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What is the Alabama of your country? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago by nicolasfields@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Hi everybody, my girlfriend showed me a Tiktok about manga authors adding unnecessary incest plotlines to their works and I thought immediately "They are from Monterrey" (we are from Mexico).

I remembered that the States have a similar joke about Alabama and I started wondering if other countries also have a state or city associated with people who are, for some unknown reason, attrated to their cousins.

Here in Mexico there even is a kind of saying for these people «A la prima se le arrima».

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[–] Bo7a@lemmy.ca 52 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Alberta - I love me some mennonites, but they are really into 'keeping it in the family'.

-Source: Married a mennonite and absconded out of province with her.

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago

Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.

Source: live in Sask 😢

[–] grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Until I moved here I thought having a swastika on your truck would mean you'd find it on fire the first night you parked near other people.

[–] Notorious@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Fuck can they run though

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...

That explains a lot.

[–] mycatiskai@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

If you want to go province by province, BC has Bountiful BC home of a bunch of fundie LDS members that marry and breed with their daughters.

Nothing more backwards and family fucking than the fundie LDS.

[–] Kultronx@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Nah, Alberta is the Georgia. Saskatchewan is the Alabama :D

[–] Quill0@lemmy.digitalfall.net 3 points 1 year ago

Gotta agree, went to Saskatchewan for a cousin's wedding.

Guy had a confederate flag truck parked out front

[–] lars@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t know what non-Americans think of the US state of Georgia the way I know about their Alabama and Texas views.

Why Georgia?