As a Canadian, you can extend the top two up to us and it would still mostly fit.
I'm on the "acts mean, is nice" side in Ontario, and you all can get fucked 🖕
Let me help you with carrying your groceries, fuck face.
I feel like it needs to be qualified that the bottom half is mainly a white problem.
The bible belt / coal belt is not nice.
As a young Tulsan on my first tech support job, it took me ages to figure out that Yanks aren't as mean as rattlesnakes, they just talk that way.
Alaska: Fuck off and leave us alone.
Hawaii: Get the fuck here and hang with us.
(Plz, we need money to ship things across half the pacific)
Near as I can tell since moving back, being "Iowa nice" means "be white and republican and talk down to everyone else" so no, more like acts nice, is mean for us.
Ain't no fucking way Indiana is in the "Nice" category
It's called the middle finger of the south for a reason
Bruh, I moved out here two years ago, and holy shit! These are the most miserable, hateful, rude, nasty, violent, stupid, lazy, and just all-around shitty people I have encountered in my life. Really, damn near everywhere I go in this state, I observe this behavior. I'm originally from Michigan, but I've been all over the US and really have not been anywhere like this.
Or Utah
I get that this is basically a politcal compass meme overlayed on a map (and also that this is in cartography anarchy), but here's how I'd actually divide things up based on basically 0 practical experience:
Acts nice, is nice: West Coast (WA, OR, CA, HI) (WA might have to move down to the next category if they're feeling surly)
Acts mean, is nice: Northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE)
Acts nice, is mean: Southeast (AR, LA, KY, TN, MS, AL, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL), Midwest (ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH), and Alaska
Acts mean, is mean: The rest (ID, MT, WY, NV, UT, CO, AZ, NM, OK, TX)
"Acts nice, is mean" still makes up a large part of the country, but "Acts mean, is mean" has been trending up for about a decade now.
I've colored it in as you described, at least I'm in one of the nice states
Gonna save this for when I decide to visit.
I forgot to color in the hawaii square, one sec (now fixed, apologies hawaii)
Alaska belongs more in the "acts mean, is nice" category. But it's less "mean" and more "apathetic and disinterested."
I get the perception Cali can be prickly too, although I've never been there. Maybe orange for them too? And come to think of it, inland Oregon is very Idaho.
There's assholes born everywhere, I guess.
And of course that only aims to divide things up into big blocks similar to the original image. If I wanted to get more granular I'd probably put UT in "Acts nice, is mean" for example.
My experience having lived across the US has been closer to https://youtu.be/u3qJlWQNNxA?si=EU_dgGLT-vWgmNXy - I haven't met a kind ("actually nice") person in Northern California who grew up there.
Edit to add: err, except my wife of course.
Who ever made this has never been to Minnesota. Or Iowa for that matter.
The Midwest in general. I feel we're getting lumped in with New England.
“The entire Midwest disliked that”
That's different.
PNW should be: acts nice, is scared
Quick context, if you ask for directions in Seattle, people will gladly help, but you will see the terror in their eyes that they have to socialize with someone they don't know.
This map applies to every individual city as well, just make sure "acts mean is mean" is the rich quadrant of the city and the rest will map nicely.
That may be the "acts nice, calls the police on you because you're on their neighborhood and don't match the pantone"
Downvoted.
Act Nice between whites ans rich people dont count.
Silicon fucking valley ? Ask to latinos what they think ans where they are living...Im French BTW, and I can see that.
Why so serious?
society made me like this,
Silicon Valley is in the bottom left quadrant, so I have no idea what you're talking about.
ah ah, my bad,
