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».
Saarland in Germany, supposedly
The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.
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.
Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.
Source: live in Sask 😢
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.
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.
Nah, Alberta is the Georgia. Saskatchewan is the Alabama :D
Gotta agree, went to Saskatchewan for a cousin’s wedding.
Guy had a confederate flag truck parked out front
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?
For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.
Uruk. They just forgot the second “U”
Or Volendam. They all look the same and have 1 of 5 surnames.
North of France for, well, France.
Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.
North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?
Like in the movie “Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis” (Welcome to the Sticks)?
Yep those guys.
Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.
People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)
I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?
Lille, what we call “Les ch’tis” so the 59th department.
I don’t feel like Corsica is considered inbred but maybe because they are noisier (wannabe independent and former terrorists) and probably because it’s a beautiful sunny vacation area.
North doesn’t attract that much tourists even if it is in fact a cool area. That might change with the yearly heatwaves.
lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/
It’s kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can’t go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.
I’m from Norway and I immediately thought, “Well, Toten, maybe?” — though I personally hadn’t heard any incest jokes about that place.
So I looked up “Norges Alabama”, and the first result was a song by that title, about Toten, whose first line and refrain translates as, “I’m going out to ride, ride my cousin”.
…So I guess I’ve heard incest jokes about Toten now.
I’m happy we all got to go on this journey today
alabama
Tasmania
I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.
Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up “Florida Man” antics.
Yeah I think you’ve got it right. But then what this suggests is the ridiculous idea that a very large proportion of the country is sucking on lead paint chips, fighting roos and fucking their sister. But we did have a vote recently that actually confirmed that, so… Maybe it’s not ridiculous
I mean I’m just basing that off stereotypes. I’ve met some absolutely lovely north Queensland people, dated a Tasmanian for a while despite not being related, and I’m not completely convinced the NT even actually exists.
Alabama
Also, incest isn’t limited to Alabama. Also applies to Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Don’t really know how it got started but this seems to include all the places that can have some hardcore hillbillies.
Central PA.
Pennsyltucky
Anywhere low population densities limit the dating pool.
For switzerland it’s appenzell
damn was not fast enough lol
Sry 'bout that ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them “culchies”.
A cluchie is just a way of saying country person. It has absolutely nothing to do with incest.
Same in the UK, lived in the Midlands and the people in the next village over we’re “fennies” (because they lived in the fens). Cue jokes about webbed feet and incest
Girl, no. Our Alabama is most definitely Roscommon.
In France that’s north
Burgenland
The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
This is probably super localised but Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire, Scotland.
"Bring me a sheep, dear mother
I’ll have no other lover…"
(to the tune of Scotland the Brave)
Take it with a pinch of salt like all regional stereotypes, but Norfolk, England tends to have this one in the UK (Norwich, which others have mentioned, is in Norfolk).
