What causes one to have deep pride for their State? Proud to be from …? (Ex: Texas,NJ,NY)

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I have lived in 6 states. I loved NH, PA, and VA. I am neutral re: MD (loved Annapolis but lived near Baltimore as a child and again as an adult and saw nothing to be proud of) and WV (beautiful countryside). Nothing good to say about Arizona, except the state and national parks).

I have also lived in Germany and Italy. Loved that experience but happier living in the USA.

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Anonymous wrote:People from San Francisco are crazy proud of their city. They get into fights with Los Angelinos all the time.

Just FYI, "Los Angelinos" is not a term.

Los Angelenos. Typo. My deepest apologies.

No, the term is “Angeleno,” if you must use a shortened version. But really very few people from LA call themselves that. We just sat we’re from LA, or often, specify the neighborhood.

It’s pronounced “douche bag”.

[Anonymous]

I do not know if it is encouraged or not - but I have a lot of pride of the state I am living in (and have for over four decades.)

I think CA is a great state >> great weather 🏝, laid-back easygoing people, excellent food as well as a lifestyle perfectly suited for just about anyone.

Not to mention all the songs in popular culture (both then & now) that mention our great state.

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Not trying to be snarky here - I promise (!) but I cannot see how ANYone can be proud to be from Texas…..

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Anonymous wrote:I was born in Tennessee, raised just across the line in Virginia, have also lived in Georgia and Minnesota, and I am currently living in Oklahoma. When people ask where I'm from, I say Tennessee. Where do I feel most at home? Oklahoma. What am I most proud of? Being an American. I LOVE my Country. I've seen much of this beautiful land of ours, been a lot of places, had a lot of amazing experiences, met a lot of fascinating people, and I am proud to be an American.

That’s great for you, but totally off topic.

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Anonymous wrote:Not trying to be snarky here - I promise (!) but I cannot see how ANYone can be proud to be from Texas…..

Hint - that wasn’t snark and your ignorance is showing.

Ps - you sound like a person who shouldn’t travel because you are missing the point of it.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm from FL, and I take zero pride in it. The "Florida Man" exists for a reason...

I’ve never lived in FL, but I know that the only reason “Florida Man” exists is because of state laws on how local crimes are reported to local media, iirc with more anonymity. So “Florida Man” becomes a common meme vs. Wayne Jesse Billings one night and DaShsaun Jackson the next and Hector Valenzuela on Saturday.

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Here, I was on the right track, but had it a little bit backwards. Florida, compared to other states, has much more open freedom of information laws. So every arrest report is immediately a matter of public record, albeit anonymous.

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/how-floridas-proud-open-government-laws-lead-to-the-shame-of-florida-man-news-stories-7608595

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I live on the Chesapeake Bay in Maryland. I have traveled the world. While there are places that are more beautiful and more cultured, this is home. I feel a need to protect the bay. I feel the direct impact when people don’t. I equate the bay to Maryland and love Maryland.
I also appreciate most things about Maryland - politics, education, etc. There are definitely idiots that live here but all in all, I love it.

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The notion that Vermont is the greatest place to live is indoctrinated at a super young age up there. I like to sing the song with the 50 states in alphabetical order to my kids and my husband always sings an extra part at the end that he learned in school in first grade that goes something like, “but in my opinion, of the 50 states, Vermont is the best”. My husband no longer thinks that VT is the best state (which is obviously Hawaii, haha) but my MIL certainly seems to think that’s true. She won’t buy anything that isn’t made locally in Vermont and she just carries on endlessly about how wonderful it is to live there, which is nice I suppose. But yeah, lots of state pride ingrained in folks.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m from Delaware.

I don’t have Delaware pride, exactly, but I find myself thinking about it a lot because I live outside of the DMV. Inevitably after someone asks where I am from (and why I say “water” and “quarter” like “wootter” and “quootter”), I then have to explain that DE really is a state and describe where it is (nope, it’s not next to Vermont).

And yeah, we’ve pretty much all met Joe Biden. He spoke at my high school graduation, his wife taught at my high school, and I waited on him in a store (30 years ago). He talks a lot.

Hello, fellow Delawarean!

I have lived in VA more than half my life now, and really only lived full time in DE for 4 years during HS (it was my home address when I went to college in NC, though). I still think of it as my home state, though.

Some of it is because there aren’t that many of us, right? It is a bit of a unique thing. Some of it is the Wayne’s World joke ;p

I went to ES and MZ in Maryland and got MD state history at some point. When I got to HS, I did realize that my classmates had gotten DE history before that.

I am married to a former Texan. They have such a bizarre state pride.

Oh it’s a delight to “meet” a fellow Delawarean! I am so tempted to ask where you went to high school…
Mostly because, according to my CA born-and-bred spouse, whenever people from Delaware meet each other, they almost instantly start demanding to know “where did you go to high school?” It’s such a dinky state that I knew every high school - and the answer does in fact give you a lot of context about the person.

But seriously, don’t tell me where you went to high school. And I’m not going to tell you where I went. Because if we did then we could probably figure out each other’s real identity on this ostensibly anonymous board. It’s pathetic - the state is just that stinking small.

I deal with a proud Californian as a spouse. He fancies himself to be a laidback outdoorsy surfer. He’s actually very uptight and a bit clumsy, and insists on driving if we are going more than 1/4 mile because anything more than 1/4 mile is “too far to walk.”

Haha-based on your first post, I’m pretty sure I already know what HS you went to I’ll just say I went to one of the parochial ones.

People at my NC college (with supposedly bright students) did frequently think I lived in New England as you said before. But I do not have the Philly/DE accent that you described earlier where you say “wooter”

Maybe my neighbors 2 houses closer to the ES down the street from us are Californians, then. They literally put their kids in the car to drive less than half a block. Bizarre.

I’ve been to TX many times now over 20+ years. I just don’t see anything particularly special about it.

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Anonymous wrote:Why anyone would be proud to be from New Jersey is beyond me.

Good for you now please stay out of our state.

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Anonymous wrote:I have never understood this, but I also don't get being really into where you went to college. I love where I'm from and have fond memories of college, but I don't find either of these things defining aspects of my personality.

And I guess that's my read -- people who get really into their state/city of origin or their alma mater are using it as a proxy for developing actual interests or personality traits. It's just easier to decide early on "I'm a Texan! I love hot sauce and big hats! This is my identity!" than to spend some time figuring out who you really are underneath. And I say that as a Texan (and UT grad who loves both hot sauce and solid cowboy hat. It's just those things don't define who I am.

I find it interesting that no one acknowledges the social privilege aspect of big
college football team pride in this era.

There are many people that are big college fotball team supporters that never went to that college, or any other college.

[Anonymous]

It comes from a place where you feel you have something to prove to others.

I'm originally from California, love the state, think it's so gorgeous and wonderful. When I hear people trash California and discuss the superiority of Texas, Florida, Arizona, Michigan, or wherever else they're from....I roll my eyes and pity them.

They feel like they have something to prove, their "pride" comes from a place of insecurity.

It's funny too - I don't lead with my Californian identity. If it comes up, it comes up. And I'll give you some awesome advice about what to see, which low key beaches to visit to avoid the crowds, and awesome places to eat.

But I got nothing to prove because I know it's already an amazing community and place. There's no need for me to convince you of anything because that's not how we roll in California.

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Anonymous wrote:People from San Francisco are crazy proud of their city. They get into fights with Los Angelinos all the time.

Just FYI, "Los Angelinos" is not a term.

Los Angelenos. Typo. My deepest apologies.

No, the term is “Angeleno,” if you must use a shortened version. But really very few people from LA call themselves that. We just sat we’re from LA, or often, specify the neighborhood.

It’s pronounced “douche bag”.

Please keep showing your ignorance about CA. Next thing you know you’ll be calling it “San Fran”.