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Willbyr: Moving these examples here for possible future creation of a Troper Tales page for the trope.
- This Troper and his brother, both native Oklahomans, visited New York in 2001 as part of a vacation. As we talked to the locals, one of them asked said brother what it was like in Oklahoma. He was quite surprised to hear that it had paved roads and modern houses with electricity and air-conditioning and that Oklahomans drove cars instead of horse-drawn wagons..
- This troper lives just north of Dallas and got asked the same thing! Aparently, if you don't live in a major recognized city in the south, you're a hundred years behind everyone.
- This troper lives in Omaha NE and has been asked the same thing.
- This troper will soon have to leave the northern Oklahoma region once again to go to the southern California area near Los Angeles. Many people (including my aunt out there) act as if I've come back from the 1900s, and they think I've never seen a highway before, nor have been to a Wal-Mart (which is funny considering the founder of said store was from Oklahoma). Apparently, what the troper above me is saying is true (however, I feel that California is more lost in it's own little world than Oklahoma).
- We are. Our little world just funded by Abercrombie and Fitch.
- This troper lives in the Twin Cities and is guilty of cracking out the yokel jokes as soon as the skyline is out of sight.
- This native urban New Jersey troper had this sort of reaction when she moved to a rural Tennessee county with a population just over 10,000 people when she was fifteen (for reference, her home county was roughly the same size and had over 500,000 people). Needless to say the culture shock was immense. This troper remembers making comments such as, "An all-white county? They still have those outside of Mississippi?" and "What do you mean, you don't deliver Chinese?!"
- This troper is from St. Louis, a decent-sized city (850,000 people) with a sprawling metropolitan area surrounding the city limits (the metropolitan area around the city is huge because St. Louis's bylaws say that the city itself can't expand, as Chicago and New York did); when her cousin, also from St. Louis, went to a national conference in Washington, D. C. during our senior year of high school, he and his friends all got treated like country hicks.
- This troper lives just north of Dallas and got asked the same thing! Aparently, if you don't live in a major recognized city in the south, you're a hundred years behind everyone.
- This editor lives in south-east Texas and can attest to Texas being one of the worst states for propagating stereotypes. This one included. Though, to be fair, most of the "farm towns" are little bitty burgs in the central to eastern parts of the state, as all the farmland around his town is the product of being grandfathered in by civil expansion.
