UK Counties as US States

Odd that Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee bordering California seems weird. Shouldn’t Massachusetts get Cambridge?

Essex has to be New Jersey.

Wales is California? Isn't that a bit of a stretch?

Merseyside is Minnesota? Yorkshire is Arizona? Bitch, please.

"Cardiff is LA and Swansea is San Francisco"—I don't see it

Wales is California because it’s big and has nice National Parks.

That is the caliber of thought that went into this.

Idaho should be Lincolnshire.

Oregon and Oklahoma next to each other makes no sense at all.

Oregon = Cumbria - there's fuck all there but it's pretty

Oklahoma = County Durham - Totally unintelligible

"The Isle of Wight is Hawaii because it's an island idk"

Which state produces tomatoes R10?

Swap it for that. There's fuck all on the IOW apart from greenhouses.

[quote] There's fuck all on the IOW apart from greenhouses.

We are not amused.

No Iowa?

Since I'm Californian and love Wales as well, that map makes me smile.

R12 We can upgrade you to New Hampshire then.

[quote] Which state produces tomatoes

1. California

2. Florida

3. Indiana

Arizona is way too big here.

The Isle of Wight can be Indiana then.

I think I would have made North Yorkshire into Kentucky because of all the horses.

Norfolk is flat, agricultural, and has been heavily militarized since WW2, just like North Dakota. The people talk funny in both places, too.

R16, New Jersey. You may be looking at statistics showing largest tonnage of tomatoes produced, but in the northeast, NJ is the state people think of when they think of tomatoes. This is unjustified, in my opinion, as both Pennsylvania and Maryland produce superior 'maters, but New Jersey tomatoes are inexplicably famous hereabouts.

My theory on this curious phenomenon: It's all about NYC. Upstate NY, even the Hudson Valley, is not ideal for growing tomatoes, and the season is short, so NJ is the nearest place that grows them in market-garden style for sale directly to the public or to supermarkets that feature local produce.

[quote] both Pennsylvania and Maryland produce superior 'maters

What's "maters", precious? What's "maters"?

R22, thank you. That was surprisingly and oddly hot. Very hot.

Wales is 1/20 the size of California, and has less than 10% of the population of CA.

R21, The southern half of New Jersey is a coastal plain composed of sandy soil that is naturally rich in the mineral glauconite, the main ingredient used in plant fertilizers. The soil conditions in south NJ make it ideal for growing tomatoes, corn, peaches and other valuable crops. Campbell’s Soup began in Camden, NJ using the area’s high quality tomatoes to make its canned tomato soup.

Does Cornwall in the Uk really have beaches and warm weather like Florida? If so, I will have to check it out. I thought every region of the UK was rainy and chilly.

[quote]Essex has to be New Jersey.

Let's just remember that NJ is the US's second wealthiest state (of the contiguous 48). Rates very high in education. In health care. Votes Dem.

Oh, and one more fact about New Jersey:

So by this, in what state does Hollyoaks fall?

I thought Brighton was the Miami of UK, but it doesn’t look like Florida is covering where it is?

Someone do European coutnries as US states please.

countRies.

R29 Minnesota or Michigan

R30 I think the person that did the map saw Brighton more as Providence, RI.

r26, check these out. Very beautiful, but they are wearing jackets on the beach and folks are swimming! ugh.

[quote]Campbell’s Soup began in Camden, NJ using the area’s high quality tomatoes to make its canned tomato soup.

Right. Because when you think of "high quality tomatoes," Campbell's tomato soup is the first thing that pops into your mind.

The Isles of Scilly are the nearest we've got to the Florida Keys, and mainland Kernow has a load of people speaking a different language, so not dissimilar to the Sunshine state.

Isles of Scilly

Scotland, one of the most far left parts of the UK, is Texas? This guy's an idiot.

R39 One word for you. Three letters. Starts with O and ends with L.

I'm not sure whoever made this has ever been to either the UK or the US.

Beg pardon, but as a lifelong native of Herefordshire, I feel my county and not Worcestershire ought to be West Virginia. Herefordshire is very like WV, from to the valleys, agriculture and forestry down to the family feuds/incest and the potent local alcohol (Worcestershire has none of the aforementioned). I feel kinship and familiarity with Hatfields & McCoys, in a way I don’t with any other American cult figures.

As less apt but still sense-making alternatives, I’d also consider Herefordshire a fairly close cognate for Kentucky (race horse-breeding), Oklahoma or Texas (for beef cattle), Pennsylvania or Washington State (for apples & cyder), or Wyoming (for green hill country). It’s simply nothing like Mississippi, unless one considers the Marcher Lord territory wars equivalent the U.S. Civil War.

However, I do wholeheartedly agree that Gloucestershire is akin to Alabama.

Tell us more about Isles of Scilly, please.

In the US southerners say I RECKON.

I sometimes hear characters on UK tv shows say- I RECKON. I guess whatever region southerners hail from must be the same one that people in the UK still say I reckon.

Cornwall would have been better as California. It is where all the surfers and artists go.

R45 Yeah but the average age of Cornwall is like 80, so I get the Florida comparison.

[quote]Scotland, one of the most far left parts of the UK, is Texas? This guy's an idiot.

Scotland is the whitest part of Britain. There have been more Scottish politicians with Black or Brown in their name elected in the last 20 years than there have been people who are actually black or brown.

A lot of Scottish Nationalists were VERY VERY ANGRY that the new Scottish Labour leader elected this weekend is a British Pakistani Muslim.

[quote]The Isles of Scilly are the nearest we've got to the Florida Keys, and mainland Kernow has a load of people speaking a different language, so not dissimilar to the Sunshine state.

Cornwall is also a popular holiday destination for the wealthy, many of whom have second homes there, yet the area as a whole remains very deprived.

R47 Scotland is whiter than England and yet is the first to have a leader of a major political party be from a minority group, it also took British government hundreds of years to have a female elected leader, took Scotland less than 20 years of having a modern parliament for that to happen. Oh and the majority of Scotland wanted to stay within the EU and is very aware of the positives that immigrants have had on Scotland and yet England and Wales have turned their backs on the EU and have shown what they think of immigrants with the Windrush scandal. So yeah, Scotland is one of the most far left parts of the UK.

Scotland as Texas doesn't refer to the people there as much as the oil there.

What is Ohio?

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[quote][R47] Scotland is whiter than England and yet is the first to have a leader of a major political party be from a minority group, it also took British government hundreds of years to have a female elected leader, took Scotland less than 20 years of having a modern parliament for that to happen. Oh and the majority of Scotland wanted to stay within the EU and is very aware of the positives that immigrants have had on Scotland and yet England and Wales have turned their backs on the EU and have shown what they think of immigrants with the Windrush scandal. So yeah, Scotland is one of the most far left parts of the UK.

Let's see how Anas Sarwar fares during the campaign, and just how many Scottish people want a dark skinned Muslim First Minister.

As as for trying to portray Scotland as a beacon of feminism, you do know about the inquiry going on at the moment regarding Nicola Sturgeon's handling of complaints about sexual harassment and assault committed by Alex Salmond when he was First Minister and she was his deputy? Complaints that led to the Scottish civil service ensuring that women staff members were never left on their own with Salmond? This abuse was reported over a period of 7 years yet Sturgeon knew nothing, indeed when she became First Minister she was happy for Alex Salmond to stand as an MP in Westminster. Being a woman doesn't mean you give a shit about other women.

The Scottish Nationalists are more like the Republicans than Democrats. The corruption and racism in Scotland makes Texas a suitable comparison.

R27, it's surprisingly hard to find household income data by UK county, but Essex has a relatively high median income - not second-ranked (that would seem to be Surrey, no surprise, after Greater London at #1), but pretty well-off compared to most of the country. The stereotyped "Essex man" or "Essex girl" is not poor, not at all.