If American states were countries

Texas = Australia

California is France. Ewww, you uncivilized brutes!!

Florida = Albania

Florida = Burkina Faso

California = Italy. No idea actually but we have sun and vineyards.

I dont know about entire states, but parts of the upper Midwest feels most comparable to Scandinavia and Finland.

New Orleans and Boston as cities feel the most European.

Parts of Colorado feel similar to the Swiss Alps.

Napa feels similar to Tuscany. Southern California feels similar to Southern Spain.

Ohio = Serbia

Missouri = Uzbekistan, backwards, landlocked shithole.

Texas = a Trump shithole country.

Texas is often considered a sister state of Australia R9 so I guess Australia's full of Trump-worshipping dipshits too.

Florida = Latveria

Pennsylvania = Poland

R6, I drove from Granada to Valencia, and a lot of it reminded me of Northern California (it was raining the whole time). But the summer for sure Southern California.

what would NY be? Britain?

NY is Russia. Full of rude bullies.

New York, sans Long Island, would be given back to The Netherlands, of course.

Texas= Saudia Arabia

Oregon and Washington are our Ireland

Nah, I think that's Vermont, r18.

Yes— New York has always remained just a little bit Dutch. But you can’t have it back, Dutchie.

New York City would remain a global city state like Singapore or Hong Kong.

Americans are obsessed with the idea that their states are like countries. But it's not remotely true.

R21, why not? We have more Nations within our borders than Europe does.

Texas is Russia - vast, resource-based and forever with a chip on its shoulder about how its macho civilizational greatness isn’t being properly respected.

Florida is Israel - hot, crowded, established in 1948 for people who aren’t afraid of skin cancer or the prospect of soldiers with bazookas outside the grocery store.

[quote] Texas is Russia - vast, resource-based and forever with a chip on its shoulder about how its macho civilizational greatness isn’t being properly respected.

And they both have an inferiority complex in relation to California, which has a bigger economy than both of those shitholes.

Northern New Mexico = Almería (Spain)

[quote] Americans are obsessed with the idea that their states are like countries. But it's not remotely true.

No, we aren’t.

However, Hawaii, Texas and (oddly) Vermont do have history as independent nations and California briefly declared itself one. The future may bring about other nations made up of one or several states.

R20 I see you started the negotiations. In that case, we will take everything from Maine to Rhode Island. We're used to little provinces, so this will work out for us very well.

Illinois is Libya - loudmouthed strongmen with bad taste finally brought to justice because of blatant sloth.

Indiana is Afghanistan - everyone ignores history, everyone believes they can tame the untamable, but some hillbilly feuds are older than the state itself.

Washington has to be Switzerland - We brag we’re woke, but we’ll take any disgusting asshole’s investment without question.

Georgia is Nigeria - Civil war past. Very Nene Leakes shouting at Sheree at a wine bar in Duluth about how rich she is energy. Marjorie Taylor Green is weirdly the sort of white person who would probably do well there.

No, Dutchie.. You don’t get any of New England.

You may have The Bronx in New York and Bergen County in New Jersey (to its original extent which included what is today Hudson County , and if New York City gets the Antilles we’ll throw in some more of New Jersey for you. Yonkers is on the table.

[quote]why not [say the U.S. states are the equivalent of countries]? We have more Nations within our borders than Europe does.

Right. And different American accents are the equal of the 24 official EU languages and >60 distinct active languages in Europe.

Why do Americans have to engage in making any discussion of anywhere outside the U.S. into a dick measuring contest?

Italy may have invented gelato, but Illinois has soft-serve ice cream and the first Dairy Queens!

Europe may have had 60 universities in operation before Columbus set sail, but 60% of the U.S. population is within a six-hour drive of Columbus, Ohio!

See! Our states *are* just like countries! USA number 1!

I think Massachusetts is the UK. Epic past, faded glory present, somehow still retains some of the hoity-toity vibes, and is very defensive if you bring up their diminished relevance.

R32, it's just a fun little thread. You can calm down and maybe just scroll past it if it's not your cup of Vodka.

I have a feeling Rhode Island should be Malta.

Cuz, you know. . .

Why oddly, r26?

Because Vermont had not even been an independent colony at the time of the Revolution. It was carved out of land claimed by New York, New Hampshire and Quebec (and of course Indigenous peoples) and came into being as a self-declared Independent Republic. People know Hawaii and Texas history, but few know about Vermont.

Vermont feels like Canada

Vermont is Canada, almost literally,

New Hampshire is Ireland. Beautiful, welcoming, a little backwards.

[quote] Right. And different American accents are the equal of the 24 official EU languages

We have more than 24 EU languages.

One thing you people [italic]can[/italic] do, however, is start WWIII or another genocide. You Europeans are just SO good at it!

R39 Ireland is backward? I think that's an old construct. Since "the Celtic Tiger" tech boom of the 90s, Ireland has continued to modernize and change very quickly. It's not wrong to call it one of the most prosperous and tech-connected countries in Europe.

Back to the thread's topic: California = Australia. Sydney LA, Melbourne SF... many correlations.

Our states are not "like countries but there are states that are absolutely the size of whole countries

If we're comparing Europe to America, who are the '90s-era American Balkans? Which states the size of Pennsylvania are ready to do a little ethnic cleansing?!

Faded relevance, R33? New York and Pennsylvania each list a Congressional seat after the last census. Massachusetts did not.

R41 I said a little backward. I would know because I lived there. The people are lovely and most are intelligent and intellectually curious, but a large subset are far too Catholic and insular (literally) in their world view.

The entire deep South is the Balkans.

R46, that would require the South to have more than just white and black people. They'd need at least 5 or 6 different ethnicities, at least 3 different religions, men who look like Balki from Perfect Strangers...

I should think Mississippi is the Tubi version of South Africa.

Vermont was almost part of BNA before Canada came into being.

So basically this thread has just devolved into "compare US states you hate to other countries you hate".

Thrilling.

France = Nebraska

Trying to compare US states to foreign countries culturally is a futile exercise--Americans are not like anyone else but other Americans. It would make far more sense to compare landscape or climate or resources.

New Mexico is Namibia - desert landscapes and notably less chaotic than its neighbours.

Missouri is Hungary - Belle Epoque river city heydays and then a century of decline and brain drain. Now hotbeds of illiberalism. Rural areas likely under the control of vampires.

Rhode Island is totally Malta.

California... probably Brazil. Beaches! Mountains! Racial diversity! An immense land with some sexy people, some rich people, and a whole lot of poor people too.

Oakland is just like Paris!

Oakland is actually sort of the Marseille of California.

Hello?

North Dakota = Slovakia

Delaware is Panama?

Alaska is Kamchatka

Minnesota - Norway

Wisconsin - Germany

R62 Yes to Wisconsin as Germany.

Oregon: Slovenia

California is the most beautiful parts of the Mediterranean, invaded by neurotic narcissistic east European Jews, desperate furious crazed Scotts-Irish peasants, fucked up one or generation post African-American slaves and East Asians driven across the ocean by out insane colonial and Cold War lunacy . Plus the military industrial complex and silicon valley money.

Hippie, CIA and drug insanity as the cherry on top

Washington is like the South Island of New Zealand. Rainforests, dense coniferous forests, ocean passages and snow capped mountain ranges in the west, semi-arid plains in the east with few trees, and the sights of grazing cattle and wheat farms. Volcanoes and earthquakes too.

Missouri—Gateway To Nebraska

[quote]desperate, furious, crazed Scots-Irish peasants

Hey now, I resemble that remark. 🙃😄

Mississippi = Moldova