What "hick" district/town/province is the butt of jokes where you're from?

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Anchorage has its Spenard, Toronto its Scarboro, New York its Staten Island, Canada its Newfoundland. I grew up not too far from West Virginia (hi Yanc3y!), so obvs. You?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Mexico.

― Remy (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Indiana.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Vestal.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Here in Charlotte, NC, it's Gastonia, our next door neighbors. Man, even that name sounds hickish. Coincidentally, it's also Fred Durst's hometown. I know a girl who went to his high school.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

why Gastonia when all of South Carolina is right there?

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Glasgow

― KeithW (kmw), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Hicksylvania, Hicksatchewan

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Portland, Ore. has several options, although Gresham fits the bill nicely.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ipswich.

― kate/papa november (papa november), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:46 (twenty-one years ago)

South Carolina has its finer points. Gastonia doesn't.

― Mickey (modestmickey), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Huk, it's not Minot?

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm from Texas. There are no hicks in Texas, only carpetbaggers and city-slickers and big ol' faggots and hippie faggots.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Shreveport doesn't count, Kenan?

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I should just shut up, being in Mississippi and all, but here we make fun of :
1) Alabama
2) Shreveport
3) Nettleton

― Curious George Rides a Republican (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

In Austin, we made a lot of fun of the Los Angelenos that invaded town during SXSW every year. Kinda the same thing.

― Fish fingers all in a line (kenan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Pasa-get down-dena, TX

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i dunno about towns but in Ireland all Irishman jokes are about Kerrymen

― fcussen (Burger), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Within the city, it's The North End. Within the province, it's def. Regina. Within the region. um, still Regina. "It's not the asshole of the Prairies, but it's close."

Minot, by many, is mysteriously held in great esteem, possibly owing to the fact that they had waterslides and mini-golf long before Gi-Town.

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm, I'm not sure what it is in Chicago. In Richmond, it was West Virginia.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Chicago = Gary, Naperville, any number of options.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

West Virginia, is that even a real place?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

New York its Staten Island

New Jersey makes fun of Staten Island (and Lawng Guyland), too!

my relatives in philadelphia and its metro area refer to the rest of the state as "pennsyltuckey."

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

In Wilmington, NC it's SC.
In LA, it's Orange County

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

West Virginia is beautiful, Huck.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Kentucky

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:54 (twenty-one years ago)

everyone in ventura county talks shit about oxnard. johnny carson used to talk shit about oxnard.. I try to make up for it by talking shit about santa paula.

― Dude, are you a 15 year old asian chick? (jingleberries), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Manhattan makes fun of all the "bridge and tunnel" people who don't live in Manhattan.

― stockholm cindy's secret childhood (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

in Little Rock (ahem), i guess we rag on Benton. Or maybe Bryant. Or hell, even North Little Rock, which we refer to affectionately as "Dog Town." origins of that are unclear. Pleasant Plains?

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

In Queens we made a lot more fun of Long Island than we ever did of Staten Island. But in high school, in Manhattan, we made more fun of Staten Island. So.

(xposts a-go-go)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Yorkshire - particularly, Hull or Barnsley

― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Naperville?? nah, i wouldn't say Naperville is considered hick around here. it's only like a 20 minute drive out on 290. More like Rockford. Even people from Rockford make fun of being from Rockford.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Manhattan makes fun of all the "bridge and tunnel" people who don't live in Manhattan.

You mean orcs?

― Huk-L, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

When I was very young I lived in Lower Bucks County, Penn., and I always felt that people in Upper Bucks County (and I think there's a Middle Bucks County, too?) were looking down at us. But I was 8 and might have been wrong.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:57 (twenty-one years ago)

hstencil OTM about naperville... i kinda live there and still make fun of it.

it isnt a hick town, but its the butt of jokes.

the hicktowns would be dekalb and big rock and those sorts.

― t0dd swiss, Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

i had a boss that called it "napervile"

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 20:59 (twenty-one years ago)

BURN.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never actually heard a Scarborough joke before. Just silly pronunciations (Scarberia, Scarlem, The Scar, etc.). Newfie jokes are, by far, what I heard the most as a kid.

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I guess I'm just thinking that stuff still pretty much in the, ugh, 'chicagoland'-area wouldn't really count as hick. I mean it's all part of a big conurbation, not really 'out there'.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

big rock

the name ALONE screams "HICK!!!"

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

mundelein? kankakee? c'mon, stormy.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:04 (twenty-one years ago)

What about Carbondale, SOUTHERN ILLINOIS?

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

all of downstate could qualify as "hick" to chicagoans.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah well, kankakee, sure ... that's what i'm saying, that's out there. naperville is like 20 minutes away.

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

so is kankakee! if 57 or whatever isn't jammed.

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, fuck, no Naperville isn't that close .. it is farther than that now that I take a look at mapquest. I think I was getting it mixed up with like Berwyn or something. Ah well, shows how much I've visited the suburbs (like, I could count them on two hands.)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:13 (twenty-one years ago)

cicero is probably more butt of jokes than berwyn!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

betty loren-maltese!

― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Everything I know about Chicago 'burbs I learned from sports radio (e.g. "Hey this is Mailman Mike from Glenview", "Now we go to our guy Park Ridge Kenny", "next up is Steve from Downers Grove", etc.)

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Arkansas' state motto may as well be "Thank God for Mississippi" since without them, we'd be ranked last in everything. We also tell a lot of Aggie jokes, something that's a holdover from Arkansas' former membership in the Southwest Conference.

There's something really odd about the fact that Missouri make fun of Arkansas, Iowa makes fun of Missouri, and Minnesota makes fun of Iowa. Like being south of somewhere equals being stupid.

It was also weird to me that Missouians used the word "hoosier" as a synonym for "hick" or "redneck". That's Missouri giggling at you, Indiana.

even North Little Rock, which we refer to affectionately as "Dog Town." origins of that are unclear. Pleasant Plains?

You must never make fun of North Little Rock, Andrew.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 21:21 (twenty-one years ago)

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Wullerton

Ptui.

― Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

in San Diego we have Santee (Klantee), El Cajon, Escondido, and Chula Vista.

Fontucky (Fontana) is also good as the butt of jokes.

― tylero (tylero), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

oh right, I'm confusing the SoL w/ the Isle of Staten. both green and rusting, or something.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Colorado Springs on the right, and Boulder on the left.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Tuesday, 15 February 2005 23:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't forget Fallbrook, tylero (does Escondido really get that much hate, though?)

― Lingbertt, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

massholes.

― Ian John50n (orion), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm a Newfie who lives in Toronto, which, at least in some circles, makes me the hated of the hated.

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

In L.A. there might be a few but Lancaster/Sunland is probably the butt of the most, "gangstas and racists and racist gangstas cooking up speed in the desert" pretty much sums up the sentiment.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Sacramento?

Even Oakland for people/DUMB MOTHERFUCKERS from SF

― adam.r.l. (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 00:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha.. I was thrilled when a couple of international students @ Brown asked me.. so, what do you call people from Massachusetts?

― daria g (daria g), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the best thing to ever come out of alabama?

― ¬_¬ (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

i-20 and i-10!

― ¬_¬ (PUNXSUTAWNEY PENIS), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 01:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Tokyo shits on Saitama, an adjacent suburb. 'Dasai' means lame, so people say 'Dasaitama'.

My hometown, D.C., shits on West Virginia and certain distant suburbs like Damascus, Maryland.

― supercub, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Philadelphia makes fun of Camden, NJ or New Jersey in general. Everyone knows Philly is the ass of the world.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Riverside is the butt of a lot of meth-lab and biker jokes from both LA and the OC

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Pensyltucky. All towns here in Centre County NOT named State College. It was vicious enough in high school that they had to separate the State High kids from the rest of the football audience cuz of debris and screams of "HICK!," etc.

― miccio (miccio), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:41 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah Sacramento!(from L.A.) Mostly in the context of the relatively recent Lakers/Queens* rivalry.
*THESE ARE U.S. BASKETBALL TEAMS.

― tremendoid (tremendoid), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In Vancouver, it's the suburb of Surrey.

― Shmool McShmool (shmuel), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I should just shut up, being in Mississippi and all, but here we make fun of :
1) Alabama
2) Shreveport
3) Nettleton

-- Curious George Rides a Republican (crump...), February 15th, 2005.

Surely you're forgetting that the Mississippi State Seal says "Thank God for Arkansas" in Latin. Well, pig latin.

― Choko, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:05 (twenty-one years ago)

what's the best thing to ever come out of alabama?

My friend Kaye, who is very happy to now live in Washington, DC.

― j.lu (j.lu), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 03:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Laos

― Paul Kelly (kelly), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 05:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Kerry seconded.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:36 (twenty-one years ago)

for London, it's kind of 'the rest of the UK' (especially where our parents live, and former home towns)

― The Lex (The Lex), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i grew up in the hick town of paw paw, which was the butt of many jokes and generally picked on, especially by the 'city kids' from kalamazoo...and people all over the world have burst into laughter when i mention kalamazoo, so i guess that shows them.

― colette (a2lette), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 10:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland - Ballymena or Larne. Or Doagh, but that's a very local one.

― Crackity (Crackity Jones), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 12:58 (twenty-one years ago)

In Cleveland, there's a joke about teaching the three Rs in West Virginia: Readin', Ritin', and Route to Akron .. takes a swipe at WV as well as Akron, which is like little Appalachia.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

In North Oxfordshie its Bletchington, or Noke. Or Horton-cum-Studley or Murcott or Fencott or Hampton Gay or Shipton under Wychwood or Ambrosden. Actually, Hampton Gay is quite nice.

― alix (alix), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

In Chorley, Lancs, it's Coppull. Cue lots of jokes such as 'they only got electricity two years ago. etc. etc.

― Vicky (Vicky), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

They have no ice in Kerry, you know. The little old lady who knew the recipe died recently.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I never quite got the "Jersey Driver" thing. I never feel more unsafe behind the wheel than driving in NYC.

see, i can understand why people make fun of drivers in new jersey but its not as if any other state on the east coast creates better drivers. new jersey drivers dont comprehend how to make turns [they just veer off the road] or use signals, new york city just has too many drivers to be able to drive safely, philadelphia drivers are completely lawless [one city council member admitted to driving a city vehicle for 25 years without a license, phila has one of the highest concentrations of uninsured drivers; driving on the sidewalk and using whatever object you can find to save your parking spot, as well as parking in the middle of the street are COMMON practices here].

then there's massholes and whatever kind of jerk that comes out of connecticut. we've got baltimorons, too. washington DC, despite not even being a real state, has some of the worst traffic i've ever witnessed. my friend who lives in VA thinks its OK to make rights on left turns [ive taken up praying when im in the car with him].

lets face it -- we're ALL lousy drivers. except for me, mainly because a) im smart enough to stay off the road & use alternate methods of transportation and b) i took a driver reeducation class three months ago.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Tantrum, who the fuck hates Newfies?

― Thermo Thinwall (Thermo Thinwall), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:13 (twenty-one years ago)

new jersey drivers dont comprehend how to make turns [they just veer off the road] or use signals.

there's a reason for this. it's because generally NJ highways don't have left-hand turns in the middle of the highway (unlike either PA or NY). instead, you have "jughandles" off to the right-hand side of the road -- kind of like exits off of an interstate highway, only you turn right onto a jughandle and drive until you come to a traffic signal, and then make whatever turn you want to make.

as much fun as it is watching NJ drivers in PA or NY, it's even MORE fun for us NJ drivers watch PA drivers or NY drivers react to one of our jughandle turns. at any rate, now you know.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 15:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Skelmersdale

― Matt (Matt), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

My hometown is Nutley, NJ. Case closed.

(it's been a gag in everything from a 1940s Fred Allen movie to The Muppet Show, and now is renowned as the burg that spawned Martha Stewart)

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 16:45 (twenty-one years ago)

In Leeds, Castleford and Pontefract are called, with mordant irony,
Cas Vegas and Ponte Carlo.

― Adam Faithless (Adam Faithless), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i grew up in NJ, im pretty familiar with the concept. thanks, captain obvious.

― maria tessa sciarrino (theoreticalgirl), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Hey, Chicago people - my beloved hometown of Cal City has been the butt of jokes. But when I was growing up there, we made fun of Indiana people - not the ones from Gary or East Chicago, but the ones from places like Crown Point. Also, Cal City people make fun of Lansing, but that's getting a little obscure.

Also, who makes fun of Chicagoans? Wisconsin people. 'FIB' and all of that....

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:33 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost-

"Jughandle" really sounds like something out of Crabwell Corners.

(They use them in rural PA also...)

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

my hometown (Pella, IA) had a springfield-shelbyville relationship with the town on the other side of Lake Red Rock, Knoxville. although, it's all iowa, so there really aren't any 'winners' in yr-a-hick contests like this.

― f--gg (gcannon), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 17:42 (twenty-one years ago)

For those of us born in the Twin Cities, it's either Hopkins (town next to mine with the horrendously obese internationally infamous teen hacker/straight cruising on Saturday nights) or a selection of towns in Anoka County like Blaine or Anoka (I had a boss at a stock brokerage who wouldn't hire secretaries from the whole northeastern corridor of suburbs because of the *even more* Fargoesque accent spoken by people from there). There's also Eagan and Savage and other towns south of the Minnesota River - I don't think the average person from the Cities is too bothered about what people from Up North sound like because we're so busy telling Iowa jokes.

― suzy (suzy), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

In my hometown in Montana we tell these kinds of jokes:

Q: How do you get a one-armed North Dakotian out of a tree?
A: Wave to him!

yuk yuk!

― Maria D. (Maria D.), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

K3rry -- is Alan Keyes still officially residing in Calumet City, or has he left? I know Maya's still in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Iowa has Missouri and Minnesota jokes. Minnesota is an easy target because of the Fargoesque accent thing suzy mentions.

Des Moines has this sides of town hierarchy where every side ranks themselves against the others, sometimes down to township divisions.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you, one of those stuck-up Clive people?

;)

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Jay - I think he is no longer 'there', if he ever was. I'd hadn't heard any reports of Keyes sightings during the time he was supposed to be living there.

― Yr3k (dymaxia), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

What are you, one of those stuck-up Clive people?

Third-generation south sider. No particular allegiance to any part of town, although I'm currently living in the suburbs and regretting it. I meant more how the south side will bash the east side and claim the west is stuck-up, etc. I'd imagine most cities have this sort of thing going on.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 19:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Tantrum, who the fuck hates Newfies?

Me.

― Tantrum (Tantrum The Cat), Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

here in champaign, IL we make fun of this town called rantoul 20 minutes to the north. we call it rantucky. it used to be home to an air force base, but now it is just a rundown piece of shit with an increasing amount of drug dealers living there.

― t0dd swiss, Wednesday, 16 February 2005 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The United States

― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 17 February 2005 02:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Cleveland: Columbus and Cincinnati are the top two, but we're not picky; if it's south of US 30, it's fair game. I'll look a little askance at anything outside Cuyahoga County myself :-)

― Jeff Wright (JeffW1858), Thursday, 17 February 2005 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

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