As someone who used to live in new York, can confirm. New Yorkers come off as rude but usually they just have places to be, when they're not trying to get somewhere they're quite nice.
This is oddly quite accurate
No it used to be before newsmax brainwashed the midwest
The colder the weather gets, the more we tend to be nice. Its just natural when you're living in a state/province where breaking down on the side of the road in winter can mean death.
And I'm only half kidding. I do honestly believe that a shared experience of harsh winters creates empathy. Same reason Nordic countries are nice to each other mostly as well.
That explains why the Vikings are known to be so kind.
That actually tracks
Look at the "mean" spots: summers get over 110-120 in a lot of those places
Seem and are mean is the SW, where we keep death valley
You KNOW people are bigger assholes when it's hot. We ALL do
I think there is some truth to this.
When I lived in an apartment, many times I would shovel my neighbor's parking spot if it looked like they were working late during a snow storm. There's nothing worse than coming home after a long day to three feet of snow you have to shovel immediately.
Or helping someone whose car is stuck in snow and can't drive away. We've all helped at least one person by giving them a push.
That spot in Kansas must be an exciting mix.
Ain't no fucking way Indiana is in the "Nice" category
Bruh, I moved out here two years ago, and holy shit! These are the most miserable, hateful, rude, nasty, violent, stupid, lazy, and just all-around shitty people I have encountered in my life. Really, damn near everywhere I go in this state, I observe this behavior. I'm originally from Michigan, but I've been all over the US and really have not been anywhere like this.
Or Utah
It's called the middle finger of the south for a reason
As a Canadian, you can extend the top two up to us and it would still mostly fit.
I'm on the "acts mean, is nice" side in Ontario, and you all can get fucked 🖕
Let me help you with carrying your groceries, fuck face.
I get that this is basically a politcal compass meme overlayed on a map (and also that this is in cartography anarchy), but here's how I'd actually divide things up based on basically 0 practical experience:
Acts nice, is nice: West Coast (WA, OR, CA, HI) (WA might have to move down to the next category if they're feeling surly)
Acts mean, is nice: Northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE)
Acts nice, is mean: Southeast (AR, LA, KY, TN, MS, AL, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL), Midwest (ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH), and Alaska
Acts mean, is mean: The rest (ID, MT, WY, NV, UT, CO, AZ, NM, OK, TX)
"Acts nice, is mean" still makes up a large part of the country, but "Acts mean, is mean" has been trending up for about a decade now.
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What is Washington in this graphic? Orange isn't depicted in the original, and this doesn't have a key.
I forgot to color in the hawaii square, one sec
Gonna save this for when I decide to visit.
I think CA is act nice is mean. I lived there for 5 years and realized everyone was p. Passive aggressive.
Depends on where you are in the State. California is almost as tall as Europe, and the people are almost as varied.
Alaska belongs more in the "acts mean, is nice" category. But it's less "mean" and more "apathetic and disinterested."
I get the perception Cali can be prickly too, although I've never been there. Maybe orange for them too? And come to think of it, inland Oregon is very Idaho.
There's assholes born everywhere, I guess.
And of course that only aims to divide things up into big blocks similar to the original image. If I wanted to get more granular I'd probably put UT in "Acts nice, is mean" for example.
The bible belt / coal belt is not nice.
Im a european, been to san francisco once, nicest fucking people ive ever met.
As a young Tulsan on my first tech support job, it took me ages to figure out that Yanks aren't as mean as rattlesnakes, they just talk that way.
As a northerner who lived in Tulsa for four years, I'd say Oklahoma was "Acts nice, are crazy"
“The entire Midwest disliked that”
That's different.
The people in the Southwest are just very forthright. They don't say one thing and mean another.
I would say this is more true of the midatlantic/northeast. Very direct, say what they mean, it can come off as rude, or mean, but the subject outside of delivery, is not so.
After living in the southwest (born in LV, lived in PUMA, lived in Phoenix, lived in Prescot AZ, dad was stationed at edwards for a while too). I agree with this chart in a very superficial, this is a joke on the internet, way, honestly. Never met so many people who were just abrasive all around, than the SW. Hey, it's been a lot of years though. There might have been a big cultural shift. Even if it hasn't, I would take it over the "southern hospitality" mask of the SE, any day.
Maybe curmudgeonly is a better way of putting it. They say what they mean and they don't feel like anyone is owed niceness or personal interaction. That doesn't mean they hate you, they just don't care about you and aren't afraid to let you know.
Near as I can tell since moving back, being "Iowa nice" means "be white and republican and talk down to everyone else" so no, more like acts nice, is mean for us.
My experience having lived across the US has been closer to https://youtu.be/u3qJlWQNNxA?si=EU_dgGLT-vWgmNXy - I haven't met a kind ("actually nice") person in Northern California who grew up there.
Edit to add: err, except my wife of course.
Who ever made this has never been to Minnesota. Or Iowa for that matter.
The Midwest in general. I feel we're getting lumped in with New England.
This map applies to every individual city as well, just make sure "acts mean is mean" is the rich quadrant of the city and the rest will map nicely.
That may be the "acts nice, calls the police on you because you're on their neighborhood and don't match the pantone"
PNW should be: acts nice, is scared
Quick context, if you ask for directions in Seattle, people will gladly help, but you will see the terror in their eyes that they have to socialize with someone they don't know.
Truly the Finns of America.
No lies detected (Seattle native here)
If you want to start an argument without seeming like you are trying to, in Seattle, ask two different people what neighborhood you are currently in, and what its borders are.
Frellingford? Did not exist when I moved to Seattle originally, now it somehow does... sort of?
Ballard? Gets larger the older a person is, smaller the younger a person is.
Is it more racist to call it the International District, refer to the entire thing as China Town, or should we go block by block through different asian ethnicities based on street signage?
I've done road trips to both Michigan and New York state. Other than some asshole driving in Michigan everyone I interacted with was very friendly.
Alaska: Fuck off and leave us alone.
Hawaii: Get the fuck here and hang with us.
(Plz, we need the money to ship things across half the pacific)
I feel like it needs to be qualified that the bottom half is mainly a white problem.
KC north and KC south really are different.
Kencucky?
Downvoted.
Act Nice between whites ans rich people dont count.
Silicon fucking valley ? Ask to latinos what they think ans where they are living...Im French BTW, and I can see that.
Silicon Valley is in the bottom left quadrant, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
ah ah, my bad,
Why so serious?
society made me like this,
