We wear shoes in Mississippi! If we want to! LOL. I don't believe we are decades behind the rest of the U.S. Though there are many rural areas, we have cities also. Some Mississippians have never set an unshod toe on a farm!

Not all of speak with a drawl (though I probably do!). And typically "movie" southern accents are horribly inaccurate!!

I think education is very important here and my public school education was excellent. It is true though if there is a disaster the news crew is certain to find a toothless, bedraggled and generally pitiful specimin of humanity to represent us. Does that happen in your state?

So funny

In Switzerland we dont eat chocolate and cheese all day long. Most of us dont own a swiss watch (too expensive) and hardly anybody knows how to milk a cow.
And no nacked blond girls around here. They are in Sweden not Switzerland.

Not everyone in Texas rides a horse, wears a cowboy hat, or carries a gun. And we don't all have an oil well in our backyard (although I do dream about that one!).

The Greater Los Angeles area. No - I don't see movie stars at the grocery store, in fact nowhere I go! It isn't always sunny with perfect weather. Not everyone has a swimming pool. I don't even have a palm tree in my yard.
I am sorry to learn that not everyone in Switzerland eats chocolate all the time. I would have moved there for that.

Not everyone in Colorado likes to ski, it's not all one big mountain.

I have soooo enjoyed this thread!!!

Ohio isn't hicks-ville.
We have lots of people who even go past 8th grade! (although I'm not sure about our governor...)
Seriously, I've seen several movies or TV shows over the years that are in NY or CA and when they want to be around small town folk who all are overweight, wear overalls, ladies don't wear make up, and the only recreation they do is bowling, they say "let's go to Ohio."
And we're not really in the mid-west. Looking at a map Ohio is very eastern, don't you think? We're not near the center of the USA. I know it was "the midwest" 200 years ago when the country hadn't all been settled but not anymore. I don't know why it irritates me.

Not everyone in Utah is Mormon (LDS) and all Mormons are not polygamists.

Ther is a lot more to New York then just the big apple.

Massachusetts taxes are no worse than other places. Food is not taxed. Clothing is not taxed. I lived in Nashville, Tennessee for 12 years and was taxed on everything.

Oh, and it is Massachusetts.....NOT Mass. It is a place not an event. Mass is something my husband might go to on a Sunday morning.