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Here's a tip for Americans, if you want to annoy a Canadian ask them if they're from Alberta, if they ask why tell them they give of Alberta vibes, if you're feeling sauce just say 'Berta vibes instead of Alberta vibes.
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I donβt think Canada has an Alabama. As conservative as they are, Alberta is wealthy, highly educated, and they frequently vote for women and POC. They like βsmall governmentβ, but also have some of the highest paid government workers in the country. I just donβt see much similarity.
I think the comparison to Texas is more apt because theyβre both conservative petro states with center left suburban sprawl cities.
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I've always heard that Alberta is the 'Texas of Canada' (presumably for the oil & being politically conservative). But since Canada only has 10 provinces, I guess that would mean each province needs to represent 5 different US states.
If Alabama and Texas are two of them, what are the other 3 for Alberta?
New mexico, Utah, not sure about the other
Most of the mid-west would be split between Saskatchewan and winnipeg
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Rafael Cruz is from Alberta, so even got enough crazy to export.
I would agree with this answer for the Zeitgeist of how Canadians see Albertans from a stereotypical way, and this is true for our rural population. But politically, Ontario takes the Alabama cake for voting in so many Ford's so many times. How do you guys keep doing this?
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Iranian here.
All of them.
That's the Saarland for Germany or some parts of Bayern (Bavaria) depending on who you ask
Ask anyone in the UK and they'll tell you the next county over from them
Yep. Norfolk, full of em.
I'm from Somerset which would be a classic answer but Norfolk is still considered the one county that saves us from being the goto joke inbreds.
It's a load of bs anyway... I'm barely related to my wife at all!
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England.
The north, in France. Lille is the rumoured capital of cousin-inbreeding.
Les Chβtis
In the Netherlands it's Urk, although it's not a province but a municipality
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Sardinia is something between Alabama and Scotland (π)
You misspelt England.
Every other balkan country except the one i live in.
In Australia it's Tasmania
For the Netherlands: Katwijk, even had a genetic disease named after it.
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Loving all the Scots embracing the United Kingdom in this thread by describing England as a part of their country π
If they're gonna be forced to be part of the UK, they can also enjoy the privilege of shitting on it like the rest do.
EVERY SINGLE ONE. Marrying cousins is more than common, its prrtty much standard.
India?
Mexico: Nuevo LeΓ³n (specifically Monterrey)
Speaking only on the incest stereotype, Spanish Wells in the Bahamas. Theyβre known for strictly dating and marrying other fellow islanders, which at this point is basically one large family.
Edit to remove the double βat this pointβ
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Podlasie in Poland, definitely. My friend's parents have both the same maiden name despite not being closely related. Their whole village has basically the same surname.
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South mountain in Nova Scotia, Canada. There was (still is?) a family (the Goler clan) famous for poverty, sexual abuse, and inbreeding. A bunch of them were arrested for sexual abuse in the 1980s. Rumor has it, they inspired the Xfiles episode "Home".
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The south. It's always the south.
The question is: does it flip after passing the equator or is the law universal for both halves of the globe?
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The Netherlands? Urk.
In Costa Rica its a subdivision of a province, San Carlos. Very famous for incest (not being taboo). In the costa rican subreddit there was a long thread about it not too long ago. The thread mostly contained anecdotal but has interesting comments; a doctor that sees lots of teenage pregnancy cases, a story of a priest that refused to continue marrying cousins in a small town.
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