What is the Alabama of your country?
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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Saarland in Germany, supposedly
The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.
Sweden
Source country: Denmark
I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.
Kinda necessary when your population is less than 400,000.
Go back not that far, relatively, and everyone living there (who isn't a immigrant) is related in some capacity.
Not Westfjords? Definitely a lot of lifted trucks out there.
Yes, but most of them are least they're lifted for a practical reason.
Sweden’s response:
Savage.
Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I'm not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
Me, I only tell the truth.
Unlike those damned folks in Sweden smdh with sarcasm
Also from Denmark. I came here to say Lolland-Falster, but yours work too!
North of France for, well, France.
Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.
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)
North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?
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.
The Alabama of my country is Alabama
Lemme guess..you're from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!
Argh! Don't say Ni!
Echi echi sproing!
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.
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.
Be the arsonist you want to see in the world
I would consider it (well more legal recourse) if a truck like this was in the neighborhood. I've mostly seen this on trucks ripping by me on the way into town. It's not common but even one is too many.
Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.
Source: live in Sask 😢
Fuck can they run though
So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...
That explains a lot.
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.
Well played
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.
Nice
Your sister is your mother Your father is your brother You all fuck one another A tassie family
I'm my own grandpa
asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?
Thanks!! Gotta read it later on desktop, for some reason the link breaks the app I'm using
Doesn't open in Jerboa either, but I am able to copy paste it.
I'm using Jerboa, too and when I click the link, I can't open with Jerboa, but I can open it in a browser
Works in Sync for Lemmy
Pretty amazing how the answers are so similar.
Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.
Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world's oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.
Which has a few interesting details:
Also, about a century and a half earlier, there was nearly a marriage between an Egyptian queen who asked for one of the sons of the Hittite king, something so unheard of they commented about how mind blowing the request was. Unfortunately the prince they sent was assassinated en route, as otherwise the joint marriage would have established a kingdom the largest the region had seen or would see until Alexander the Great.
(That story and what may have really been going on with the queen involved is probably one of the most interesting hidden details in all of history as best I've seen.)
Thanks, I'd never read about Paduhepa. That's a fun rabbit hole.
Where's the NEWEST peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians from, though? I'm guessing Birmingham.
alabama
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)_/¯
Florida
Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?
They're certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.
Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬
I know it doesn’t make sense, but can’t blame the guy, he probably went to school in Florida
Native Floridian, can confirm.
Norwich
The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads
As long as the broads consent first, of course.
As an American who has lived in the Southern US and East Anglia, I feel like Norwich/Norfolk is more Mississippi and Suffolk is more Alabama. But I really don't have anything to back that up other than Suffolk feels more rural. And Norfolk seemed more willfully ignorant. At least this was the case 20 years ago when I lived there.
I was more basing it on fucking their kin and having webbed toes :P
Fair enough. There I go over thinking things again.
In France that's north
Not a specific place but the small villages encrusted in the remote valleys of the Alps in Northern Italy are quite full of stories that quite match the description. There is even a small borough I can think of which is nicknamed "the village of the assassins" due to its inhabitants having mental disorders due to genetic detects.
This isn't an issue for Lauterbrunnen too, is it?
Queensland
Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.
Burgenland
The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
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
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)
Weirdly enough, I've nvr heard of a state in my country (Brazil) that would be our 'alabama'. I'm sure someone will correct me soon tho
Do people from Acre even exist though?
Now that's one I heard a lot lol
Parana, maybe?
Really? Nvr heard any incest jokes from any reagion including parana
I was more of thinking they could be a good candidate. Rural, used to be called "Russia Brasileira" in online memes.
I mean, I think Im fine with keeping incest away from here haha
LOL
Birmingham
Nord pas de Calais for France
Santiago del Estero
entre solo para ver esto
Saguenay (Lac Saint-Jean). In Québec,Canada. Very known for it's high cosanguinity.
Saskatchewan.
Not quiet an alabama but an particular hindu community, who marry their uncles daughter(mom's brother). well none are in my sights of relatives though.
For the province of Québec I would say it's Saguenay.
For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec
Cool
Neighbor right below you guys.
This is true. Yes, Qebec City and Montreal are world class cities. outside those cities it's Le Kentucky
People are disagreeing with you, but as somebody from one of the most liberal states in the US, Massachusetts, it's very much the same thing here - the cities are as progressive as it gets, but you don't have to drive too far before you start seeing the Trump flags and Bible thumpers in their lifted pickups. It's very easy to fall into that lifestyle if you've never been more than 50 kilometers from the house you were born in and never seen somebody with a different skin color from yours. And it doesn't matter if that house is among fields, forests, or coastline.
Mmmm IDK... Have you ever visit the province? Gatineau is 300k+ souls, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Chicoutimi are now all over 100k, with about a half-dozen more cities with 70k+ population. Not exactly only field and forests. Kentucky as like 2 cities with more then 100k. It's actually quite a populated province, 2nd in Canada.
Bye bye le débile léger. Xxxx
Urk.
Why not Limburg?
Veneto, stuff like this & more happened there
Veneto is more like Texas tbh
Limburg??? Nog nooit van Urk gehoord?
Nog nooit van België gehoord?
West-vlaanderen past beter met de Alabama vibe!
Falkirk.
Skellefteå is the Alabama for Sweden, and most of Noway and Denmark too. However, for the whole Nordics, we have Iceland. The whole country of Iceland.
Apparently there’s a phone app that lets them know if they’re related or not.
Kerry
Gold Coast
Sheppey...
They got webbed feet over there
Galicia
New Hampshire/backwoods Maine.
New England does not consent to being considered a part of the same country as the Bible Belt/Florida.
Jokes aside, New Hampshire is known as "The South of the North" for its very..."conservative" political stances.
Found the Romanian.