
I am having an aneurysm at this slight against Michigan.
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u/Muzzie720 Jan 27 '23
I think I'd rather be unlabeled than "almost ohio". Ohio is like 8 hours away. I'm actually offended.
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u/ryeehaw Jan 27 '23
The fact that WI got “Great Lakes” and we got nothing has me annoyed
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u/puffylittleshoe Jan 27 '23
I live in Michigan. Had no idea I don't exist until seeing this map. Kinda relieved actually.
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u/sootbrownies Jan 27 '23
You're American? This is the worst map of the US I've ever seen. Yeehaw should have much more territory, the big desert should be cut almost in half, and "Real America" is just incorrect.
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u/Muzzie720 Jan 27 '23
Gonna take a wild guess, don't quote me on this, but I think op might live in the area they labeled "real America". And I've never even met the guy.
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u/Subushie Jan 27 '23
More like "thinks they're superior to everyone America"
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u/OnyxtheRecluse Jan 27 '23
I like how they cut Massachusetts out of real America when they're from Jersey.
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u/TurboDinoHippo Jan 27 '23
The birthplace of the American Revolution is apparently not "real America" lol
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u/Ratgar138 Jan 27 '23
Yes, Washington, home of four rainforests, is part of a big desert.
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u/Mediocre-Army4849 Jan 27 '23
Lol you think new England is the cold part of the US? HAHAHAHA not even close. Try visiting north dakota. Or Montana. OR minessota . Alaska would be the worst for obvious reasons. New England is pretty mild. They just get a lot of snow.
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u/acimstudier Jan 27 '23
As someone who lives in Alaska currently and has lived in North Dakota, North Dakota is worse than a good portion of Alaska. That dang wind.
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u/Timflr_Mc_Duck Jan 27 '23
I don't know for sure but I think we even get more snow in MN ND SD than new England
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u/Silverbacker888 Jan 27 '23
According to OP’s profile he’s 14, guess that explains why this map is garbage
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u/Dn56 Jan 27 '23
Thanks for including the Carolinas lol
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u/OGraffe The Trash Man Jan 27 '23
And they extend all the way to Ohio.
Wait that might explain why there’s so many in the Carolinas. OP, you might be onto something
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u/Aubrimethieme 🏳️🌈LGBTQ+🏳️🌈 Jan 27 '23
Ah yes the 2 wettest states Washington and Oregon are indeed dry. Perfect logic. OP must be a least coaster.
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u/real_psymansays Jan 27 '23
I believe you mean, "As an East-coast Yankee, this is how I see America", based on what is labeled "Real America"
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u/DaGurggles Jan 27 '23
As someone from the Midwest I take offense at New England being Cold America. OP, go to Fargo in February.
Also, at least call us “surprising flat despite the girth”
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u/TheWaffleWeirdo Jan 27 '23
Calling Washington and Oregon dry is the funniest thing I've ever heard.
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u/No_Astronaut9011 Jan 27 '23
I’m a NYer and we’re so un-American here it some how loops back around to being American again. But in all reality we shouldn’t be labeled “real America”. Everything here is a mish mash of cultures which I get is American. But it’s not. It’s more like living in every other country other than America all at once.
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u/aviara_detra Jan 27 '23
Excuse me as a masshole we fucking invented America when we started the revolution. Get this New Yorker "Real" America garbage out of my vision
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u/Averagebass Jan 27 '23
Yeah, east coasters always brag about how they don't know anything about the rest of the USA. It's a really weird flex tbqh.
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u/fostertheatom Jan 27 '23
As someone who has lived in all four corners of the nation... you really need to travel a bit my friend.
Also, what is this nonsense about "Real America". That's extremely insulting to everywhere outside those silly lines you drew.
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u/CeleryQtip Jan 27 '23
You are missing out. Oregon and Washington are beautiful and very much wetlands like the east coast. Montana varies from bitter cold to winter wonderland, from deep snow to dry tundra. My favorite places so far : Glacier national park in Montana, the icy isles off the nw coast of washington, the chocolate factory near it from Washington to Oregon, many of the splendid places between Idaho and Arizona near the nevada border, the Grand Canyon of Az. Just to name a few. I'm hoping to venture east and see what Tennessee and Geogia offer soon, if not Virginia/Colorado.
There is so much to see and lots of space to build a happy life. I want to see West Virginia soon too.
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u/ASidesTheLegend Jan 27 '23
Minnesota and the states in the Great lakes area are actually colder during the winter than the area labeled “Cold America”
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u/Innocentof Jan 27 '23
The heck does MIMAL mean?