ain't your buddy, pal!

Alaskans and Hawaiians are incapable of forming bonds of friendship.

Interesting. Can we have have at least a tiny bit of info how this data came to be?

Not just this one, but all the infographs, maps etc. Always leave entirely open if someone just guessed the data for the lulz.

This makes me a litte sad sometimes

People in Washington don't refer to each others.

I thought America was mostly NTSC

Seattle Freeze is REAL

what happened to man... as in hey man.

nice maps, homes!

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"

As a Washingtonian, as usual, I’m glad to barely be represented on a heat map of something.

I’m not your bro, pal.

I love that New England doesn't show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with "asshole" and "fucker" and the data scientists didn't want to cover cursing.

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?

Eastern Pennsylvania apparently has no word for Bros.

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".

I don't know why but "fella" sounds old fashioned to me.

I'm apparently in the "Pal" region and it's not a word I use often to refer to people, nor have I heard it used often by others either.

We use "Dude" pretty often, but looking at the map you'd think this is a dude desert.

I was upset that Kentucky didn't have much coverage, but then I realized that "Hosscat" wasn't one of the choices.

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

West coast here. There’s also “man” and “guys.” I use those way more than “dude” lol

People in Georgia and Washington State apparently don't have friends.

The large amounts of no-bro-zones scares me.

Been ‘dude’ for me as long as I’ve been alive.

I'm not your pal, guy!

People really say "fella"? It seems centered around Louisiana?

You can call me Al.

Anything goes in Michigan.

Where is sexy-(square)pants? Man-in-tights? Curly-cock? Dick-broom?

Damn, no representation for "babe", "bbgrl", etc? I use those a lot.

Georgians have no friends.

Mid Atlantic region just doesn’t like anyone.

The top three are used in California.

I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")

In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this

Speaking of brotymology, what's a gender neutral version of bro/man?

So, we're no longer using 'stud?'

Massachusetts has much more dude than this.

Chief…

My buddy in Atlanta would like a word.

Michigan is all about it.

bruh

I'm super curious about that hole in Texas for "dude."

Fella is now a warning word.

In Florida I mainly hear the top 3.
Bottom 2 would probably get an odd look.
That's really interesting I never thought that something as simple as "bro" would be different in different states

Fella 4 life

My Dude!

I love that Ohio is purple in all of these

Colorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular

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