Have you ever encountered anyone with county pride?

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DisastrousBeautyyy@reddit

Many of us from Jacksonville, Florida have pride in our county. That’s why we yell DUVAL at our Jaguars football games!!!

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GettingTooOldForDis@reddit

Aren’t the county and the city conterminous? I suppose it’s easier to yell DU-VAL than JACK-SON-VILLE

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Some in southern Wisconsin, which seems to be down to voting demographics - people here are definitely aware of ‘Dane County’ in a way that nobody in my non-Wisconsin childhood state knew or cared what county they were in, and when I’m watching statewide election results roll in, I can see why. (Dane County contains both Wisconsin’s capitol and UW’s main campus, and is populated 95% by rich aging hippies and young college students; for the last several decades, it has had very high voting turnout in every election and swung 95% progressive every single time; Wisconsin conservative politicians will occasionally pretend to be shocked and pretend they think there’s voter fraud, because so many people in Dane County voted against them. Everyone capable of retaining memories is like “yeah, that’s Dane County, same as it’s been for the last sixty solid years.”)

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PlanMagnet38@reddit

In Maryland, everyone is county proud. It never occurred to me that folks wouldn’t self-identify by county until I lived out of state! So yes, where I live, counties are an essential part of our identity.

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

Yeah it's common in Virginia too. I hadn't realized that most states didn't have this since I grew up in the DMV and especially there specifically it's a big thing with all the huge counties in the area

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nyouhas@reddit

yea but that’s the far side; try alexandria

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

Funny enough this just goes further down the weird Virginia jurisdiction rabbit hole, because what I think of as "Alexandria" isn't in Fairfax County, since I lived in Alexandria (city) for a while lol

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AnneBeddingfeld@reddit

hahaha i have found my people. I’m from Falls Church but NOT Falls Church City. Just easier to say Annandale.

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itzyabish@reddit

I’m from falls church city tho 😭

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AnneBeddingfeld@reddit

you get it

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

What's extra funny now that I think about it is that my address was Fairfax, growing up and not Chantilly. But it was unrelated to Fairfax City which was a good 3 miles down the road. But if I said I was from Fairfax, people would either think I meant the city or that I was being too broad 😅

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jessejudgesbooks@reddit

Definitely, even (perhaps especially) with the independent cities being such a thing. I'm from Virginia Beach and remember being sad when I was little I didn't have a county. People do get really wound up about VB vs. Norfolk vs other cities in the 757.

My dad is from Middlesex. My rural family out there and their friends have intense stereotypes/opinions about neighboring Mathews, Gloucester, Essex, and King and Queen counties. Like they're not always proud to be from Middlesex but they're real proud to not be from any of the neighboring jurisdictions.

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that-Sarah-girl@reddit

Loudon isn't so bad now. When I was a kid you crossed that border and went back in time 10 years. Mullets, acid washed jeans, parents who smoked.

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mysticninj@reddit

As a Loudoun native who still lives there, there is a distinct difference between eastern Loudoun and Western Loudoun. I'm from western Loudoun, which is still much more rural

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

I always say that rt. 15 is the border of nova. When you cross it the vibe almost immediately changes. Though nowadays it has pushed further west, possibly. I remember about 5 years ago I drove through one of the towns west of Leesburg (maybe Purcellville?) and it was like a really funny collision of worlds. Like, trans flags on one side of the street and Gadsden flags directly on the other side. It felt microcosmic of Virginia's cultural divide

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klimekam@reddit

There’s a town there called Middleburg where my husband and I tried to visit for a fun day trip and it felt like we stepped back a couple hundred years. We got there and I immediately got weird vibes. It felt like OLD Southern money and it was like something out of a movie. It just felt off, and I should have trusted my intuition. I’m white but my husband is Black. We were exploring the main shopping street for about an hour when a cop came up to us and said that they had received complaints about us going into “too many shops” and that we needed to leave because we “didn’t belong there.” We got in the car and got out as fast as we could. My husband is 35 and not much phases him, but even he was shaken up by that experience.

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that-Sarah-girl@reddit

Ugh that sucks. My family and I have had a handful of those experiences in Virginia. And about 10 years worth of those experiences in a single week in Europe.

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ShadynastyLove@reddit

I live in Virginia now. I thought the county pride stemmed a bit from the way Virginia and Maryland have county school systems. I don't know. I'm from PA, which does not have county school systems. They do their school systems by locality.

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

That's a big part of it, but that's really a consequence of how they arrange their municipalities. Virginia in particular can't have a city that exists within a county, only independent cities. So the result ends up being that things that would otherwise be a city or town are rarely incorporated as such, so of you live in a place like Reston or Centreville which each have over 50 thousand people, your civic pride would belong to Fairfax County, and not either of those places (okay maybe Reston is a bad example because they have their weird pseudo town council, but you get the gist)

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metricnv@reddit

I lived in Fairfax County (Sherwood Hall Lane, Fort Hunt area) then moved to City of Alexandria (King Street) when I was growing up. I still speak proudly of both regions.

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angrywithnumbers@reddit

My husband grew up in Chantilly too. He would be livid to be included in Loudoun.

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js_eyesofblue@reddit

This is so true. My husband grew up in Oakton and we like to give his Ashburn buddies shit by ripping on Loudoun all the time. Really not hard to do.

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Measurex2@reddit

Do people think Chantilly has shifted? Thats crazy. It's a census designated area. I get it borders Loudon but it's separated from it by rt 28.

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Oenonaut@reddit

Wild, I used to walk to Fair Oaks to watch movies in the summer. We lived on West Ox across from Ox Hill before they put Penderbrook and a cloverleaf in, lol.

Chantilly being in Loudoun is ridiculous and unacceptable.

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AllerdingsUR@reddit

Yeppp I remember that intersection pre-cloverleaf. Pure clusterfuck lol. I learned to drive a year or two before they finished it and it was terrifying to navigate!

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Icy-Whale-2253@reddit

My mom now lives in “MoCo” but she’s still PG at heart

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bluelily216@reddit

I live in "Hoco" and every time I hear that I wonder how much longer it would take that person to just say Howard County.

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Traditional_Way1052@reddit

My husband was from PR and grew up in PG. Always, PG this, PG that.

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Codee33@reddit

I’m sorry PG is still in her heart… /s. Grew up in Anne Arundel, but also a five-ten minute drive away from Howard and PG, so I’m aware of the trash talk there.

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Worth-Feeling7099@reddit

Ha! I live out west now, but grew up in PG County.

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No-Effort5109@reddit

PG!

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CorrectCondition9458@reddit

St Mary’s checking in. Don’t know anybody from Md. especially southern Md who isn’t county proud. When people ask where your from most answer county name instead of city in Southern Md.

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ND7020@reddit

It really does depend on state geography.

Here in NY, no one in the city counties would ever give a fig. It’s the city. In Westchester (where I am now) you either compromised and would rather be in the city, or compromised and would rather be further upstate, even though Westchester is pretty great.

Anyone who said they’re a Suffolk or Nassau super fan on LI would be a super douschebag, although I can envision the person.

And the upstate people really think about regions, not counties.

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LetsGoGators23@reddit

Grew up in upstate NY. Never thought about my county. Everything is even districted by city/town (like schools) so counties are not in daily life. Where I live in Florida now the county matters tremendously for schools because it’s districted that way - but still not a pride thing.

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Rough-Trainer-8833@reddit

can confirm this is correct

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Acceptable-Risk7424@reddit

As a lifelong Long Islander, Nassau or Suffolk pride would be weird to me. General LI pride is way more common

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

I grew up on LI, and usually say I grew up in Levittoen, because no one outside NY has ever heard of Wantagh, and besides, we were in the part of Wantagh that was Levitt houses and Levittown school district. Now there's a weird system when you think about it, school districts that are entirely untethered to any town, city, or county, people from elsewhere definitely don't get that.

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schismtomynism@reddit

I find a lot of Nassau people trying to shit on Suffolk county for being Suffolk. As someone who lives in Suffolk, I wish it was as a quiet as they think it is. That would be great.

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diplomystique@reddit

I feel like Brooklyn/Bronx/Queens/Staten Island pride counts as “county pride” even though they are technically boroughs. Would you say that Louisiana doesn’t have “county pride” because they call them parishes?

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ND7020@reddit

I thought about this and while it sounds pedantic, I actually think it’s different. When you talk about a Borough, you’re talking about its relationship within and to other parts of the City, and when you talk about a County, you’re talking about its relationship within and to other parts of the State.

So even though they cover the same areas, the terms have different meanings. And City people care a lot about the former and not at all about the latter.

E.g. if I was talking to someone from upstate, I’d just say I’m from the City. But if I was talking to someone I knew was from the City, I’d say I was from Manhattan (or I’d say I’m from the City but in that context it’d be clear I mean from Manhattan, to introduce another complication).

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ScorchedByTheSun@reddit

"In Westchester (where I am now) you either compromised and would rather be in the city, or compromised and would rather be further upstate, even though Westchester is pretty great." I don't see how it's a compromise. That's probably the best county in that state.

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ND7020@reddit

It’s a compromise because while it’s a very nice county, it’s obviously not the best county in the state when it’s north of one of the best cities in the world.

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ScorchedByTheSun@reddit

Not everyone wants to live in a super dense big city. I certainly wouldn't want to live in New York City. But at least you have it around if you want to visit once in a while. Westchester is like the perfect balance.

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Quirky-Bad857@reddit

I grew up in Brooklyn and after watching tons of Jane Austen films where they wax rhapsodic on how much they love certain counties, my friend started referring to it as “the most beauteous Kings County.” It was really funny. I was shocked that she even knew that I technically lived in Kings County,

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Ok-Possibility-9826@reddit

Yep. Everyone ID’s by county, with the exception of Baltimore City, who ID by the city.

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JThereseD@reddit

I think Cecil County is an exception.

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battleangel1999@reddit

I hear so much about PG county. I liked it when I visited

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L_Is_Robin@reddit

GA is similar. When talking to people in state, you are much more likely to hear someone say what county they are from then city unless the county I really rural, then it defaults to closest big city/county. I only learned after talking to my friends from out of state that that isn’t the norm everywhere

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Nectarine-Happy@reddit

Moved to Maryland. Y’all weird with this county stuff. I’d love to know what is different here that makes it this way. Is it the fact that the state only has like 15 counties and they’re massive and powerful? Think like a million people in a number of these counties. A lot of the regulations seem to be at the county level which is also unusual.

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AndrasKrigare@reddit

You pretty much got it. Maryland is structured so that most of the government is at the county level instead of the municipal. In fact, 75% of Marylanders live outside an incorporated municipality and have no level of government lower than the county level (and that's just 4% of the land, Baltimore is doing a lot of heavy lifting).

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DudleyAndStephens@reddit

I was also thinking that's a big part of the reason. Counties in MD seem to handle a lot of zoning, law enforcement, utility & other functions that would be the responsibility of city/township/municipal government in other states. Being a county executive is also often a stepping stone to higher office in MD, which you don't see as much in other states.

and that's just 4% of the land, Baltimore is doing a lot of heavy lifting

Baltimore City is for all practical purposes a county as well. The mayor has all the authority that the county executive would have in other parts of the state.

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No-Lunch4249@reddit

Relatively few incorporated cities, and a lot of identity-less suburban sprawl, so there isnt really much "hometown pride" to be had for specific cities and towns unless you're from one of those handful of places with a distinct identity.

Plus as you mentioned, in MD our counties are very powerful politically/legally so that definitely contributes to it also.

Signed, lifelong marylander

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PlanMagnet38@reddit

I think there’s actually 24 counties (correct me if I’m wrong, y’all!), and I suspect that a lot of it has to do with public school systems being so tightly aligned with counties. I have no idea why we developed a strong county government system, but I imagine it’s something colonial. 🤷‍♀️

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

23 counties and Baltimore City which is a "county equivalent." Northern Virginia also has a bunch of independent cities that are county equivalents.

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Nectarine-Happy@reddit

Ooooo maybe it’s from the Catholic Church? Like parishes? Other commenters noted it’s not county heavy in the northeast at all!

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gangofone978@reddit

My wife is from Maryland and when she tells people where she’s from it’s always Cecil County. I wouldn’t say she’s “proud” of it, but she never references the town where she grew up, only the County.

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

Well, who really wants to say they're from Elkton?

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gardengrowsgreen@reddit

I lived in Maryland for a couple years and noticed this right away. I assumed it was an east coast thing. Didn’t realize it was a Maryland thing!

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

Maryland, a lot of PA, and northern Virginia, all have thst county thing going on.

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cinnamongirl73@reddit

We were on vacation in the first week of December, to Tennessee. A bearing in my daughter tire fell out, and she went to this highly rated shop to get it fixed. The owners wife ran the counter, and she asked my daughter where we were my daughter said Maryland. The woman then proceeded to yell for one of the guys in the back, he came up and she said (my daughter and her husband) were from MD. He said which county? My daughter said Carroll. He said I grew up in Carroll.

The guy asked where specifically (which neighborhood) my daughter said I live in Sykesville, and he said that’s where I grew up, which street, etc., turns out they pass his parents house every day.

I never thought about it like that, but now that the question got asked…… haha

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Zinnia1127@reddit

Same in KY

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divinerebel@reddit

I moved way way west 35 years ago, but still feel Maryland pride and county pride. Harford County, checking in!

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HumbleLife69@reddit

Grew up n CT and counties were just a weird existence. Went to school in MD and totally surprised.

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coalio28@reddit

Ha I’m from MD and I was like “yeah sure, we’re all repping our county. Of course” I didn’t realize people in other states didn’t as much. Talbot county btw. Fuck Queen Anne’s and Dorchester County.

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lacole725@reddit

Don’t you dare talk bad on QA! Born and bred but live in Talbot now and work in Kent.

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coalio28@reddit

Nah I respect QA (to an extent) my dad taught at the high school for years. Bunch of country bumpkins!

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lacole725@reddit

I graduated from QA in 2010. Was he there when I was?

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coalio28@reddit

Yeah he was but that’s all I’ll say so I don’t dox myself lol

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lacole725@reddit

lol fair enough

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mrsrobotic@reddit

MoCo here, literally came to the comments to say we are the best! Lol

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kayakchick66@reddit

I think you mean to say Anne Arundel County.

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Farro_is_Good@reddit

Sit down, boat shoes. MoCo has you by a mile. Sincerely, PG county.

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jazzminarino@reddit

I am so here for this thread. Repping BaltCo.

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mrsrobotic@reddit

Haha this is like an impromptu family reunion where everyone is drunk and belligerent

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jazzminarino@reddit

Soooo... Baltimore County then? Gotcha. 🙃🙃

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js_eyesofblue@reddit

I grew up a half mile south of the county, but I will go out of my way to make sure people know I’m a Baltimore City girl. Totally ridiculous because I spent just as much time in the county…but I didn’t make the Maryland rules!

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slatchaw@reddit

Town- county- Maryland - Mid-Atlantic - East Coast- America

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samcuts@reddit

I grew up in Baltimore Co (moved away almost 30 years ago) but all my family is from St Mary’s and I get excited whenever I meet someone from my ancestral home (presumably because we’re all cousins).

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klimekam@reddit

I never even gave any thought to my county until I moved to Maryland and now I’m like HELL YEAH PG!

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kbmoregirl@reddit

I'm from Charles County so I'm much less proud of mine 😅 especially after the recent cornhole champion murder

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PlanMagnet38@reddit

I grew up in Frederick County but now I’m in Carroll County. I don’t feel “proud” of Carroll all that often but I do feel a kind of defensiveness about the aspects I do like, which feels a bit like county loyalty (like no one is allowed to talk shit about my family but me).

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CycadelicSparkles@reddit

Pennsylvania a bit, too. I live in Maine now and counties exist but I feel like it's less of a thing.

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Libertyprime8397@reddit

Bmore. Grew up hearing that a lot.

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somewierdname@reddit

Area proud too. I am talking about the SMIB's.

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Tizzy8@reddit

I was about to say Maryland. It’s basically the entire local identity.

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Buckabuckaw@reddit

Sonoma West County, yo.

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Bread-Stick1@reddit

I lived in Savannah GA and the county just outside of it is called Effingham, and the locals absolutely love being born and raised there. Just mention you are from Effingham and doors will open haha.

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pastrymom@reddit

County? No. City? Yes

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Silocin20@reddit

No county pride in AZ.

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Medical_Deal5272@reddit

Ummmmm I've done it sometimes...but not that much...

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annang@reddit

Brooklyn!!

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thegamerdoggo@reddit

People from Jacksonville

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Lower-Gap-4251@reddit

Technically people from the different boroughs of NYC have county pride (Manhattan, Brooklyn, Brooklyn, etc.) since those are legal counties in NYS.

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2ndChanceCharlie@reddit

I think Westchester, Nassau, and Suffolk all fit the bill too.

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Lower-Gap-4251@reddit

Definitely. I’m from upstate and all my friends in college from those areas always said what county they were from, not a special city or town.

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Real-Broccoli-9325@reddit

I hope you mean upstate meaning more north than the damn Hudson Valley.

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Lower-Gap-4251@reddit

I’m from Syracuse

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Real-Broccoli-9325@reddit

Whut whuuuut! Me too!

I went to college in Buffalo and the number of Hudson Valley kids calling themselves upstaters made me laugh. Also the Long Islanders pretending they weren’t even from New York at all.

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Lower-Gap-4251@reddit

My friend from Long Island always made jokes that people from Buffalo, Syracuse, and Rochester were “hillbillies” & I was like “Long island outside of NYC is literally more conservative than all those places” lmfao

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Real-Broccoli-9325@reddit

Your friend should meet some people from Schenectady then, lol. Buffalo is literally the Queen City!

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Quartia@reddit

How upstate? Anywhere past Dutchess there is absolutely no sense of county community.

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Lower-Gap-4251@reddit

I meant my friends from downstate would say their county. Not upstate. But I guess Erie does (but that’s a conversation people are probably not ready for)

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vbsteez@reddit

hm. I think if you're from the east end you don't claim suffolk, you claim your fork.

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MajesticBread9147@reddit

People are proud to live in Long Island?

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schismtomynism@reddit

One of the wealthiest places in the country that's safe, have excellent schools, food, and quality of life. Of course.

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MajesticBread9147@reddit

My girlfriend is from New York and she describes everything east of Jamaica as white suburbs for people scared to live in Brooklyn.

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Ok-Possibility-9826@reddit

as she should

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schismtomynism@reddit

She sounds like a keeper

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Significant-Cry-9204@reddit

ON Long Island

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MrRaspberryJam1@reddit

Absolutely, and it’s not even the people who live in the nice parts

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Background_Humor5838@reddit

Definitely

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aaronhayes26@reddit

Damn it never occurred to me that a chartered city could span multiple counties. That’s neat!

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yabbobay@reddit

It's really because they were well established governments/cities when NYC consolidated in 1898.

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trampolinebears@reddit

Some states allow it, some don't.

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Gold_Telephone_7192@reddit

Idk about county pride but I’ve see phone number area code pride. I have the area code I grew up in tattooed on me lmao

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gummi-demilo@reddit

This reminds me of the song “617” by Trocadero, which I rewrote when I became a 917 to reflect all the places I’d lived and the people I was involved with.

602 girls talk too much (me), and 612 boys not enough (my guy friend from STP who had…issues)

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itmightbehere@reddit

Oh, good point! Most people around me I would not call county proud (unless you're in the "one of the wealthoest in the country" county, ofc), but I do know a lot of people who "Rep the -area code-."

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DrBlankslate@reddit

I have a phone number with the original area code from the county I lived in during grad school. That area has added 3 new area codes since. Like hell I’ll ever get a new number. This one is MINE.

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I_Have_No_Comment_@reddit

Yep this is the closest thing in NC. The 919, The 336, etc.

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kopncorey@reddit

hate that I got a 980 and not a 704

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No-Effort5109@reddit

Haven’t lived in Raleigh for over 10 years but still rocking the 919!

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brzantium@reddit

This what I came to say. Especially in the cities in my state. So many people are moving here that it's a point of pride to have an OG area code instead of the new ones.

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edelmav@reddit

my husband is from WV and his area code is 304... WVU even sells shirts with the area code on it and i think it's the funniest thing ever (police radio code for a prostitute)

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Umberlee168@reddit

Team 970 here

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MadiMarionberry@reddit

Detroit is all about the 313

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Dangerous_Spirit7034@reddit

That’s very common where I live to have the area code and the interstate exit for some reason. Yeah. My town has one interstate exit

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ricobirch@reddit

Still angry my younger brother got a 303 cell number 2 years after I got a 720

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antonio16309@reddit

Lol, I'll never give up my 303. Got that when I was 21 years old, it'll stick with me till I'm dead.

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GreenBeanTM@reddit

Vermonters definitely have fun the fact we only have 1 area code. There are entire businesses named “802 type of business”

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Danicia@reddit

We definitely have that area code thing where I live.

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Kenderean@reddit

Area code pride is for sure a thing, especially in places where the area code had to expand. Like 212 in NYC or 201 in NJ.

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Sans_Seriphim@reddit

Ok, yeah, I would fight having anything other than a 303 area code. But I barely care about Aurora, much less Arapahoe County.

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fasterthanfood@reddit

3OH!3

I’ve never been to Colorado (other than the Denver Airport and Four Corners), but somehow I remember that band and therefore your area code.

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Sans_Seriphim@reddit

Yep. They're total Boulder douschbags, yet somehow endearing, anyway.

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Cool-Firefighter2254@reddit

Yes, there’s a new area code for my city and nobody wants it. It’s cooler to have the original area code.

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ExtentOld2417@reddit

Even moreso when you have the OG area code after your area gets an additional one.

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9937477@reddit

Clean livin gang

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ApprehensiveAnswer5@reddit

I’m in Texas, we don’t have county pride, but we absolutely will rep the area code!

Shoutout 214, lol.

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Cinisajoy2@reddit

Hi from 432.

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SEmpls@reddit

Lol in Montana we only have 1 area code and it is such a source of Pride here that if we ever end up getting a second area code people are going to lose their identity.

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Pficky@reddit

Given that Denver is the city and country of Denver I suppose if we have Denver pride we have county pride.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

There was a whole song about it-- "I got hoes in different area codes!"

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AnotherMinorDeity@reddit

We literally just had 404 day in Atlanta.

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FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit

I grew up 404 but then got switched to 770 when they ran out of 404 numbers. What’s 404 day?

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donuttrackme@reddit

I guess you'll never find out. Begone! Lol

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FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit

lol, I’ve been solidly 864 for 18 years now and don’t miss 404, 779 or 678 at all.

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

April 4 aka 404 day

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FishAroundFindTrout9@reddit

Were there any festivities?

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7empestSpiralout@reddit

Piedmont park had a festival. one person was killed. I tend to avoid such festivities these days

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DehydratedManatee@reddit

🎵On a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G Seen a car full of girls ain't no need to tweak, All you skirts know what's up with 213🎵

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NewOrleansLA@reddit

504 ya heard me

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Cliff_Excellent@reddit

Yeah, you’ll see 312 stuff everywhere here

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jbp216@reddit

zip code too. see 04 austin

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softgypsy@reddit

Not really. More area code pride in Michigan, in my experience

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Competitive_Web_6658@reddit

I’ve met multiple people from multiple states who have their area code tattooed on their body. So…kind of?

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schleepercell@reddit

Area code is different from the county. Ya never hear anything about Cook county Illinois from Chicagoland prople unless they're talking about the jail, or saying "crook county." There's a lot of hype around the original 312 area code even though hardly anyone actually has a 312 area code.

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secular_contraband@reddit

Grew up in So Ill and went to SIU. Hearing every asshole in nearly all my classes announce they were from "Chicagoland" used to piss me off so bad. Lol.

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schleepercell@reddit

Lol! Why? I went there for 1 semester, it was all people like me from the suburbs. I loved it. I went to WIU the next year and it was all people from small towns.

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DawaLhamo@reddit

314, I have definitely seen it.

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kuluka_man@reddit

Nope.

At most, my county is split along north/south with the city in the middle, and there are slight differences in living to the north or the south of the city. But no one really cares.

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TheOkaySolution@reddit

:: St Louis walks in, cracks knuckles ::

It's complicated.

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Js987@reddit

Yes, absolutely.

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Khajiit_Has_Upvotes@reddit

Here in north Idaho I see a lot of people with 7B stickers or hats. 7B is the Bonner County license plate designation. It's not really "Bonner County Pride" so much as just shorthand for the mountains, forests, streams, lakes, ski resort, etc that people love about living/visiting. I haven't seen the same for Boundary, Kootenai, or Shoshone counties, it seems a bit unique.

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TheDepressingReality@reddit

Depends on the state! Judging from other comments, I think it's more common in places with higher populations, since afaik Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas don't really care

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qu33nof5pad35@reddit

As a queens girl through and through, yes.

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Commercial_Picture28@reddit

The entire state of Florida reps their county! Palm Beach, Broward, and Dade the big 3!

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Particular_Bet_5466@reddit

people don’t really identify with the county they are from here as far as I am aware. They can be kind of large and encompass multiple cities. It’s more state or city pride. But counties are defined a bit differently in different states.

For example when I’m traveling around I usually don’t even know what county I’m in.

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IcyGrapefruit5006@reddit

Anyone in the Philly suburbs will hear about Delco

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Bethany0821@reddit

I moved to Delco 15 years, and the pride is unlike anything I've ever seen before.

It's a lifestyle 🤣

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JThereseD@reddit

LOL I came here to say that!

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xSparkShark@reddit

Fairly certain my Chester county pride is primarily motivated by dealing with delco people

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GingerAle19@reddit

It’s all just the Philly suburbs, so the idea of any status is funny lol. Chesco is fine

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pittpanthers95@reddit

My parents lived in Delco for several years so I visited a bunch. From interacting with people, there’s definitely a sense of pride in it from the people who are from there.

They left Delco and moved to Ohio… specifically to Delaware County (northern suburbs of Columbus). The water towers there say DELCO on them lol

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LettuceInfamous5030@reddit

This

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ChaosTorpedo@reddit

I’m originally from Lancaster PA, but currently live in New Orleans. My sister in law lived in Philly for a while. When I got married, one of our bartenders was wearing a Phillies jersey. We got to talking about PA, and when she mentioned she was from Delco, I screamed across the room to my sister in law…. “ALYSSA!!! DELCO!!”

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GoddessOfOddness@reddit

I think York and Lancaster are two examples. Most people I know from the two counties simply say they are from York or Lancaster when they are out of town, rather than Lititz or Dover, for example.

In college, (Pitt) I had a friend propose that York is the center of the know universe because he kept meeting so many Yorkers.

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Nectarine-Happy@reddit

Yes it is normal to just say the town you’re near, rather than the county-see above for why Maryland is weird.

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Substantial-Low-2022@reddit

My first thought!

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Karamist623@reddit

Or south Philly

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goodbye_rubytuesday@reddit

The way I ran here to represent Delco. (Grew up in Media - whenever I go back to visit I see how the borough is becoming more "Delaware County" and less Delco though, and it makes me sad.)

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Mulva1971@reddit

Came here to say Delco. I’m from the Bay Area and I’ve never heard pride in a county before. Plus, the accent is divine. And that they add random letters to words: cousint, excitet, drawling.

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Immediate-Count-1202@reddit

Acame. I grew up in DELCO and left for California over 30 years ago but still can’t shake the accent.

I now live in Marin, which ironically people have less pride in than they do for DELCO. And that’s saying something.

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Mulva1971@reddit

Right! Marin seems to be used more as a status. Primo Hayogies says hi.

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Immediate-Count-1202@reddit

And of course the Ac-a-me.

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D_novemcinctus@reddit

Guy here in Nebraska runs a cheesesteak business - his name? Delco Dave.

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LindsayDuck@reddit

Wait. Where? I’m in Nebraska and need to know.

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D_novemcinctus@reddit

He may be closed. He was working out of the back of a bar on O Street in Lincoln and that ended. I’d heard he gone back to a food truck/catering type thing but his Facebook doesn’t show anything in almost 2 years now. https://www.facebook.com/share/18Q188YAwb/?mibextid=wwXIfr shame cause it was really good.

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Prinessbeca@reddit

Is that the frozen meat guy? The stuff they sell at the grocery stores?

That stuff makes great orange broccoli beef.

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D_novemcinctus@reddit

Nah, that’s Gary QuikSteak 🤣

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IcyGrapefruit5006@reddit

Haha that’s great

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TillPsychological351@reddit

I grew up in Delco. I really don't understand the pride thing.

It wasn't a bad place to grow up, it just wasn't extraordinary.

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nihcul@reddit

Delaware County NY has lots of Delco county pride lmfao

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BearFromPhilly@reddit

Literally came here to say this lmao

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TsundereLoliDragon@reddit

I feel like all the surrounding counties plus Chester each have their own thing going on, but especially Delco.

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nomuggle@reddit

I live in Delco, can confirm.

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Many_Inevitable_6803@reddit

Came here to say this!

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ghost_suburbia@reddit

I'm proudly from Upper Bucks!

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goodnightghost@reddit

I also flew to the comments to say Delco

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Peculiar-Interests@reddit

Your damn right!

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IntrovertedGiraffe@reddit

In Montco we know how to use the right version of you’re! 😜

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IcyGrapefruit5006@reddit

This is why we don’t like montco people

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jrc_80@reddit

Indeed. Where the purest hoagiemouth dialect is spoken.

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edelmav@reddit

a lot of west virginians are like this. my husband is very proud of the county he was raised in and where his family is from. my parents are like this with southwestern wisconsin, the county both of their families have been established there for 150+ years and there's a distinctive pride in having deep roots there. some people from the region, i've seen, even have 'driftless' tattoos to honor the area

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kettyma8215@reddit

Eastern KY. When you go to college no one asks what town you're from, they ask what county.

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concernedfern@reddit

I lived in Wisconsin until I was 22, when I moved to Maine for work. Everyone IN Wisco jokingly (?) shits on it, but when you go outside it, something changes and you take great pride in it.

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Sykes_Jade9541@reddit

DUUUUUUVVVAAAAAALLLLLLLLLL

Yeah it’s a thing around Jacksonville, FL

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MantisToboganPilotMD@reddit

yes, in the NY north country and definitely in NYC.

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MaineMaineMaineMaine@reddit

Aroostook county Maine

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Euphoric_Ease4554@reddit

Places with smaller populations too. ____County High School, for example.

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popdivtweet@reddit

Sports, for sure.

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TheLastLornak@reddit

The entire city of Jacksonville, FL.

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sgdaughtry@reddit

I hope the people who got a 904 tattoo on their necks didn’t get forced into a 324 area code.

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trench_welfare@reddit

We got so many hoes, we need 2 area codes.

Or something like that.

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jazzminarino@reddit

Oh this is wild- I didn't know about this! It makes me both sad and happy at the same time.

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Nerdso77@reddit

Duuuuuuvaaalll!

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jazzminarino@reddit

How loud my brain screamed this.

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babygotthefever@reddit

the second I read “county pride” lol

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hooker_711@reddit

Exactly. First thing that even came to mind.

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ticklethycatastrophe@reddit

Runner up in Florida is definitely Polk County. They call themselves “Imperial Polk.”

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ALoungerAtTheClubs@reddit

To be fair, "Jacksonville" is a lot harder to scream at a football game

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flyinchipmunk5@reddit

Fun fact, the chant duuuvalll started from 93.3 the radio show where the dj would shout it. It wasn’t designed for the football team but the jags would eventually adopt it

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Psyko_sissy23@reddit

That was my first thought.

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No_Water_5997@reddit

Literally just replied this DUUUUUUVVVVVAAAALLLL!!!

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Faux_extrovert@reddit

Correct. Absolutely correct.

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acromaine@reddit

Duuuuuvaaalllllll

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december14th2015@reddit

We mostly had jokes about our county, but adjacent to pride. Like, "Wil-co High" being the nick name for a Sonic limeade spiked with cheap vodka. Which probably is a thing in every small town, to be fair. Lol

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coolkirk1701@reddit

Well they don’t call us Heroin County for nothing, you know!

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DawaLhamo@reddit

Well, there's a love-hate relationship with my birth county. It has a unique character. It's the reddest redneck county in the immediate STL metro area, so it has a bit of a reputation. Some pretty countryside and quaint little small towns, but also trash and racism (and in days of yore, meth). There are many who have a certain pride about it.

As I always say, you can take the girl out of Jeffco, but you can't take the Jeffco out of the girl. It's part of you for life, for better or for worse.

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pfffffttuhmm@reddit

NoVA is very much so like this. Do nkt assume someone from Fairfax, Arlington, London, etc. Are from Virginia.

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gobaldridefaster@reddit

Only “Irish” folks who are third generation Americans and who have never been to Ireland.

Or wankers from New York, who have no idea that the rest of the world couldn’t care less what county they live in.

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HotTopicMallRat@reddit

Oh for sure! But it’s usually only around festivals or fairs

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alicelestial@reddit

in california a lot of people will "rep" the phone area code associated with where they live.

559 for tulare and some other san joaquin valley areas, 818 for los angeles, 357 for the general fresno area

it was popular to tag posts with your associates area code, or if someone asked where they were from they'd reply "from the 559"

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mrtsapostle@reddit

Oakland baby

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

Straight outta 213, foo!

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RsonW@reddit

Dirty 530, baby

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mfigroid@reddit

949 for life.

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DehydratedManatee@reddit

🎵On a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G, Seen a car full of girls ain't no need to tweak, All you skirts know what's up with 213🎵

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jvc1011@reddit

818 is specifically SFV.

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alicelestial@reddit

i just moved down here a year ago so i'm not super used to it yet, but thanks! i just saw a lot of people saying they were from "LA" and then using the 818 so i guess i assumed lol. i still have my tulare phone number area code

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jvc1011@reddit

The big divide used to be 818/213. Then we got 310 and 323, and things have just spiraled ever since. 🤣 There were way too many people in LA County by the time I was old enough to figure things out (in the 1980s) for just one area code.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

I was in high school or just graduated when 818/213 split--we lived with my mom in 213, but my father was in 818!

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jvc1011@reddit

I was a very young child at the time. I don’t remember it at all. But I do remember the time the air raid sirens went off!

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

Ha... I remember that, too! Once a month, the last Friday of the month, I think.

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jvc1011@reddit

It was only once in my memory, and it was the last time it ever happened.

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Sarcastic_Rocket@reddit

Seeing the county flag being flown on someone's house isn't uncommon. Just in my town (the county seat) there are parks and malls that have the same name as the name of the county flag

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Aggravating_Fishy_98@reddit

I had teachers bragging about how great the school district was, but I’ve never encountered anyone who had pride in a county. It’s usually the town you live in, region, state, or the country.

Also as someone from New England I can’t can’t fathom how there are parts of the country where there isn’t a city/town and it’s just a nameless part of the county that’s in between towns/cities. All of our towns touch; there is no void in between.

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colt707@reddit

So where I grew up is really rural. Biggest town was a little over 30k people and then there was 3 more with around 15k each. This is in deep Northern California, far enough north that the area has more in common with the PNW than Southern California. People didn’t claim the town they were from, they claim the county. Same for the counties surrounding us because again, extremely rural areas.

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morganproctor_19@reddit

I'm in that county and can confirm. :)

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colt707@reddit

Humboldt, Mendo, Trinity, Shasta or Tehama?

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morganproctor_19@reddit

Humboldt

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rubiscoisrad@reddit

Humboldt county has a lot of people with 707/Humboldt sweatshirts.

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MukadeYada@reddit

Yeah. Small counties can be like that. In Nevada, people have "Douglas County pride," because the individual towns are too small to really matter and there's only one high school for the entire county, so they all get to know each other.

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life_experienced@reddit

You just made me think of my boyfriend in the late 70s. He was from Yerington and I still know it's in Lyon County! That whole relationship was a culture shock for me.

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Derwin0@reddit

Especially when there’s a single High School in the county.

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SecretRecipe@reddit

As a graduate of DHS I agree.

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life_experienced@reddit

People from Orange County, CA say they're from Orange County. I don't know if they're proud, but if they say they're from Tustin or Laguna Niguel, most people in the world don't know where those are. They know where Disneyland is and that's in Orange County.

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Limp-Strawberry-5830@reddit

I suppose so and even in New York, you see it people that live in Westchester County make sure people know they live there rather than Duchess County

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FreeFigs_5751@reddit

The entire population of Maryland.

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Meowmeowmeow31@reddit

… sort of?

In Delaware, people in New Castle County call the southern counties “Slower Lower.”

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Psyko_sissy23@reddit

I just assumed Delaware only had one county.

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Flamecyborg@reddit

Nah, we have 3. The furthest north one compared to the lower 2/3rds feel as opposed as the North and the South. It's a pretty big cultural divide.

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pittpanthers95@reddit

Delaware is the only state where I’ve spent a night in every county! It might actually be the only state where I’ve even been to every county lol

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Psyko_sissy23@reddit

Oh OK. Thanks for the info. I've lived in counties bigger than Delaware. The current county I live in is like 9 times bigger than Delaware.

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Ryiujin@reddit

Tbf. Yall are a tiny ass state. How many counties can you possibly have? 6?

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Meowmeowmeow31@reddit

3! And one (NCC) is better than the other 2.

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Ryiujin@reddit

Im not sure punching down on the other two counties is that big of an accomplishment. But i mean you guys get to share the bed blanket with va and maryland. So continue!

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december151791@reddit

How so?

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tiger_guppy@reddit

Most people live in new castle county. More than half the state. The other two are mostly farm land (chickens, corn mostly) and woods, plus the beaches.

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december151791@reddit

The other two sound a lot better based on that description.

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SpecialComplex5249@reddit

6?! Eww, what are we, Rhode Island?

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Ryiujin@reddit

My apologies!

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SpecialComplex5249@reddit

We also specify whether its NCC above or below the canal.

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Pemminpro@reddit

Pretty much this. Even culturally north of the canal is more New England/Urban corridor. South of the canal is more Mid-Atlantic/rural

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AdDue7140@reddit

So do the lower counties with pride. I used to see the LSD, lower slower Delaware stickers all the time at the beach.

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Flamecyborg@reddit

Yea, it's super weird how proud they are of it.

I saw "Lower Slower" on a holiday card at Wegmans this past winter in kind of an endearing-yet-razzing kind of tone...

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AdDue7140@reddit

I grew up in Sussex county. It’a just the chill beach town / small rural town vibes. It’s nice.

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Certain-Monitor5304@reddit

County shame yes.

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LettuceInfamous5030@reddit

Yeah, Delco in the Philadelphia suburbs 🤣

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Illustrious_Code_347@reddit

Never, but I have wondered the same thing. Because in Massachusetts we don't really have "counties" (we technically do, but it's an almost meaningless designation, since we abolished county governments back in the 80s). So everything is done by "town" or by "city." Law enforcement is municipal, school districts are municipal... it's all municipal.

With the sole exception of the court system. Obviously they can't put a court in every single town, so they are done by "county" and that is virtually the only thing that counties ever matter for. Many people probably don't even know what county they live in, it's that meaningless. Obv if you're a lawyer or something that works in the courts though then you know all the counties.

But then I've gone to see relatives in places like Florida and it seems almost the opposite, like their counties are like our "towns," with police and schools functioning at the county level and the towns — if they even exist — nobody knows or cares about.

SO, in Massachusetts you definitely have some places where people have local town pride, and I wonder if it is the same feeling in those places that heavily use "counties."

And I think counties should have a mayor-like figure referred to as a "count." Bc that's where the name comes from.

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Pinwurm@reddit

The exception would Berkshire County. People will proudly say, "I'm from the Berkshires" without specifying a town.

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pmonichols@reddit

I suppose, but the Berkshires are also part of Connecticut, so I think that's more regional pride

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Rare_Vibez@reddit

What do regions count as? Like North Shore, South Shore, MetroWest, etc.?

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davdev@reddit

Yeah. North Shore, South Shore, Metrowest, South coast, cape cod and the land of dragons (aka everywhere else)

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Shabbadoo1015@reddit

I’m curious as to what part of the state you lived in. Growing up in the eastern part of the state (Boston specifically), I did get the sense no one really gave what county you lived in much thought. I mean, I think we all knew we were in Suffolk County. But I don’t know if we ever gave any much thought to other nearby counties.

However, it fees a little different having lived out in Western Mass for the better part of the last 25 years (college and starting a family). I went to school in the Berkshires. Currently live in the Pioneer Valley, Hampshire County specifically. I know folks and have customers from nearby Hampden and Franklin Counties. I get the sense out here, businesses and just the people on general are definitely more county conscious than out east.

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pmonichols@reddit

Yes, and even our court system is administered by the state. The state just happens to use the counties as its districts. Counties really are pretty much meaningless here.

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Historical_Pastor@reddit

Maryland identifies by county for everything

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Emergency-Purpose367@reddit

Aroostook County, Maine. They have a weird pride about being from/apart of 'The County'.

Then again, I think the whole state is weird so

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Okra7000@reddit

To be fair, you have to be tough to live in The County!

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Emergency-Purpose367@reddit

If you say so

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Okra7000@reddit

Yes - Aroostook in Maine, AKA The County.

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Quick-Elephant8204@reddit

Umm no lmao

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Weird_Squirrel_8382@reddit

Sometimes rappers from Miami mention Dade County but that's all I can think of.

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vcsuviking10@reddit

The song Born N' Raised by DJ Khaled comes to mind immediately.

https://youtu.be/Ay89-fJi268?si=BDJU7_74TSHhKt0P

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KDawgandChiefMan@reddit

Duuuval!

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Pancancake@reddit

I live in what I consider to be a great county (Oakland County, MI), so I guess you could say that I have “county pride”. I like how my county is maintained and managed.

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OceanPoet87@reddit

I think maybe Kentucky. In most cities it is area code based

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lokland@reddit

Not really, Chicago is Cook County and Cook County is Chicago. I have mad Chicago pride though.

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MiddleRiverTerp@reddit

DUUUUUUUUVAL!!!!!

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Hurdlelocker@reddit

I definitely hold more pride in the county I grew up in (Placer County) than the one I currently live in (Yuba County).

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trampolinebears@reddit

Yes, I’ve met people with Nevada County pride. It’s one of the Gold Rush counties in the mountains of California.

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famousanonamos@reddit

That's funny because I live in Nevada County and have never heard this.

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RsonW@reddit

You haven't seen Nevada County bumper stickers?

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famousanonamos@reddit

I've seen the little county shaped stickers I guess. I didn't really think anything of it. It's a pretty neat place though if you like being outside.

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RsonW@reddit

Did you grow up in Nevada County?

We're bordered by Yuba County, which sucks; Placer County, which sucks; Sierra County, which doesn't actually exist; and the State of Nevada which stole our name.

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Hurdlelocker@reddit

Placer County is better than Nevada County 🤪

(Also better than Yuba. 😭 Get me out of here.)

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famousanonamos@reddit

No, I grew up in El Dorado county. But I've been here a while.

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RsonW@reddit

I'm one of the ones you've met lol

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trampolinebears@reddit

I'm pretty sure you're the person who told me that Nevada the state came later than Nevada the county.

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RsonW@reddit

Hence why we're shaped like a derringer pistol shaped at the State of Nevada lol

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Drew707@reddit

But it's almost nobody from Truckee IME.

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RsonW@reddit

Yeah, it's definitely more of a Western Nevada County thing.

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Drew707@reddit

It makes sense.Truckee is far more "Tahoe" than Nevada City or Grass Valley.

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RsonW@reddit

I was gonna say, I associate Nevada County bumper stickers with us and 89 window decals with Truckee.

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Drew707@reddit

I have my Truckee background, but I get the point with the hashtag Sonoma Strong shit when you weren't anywhere near Tubbs.

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Ill_Manufacturer7706@reddit

Yes I am one of them

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Turdle_Vic@reddit

I’ve heard a couple proclaim their love of LA County, I think to justify saying they live in LA when it’s really El Monte or something

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GlitterFallWar@reddit

Virginia has Counties and Independent Cities, in contrast to most states where cities are most often inside counties. For example, Arlington County has no cities within it. Alexandria City has no county. So many Virginians identify with their county in ways other Americans don't.

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zuckerkorn96@reddit

I’m from the DC metro area, people use the counties often as a point of reference. Like if someone asked where I grew up I’d say MoCo (Montgomery County, MD). There’s definitely a bit of hometown pride, but nothing crazy. I think you see it Philly burbs too (Bucks vs DelCo vs MoCo)

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GlitterFallWar@reddit

Same with PG County

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_BanditoDorito_@reddit

The philly one is called montco, just felt like clarifying

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WantedMan61@reddit

As a Montco native and current Chesco resident, I've always wondered why our northern neighbor wasn't called Bucco? 😄

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Darkdragoon324@reddit

I've never even encountered anyone with state pride.

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MichigaCur@reddit

Circles Kentucky.. Most of them will tell you the county before the city or town.

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BrackenFernAnja@reddit

California. Mendo and Humboldt, among others.

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aky1ify@reddit

I feel like counties are a big deal and very intertwined with community identity in Kentucky

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GSilky@reddit

Yes. There is county pride in the San Luis Valley, at least when I was a kid.

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Gloomy-Ask-9437@reddit

Yep. It's a big thing in my home state because each county is so different.

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DineenMattingly@reddit

No.

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shadowmib@reddit

I can't even imagine what county pride would be like. I'm familiar with state or city pride after all, I live in Houston, Texas, but if I ran into someone waving flag that said Harris county on it and acting like that was some big deal. I would probably call an ambulance because the dude is mental

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killersoda@reddit

I grew up where I could see the county line from my front porch and couldn't give less of a shit whether I was in Becar or Kendall County, the only time it mattered was when it was time to vote.

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GuyLeChance@reddit

I remember some redneck in Florida yelling at another guy saying he was from Pasco County, so he better watch out. A girl at the bar said she had gone on a date with him and he just took her shooting guns in her backyard. They didn't have a second date.

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mountain_attorney558@reddit

Kinda? I’ve meet Asian Americans who think they’re superior to Asians outside of the county. Orange County, California for those wondering

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HowardIsMyOprah@reddit

I think everyone in OC feels that they are superior to the rest of the state. I have yet to meet one who doesnt

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mfigroid@reddit

We feel that way because we are. You hate us cuz you ain't us.

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morganproctor_19@reddit

I got out of OC as soon as I could. I live in NorCal now and never fit in down there. Didn't feel superior to other places in the state.

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Clemario@reddit

Orange County here. I don’t compare it to NorCal much but it’s easy to feel smug about OC when contrasting it with LA or the Inland Empire.

San Diego is nice though. Who doesn’t like San Diego.

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gosuark@reddit

I am not a counterexample. 🧡

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Traditional-Joke-179@reddit

Nobody likes people from there. Pointing out that someone of any race is from Orange County is both a diss and a quick way to explain why they’re Like That.

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beyondplutola@reddit

Not specific to Asians, but I feel people in Orange, Ventura and Riverside counties strongly identify with their county. I think it’s that they’re trying to claim their piece of dirt within the LA megapolis but their particular city is small/unknown so they level up to their county.

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GoCardinal07@reddit

The late California State Librarian, historian, and USC professor Kevin Starr talked about "civic counties" being Orange and Marin counties as two examples of places where people strongly identify with the county.

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beyondplutola@reddit

Yes. Definitely Marin. I’d add “North San Diego County” an another example, specific to calling out a section of a county.

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RsonW@reddit

Add Nevada County to that list.

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fasterthanfood@reddit

I’m not sure about Riverside county. In my experience people from the part close to San Diego or Orange county try to act like they’re really part of those “nicer” regions because they don’t want to be lumped in with the Inland Empire, while people in the San Bernardino/Riverside metro area identify as part of the IE and group more with people just across the county line than people in, say, Palm Springs or other eastern parts of Riverside County.

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GoCardinal07@reddit

The late California State Librarian, historian, and USC professor Kevin Starr talked about "civic counties" being Orange and Marin counties as two examples of places where people strongly identify with the county.

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Luffy3331@reddit

Really? I always assumed it was the other way around. The LA county Asians living in the SGV (Arcadia, San Marino, Rowland Heights etc) thinking they're better than the OC Asians.

To me OC Asians come off as either the FOB Viet types in Garden Grove/Westminster types or the FOB mainlander/ABC types in Irvine.

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RumpleDumple@reddit

Ha ha. When I was in med school all the Asians from places other than CA were annoyed by OC Asians. Turns out dance crews and boba isn't that big of a deal to East Coast Asians.

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ThimbleBluff@reddit

Yep. In Wisconsin, one of our counties is coterminous with the Menominee reservation. A couple, like Bayfield and Door County, are tourist havens that some residents take particular pride in. And in a bunch of less populated areas where the towns are small and scattered, government and social activities like county fairs tend to be centered around the county.

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Active-Goat-3001@reddit

Yeah nobody says they’re going to a specific town in Door County, they’re just going to Door County

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Active-Goat-3001@reddit

Of course I know her, she’s me. I love my county. Love my state, too. My village is great, but I’d happily move anywhere in my county without any concern. I believe my county is far superior to the county south of us, and moderately better than the one to the west, and a step up from the one north of us. I am very proud to be a resident of this county and will stay here the rest of my life if I’m able.

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Donald_J_Duck65@reddit

Only every day.

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Effective-Ladder9459@reddit

St. Louis City County. It's a thing.

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Robotpoop@reddit

Every redneck in the US?

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davidm2232@reddit

Yes. In rural areas, the county and even area code are a source of pride.

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Electrical_Cash8532@reddit

In Florida it'd be Duval

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ms_directed@reddit

the folks currently proud of my country are proud of it for immoral reasons (imo) that don't reflect the values of the country i was brought up being proud to live in...

ICE killing Americans in cold blood in the streets, for starters...

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gus_stanley@reddit

North Shore represent baby! (Not a county but a defined geographic region so close enough)

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BellStriking5132@reddit

They talk a lot about their counties in Kentucky

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batmanismysidekick@reddit

Duval County FL! We even have a special way of hollering it

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CG20370417@reddit

People in NJ/PA/MD have a county thing going on.

NYC does too, but they dont see it as counties (though they are). Theres such a rivalry between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Brooklyn and Queens, Staten Island and Decent Upstanding People...

In DFW when I lived there, I wouldnt call it pride so much as people would have a sense of pride when they would buy some land up in Collin County or Rockwall county. And for what its worth, no one would really phrase it like this, but there was definitely a feeling in Texas where if you lived in Dallas County, for instance, that you weren't really even Texan. Even people in Tarrant or Denton counties next door felt that way.

Ive lived in 10 states, and those are the only ones that jump out at me.

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crazycardigans@reddit

Yes, In North Carolina, there is Robeson County, which is home to the Lumbee tribe, and people from that county usually say they are from "RobCo" and not necessarily from a town or city; it's a pretty rural county. I live in Cumberland County, NC and some people will say they are from the "two-six" because we are the 26th county in this state. That's relatively new though in the last 20 years, or so.

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Boardgame-Hoarder@reddit

Yup, we have a lot of people who live out in the sticks. They tend to favor saying that they are from whatever county they reside in as opposed to the nearest town.

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Mike_in_San_Pedro@reddit

Yes, though the South Bay is not technically a county, I have seen enough tattoos to know people take pride in it. I have seen a lot of LA flags and tattoos, especially when the Dodgers or Lakers are doing well.

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lfxlPassionz@reddit

Muskegon, MI. It's a city but also a county and they treat the whole county like it's a part of the city.

It's not as strong as it once was because of people falling for false rumors of it being a bad place (it's really not). The rumors are mostly because racist people don't like how diverse it is and the cops are really lazy but the people will take care of each other when they need to.

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Organic_Risk_3945@reddit

Inyo and Yolo counties in California are like that.

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shammy_dammy@reddit

Not in my experience.

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fruitcup729again@reddit

In Hawai'i, the counties are separate islands which definitely leads to more differences between the counties and people being proud of their uniqueness.

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DirkPitt106@reddit

If someone is proud to be from Cullman County or Lawrence County I get a bit suspicious. But seriously though, a lot of rural Alabama is grouped by country and there's a lot of unincorporated area that's not even part of a city. So I feel like it's not uncommon for people to self identify and have pride in the area that they are in. Especially since a lot of people go to county schools and not city schools.

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nine_of_swords@reddit

The only county in Alabama that really has any history of being called out as a county in any sort of sense that I can think of is Winston County.

Otherwise it's basically town or high school zoning over county probably. Looking this list, I think that means only Bullock, Conecuh, Coosa, Greene, Sumter and Wilcox would be the only counties with a single high school covering the whole county.

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DirkPitt106@reddit

People from Lawrence County will always tell you they're from Lawrence County. I was making a joke mostly in my op because I feel like there's always something in the news about "Lawrence County man killed in an illegal still explosion" or something similar to that.

I never said that no one went to city high schools, or that there were a bunch of counties with only one high school, but there's a lot of people who live in unincorporated County territory that go to County schools. Or they drive into a small ass town to go to a school 30 minutes away. Like Blount county doesn't have a county school, but there's really only a fairly small area that's actually incorporated, so Blount county people will always tell you "I'm from Blount county."

And again, it's not all counties in Alabama that I feel like do this, just a few of them. Like no one from Huntsville is going around with Madison County pride.

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nine_of_swords@reddit

Ah, I think we're talking about different things. Saying you're from X county isn't the same as local pride.

With regards to high schools, I more meant the effects on the community due to local school donation drives/homecoming/graduations/high school football. The local high school is one of the main drivers for a shared local experiences across a wide area (be it as a student, parent or neighbor to students).

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Cadicoty@reddit

Kentucky certainly has a lot of that. There are 120 of them, so....

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papayafighter@reddit

Yeah I was looking for the Kentucky comment here. Lots of Kentuckians identify more with their county than their local town.

Exceptions would be like Louisville and Lexington, maybe Bowling Green.

But most of the rural counties you just say what county you are from. My theory is this is partly due to high schools being named after the county liek Larue County High School and not Hodgenville High School

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AcidaliaPlanitia@reddit

In Massachusetts, it's easy to forget what county you live in.

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witchy12@reddit

TBH I didn't know Boston and Cambridge were in different counties until I moved to Cambridge.

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markus_kt@reddit

Same with Boston and Brookline, which is weird given their relative geographical positions.

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kell_bell5@reddit

Technically each borough of NYC is its own county, and people definitely have pride for their borough. NYC also distills down even further with loyalty to your specific neighborhood.

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Ananvil@reddit

Honestly I'd give 50/50 odds of people in upstate even knowing what county they're in. Basically an irrelevant part of identity

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heart_blossom@reddit

Yes. We have it in my area.

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WithASackOfAlmonds@reddit

ask the Irish about this one

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Ok-Pumpkin400@reddit

Maryland!

We identify where we're from based on the county. (AA Co!)

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OnlyFannins@reddit

Delco, baby!

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zoppaTheDim@reddit

Only in places with a single school district for the county.

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Budsygus@reddit

I don't hear people in my state showing pride their county, but I do hear people look down on certain counties.

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ladytal@reddit

Yes. Very common in the South.

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Royal_Annek@reddit

County pride is definitely a thing among firefighters, sheriffs departments etc

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mungraker@reddit

I have a buddy with the name of his county tattooed across his forehead. He rolls hard for it

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Glittering-Score-258@reddit

I think most people know that the Kansas City metro area includes the major city of KC Missouri (KCMO) and the smaller city of KC Kansas (KCK). With all the suburbs it covers at least 11 counties on both sides of the state line, and people often refer to what county they live in. KCK is in Wyandotte County. It’s called The Dotte, and they call themselves Dottes. It’s where the Kansas Speedway NASCAR track is, KC’s professional men’s soccer stadium, lots of shopping and dining, a new Margaritaville resort to open soon, and the new KC Chiefs football stadium will be built there by 2031.

KCMO/KCK seems to confuse outsiders enough that we don’t even try to explain how Johnson County (JoCo) fits into the mix. JoCo is actually the largest single county in the metro, and is a source of pride for many of the residents. It’s on the Kansas side of the star line and has over 400k residents, with a dozen incorporated cities founded in the post-war suburban housing boom of the 40s and 50s. Overland Park (OP) is the largest JoCo city with over 200k, and is consistently rated near the top of “best places to live” lists. The JoCo school districts are wealthy and consistently rated very high. Many of the Chiefs football players live in the wealthiest parts of JoCo. JoCo is also known for shopping and dining, and people are proud to live there. Do NOT call JoCo KCK. It all runs together into one big mish-mash of a metropolitan area, although we have to jaunt across State Line Road to go to cultural events, museums, the zoo, the lively downtown area, and everything else that KCMO has to offer.

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Still_Want_Mo@reddit

Yeah for sure. Definitely strong in the south. Rival high schools are a big thing.

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Lupiefighter@reddit

Any time the county fair rolls around.

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mvrphy007@reddit

Duval!

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ToneBeneficial4969@reddit

In highschool sports / football. I'm from rural Georgia and the county highschool and it's sports could be a source of pride. But that's pretty much it.

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TheMilkSpeaks@reddit

Anyone in St.Louis man. We really take pride in our silliness

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EstablishmentSea7661@reddit

I live in the 2nd most populous county in the country. Here, though, we don't really care about county lines.

In the St Louis metro, though, city vs county was absolutely a matter of pride.

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Judgy-Introvert@reddit

Not even once.

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helikophis@reddit

Yes I know him. He’s me

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SheenPSU@reddit

Not that I can think of

New England states are tiny and we’re usually very prideful regarding our state and region but never county

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ElevenDollars@reddit

In Louisiana they have parishes instead of counties, but the people of Acadiana are super into Acadiana

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LeadingHoneydew5608@reddit

Certainly in california. Many of the counties are bigger than some states!

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JayRandom212@reddit

NYC is divided into "five boroughs", but technically, each borough (Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island) is it's own county (Bronx, New York, Queens, Kings, and Richmond Counties, respectively).

New Yorkers are famously proud of their boroughs...they just don't call them counties.

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geri73@reddit

Yes.

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cutezombiedoll@reddit

When I lived in Monmouth county there was definitely a sense of ‘county pride’ but i would say most NJ counties don’t have county pride.

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HaplessReader1988@reddit

At least some of the boroughs of New York City were previously counties -- and Brooklyn sure has an identity!

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jackneefus@reddit

Aroostook County Maine, which is huge and the northernmost country in the northeast, has a very definite sense of country pride, particularly in regard to natives. If you moved there if you were six months old, it didn't count. They also declared war on Canada at one point in the 1830s over a border dispute.

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morganalefaye125@reddit

Oh, yeah. The rednecks around here are all about it

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megamanx4321@reddit

Only as far as something like school sports.

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BreeIndigo@reddit

Yep, it's usually expressed with their area code (first three digits of phone number) so in Tacoma WA you see a lot of 253 car decals in the shape of hearts. It's cute honestly

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VaveJessop@reddit

Yeah, I mean - I do. My city's metro area includes ~5 counties. I don't live in the city, I live in the suburbs - but I do feel weirdly proud to live in the same county our city is in. Then again there's so many people who claim to be from the city but live in the outer counties for lower taxes. I may be 20-30 minutes to downtown but I'm way closer than those people in a good area, and I'm happy to support the county everyone comes to do everything interesting in 🤷‍♀️

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VioletJackalope@reddit

Not my county, but the neighboring one that my ex husband is from. It’s a big rural county, only one high school and not a single actual city in it. Since it’s so vast and there’s so many unincorporated areas of it, county pride is a very big thing there because more than half of the population doesn’t live inside any of the actual town limits or even close enough to one town to claim it outside of their mailing address.

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Totodile386@reddit

Not where I've lived.

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ngroot@reddit

BROOKLYN yo

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ginsu@reddit

Everyone in NJ knows that their county is the best and all the other counties suck, but not as bad as Philly sucks.

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BUBBAH-BAYUTH@reddit

I don’t hear about that as much in the south or elsewhere as I do in the northeast. Like we’d never say “I’m from mecklenburg county, we’d say the city. Or if you’re small suburb, whatever the closest big city to you happens to be!

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Deep-Hovercraft6716@reddit

Cook county used to run the state of Illinois...

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ByronScottJones@reddit

Yes. 305 for example immediately invokes the Miami area.

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Derwin0@reddit

Pretty much everywhere I’ve gone in the US and Canada.

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hexadecimaldump@reddit

Fairly big thing in central PA where I grew up. But many of our school districts only really one or two schools per county.

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

PA, MD and VA as a goup do more with counties than most other states. We live in northern Baltimore County, and we go to the fair in York every summer - it's as close to us as some of the Maryland county fairs we go to.

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hexadecimaldump@reddit

Yeah every county seems to have a summer fair, but Yorks was always pretty epic. I’m in VA now, NOVA seems to be more city focused, but rural counties have a similar feel toward county pride.

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

Even in NoVa, there's Fairfax, which is both a county and a city, the city is the county and vice versa, and same for Alexandria. (Like Baltimore City, which is its own county, surrounded by a separate county called Baltimore County, and doesn't that confuse people.)

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rhb4n8@reddit

Them Duke boys sure were enthusiastic about hazard county

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bandit1206@reddit

Kentucky. Went to school there and basically no one would tell you what town they were from except maybe Louisville or Lexington. Everyone else it was always what county they were from.

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Impressive_Owl3903@reddit

I’m from Lexington and yeah, I’ve never heard anyone identify as being from Fayette County even though we technically are. Same with Louisville/Jefferson County.

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bandit1206@reddit

It just pretty much every where else, I went to Murray State, and if you went around a room it was this county, that county, Louisville, this county and so on.

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evaj95@reddit

Yes. It's common in the south.

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PlaysWithSquirrels7@reddit

Absolutely in south Louisiana. Everyone knows of Da Parish

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Dapper_Buffalo_7843@reddit

Duuuuuuuuuuvaullllllllllll

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MagicalPizza21@reddit

Technically anyone from NYC who's proud of the borough they come from fits this, so yeah, I guess I have.

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terpystation@reddit

Delco, Fairfax, Montgomery and Summit are all counties I’ve lived and they all have pride.

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Antitenant@reddit

In NYC our boroughs are also counties, so it's common here

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Texan_Greyback@reddit

When I was young, Montgomery County, TX had to stick together because everyone was poor, especially in east county. Except the rich people that moved into the Woodlands, but we didn't count them. Then things started changing as rapid urbanization and population growth continued.

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davdev@reddit

I am from New England and our counties are essentially meaningless and unless you need to go to court, no one ever thinks about the county

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Grouchy-Stand-4570@reddit

Anyone from NY. Their county is their pride.

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Zinnia1127@reddit

Go to the boys' or girls' high school basketball Sweet 16 in Kentucky for some serious county pride.

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Cookies4Dinner73@reddit

In New England most people don’t even know what county their town is in.

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P00PooKitty@reddit

New England doesn’t really use counties other than where you are tried in court.

But in the mid Atlantic (jersey, pa, md) they talk about their counties all the time

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Express_Jicama_656@reddit

Quite common in Grayson County Texas, can't figure out why.

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mmmhotcoffee@reddit

In Kentucky everyone talks up their home county.

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boomershot69@reddit

It’s pretty common in more rural areas

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marklikeadawg@reddit

North Carolina, Johnston County is full of county pride types. It's weird.

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Commercial-Catch-615@reddit

I live in a small county (by population) and I’d say it’s reasonably common here.

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CommanderKrieger@reddit

Most definitely. In my neck of the woods, it isn’t uncommon to hear people jokingly bash on our neighboring counties for any number of reason. Be it how nice/bad the fire department is, the individual school sports teams playing against each other, or legitimate deeply rooted history between counties that stretches back multiple generations because so-and-so’s ancestor married such-and-such’s ancestor even though them-and-them’s ancestor was already planning to propose.

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HermioneMarch@reddit

No. We are regionally jealous. The upstate, Piedmont and lowcountry, but that is more of a battling for resources thing.

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Elegant_Bluebird_460@reddit

In Massachusetts almost everything is either state or local level. Only prisons, the court system, and some niche law enforcement/local government programs are run on the county level.

Most people don't even know their county and those that do usually only know it because the national weather service uses counties for the warning system.

So here, no, there's no county pride. But I find it sort of fascinating how much counties matter in other areas of the country.

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HalfAssedFullBlast@reddit

When I was in Junior High School, the county where I’m from, Jefferson County in Idaho, had the highest teen pregnancy rate per capita in the United States. We called the high school cheerleaders the Marching Mothers.

So, no. I have not.

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fook75@reddit

Yes. I do love my county.

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Ok-Energy-9785@reddit

No. That's new to me

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Drunken_Economist@reddit

Sort of, but only in instances where the county borders line up with some other division (eg, NYC's boroughs or the DC area)

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HighFiveKoala@reddit

Here in Southern California there's rivalry between Los Angeles and Orange County

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margoawaypls@reddit

i know a lot of people attached to their area code and county when it comes to county fairs

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Coldfyre_Dusty@reddit

Lived in Minnesota 20 years, nobody cared the county they lived in. Moved to Kentucky and people don't say, "I'm from X city/town", they tell you the county they're from. Still not used to it

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bikeisaac@reddit

I do think Stearns County, MN has a bit of county pride, but I also think Stearns County kinda sucks (source: went to college there)

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Nectarine-Happy@reddit

Is this because in Kentucky, they literally aren’t living in a town?

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Impossible_Ad_525@reddit

Yes. Rural population means strong county identification here for sure. Kentucky also has a lot of counties that are quite small in area, and kids from that county all go to school together. It really is the unit of measurement that makes the most sense in our context.

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whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit

My county is so conservative that its embarrassing. Id move to a more libertarian county, but that's even worse.

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december151791@reddit

There are libertarian counties?

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whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit

Yup

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december151791@reddit

Based. Which ones?

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whatsupgrizzlyadams@reddit

Lake, Cheboybgan, Manistee, Keweenaw in Michigan

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goddesskristina@reddit

Ewww

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Messiazar@reddit

People in Detroit love getting 313 tattoos. Idk if this counts.

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goddesskristina@reddit

I've also seen some 248 tats and may have laughed at them. I should go anon for this, but I don't think my family member is on Reddit.

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BrotherNatureNOLA@reddit

Ask anyone around New Orleans about St. Bernard. It's the promised land. And if you've ever had food from one of their random gas stations, you wouldn't give them much of an argument.

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Common_Cut_1491@reddit

(Miami) Dade County, FL Duval County, FL

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B3gg4r@reddit

Idaho people always are. There’s a secret license plate code, and we judge each other. 1M ranks at the bottom.

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ChiliAndRamen@reddit

Yes, and to a differing degree potentially area code and/or zip code pride

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Sparkle_Rott@reddit

There used to be MoCo pride (Montgomery County, Maryland) but we’ve become so over developing that people couldn’t care less anymore.

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Secure-Ad8196@reddit

This is highkey me: Forsyth county, GA!

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drink-beer-and-fight@reddit

Yes.

We are having a good time.

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Glad-Intern2655@reddit

My county provides free preschool. Pretty proud.

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Dalionking225@reddit

Jacksonville FL boys folk run around yelling Duval

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morganproctor_19@reddit

Hello, from Humboldt County, California. There is loads of county pride here, despite our issues. It's one of the most naturally beautiful places on earth.

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Current_Poster@reddit

Personally, no. (New England, now living in NYC).

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einsatzpoopen@reddit

Humboldt county CA yes

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TranslatorOutside909@reddit

Duuuval

Is the callout for the Jacksonville Jaguars. Duval is the county

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iamruination0@reddit

Duuuuvaaaallll

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Bcatfan08@reddit

My first thought. Can't get the picture of Liam Coen's first press conference when he said it.

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Old-Growth@reddit

Yeah me

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Quercus@reddit

About a decade ago everyone in the town west of me was Yolo this and Yolo that. Everyone talking Yolo. But now they seem to be mostly focussed on UC Davis pride.

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Ownxer@reddit

For me no, but over in Columbus it's a heavy yes. Some people straight up make being in Columbus their entire personality

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maevriika@reddit

I work for the county. I feel pride when they do something right.

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femmedenebuleuse@reddit

somewhat. in my neck of the woods, most of the people i knew who had county pride were high school athletes or their families who were cheering for (blank) county high, and repped the county itself pretty heavily as a result

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DesignerCorner3322@reddit

Probably in relation to sports of some kind if they exist.

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lcoursey@reddit

As someone from the south, yes, absolutely. As a Gen X it’s all we had.

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cjleblanc2002@reddit

In New England, the county isn't that important of an administration level, not all states have county boards and administrators, it usually goes town/city, then state. County is good for dividing up the states for some things like courts, but it's not the same as outside New England.

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Negative-Arachnid-65@reddit

I grew up in a New England state that nominally has counties but they really don't matter, and no one particularly cares.

I live in California where the counties are extremely important politically, but outside of local politics, no one particularly cares.

My wife is from Maryland, and she really really cares.

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cjleblanc2002@reddit

I did too, I still live here, first New Hampshire and now Massachusetts.

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3Oh3FunTime@reddit

Orange County, CA

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CheesE4Every1@reddit

The rare Knoxville or Gatlinburg ones creep me out.

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MakeStupidHurtAgain@reddit

Orange County, California. There’s really not another county in California with such a strong sense of identity. There’s some inner fighting between North and South County (or the 714 and the 949 area code for short), but we all come together to cast shade on the Inland Empire (or the 909 and 951 for short).

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HanShotF1rst226@reddit

As someone raised in cook county, that’s a hard no

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sgtm7@reddit

Only with the counties in NYC, otherwise, no.

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lunatipp@reddit

Some of the old school Austinites I grew up around think everyone who lives outside Travis County is a hick/bigot if that counts lol. I think it has a lot to do with the large political differences between Travis and adjacent counties though, specifically Williamson

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bradmajors69@reddit

Kinda.

I'm from a rural part of the southeast. Highschool football is huge. My county and most of the surrounding ones only have one public highschool. So yeah a lot of people get wrapped up in county-centric enthusiasm during football season.

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genericuser_12345@reddit

Orleans Parish

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Afraid_Equivalent_95@reddit

I think the people with flags on their houses

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Beautiful-Rent6691@reddit

You’ve heard of the OC I assume?

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Onyx_Lat@reddit

My state has 104 counties, and a lot of them don't have that many people in them. I've never really heard anyone talk about "yay I'm from x county!" It's basically an administrative thing that matters more for purposes of funding of services, not really something you'd have pride in. Though Kansas City is a large enough place that it has parts of the city in several counties, so which county you live in makes a great difference when you're talking about taxes or political districts.

Now, you might hear people complaining about other counties where the majority of people belong to the other political party. But for the most part no one I know is particularly proud of their county.

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HaviLuv@reddit

A beer named after the zip code. Located along the Central Coast of CA

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SubsumeTheBiomass@reddit

Lol. Lmao. Walk into any city street and yell "DUUUUVAAAAAL" and you're likely to get a response. People from Jacksonville are almost more loyal to the county than the city, despite them being almost the same.

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Independent-Hold9667@reddit

I remember an old Idaho farmer telling me he had no reason to go outside the county(Bingham) because there was nothing out there worth seeing compared to his county.

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DiscussionAwkward168@reddit

Duuuuuuuuvaaaaallll

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ElDub62@reddit

Yes. Humboldt and Mendocino county folks in CA can be like that.

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r2k398@reddit

Nope. There are so many here in Texas and no one really cares about them.

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SecretRecipe@reddit

The OC vs LA county beef is only satisfied by them both agreeing that they're miles better than any county to the east.

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Only_Presentation758@reddit

Yes, it was unexpected but funny and cute: At a North Carolina beach a group of party girls was “representing” the “Jayy-Cee”! J.C., Johnston County, a kind of rural county in central NC made up of small towns and farming communities. High school football is also important in many small towns here with half the town showing up for the Friday night games, and often schools from other counties are rivals.

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Restoretheroof@reddit

A lot of Florida is proud of their counties. Dade and broward come to mind of when people say where they are from.

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wykkedfaery33@reddit

Over here in Florida, we're loud and proud about being from DUUUUUUUUUVAAAAL county!

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Alternative-Quit-161@reddit

Im from a very well known, extremely beautiful county, that produces a popular beverage and that went through a a few major disasters. We have County Pride. Literally bumper stickers and t shirts exclaiming how proud we are.

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Impossible_Ad_525@reddit

In Kentucky, very much so.

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Evenfisher01@reddit

Not too uncommon when the biggest city in your county is named the same as the county

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RangerMatt76@reddit

Yes. A lot of gang member around here do that

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SnooGadgets676@reddit

This is pretty much how most people identify themselves in Kentucky if you don’t live in Louisville or Lexington. I didn’t meet people who referred to their hometown by county until I went to college. This is likely because a lot of towns in Kentucky are unincorporated and lack a separate city government.

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Beverly_Crusher_2324@reddit

We have county fairs and those are fun. Then when you’re at the state fair it’s cool to see people that win awards and ribbons that live in your community. There’s not really county pride beyond that IMO. I live in Minnesota.

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Wonderful_Exit6568@reddit

Yeah, Tupac made a banger of a song that is called, Riverside Motherbleeper! It was quite the banger.

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MISProf@reddit

No. City / town, state, or region. Never county. That’s just weird unless you’re from Hazzard County.

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biggwermm@reddit

Mr. 305 Dade County dalé

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smartaleky@reddit

Duuuuuuuvaaaaaaal!

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CharacterSchedule700@reddit

Yes - Montana has this with certain counties.

The license plates start with a two digit county number, so where you're from is sort of branded in there. The counties are numbered based on county population at the time the numbering system was created (1 is the highest, 56 is the lowest).

6 is Gallatin County (Bozeman) so everyone assumes you're from out of state.

So if you're from other counties, you can be a "real Montanan."

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Pitiful_Fox5681@reddit

Not really, but everyone in Arizona outside Maricopa County definitely side-eyes Maricopa County.

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nettenette1@reddit

I was kinda irritated when the Charlotte Hornets left Charlotte - Mecklenburg County earned that name back in the Revolutionary War. But we got it back. Does that count?

Fun fact, I wasn’t actually born in a county. And then in Middle School, I once again didn’t live in a county. Va be weird like that.

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Scurvy_Pete@reddit

Pretty common in Kentucky. We’ve got 120 counties and unless you’re in one of the higher population counties, everyone ends up at the same county high school

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RoundandRoundon99@reddit

Montgomery County Texas. Just north of Houston. Its Major population center is not incorporated and wealthy so… they make it clear it’s not Houston or Harris County.

Montgomery county Texas.

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Moist_Rule9623@reddit

No, because in my US state the county essentially determines where the deed to your house is recorded, or which court you’re going to report to if you drive drunk; and that’s about it

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mab220@reddit

I was born in Orange County and have some pride in that, although I haven’t lived there in 20+ years. It’s cool to be from somewhere everyone has heard of.

I am currently super proud of the county I live in. It’s a lot nicer than the county where our starter home was and I really felt like I “made it” when we moved here. We also have a county based Facebook page with almost 150K people in it and it is the place to be. There’s county lore and county celebrities, and plenty of county drama. It’s a whole thing.

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tsukiii@reddit

In San Diego County, different portions of the county have their own identities. North County and East County especially.

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Background_Humor5838@reddit

Yes we also have area code and postal code pride in a lot of places

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Ginger630@reddit

The boroughs of NYC very much have pride in where they live!!!

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MsPennyP@reddit

Kinda. The County I grew up in was a bit notorious at the beach that was ~4 hours away. The beach town's jail had a "welcome _____ county residents" sign.

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Slamantha3121@reddit

I have the opposite... I am from a certain county in Florida, and whenever the Florida Man headline is from that county specifically, I feel a special shame. There should be some really long German word for that specific flavor of shame.

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Powerful_Image6294@reddit

orange county people will be VERY eager to tell you they’re not from LA

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fme222@reddit

It's one of the first things any Marylander will tell you to describe where they are from, before mentioning any town/city. We have strong opinions. Born in PG, raised in Anne Arundel, and now broke adulting in Washington while commuting to Frederick. Any Marylander reading that pretty much knows my life story now lol

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Traveling-Techie@reddit

In the late 1800s, when a lot of farmers moved to LA for the growing weather, they established state clubs to mingle with others from their home state. That is, except for midwesterners, who formed county clubs. I imagine they had a lot of county pride.

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zuzudomo@reddit

I mean they made an entire show called The OC and then made another show called Real Housewives of Orange County so I think we have a winner?

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PaddingCompression@reddit

Orange County in California seems to have a little bit of these (even the TV show "the OC")

LA is weird... LA city/county/metro area? Where does the pride belong there if you are in LA county outside of LA city? Is it metro area pride vs. county pride? Not sure.

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silkywhitemarble@reddit

If it's LA County, it's more about that specific city/area, like Pasadena, Long Beach, Compton, San Fernando Valley, Alhambra, etc. If it's LA city, it's about the area, like Hollywood, Echo Park, Ladera Heights, Silverlake, Sherman Oaks, Koreatown, etc.

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Imaginary_Ladder_917@reddit

I was thinking among these lines, too. I kind of think of myself as being from Los Angeles when I’m really from Los Angeles County. I am definitely not from the city itself. The county is just huge.

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Numerous-Recover-227@reddit

Lotta people I know have pride and loyalty for their country, regardless of current president and whether they agree with him at all. (USA)

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ElCaminoLady@reddit

From the St. Louis metro here.. Not a lot of county pride, treated more like high school cliques actually (you’re judged by which one you’re from) HOWEVER the area code, 314, absolutely. We have a day to celebrate everything St. Louis. March 14th!

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MiddlePop4953@reddit

Kind of? Especially around county fair season. Everyone gets pretty competitive about their county fairs in Minnesota.

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Oceanbreeze871@reddit

People from Orange County can be super into that as a personality. Same for lots of counties in California actually

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theboyqueen@reddit

Yes, it's very common in California. Humboldt, Mendo, Sonoma, Marin, OC, etc.

Rural folks up north especially will generally say they are from Siskiyou or Trinity or Shasta or whatever instead of a city (unless it's Redding or Weed).

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Oceanbreeze871@reddit

I’ve seen giant decals on truck windows. Bizarre

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FunImprovement166@reddit

In West Virginia there's a Harrison County vs Marion County pepperoni roll rivalry

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Round_Creme_7967@reddit

Which one's better?

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Baymavision@reddit

Any one from Maine who is from "The County" has county pride.

Aroostook County, the northern most in Maine, is the largest county east of the Mississippi River -- a fact they will undoubtedly tell you.

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No_Statistician9289@reddit

I love Chester County

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DooficusIdjit@reddit

Pretty common in NorCal. Napa, Sonoma, Marin, Amador, Shasta, Humboldt… they’re all pretty proud of their county.

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ShesGotaChicken2Ride@reddit

The county I live in uses a Raincross as the official symbol, and you see it everywhere. On hats, cars, shirts, etc people around here have a lot of pride I guess

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SemperFudge123@reddit

I work in marketing and economic development for a very populous, very wealthy suburban county.

I know it irks our elected officials and my bosses but I'm constantly changing things on our marketing materials to deemphasize our county name and instead play up the name of the much better known major city in the neighboring county that is the namesake of our metro area… especially when working on international attraction projects.

I have to constantly remind the old people above me that virtually nobody is searching for locations by going into Google (or whatever search engine) and typing in the name of a county.

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CombatRedRover@reddit

One of the local radio stations in the Harrisburg, PA, market made a parody of Eminem with the lyrics "two Perry County girls go 'round the outside..."

Perry County was not amused. I think that's also around the time the Harrisburg mayor talked some shit about Perry County.

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december151791@reddit

This is a thing to some extent in rural areas of the South. Especially where there's one high school for the whole county.

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stuck_behind_a_truck@reddit

Shout out to the 909

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docmoonlight@reddit

In Northern California, there’s definitely some pride around Napa and Sonoma Counties (wine country). Maybe somewhat for Marin and Alameda too. San Francisco technically has the same boundaries as San Francisco County, so I guess there’s some pride there, but we mostly think in terms of the City, although the City and County share a government.

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BobithanBobbyBob@reddit

Everyone in my county hates it. The mountains are filled with druggies and the crackheads are everywhere. Was hit hard after the rust belt collapsed. My grandpa calls if the asshole of Pennsylvania lol

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reddot_comic@reddit

Yes, Orange County CA. Right in between LA and San Diego county. We do our own thing from both.

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plotthick@reddit

East Bay is the best (SF & SJ can go suck it) and Alameda County is the best of the East Bay.

-- East Bay born and bred

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the-quibbler@reddit

Sometimes in rural areas. People are tribal. They like forming in- and out-groups.

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thatoneone@reddit

Yes, PG county Maryland

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pinaple_cheese_girl@reddit

Of course.

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Elendril333@reddit

People here unironically wear our telephone area code on t-shirts and hats. SW Pennsylvania

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ABelleWriter@reddit

My husband. He grew up in a small town in a small county in North Carolina. His high school friends have it too.

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nomuggle@reddit

Have you ever heard of Delco?

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wizardyourlifeforce@reddit

I grew up in Queens and yeah a bit of Queens pride

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mickeltee@reddit

I can’t think of a particular county in Ohio that has county pride.

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SkyPesos@reddit

Idk if this is county pride, but some people in Butler County take pride in not being a part of Cincinnati. Also hard to be proud of a city when you live in unincorporated West Chester or Liberty Townships, so county it is.

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cats-n-cafe@reddit

My county is the butt of an oddly high number of jokes….

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ReactionAble7945@reddit

Lots of big city people talk about their home city like it is the best.

Well, I grew up in LA, we have the best of everything.....

Not being big city, and having traveled... home town is about people, not about the city,county, or state.

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4myolive@reddit

Toadies and suck ups that work for the county.

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TrillyMike@reddit

Lemme tell ya about a place called Maryland, we rep counties, pg, moco, hoco, Fred county

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botulizard@reddit

Probably not. I don't think people really do that outside of Delaware County, Pennsylvania and in Maryland generally.

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MollyWeasleyknits@reddit

This is definitely a thing in rural America. Differing levels of pride but definitely a thing.

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donuttrackme@reddit

For sure. Area code is the most common though I feel. People will get their area code tattooed on them etc.

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chrs_trnr@reddit

Ever been to Jacksonville, FL? All you hear is DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUVAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL

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Willing_Calendar_373@reddit

San Juan County Washington. Although there, no one says anything about the county proper, its just the "San Juans".

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jephph_@reddit

Westchester, NY

——

The boroughs almost always say their borough even though they are also counties. (well, Bronx and Queens have same county names but still, they’re saying the borough)

I do have a Kings County Tshirt though

50 bucks lol https://vinnies.nyc/products/county-of-kings-tee-black

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IllustratorWeird5008@reddit

My good friend went to a country outdoor festival in Michigan, she’s from Canada (Ontario), and met a guy she liked and they started dating. She’s is the actual best, but tends to go with the flow so much that she will overlook weird/troubling behaviours in others. We finally met him at a group event in Canada for Oktoberfest. NO ONE BROUGHT UP THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN OUR COUNTRIES TO HIM. This was pre current Trump presidency. Every second thing out of his mouth was how much better the States is, took digs at Universal Heath care, got mad at us because he has to pay more to go to law school there than we do, like a flex but also whining? He looked genuinely uncomfortable to be out of his country. Weird. Finally just said “Why so angry friend?” then avoided him the rest of the night with the other friends. They broke up shorty after. Yes, I’d say he had “country pride” alright.

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No_Water_5997@reddit

One word…DUUUUUVVVVAAAALLLL!!! In other words…yes. I’m from Jacksonville, Fl

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MountainCrowing@reddit

Yeah. My home county is a lot of scattered small towns, so there’s a lot of going from town to town for any fun events and such, which makes the county itself more of a determiner of pride than individual towns within it.

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Elle3247@reddit

Absolutely. I, however, have county disdain.

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holymacaroley@reddit

I haven't heard of this in the 4 counties I've lived in here.

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ZebulonRon@reddit

Once you get into rural areas, it’s more common than you think. It gets down to even township out here. My towns better than your town, yadda yadda.

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LiberalTomBradyLover@reddit

Certainly, but it's not as common as city or state pride.

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Brennisth@reddit

Tarrant vs Dallas is a full on war (I mean, not literally, usually).

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MsOnyxMoon@reddit

I’m from Northern NJ and we have county pride there.

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bdrwr@reddit

How do you consider those who live in less well known cities, within the county lines of a major, well-known city?

Anybody from El Cajon is going to say they're from San Diego. Anybody from Pasadena is going to say they're from Los Angeles. Anybody from Beaverton is going to say they're from Portland.

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basssfinatic@reddit

805 represent

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General_Ad_6617@reddit

Hmm... I think it's cool that I live in the largest county in America.

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AnneBeddingfeld@reddit

not e from maryland identifies themselves by what county they are from, its a if deal. and i grew up in fairfax county virgin and that is where I tell people I am from (as opposed to the community name).

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GazelleOpposite1436@reddit

Tattoos with the county boundary and the area code. More than I could imagine. I was like WTF?

Polk County, FL

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DryEyeKitty@reddit

I remember from when I was a little kid, one of favorite wrestlers, Big Bossman, was billed from Cobb County, GA. It was mentioned in the lyrics to his song. So I guessed people from down South might have some county pride.

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mercurialpolyglot@reddit

Lafayette calls itself the heart of Acadiana

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TheRiverIsMyHome@reddit

DUUUUUUUUUUVALLLLLL

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Reasonable_Guess_175@reddit

People from Southern California make major distinctions between Orange County, Los Angeles county, San Bernardino county, Riverside county, and San Diego county

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Apprehensive-Pop-201@reddit

So, just glancing through the feed, quickly, and read that as "cunty pride".

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Shitimus_Prime@reddit

oh hell yeah i'm damn proud of living in forsyth county georgia

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mustang-and-a-truck@reddit

I have not lived in Georgia in forever, but Forsyth was really nice when I was there.

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aftercloudia@reddit

i think us in cook just gather under the "that's adel, baby!!" umbrella to show our pride😂

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Shitimus_Prime@reddit

that's another level of niche

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o93mink@reddit

You must love cumming

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Bobbfyre784@reddit

There's a bit of it I experienced in southeast Virginia. Several cities (country equivalents) with sprawling suburbs that can also get rural quick. The cities at a high level seem to dislike each other and don't cooperate well

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funktion666@reddit

No. Just neighborhood, city regions, cities, states, general state region, country.

Counties are not a big deal where ever I’m at. Only for official govt documents really.

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KillBologna@reddit

We just play JayZ and Alicia Keys “New York” anyone says anything wrong about NY

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Grafakos@reddit

When I lived in SoCal, I worked with a number of people who lived in Orange County and they seemed to have "county pride" in a way that I haven't seen anywhere else.

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Necessary-Elk-45@reddit

SoCal has Orange County pride and Los Angeles city pride, and both of these places look down on San Bernardino County and Riverside County even though they are both nice places.

It's like New York City people looking down on Jersey people even though Jersey is a nice place and Jersey people are the ones commuting in to keep NYC afloat. LA and OC rely on commuter labor from those counties and tell themselves that they are better than the commuters when really they just have rich parents and don't have kids.

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DriverFirm2655@reddit

The suburbs outside Philly, ESPECIALLY Delco

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OhSassafrass@reddit

If you’ve ever met someone from Southern California and they actually live in Orange County, not LA, you will know right away. Because they’ll definitely tell you.

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aaronhayes26@reddit

Country Pride is one of my favorite travel stops for sure

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K4NNW@reddit

Overpriced, but decent (same for Iron Skillet and Buckhorn).

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PinchedTazerZ0@reddit

Area code pride for sure

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Constellation-88@reddit

I have never heard of this so hard I thought you were misspelling country at first.

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jbp216@reddit

moat cities are contained in a county. this isnt even uncommon

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44035@reddit

Our county fair was incredible. I suppose the farm families were big on county pride.

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

County fairs are so much fun, and you really get to see what people think best represents their county. We usually go to 4-5 county fairs each summer.

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captaincheem@reddit

Idk about county pride but I know county hate

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K4NNW@reddit

Well, we all know that speeders hate Washington County.

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IMarriedAGoose@reddit

After hurricane Michael the pride of surviving, rebuilding, and being a community was strong. #850strong

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IWasGoatbeardFirst@reddit

Sure.

Polk County represent!

Kidding. I’m kidding.

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Real_Imagination5151@reddit

Better not let Sheriff Grady Judd get wind of that!

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BigOil88@reddit

If you want to see American law enforcement at its best. Non USA folks should look up Sheriff Judds YT videos.

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MajesticBread9147@reddit

Where I live people move too much between them and there are too many transplants for it to be county based. And the most populated county is too big to have much an identity over.

But there is pride about being "inside the beltway".

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gsquaredbotics@reddit

Not really but I can almost guarantee that there are people out there with county pride

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Adorable-Growth-6551@reddit

No

But i currently live in a county with the hugh esteem of being the second poorest in the State, so you know that that is cool

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IsThisDecent@reddit

Yes, from Orange County and Marin County.

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WowsrsBowsrsTrousrs@reddit

In Maryland, most publuc services are run by the counties - there are very few incorporated cities in Maryland, and a few counties have no incorporated cities or towns at all. So there are many people in Maryland who have county pride. Some counties have affectionate nicknames - Howard County is usually called HoCo, for example.

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YoshiandAims@reddit

Yep

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onetrickpinny@reddit

i…i’m not sure? i’m dating myself here but there were like… area code shirts that got popular here back when reuben studdard was on american idol because he wore the area code shirts.

it’s definitely more city pride here as far as i can tell?

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pikkdogs@reddit

Never heard of that here in Michigan, Minnesota, and North Dakota.

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FoggySunriseYT@reddit

If you’re in Louisiana you get parishes rather than counties — and I’ve totally seen like Acadiana Parish things and such since it’s so deeply rooted in Cajun culture. However you could not catch me repping my hometown parish (Livingston Parish) 😬

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tarzanacide@reddit

Ascension Parish has a bit of a superiority complex. St. Tammany too.

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SurpriseEcstatic1761@reddit

Once we were at a party. I heard some off noises down the hall. I investigated and found a guy raping my coworker. I stopped it, and got my ass kicked. But I took her to her home safely.

Later, she filled my freezer with elk meat that she harvested last season. Cause that's the way we say thank you in the west.

Country pride indeed.

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CD84@reddit

I think you misread this question... but good on you.

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innocuousfigdream@reddit

This is a thing in Maryland.

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OriginalMcSmashie@reddit

I once dated a girl who was the only person in her family to ever venture outside of their (very rural) county.

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got_tha_gist@reddit

Many of my ancestors settled various parts of Essex County, MA, so yes

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Cool-Coffee-8949@reddit

I call BS, though. I’m in the same ancestral boat, but no one actually living here gives a crap about county. When we have to put county into a form, it feels weird that anyone even cares. Even the name “Essex County” has basically yielded to “North Shore” as a regional identity.

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got_tha_gist@reddit

I’m only speaking for myself. It’s true our county govt structure is weak, but it does geographically contain the places my oldest colonial ancestors settled, so for me it’s a good shorthand.

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cjleblanc2002@reddit

I live in Essex county, there is no county pride here. It's mostly by region, North Shore, Merrimack Valley, Cape Ann, etc...

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MissyShark@reddit

https://share.google/CGx8DtVAef9QzFOH1

Jacksonville Fl is the largest city in the US by land area. The city IS the county. Literally. So our cheer for the Jaguars is DUUUVAL!!!

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Mean-Bandicoot-2767@reddit

4H kids rep their counties when they qualify for State competitions.

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Clean_Broccoli810@reddit

On the west coast I've seen a lot of people take oride in Humboldt county, CA. It's not uncommon to see bumper stickers in the shape of the county.

I'd argue it's a unique exception though. In general, people tend to identify more with their state or city.

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CD84@reddit

"FRUMBOLDT" is pretty popular within Humboldt.

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BobQuixote@reddit

In rural Texas, towns don't have many people (by definition) and the county is a convenient grouping that picks up several of them, similar to a metroplex. So yes, county pride isn't that weird, although razzing each other over being from the "wrong" county would be unusual.

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Ok_Truck_5092@reddit

I knew someone with a county tattoo

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Wheatcattle@reddit

Nebraska’s county number license plates helps with county pride outside the metro areas

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IA_Royalty@reddit

Isn't Jacksonville's whole thing "Duuuvaaaaaaal"

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Music_Ordinary@reddit

Oregon here— id say mostly in several well known rural counties really. Tillamook, Hood River, Deschutes, Wallowa seem to have a lot of county pride. The rest is mostly hometown pride.

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GlitterPapillon@reddit

I have learned so much from this thread. I’m from Arkansas and have NEVER heard anyone here identify themselves using their county. 🤷🏻

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Cardinal101@reddit

I’m from a rural county in California and yes, we have county pride.

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geekycurvyanddorky@reddit

Only a handful of times, and they were all part of a specific group of people that think land votes…

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Quirky_Commission_56@reddit

If I could buy back the house I grew up in, I’d move back to El Paso in a heartbeat.

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Adamon24@reddit

It depends, but it’s definitely strong in a lot of areas

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NonchalantRubbish@reddit

People rep their county or area codes frequently. It’s almost a stereotype.

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MrLongWalk@reddit

Yeah the dude was an absolute loser

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JamesMarM@reddit

Boss Hogg

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OkTransportation6580@reddit

People from Detroit really love to tell people they're from Detroit.

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1whosUnknwnFmiliarly@reddit

I've seen people with the area code tattoo as well. I did talk to a guy that observed and was perturbed that people in Pinellas county don't like to leave Pinellas county.

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Zestyclose_Crew_1530@reddit

DUUUVVAAAALLLLLLLLL

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shelwood46@reddit

When I was a volunteer firefighter in NJ, everything in the fire service was organized by counties as far as training and meetings and such, and there was definitely a friendly rivalry between the various counties during state-wide gatherings, though I suspect it did not translate to anything outside state borders.

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Street_Look_2214@reddit

The Kingdom of Callaway. https://micronations.wiki/wiki/Kingdom_of_Callaway

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Otherwise-OhWell@reddit

As a child in Iowa I thought that my county (Linn) was better than the counties' of my cousins. Turns out Johnson is the best county in Iowa.

Let's do this!

Iowa Counties Ranked:

1) Johnson (Iowa City)

2) Linn (Cedar Rapids)

3) Black Hawk (when I was watching Denny Frary on channel 9 news weather, Black Hawk got the best storms. Also, cool name. Waterloo sucks)

4) Scott (I saw Nirvana live in Davenport, 1994 I think).

5) Polk, I guess? (fuck Des Moines!).

...

99) Dubuque

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LifeApprehensive2818@reddit

I have not, but Massachusetts is an outlier in that we put very little focus on our counties. I couldn't tell you which county I live in from memory. It's a tiny bit different towards the west of the state where you may have several small towns banding together into a county or region, but people still identify by town first.

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CriticalSuit1336@reddit

Yeah, in California it's a thing for sure.

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No_Entertainment_748@reddit

People from most parts of the south and midwest will refer to where theyre from by the county name and not the actual town they grew up in. Part of that is pure county pride part of it is that its the easiest point of reference when pointing on a map

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_lisafrank@reddit

I’ve not seen that in the industrial Midwest. There’s regional pride centered around a city (Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago), and you claim that city and its bumps. Unless you’re talking to someone who is actually from that city when you’re from a suburb, in which case you claim it and they tell you you’re not from there.

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mr_why_no@reddit

In California I’ve only ever heard people from San Diego and the surrounding areas talk about it, but they talk about where in the county they are from.

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LeGrandePoobah@reddit

Maybe only in really sparsely populated counties. I don’t know anyone in the heavily populated areas unless their ancestors settled the area…and even then, it seems to spread to the state more than the county.

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Adventurous_Ad1922@reddit

Yes. In the south people are more about the county than city

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DefinitelyPostMalone@reddit

We have county fairs in Northern CA. Not sure if it fits exactly

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Cobblestone-boner@reddit

Not uncommon on the east coast

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BAMspek@reddit

You’d be surprised how popular area code tattoos are

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iamnotabotbeepboopp@reddit

Because Los Angeles is so vast, it’s easier to just reference LA County sometimes instead of the city

If you look at a map of LA city vs. LA County, it makes more sense

City of Los Angeles vs. LA County

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Legitimate-Donkey477@reddit

Keweenaw County, Michigan is the best. Forget the rest.

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aboxofkittens@reddit

I’m a little bit proud. Thanks Ozzie, I hope they had a Tea, Earl Grey, Hot waiting for you wherever you are.

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chriswaco@reddit

I grew up in Oakland County, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit. At the time it was one of the wealthiest counties in the US and people definitely made sure to differentiate it from the crime and poverty in Wayne County/Detroit.

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BruceTramp85@reddit

Just chiming in to say no, I never have. People may name their county to help you identify their town, but it’s simply for orientation.

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Alexdagreallygrate@reddit

“Welcome to The OC, bitch.”

“This how it’s DONE in Orange County!”

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Aquarius_K@reddit

In rural KY people identify more as being from a county than they do for a city because there aren't really any cities.

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ZestycloseMove1834@reddit

With some exceptions, these people are typically losers. Do they exist? Yeah but if they’re very outward about it, it’s because they have nothing wise to cling on to.

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Ok-Molasses5561@reddit

Dade County here, hate those Broward people

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Kscarpetta@reddit

Yes! Especially when it comes to sports. Where I live, there is only one high school. Surrounding counties only have one. So it's county vs. _county.

It's a big ordeal. Not to mention, usually on the news, they will say which county something happened in. For example, a tornado touched down in Laurel County. Then they'll go on to say that London officials said whatever. London is in Laurel County. So out in the sticks, we are used to going by county instead of cities/towns. People tend to be more familiar with the county instead of town.

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NIN10DOXD@reddit

When you beat the neighboring county in a high school sport.

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Some_Cicada_8773@reddit

Constantly

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hail_to_the_beef@reddit

Pima County, AZ

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MountainTomato9292@reddit

Shelby County, but really it’s more Memphis pride. But there’s definitely a lot of Shelby County talk.

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Annihilator_Of_Walls@reddit

Not in North Carolina. Pennsylvania, though…

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Alexdagreallygrate@reddit

Based solely on watching “Justified” of TV I’m guess maybe Harlan County, Kentucky?

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One_Switch9973@reddit

The people of Montgomery County, MD will dislocate their arms with how vigorously they pat themselves on the back about how tolerant and diverse they are. They're really quite smug.

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oberlausitz@reddit

For sure, 100% everyone in my county

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nowhereman136@reddit

Technically each borough of New York City is it's own county and there is friendly rivalry between them

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wormbreath@reddit

Kinda. Anyone who has any ancestors that were involved with the Johnson county war will let you know about it.

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happygrizzly@reddit

CC Chris from New York, Westchester County

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puttputt_in_thebutt@reddit

Its pretty common here. A lot of rural areas have county schools, and if youre from the middle of nowhere you typically tell people what county youre from as opposed to the village.

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OrganizationSouth481@reddit

Yes. Pretty much every everywhere I’ve lived to some extent.

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Cool-Coffee-8949@reddit

Not in MA, no. Unless it’s Dukes or Nantucket.

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mydogisatortoise@reddit

Is that the bread where they split the top with a knife and pour butter in the crack? Haven't seen that in ages.

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ijswijsw@reddit

Marylanders typically tell other Marylanders where they're from by saying what county they're from rather than saying the town or describing it geographically.

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Deolater@reddit

My county has a large, relatively dense, affluent unincorporated area. We have some degree of county pride and a reputation for snobbishness

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No-Pickle-8200@reddit

I grew up in a super small rural town, and when I meet someone from my county, I sort of consider them “from my home town” even if they are from a couple towns over? So sort of?

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wwhsd@reddit

Most of the time when I talk about “San Diego”, I’m talking about the county rather than the city, so I guess I’ve got some county pride.

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hercule2019@reddit

I grew up in a suburb, live in a suburb, and still hang onto my country pride because my grandparents that we visited once a year were farmers.

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alaskawolfjoe@reddit

No, I never had.

Counties are small, so people often move from one to the other and there is no significant cultural difference in most cases.

So this is not a thing.

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Drew707@reddit

Somewhat, but it's more about a "rivalry" with another county. The exception to me would be Orange County which people looooove to bring up including my SO. Congrats, 4MM people living in great weather, but horrible traffic, toll roads, and nothing but chain restaurants. Sounds very "exclusive".

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What___Do@reddit

Sure, but almost exclusively at high school football games against our rivals the next county over.

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LifeFindsAWhey@reddit

Not a county / parish, but I have immense pride in Acadiana as a region.

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Porcupineemu@reddit

Yes. Growing up in WV there was definitely some rivalry between the bordering counties. It was more putting down the other ones than being proud of yours though I guess.

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southernfriedscott@reddit

Delaware County, PA. They have flags, stickers, shirts. You name it. Very proud of their county.

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Positive-Avocado-881@reddit

Pretty popular in mid Atlantic states

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ATLien_3000@reddit

I'd answer your question with a question.

Have you ever met someone from the country?

I'd put the vitriol between folks from adjacent counties 10 miles apart on a fall Friday night up against (say) Ohio v Michigan any day.

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