History NationalStereotypes / NorthAmerica

** Apart from that Los Angeles is also infamous for police helicopters flying everywhere, earthquakes, mudslides, wildfires and huge riots that put whole neighborhoods on fire. The irony that the ''fake'' illusions of Hollywood are made here is not lost on foreigners.

* Of course, there are black people in the South too. In [[DeadHorseTrope outdated popular culture]] they are still treated as second-rate citizens, work in conditions that are supisciously close to slavery and will frequently be lynched by Ku Klux Klan members. Stereotypes still in fashion to this day portray black Southerners as loud preachers who [[PunctuatedForEmphasis punctuate their speech]] and engage in GospelMusic singing. Or they'll be [[Music/RobertJohnson blues guitarists who went to the crossroads to sell their soul to the devil in exchange for their talent]]. Or {{Jazz}} artists playing in a local brass band.

* A relatively recent negative stereotype is that the country is one big battlezone where various insanely brutal drug cartels terrorize the people with impunity, although it's usually shown as an undeserved affliction rather than any sort of the country's fault. To keep to the principle of cautious editing, that's all we say here.

* CanadianMusic has a strong association with CountryMusic and FolkMusic, with famous examples such as Music/HankSnow, Music/LeonardCohen and Music/JoniMitchell. Some Canadian rock and pop acts like Music/PaulAnka, Music/NeilYoung, Music/{{Rush}}, Music/CelineDion, Music/JustinBieber have reached iconic status, but are still often [[MistakenNationality mistaken for being American]] by some foreigners.

** 2) The corrupt, racist, xenophobic, pot bellied sheriff in SinisterShades who supposedly obeys the law, yet informs everybody: ''We do things our own way here.'' This typically involves having no trials or one where a SimpleCountryLawyer and/or a HangingJudge who will invariably chose the side of the sherrif and sentence you to heavy fines or a lynching by hanging. All his prisoners are typically WorkingOnTheChainGang alongside the road.

* UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}}: Texas's dumb little brother. Everyone who lives Oklahoma is either a proud [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native American living in a teepee]], a dumb-as-rocks, meth-addicted hillbilly living in a trailer wondering why the "ternaders" always blow his house away, the RightWingMilitiaFanatic, the SouthernFriedPrivate, or a SmallTownTyrant oil baron or rancher. The entire state is made up of flat, featureless prairie, with no trees or hills to speak of, and has a climate that is either boiling hot or freezing cold depending on the time of the day or year. Bison herds can be found anywhere with open space. Tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, and even acts of domestic terrorism are daily occurrences. Common pastimes include watching college football, shopping at Walmart, having sex with your sister, and making fun of Texas and/or Kansas. Residents will kindly tell out-of-staters to leave and never come back. The government rivals most third world dictatorships in terms of brazen corruption. [[BerserkButton Whatever you do, don't call it Midwestern]]. The rest of the world knows it for the eponymous musical ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''.

* WackyAmericansHaveWackyNames: Outside the US, particularly from a UK/AUS point of view, there are names that are thought of as being quintessentially American-esque. Suitably macho, jock names likes "Chad", "Todd", "Brad", etc. for boys, and cutesy names like "Tiffany", "Candy", or "Britney" for girls are great examples, and if Americans are spoofed in media produced outside the US, you can bet a name like the above will be selected. If you tell someone from outside of America that your name is 'Randy', expect raised eyebrows (especially in Britain[[note]]"randy" is synonymous with "horny" in British English[[/note]]). Americans are also known for sometimes having rather an [[AwesomeMcCoolName ''interesting'' taste in names]], often striving for something "unique" rather than traditional -- one only has to watch American talk-shows to see guests with names like "Jaxxon", "Sharpay", and "Sharadiant". Even dyed-in-the-wool traditionalist conservatives like Sarah Palin exhibit a penchant for rather strange names, with her children -- Bristol, Piper, ''Track'', Willow, and ''Trig''...
*** The PotHole above links to AwesomeMcCoolname, but they also sometimes come across abroad more like WhoNamesTheirKidDude.

** 3) The even more CorruptHick FatSweatySouthernerInAWhiteSuit who lives on a plantation. He is constantly dabbing himself with a handkerchief or uses a fan for the same purpose. Typically he smokes a cigar, uses a cane and/or [[IOwnThisTown controls the local town]]. He has put all his brothers and cousins in high governmental positions. At night he is a closet UsefulNotes/KuKluxKlan member. Can be a charming and sophisticated, yet arrogant and untrustworthy SouthernGentleman too.

* UsefulNotes/{{Oklahoma|USA}}: Texas's dumb little brother. Everyone who lives Oklahoma is either a proud [[MagicalNativeAmerican Native American living in a teepee]], a dumb-as-rocks, meth-addicted hillbilly living in a trailer wondering why the "ternaders" always blow his house away, the RightWingMilitiaFanatic, the SouthernFriedPrivate, or a CorruptHick oil baron or rancher. The entire state is made up of flat, featureless prairie, with no trees or hills to speak of, and has a climate that is either boiling hot or freezing cold depending on the time of the day or year. Bison herds can be found anywhere with open space. Tornadoes, earthquakes, wildfires, and even acts of domestic terrorism are daily occurrences. Common pastimes include watching college football, shopping at Walmart, having sex with your sister, and making fun of Texas and/or Kansas. Residents will kindly tell out-of-staters to leave and never come back. The government rivals most third world dictatorships in terms of brazen corruption. [[BerserkButton Whatever you do, don't call it Midwestern]]. The rest of the world knows it for the eponymous musical ''Theatre/{{Oklahoma}}''.

* In terms of technology, infrastructure, and lifestyles, Canada is often portrayed as being more primitive and [[CallToAgriculture close to nature]] than the "modern" United States (See above re: lumberjacks, hunters, and campers.). Socially, however, Canada is often portrayed as far more progressive and liberal than the United States, with laws supporting secularism, same-sex marriage, universal healthcare, mosaic culture, higher taxation to redistribute wealth, outlawing of capital punishment, strict gun control, etc. When foreigners ''are'' aware of this, they tend to depict Canada as either a [[MarySueTopia progressive paradise]] or as CommieLand. American liberals often joke about moving to Canada or (if they live in a left-leaning northern state) [[DividedStatesOfAmerica seceding]] to join Canada whenever conservative politicians take power. American conservatives often joke about the celebrities who threaten to move to Canada the next time a Republican takes the White House but who never get around to doing so. In older works, this is somewhat justified as Canada was considerably more conservative politically than the US (although attitudes were shifting subtly before then) until the 1970s, when PM UsefulNotes/PierreTrudeau's controversial but [[LongRunners long-lasting]] Liberal government started to change ''absolutely everything''. Seriously; Trudeau's policies were controversial enough to kill the Liberal Party in some provinces for decades[[note]]In the most recent election in 2015, the provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan, who collectively have 48 seats and were previously hurt by Trudeau's energy policy, elected a grand total of ''five'' Liberal [=MPs=], compared to 39 for the Conservatives--and this was in a really good year for the Liberals.[[/note]], but important enough for him to be named the third-greatest person in Canadian history--and that's with many people who hated him voting to keep him down.

** The most famous Canadian province in the world is Québec. Québecois tend to be portrayed by English speakers as being a bunch of separatist {{French Jerk}}s with a side of LowerClassLout, and are portrayed in France as backward colonialists who aren't true Frenchmen and speak a funny-sounding but unintelligible language that has barely any resemblance to ''proper'' french. That is, of course, when English-speaking foreigners remember that Canada also has a large French-speaking population.

** In the news media, it's different. Maryland consists only of Baltimore and certain suburbs. It's obligatory to suffix any place name in Maryland with "near Baltimore," whether or not that's true, unless the town's name begains with B, in which case the name is simply changed to Baltimore. Also, the news media used to hold up Baltimore as the shining success story of progressive urban policy; when that turned out not to be true, it became the city where progressive urban policy had [[RetCon never been tried]] because of Maryland's [[CriticalResearchFailure anti-urban, deep red]] political climate; in actuality, it's a very blue state with its population made up almost entirely of the Baltimore and D.C areas and with a legislature that tends to be generous to Baltimore. In July 2019, when Donald Trump criticized Baltimore, the city as portrayed in the news media, which tend to favor Democrats, changed overnight from a hellhole for which Governor Hogan, a Republican, deserved all of the blame to a paradise for which Hogan deserved none of the credit.

** HorribleHollywood and ItCameFromBeverlyHills: UsefulNotes/LosAngeles is universally famous for Hollywood, palm trees on both sides of the road, Beverly Hills, and its Silicon Valley.[[note]]The last example shows how many people only think they understand the geography of the US, since, as noted above, Silicon Valley is much closer to San Francisco.[[/note]] In popular culture, it will always seem as if everyone is busy making movies there. Indeed, many film crews just make their pictures in Los Angeles, with the result that even if it's not explicitly stated as ''being'' in Hollywood the ''Anytown, USA'' will still be recognizably L.A. You have the successful A-movie stars who are just as rich as they are arrogant and narcissistic. They all live in huge secluded mansions with a private chauffeur, jet, tennis court, and swimming pool. There they lead a decadent lifestyle full of expensive parties with drug-induced orgies. Either they have a HappyMarriageCharade for the press and public or add their umpteenth divorce on the list. Their only genuine ambition is winning an(other) Oscar and getting even richer. Especially those who have been in show business too long seem to have lost all sense of realism or normality. When they appear in public they wear sunglasses and [[SuchAPhony try to put on a charade]] by keeping a [[StepfordSmiler fixated fake smile at all times]] and [[MirthlessLaughter laugh in an equally fake way about the most mundane things]]. Older actors and actresses will reminisce about their glory days, yet are lucky if they get a bit part in a new movie nowadays because they are [[WhiteDwarfStarlet old, ugly, and almost forgotten]]. Virtually all of them have had some MagicPlasticSurgery at one point, which may lead to an UncannyValley NightmareFace. The rest of the city is populated with aspiring unknowns who dream of becoming a Hollywood star, yet are still obscure losers who struggle to make ends meet. At best they will end up in a low-budget porn movie or B-movie with bad special effects. A sleazy CorruptCorporateExecutive will exploit naïve actresses by showing them his CastingCouch. He won't have a dime for a creative, original script, but is happy to pump millions of dollars into a bland, dumb, [[HollywoodStyle unrealistic blockbuster full of clichés and platitudes that nevertheless provide audiences with lots of A-list celebrity stars and a satisfying happy end]]. If someone's script is accepted, it will still be victim of ExecutiveMeddling.

** Outside of the NFB, Canadian film and television are frequently ridiculed as being entirely made of dull and mediocre works created for the sole purpose of fulfilling government quotas (with as much heart and soul put into them as one would expect) and that not even many Canadians like or have heard of.

* UsefulNotes/SouthDakota is famous for Mount Rushmore... and features nothing else. (Except ''possibly'' [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Drug Wall Drug]]). It doesn't matter how you drive into the state; it'll always be the first thing you come across. The rest of it is pine trees, highways, and wasteland. In truth, eastern South Dakota has the overflow crowd of Norwegian Lutherans, for a lot of it.

* Arkansas is commonly confused with Kansas due to the name's similarity. Home of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who were initially unable to attend the city's central high school due to their colour. Other than that, it's best known for UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} and UsefulNotes/BillClinton.

* Arkansas is commonly confused with Kansas due to the name's similarity. Home of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who were initially unable to attend the city's central high school due to their colour. Other than that, it's best known for UsefulNotes/{{Walmart}} and UsefulNotes/BillClinton.

* Rhode Island has the worst drivers in America, [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee addicts]] (Dunkin' Donuts to be exact), cannot give directions, think a 45-minute drive is a daylong trip, and have the most corrupt government that you'd ever see... it'd make [[Series/TheSopranos Tony Soprano]] stand in awe. They also have an inferiority complex with Massachusetts, especially pertaining to their big colleges (RI's Brown and MA's Harvard). Too bad Massachusetts already has its own inferiority complex for New York and [[UnknownRival hasn't really noticed.]] Rhode Island is basically the New Jersey of the New England states. And it's also the state where the fictional city of [[WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy Quahog]] is in.

* Washington (state): Known for being full of hippies, environmentalists and pretentious hipsters.

* Colorado has something of a duality. On the one hand, there's Colorado Springs, aka the Vatican City of Protestant fundamentalism where everyone owns a gun and lives in the mountains. On the other, there's Boulder and the ski towns, home of the GranolaGirl, the NewAgeRetroHippie and, for the latter, rich celebrities making a second home, all of them snowboarding and [[TheStoner getting high]]. And if you're from UsefulNotes/{{Denver}} or (especially) its suburbs, you're either a wannabe BadassLongcoat who's thinking about shooting up [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} High School]] or the movie theater, or ducking and covering to get away. Eastern Colorado, of course, does not exist, consigned to the same void of nonexistence as the western slope or anything south of Colorado Springs. And it the state ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' is set in and were creator's Creator/TreyParkerAndMattStone live.

* UsefulNotes/{{Kansas}} is apparently where rationality, science, and fun are all burned alive for witchcraft. It used to be just that big flat area people hurried through to get to the Rockies. The rest of the world knows it for the song ''Kansas City'' and the black-and-white scenes of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. Comic book fans know it as the residence of [[Franchise/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]].
* UsefulNotes/{{Missouri}} is known for its poverty, crime, heavy meth use, and for being a miserable conservative hellhole due to its name often being mispronounced as "misery" (it's pronounced "mih-ZURE-ree" with emphasis on middle syllable). It's mostly remembered for ''Literature/AdventuresOfHuckleberryFinn'' and ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer''. If you live in an adjacent state (other than possibly Arkansas), you think the southern part (south of I-44 if you're generous, south of I-70 if you're not) is populated mainly by hillbillies; if you're from further away, you probably think that about the whole state.

* UsefulNotes/{{Iowa}}ns are obsessed with corn, with fields of it stretching for miles in every direction, no matter where you are. Expect to see plenty of tractors and whistling farmers. Oh, and [[MonsterClown John Wayne Gacy]].

* Depending on what part of UsefulNotes/{{Michigan}} you're from, you're either [[GangBangers a violent gangbanger]] (Detroit/Flint/Pontiac area), a tree hugger (Grand Rapids), a rich snobby Jew (West Bloomfield), a rich snobby WASP (the rest of Oakland County, save Pontiac, which see above, plus Macomb County and Grosse Pointe), a rich snobby foodie tree hugger (Ann Arbor), a stern Calvinist fundamentalist (Holland and the rest of West Michigan), an [[Series/AllInTheFamily Archie Bunker]]-type white UsefulNotes/RonaldReagan Republican who lost your job on the line (Monroe County, Downriver, much of Lansing area), or a hick who does nothing other than hunt (anywhere north of the Saginaw-Muskegon line). And don't forget da Yoopers: still a hunting hick, but with a cool accent and pasties, ya?

* UsefulNotes/{{Illinois}}: People are apparently either stuck-up, hypocritical, politically corrupt snobs with a [[UsefulNotes/{{Chicago}} Chicaaagaa]] drawl ("Daaaaa Bears"), or they're murderous gangsters, like the Sicilian Mafia ruled by UsefulNotes/AlCapone during the 1920's or young, black delinquents of the present made infamous by the DrillMusic scene. During the heydays of UsefulNotes/MichaelJordan, it was internationally known for the Chicago Bulls basketball team. And they'll advertise the fact that UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln lived in Springfield, Illinois before his presidency constantly...

* UsefulNotes/{{Indiana}}: The Three Kinds of Indiana: hicks who could've been from Alabama if they weren't wearing snowboots and a winter coat; whitebread EverytownAmerica-ish suburbanites (particularly around Indianapolis and the Chicagoland region); and Inner City Indiana, for which the exemplar is Gary, Indiana, AKA the Armpit of America, where the chemical factories and steel mills release a putrid perfume for all to smell and where the cops will beat the crap out of you, cite you for marijuana possession... and proceed to smoke it right in your face. But to the rest of the world, Indiana is associated with Franchise/IndianaJones' first name and the Indianapolis 500 race. Most recently the state passed law which grants business owners the right of conscience to refuse to serve customers whose lifestyles and opinions offend them especially those who object to gay marriage. It caused a national outrage with many businesses cutting ties to the state and making it so that the Indiana government went back to revise the language in the law. The law ultimately didn't do any lasting damage, as Mike Pence, the governor who signed it, later became Vice President.

* UsefulNotes/{{Louisiana}} is a subset of the Georgia/Alabama/Mississippi ''Film/{{Deliverance}}'' country, except everybody speaks French patois and may be a RaginCajun. And there's [[TheBigEasy New Orleans]]. New Orleans is drunk and debauched (or was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina) and will mostly be filled with Mardi Gras, jazz bands, violent gangbangers who live in impoverished ghettos, and voodoo-practicing {{Witch Doctor}}s. Occasionally, a traditional Mississippi river boat will pass by. Expect hurricanes or floods to regularly destroy everything in its vicinity. Alligators inhabit every lake.

* UsefulNotes/WestVirginia is considered an acceptable target even by the most politically correct people out there. According to the rest of America, West Virginians are all uneducated, white trash, racist, dirt poor, toothless, shoeless, gun-toting hillbillies who eat raccoons and have moonshine running through their veins. The state pastimes include hunting squirrels and having sex with their [[BrotherSisterIncest cousins]], then letting their inbred offspring drive when they're two-years-old.
* Texas: Howdy Y'all! Everyone in Texas is a gun-toting, horse-riding cowboy who eats nothing but gigantic steaks and huge bowls of chilli, drinks nothing but gigantic servings of beer (Shiner, Lone Star, or Budweiser if you have it), whiskey, and tequila, and drives a gigantic pickup truck. Texans all wear big cowboy hats, carry lassos, and attend rodeos every evening, where they'll square dance, gamble, ride a mechanical bull and eventually start a shootout.
** Houston is home to the Space Center, [[Film/{{Apollo13}} where a problem might be informed]] and San Antonio is historically remembered for [[RememberTheAlamo the Alamo]]. TV watchers world wide also know it for oil-bearing ranches, as depicted in ''Series/{{Dallas}}'', the same city where UsefulNotes/JohnFKennedy was assassinated.

* UsefulNotes/{{Mississippi}}: Everyone who lives in Mississippi is poor, morbidly obese with a heart condition, and lives in an old-fashioned one-floor house next to the Mississippi River. Also, since Mississippi is America's most devoutly religious state, Mississippians will be portrayed as crazy Baptist fundamentalists.

* UsefulNotes/{{Kentucky}} is known for bluegrass musicians, tobacco, horse racing, bourbon, college basketball, Fort Knox, the annual Kentucky horse race and of course, its famous fried chicken.

* UsefulNotes/{{Delaware}}: (in monotone) "[[Film/WaynesWorld Hi. We're from... Delaware.]]"

* UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA will almost always be treated as a backwards hicktown that is extremely white and extremely intolerant (see the ''30 Rock'' episode "Stone Mountain"). The sole exception is its capital, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, which is 54% black (and they're all hip-hop artists), home to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), two major universities, the world's busiest airport, and some of the largest medical and industrial facilities in the country, and actually has the 3rd highest population of LGBT people in the U.S. (behind San Francisco and Seattle). It's known as the home town of Coca-Cola, Martin Luther King Jr, where UsefulNotes/TedTurner founded Creator/{{TBS}} and Creator/{{CNN}}, and Delta Airlines. But at least since Music/RayCharles, it is "always on our mind".
* UsefulNotes/{{Alabama}} is best known for being the state where cowboys ride "with a banjo on their knee", the song "Sweet Home Alabama" by Music/LynyrdSkynyrd, and the homeplace of ''Film/ForrestGump''. On a more negative note, it's also the home state of the Ku Klux Klan (even though neither incarnation of the Klan was founded there) and many furious race riots in the past, plus its politics regarding abortion and gay marriage. Also famous for the city of Montgomery, where Rosa Parks's refusal to give up her bus seat to a racist white man notably set off the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
* UsefulNotes/{{North Carolina}}. Best known for the export of cotton and tobacco. Cape Hatteras is known as "the graveyard of the Atlantic" because of the huge amount of ships that sank there. Cape Fear is infamous because of the thriller ''Film/CapeFear''. Kitty Hawk is remembered as the area where the Wright Brothers made their first flight.
* UsefulNotes/{{South Carolina}}: Charleston is known for inspiring the dance style "charleston". On a negative note, white South Carolinians (the entire population, according to the stereotype) are often stereotyped as ''the'' most reactionary people in the world.

* UsefulNotes/{{Arkansas}} is commonly confused with Kansas due to the name's similarity. Home of the Little Rock Nine, a group of African American students who were initially unable to attend the city's central high school due to their colour. Other than that, it's best known for Wal-Mart and Bill Clinton.
* UsefulNotes/{{Maryland}}: Maryland is where government employees who work in DC live or retire to (always Maryland, never Virginia.... the closer they are to the conspiracy, the better) and is full of nothing but Catholics (it was founded as the only Catholic colony and is home to the oldest Archdiocese in the United States). Baltimore is usually seen as a run down town where you'll be shot and where ''Series/TheWire'' is set in. Marylanders all over are obsessed with Orioles Baseball, Raven's Football, and eating blue crabs with Old Bay. Generally its where the government hides top secret things related to aliens and conspiracies when they want to keep it closer than Nevada and New Mexico. The parts east of the Chesapeake Bay and north of West Virgina never get mentioned.

** Philadelphia is famous being the hometown of Boston born Creator/BenjaminFranklin, the cracked Liberty Bell, Philadelphia {{Soul}} and the steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art [[Film/{{Rocky}} where Rocky made his famous victorious pose]]. Philadelphians are known for being cheesesteak and pretzel eaters. A negative stereotype (mostly held by [[UnknownRival New Jerseyans]]) is that Philadelphians are the most obnoxious people on the face of the Earth. Especially when it comes to their sports fans. Double especially if it's the Eagles -- you know, [[NeverLiveItDown the ones who booed Santa Claus]].

* UsefulNotes/{{Connecticut}}: Had you actually bothered to learn that [[NothingExcitingEverHappensHere Connecticut is a real place on the map]], you would probably think of its people as rich, snobby Rockefeller Republican Yalies who hate Harvard. Preppy style clothing is frighteningly common, especially among the baby boomer generation. The only entertainment available here is the local library, college sports, and the nearest mall.
* UsefulNotes/NewHampshire: Libertarians who sell alcohol at highway rest stops (in stores ''operated by the state'', no less) and don't require you to wear your seat belt while in a car. ''Live free or die'' [[note]]Their state motto.[[/note]], indeed. Traditionally also the first state to held primary elections every four years in the process of choosing the delegates to the Democratic and Republican national conventions which choose the party nominees for the presidential elections. They also used to be known for a rock formation that appeared to be the jagged profile of a human face when viewed from the north: ''The Old Man of the Mountain'', but it collapsed in 2003 due to centuries of freezing and thawing. Also where everyone from Massachusetts with some money moves to.

* The first image that pops up when many people think of Canada is a red-uniformed mountie with a CoolHat. Whenever mounties have to catch a bandit on the run they will eventually be able to arrest him, because "the mountie always gets his man." And if it's too far to walk, he'll always travel on horseback rather than in a police car. Basically, fictional mounties are living about a century in the past.

* UsefulNotes/{{Wisconsin}}: [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Beer, cheese, beer cheese]], bratwursts, cows, beer, cranberries, beer, the Brewers, the Badgers, [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague the Packers]] (treated as a publicly-owned state religion), and (if you're really with it) Summerfest[[note]]The largest music festival in the entire world[[/note]]. That's it. Oh, and Germans. LOTS of Germans. [[OverlyLongGag And beer.]] Oh yaaah, and all dose women who come from Wisconsin in the media will always be a middle-aged housewife who speaks wit' a Scandahoovian accent, don'chaknow? Oh You'betcha! UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}, its largest city, is known for its breweries and where infamous serial killer and rapist Jeffery Dahmer lived.
** Minnesota may have the stereotype of being frozen solid during the winter, but compiled weather data reveals that Madison and Milwaukee rank as the 1st and 4th coldest major cities in the entire country. 2 and 3 are respectively Anchorage, Alaska, and Minneapolis, Minnesota. IT IS FUCKING COLD HERE!

** Type 2 examples are more numerous, the most obvious being Rufus of ''Street [=Fighter=]'' fame, who is morbidly obese, [[ArrogantKungFuGuy arrogant]], very dim, [[TheMunchausen chats absolute crap]] and has moves with sci-fi names (Galactic Tornado, Space Opera Symphony). Poison, also of ''Street [=Fighter=] (originally ''Final [=Fight=]) fame is very much Type 2, and is presented as overtly sexual, sleazy, sassy, and obsessed with money. In VideoGame/RivalSchools, one of the teams is made up of three American exchange students who sum up Type 2 almost completely; There's Roy, an arrogant, [[AbsoluteXenophobe xenophobic]] {{Jerkass}}, Tiffany an ''outrageously'' costumed, [[DumbIsGood ditzy]] [[TheCheerleader cheerleader]] complete with ValleyGirl expressions and pneumatic boobs, and finally Boman -- a [[MoralGuardians preacher]] in training. A good Mixed Flavour Type example is Ken Masters of ''Street [=Fighter=]'' fame, who is definitely cocky and brash, but is also an honourable person and shown to deeply care about his friends and family.

** From the ''WesternAnimation/{{Simpsons}}'' episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo", when the family visits an American themed restaurant in Japan:

** From the ''WesternAnimation/Simpsons'' episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo", when the family visits an American themed restaurant in Japan:

** From the ''[[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Simpsons]]'' episode "30 Minutes Over Tokyo", when the family visits an American themed restaurant in Japan
-->'''Waiter::''' Don't ask me; I don't know anything! I'm product of American education system. I also build poor-quality cars and inferior-style electronics.
-->'''Homer:''' [cackles] Oh, they got our number!

* DividedStatesOfAmerica: [[UsefulNotes/AmericanPoliticalSystem The United States have a unique political system]] in the sense that there are -- in contrast to other modern democracies -- only two major and significant political parties: The Democrats, perceived as left-wing and liberal/progressive, and the Republicans, perceived as right-wing and conservative. This distinction is somewhat laughable in other Western countries, because according to their political standards the American left-wing is closer to the center-right and the American right to the far-right. However, foreigners tend to oversee that even within both parties there are people whose views are more leftist and/or rightist despite their party's public image. Some people outside the USA aren't even aware that [[FalseDichotomy there are ''other'' parties besides the Democrats and Republicans in the USA]]. It's just that they lack the financial backing to make their campaign and candidates equally noticed. They do get invited to political debates sometimes, but mostly as filler material for the journalists. The situation is especially problematic during the presidential elections, where only one candidate of each party can be voted in. By lack of [[TakeAThirdOption a significant third option]] many Americans don't bother to vote, which wouldn't be such a problem if it weren't for the fact that the entire world is affected by their voting decisions. Since World War II, America's influence on world politics and economy has been so dominant that many people across the world always hope that the American people vote wisely instead of going for the most superficial or politically extreme candidate. This also explains why the US presidential elections attract more attention from the foreign press than any other country.

* Because of the extent to which the U.S. influences popular culture worldwide, many people "[[PopCulturalOsmosis know]]" about life in the U.S. through movies and television series set here and are not always shy about admitting that movies, television series, or both are their source of information. However, those works are by definition works of fiction intended as entertainment and shaped by market forces; as a result, many people believe things about life here that vary from slanted to flatly wrong. Also, [[Series/HouseOfCardsUS not all]] TV series on which people base their views of the U.S. are even original to the U.S.

* Alaska: (see ''The Arctic'' at the top of the page)

* [[CornyNebraskans Nebraskans]] still drive covered wagons, live on farms, and raise corn and cows. They are also rabid Cornhusker fans, loving the team even more than their own families.

* UsefulNotes/{{Nebraska}}ns still drive covered wagons, live on farms, and raise corn and cows. They are also rabid Cornhusker fans, loving the team even more than their own families.

** Despite this, [[Main/TheWhiteHouse The White House]] is one of the smallest official residents of a head of state or government in the entire world and many depictions of its interior in film and television turn it into a [[BiggerOnTheInside TARDIS]] by the size of it's interior. In fact, most staffers of the White House will lament Hollywood's depictions not being true as they wish their office space was that spacious. The famous Press Briefing Room is notoriously cramped, as any one in the press pool will tell you. The space expansion in film and live action typically upscale for both convenience of film equipment and because RealityIsUnrealistic.

* UsefulNotes/{{Wisconsin}}: [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Beer, cheese, beer cheese]], bratwursts, cows, beer, cranberries, beer, the Brewers, the Badgers, [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague the Packers]] (treated as a publicly-owned state religion), and (if you're really with it) Summerfest[[note]]The largest music festival in the entire world[[/note]]. That's it. Oh, and Germans. LOTS of Germans. [[OverlyLongGag And beer.]] Oh yaaah, and all dose women who come from Wisconsin in the media will always be a middle-aged housewife who speaks wit' a Scandahoovian accent, don'chaknow? Oh You'betcha! UsefulNotes/{{Milwaukee}}, it's largest city, is known for it's breweries and where infamous serial killer and rapist Jeffery Dahmer lived.

* UsefulNotes/GeorgiaUSA will almost always be treated as a backwards hicktown that is extremely white and extremely intolerant (see the ''30 Rock'' episode "Stone Mountain"). The sole exception is its capital, UsefulNotes/{{Atlanta}}, which is 54% black (and they're all hip-hop artists), home to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), two major universities, the world's busiest airport, and some of the largest medical and industrial facilities in the country, and actually has the 3rd highest population of LGBT people in the U.S. (behind San Francisco and Seattle). It's known as the home town of Coca-Cola, Martin Luther King Jr, where UsefulNotes/TedTuner founded Creator/{{TBS}} and Creator/{{CNN}}, and Delta Airlines. But at least since Music/RayCharles, it is "always on our mind".

* UsefulNotes/{{Wisconsin}}: [[BreadEggsBreadedEggs Beer, cheese, beer cheese]], bratwursts, cows, beer, cranberries, beer, the Brewers, the Badgers, [[UsefulNotes/NationalFootballLeague the Packers]] (treated as a publicly-owned state religion), and (if you're really with it) Summerfest[[note]]The largest music festival in the entire world[[/note]]. That's it. Oh, and Germans. LOTS of Germans. [[OverlyLongGag And beer.]] Oh yaaah, and all dose women who come from Wisconsin in the media will always be a middle-aged housewife who speaks wit' a Scandahoovian accent, don'chaknow? Oh You'betcha! Milwaukee, one of it's cities, is known for it's breweries and where infamous serial killer and rapist Jeffery Dahmer lived.

* UsefulNotes/{{Hawaii}}: Pretty girls with long black hair, coconut bras, and grass skirts who enjoy [[HulaAndLuaus hula dancing]] and put flower garlands ("leis") over every tourist's shoulders. The island has a very relaxed atmosphere with parties ("luaus") and people drinking soft drinks while wearing [[HawaiianShirtedTourist Hawaiian shirts]], surfing, and playing the ukelele. There are also a lot of pineapples, Tiki statues, and pigs roasted at the beaches. And, of course, [[AlohaHawaii the word "Aloha" most be mentioned or sung at least once!]].