Question for the 'Muricans

[KillerGremlin]

I'm always surprised when talking to someone from across the pond that doesn't realize that East to West Coast is like ~3000 miles.

America is a huge fucking country. People don't realize that you can't just hop in your car and go visit your neighboring state. I live in northern Illinois, respectively. I can be in Wisconsin in about an hour and a half. I can also make my way towards Indiana in reasonable time: but the northwest half of Indiana is a ghetto shithole....

My point is: getting down to Missouri (or misery, as I like to call that dump) or Kentucky takes a loooooooooooong ass time. We are talking at least 6 hours from Chicago to St. Louis. It's not just like, "hey I'm going to hop on my bullet train and be in another country in 45 minutes!" It doesn't work like that in the States. An airplane ride from Midwest USA to the East Coast takes about 5 hours. So pick your poison: 5 hours to St. Louis by car, or 5 hours to Florida by plane.

There's also huge regional differences, and huge cultural differences. I cannot discern the accents of folks out in the Carolinas. Seriously, white folks from the Carolinas are blacker than black folks from Chicago. At least in terms of accents.

As for names? Pffft....

United States of Fuck Canada, eh!

Uncle Sam: Coming to Arrest You! (USCAY - nice ring to it)

Redneck England

[Typhoid]

America is a huge fucking country.

Canada's bigger. What's your point.

Is Canada really all that different, or should I ask someone from Quebec what they think about it?

[In all srsness to the joke:] They've had separation votes. They fail every time. Most Quebecers like Canada. I honestly don't remember the last time I even heard anything about Separation.

I'm not sure what any national or state government could do about much anything you mentioned. Culture supersedes laws,

I agree with both of you.
But while I don't think changing a law will immediately change social stigma, I can guarantee nearly 100% that not changing that law won't change shit.
Just (for general example) take gay marriage in the south. I'm pretty sure everyone would agree that "the south" tends to hate gay marriage. That is a social thing. But gay marriage is also illegal, so there is no opportunity for future generations to get acclimated to the idea of gay marriage. At least if you make gay marriage legal, while people will still disagree with it off the bat, future generations might not. Social growth.

[Fox 6]

Also on the Quebec thing. The seperatist party lost the vast majority of their seats last election.

What about the Alaskan seperatist movement huh? Todd Palin was all over that shit.

[Professor S]

My point with Quebec wasn't about separation, it was about how areas of countries have vastly different cultures from province to province or state to state. The larger the country the more pronounced the differences. It's about location and population, not nationality, whether we're talking about Redneck England or Hockeybeeristan.

[Teuthida]

Never considered myself an American. I'm a New Yorker. Upstate might as well be the deep south to me. The only time I've ever been between the coasts was to catch a connecting flight in Dallas, and I was too young to even remember it.

[Combine 017]

Originally Posted by Professor S

My point with Quebec wasn't about separation, it was about how areas of countries have vastly different cultures from province to province or state to state. The larger the country the more pronounced the differences. It's about location and population, not nationality, whether we're talking about Redneck England or Hockeybeeristan.

I think I get what youre saying here and I agree, Quebec sucks.

[Typhoid]

Fuck Quebec, let's separate from them.

[Vampyr]

This whole thread just reminds me of this song:

[jeepnut]

Originally Posted by Teuthida

Never considered myself an American. I'm a New Yorker. Upstate might as well be the deep south to me. The only time I've ever been between the coasts was to catch a connecting flight in Dallas, and I was too young to even remember it.

See? This is what's wrong with the country.

[TheSlyMoogle]

The Confederate States of America.

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