Tried naming the states from memory as a European

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

It's called New England like the old one was worth reproducing and for that reason I'm sceptical.

[mehblah@lemmy.world]

I'm kinda stuck on france.

[rumba@lemmy.zip]

Yeah that whole desert racists/breaking bad/vegas section is more of a venn diagram.

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

Great Lake, Fascinating Boulder, Captivating Sandhill

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

Better stuck on France than stuck in France

[raivokulli@sopuli.xyz]

I thought San Fransisco was the southern one too

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

Never heard of the last two. Sorry. What are they suppose to refer to?

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

You missed England 2.0

[mehblah@lemmy.world]

You see what I mean.

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

I just thought "great lake" sounds funny. Great but not great enough for an actual name.

[outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Really is. Though imo nevada (more like fo:nv than just v) is kind of its own thing. More baroque crazy mobbed up gambling&sovcit nonsense.

[venus_ziegenfalle@feddit.org]

Putting any iteration of England on a map goes against my personal principles.

[supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz]

What if it was as the name of a large dump next to Ireland tho

[rekabis@lemmy.ca]

“Desert Racists”
“Swamp Racists”

ROTFLMAO

Bloody accurate, you are.

[pseudo@jlai.lu]

I have no clue how they are supposed to be name. In French, we call the place "la région des grands lacs" and I was pretty sure I got the english name right.

Edit: According to Wikipedia, I've only forgot an s at Lakes.

[buttnugget@lemmy.world]

I don’t know if Europe could be reasonably considered less racist.

[trainguyrom@reddthat.com]

I mean the Great Lakes are truly inland freshwater oceans with tides, imense international shipping, famous shipwrecks, forgotten shipwrecks, folk songs about famous shipwrecks and even piracy

So the term "great lakes" clearly communicates that these are lakes (freshwater, not hydrologically connected to the ocean) but also that these are notable lakes as the "great" indicates the size, notability and gives a sense of wonder

[wieson@feddit.org]

But do states, that would be awesome B)

[schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org]

Once read a forum thread on "how your state/region is depicted in media" and had to point out that aside from one movie about a college the biggest things I could point to were the Wrong Turn movies (slasher movies about inbred cannibal hillfolk) and the movie version of Silent Hill (which is set in WV but based on Centralia, PA while the game version of Silent Hill is in New England).

Centralia, PA is one of those places with less than a dozen residents and a neat history. It's been on fire since 1962, the government tried to eminent domain all real estate in Centralia and a handful of extremely stubborn folks fought back leading to an agreement where they get to stay there for the rest of their lives after which the property reverts to the government via eminent domain. All seven of them. Five of which are still around as of 2020, having lived under that agreement for forty years. The church still holds services, and their graveyard are still maintained, even the one that's in a perpetual haze as the ground releases smoke.

[meliaesc@lemmy.world]

Endearing? Just sounds like swamp racism to most.