Small Towners, did your town or the surrounding small towns have a stereotype about it/them?

[LostInAnomie]

I remember when I was younger that all the surrounding towns had a stereotype. Haubstadt was full of rich snobs, Ft. Branch was a bunch of hicks, Patoka was a bunch of white trash dopers, and Mt. Carmel was full of whores.

My town, because we were the only town in the immediate are that had different racial and ethnic groups, had the stereotype of being all black (even though it was closer to 3%).

Ah, good ol' folksy stereotypes.

[xmas74]

1. The next town over was where all the guys went to pick up

the "easy girls." They also picked up the clap while there.

The town over on the other side of us was where the free clinic was so it had a reputation too.

[LostInAnomie]

3. That's pretty much how...

... Mt. Carmel got their reputation. :evilgrin:

Funny how that stuff works.

[xmas74]

5. Is that where the easy girls lived

or where the free clinic that didn't ask names was located>

It was important for them to know both at the time.

[LostInAnomie]

7. That's where the easy girls lived.

I'm not sure where the rumor got started but it is taken as the gospel.

[xmas74]

11. Same here.

Not sure where the rumor got started but everyone accepted it as a fact.

[Breeze54]

2. Lets see....

town east of the town I grew up in were the 'rich snobs' and
the town west of us had a rep for a lot of crime and still does!

A lot of towns have reputations for one thing or another.

There's a town called Lynn and a jingle to match!

Lynn, Lynn
The city of sin
you never come out
the way you went in!

:rofl:

[yewberry]

8. Sshhhhhh...

Graywarrior's from Lynn.

My mom (from Ipswich) always says the whole rhyme whenever she talks about Lynn. It's that ingrained.

[cwydro]

4. Well I live in Key West

So feel free to bring on the stereotypes...but yes...there are plenty about this town...

[Nikia]

6. The other big town in our county had a reputation of being high crime

The people in the farm areas and villages had a reputation for being ignorant and less civilized and impeding progress. If our town had a singular stereotype, I was not aware of it.

[conscious evolution]

9. Milledgeville Ga.

Whenever you tell another Georgian you are from Milledgeville the first thing they ask is
"Isn't that where the nuthouse is?" Then they look at you like you might have just escaped the place.

For many years the only state run phsychiatric hospital and prison was in Milledgeville.It doesn't matter that the state now has regional facilities and that the CentralState Hospital has pretty much been closed for 30 years.I can understand older people asking about it but people younger than me who weren't even born when it was closed know about it.

[mitchum]

14. I always think of it as the home of Flannery O' Connor...

but I'm not a GA native.
In that same vein, when SC natives mention Bull Street, they are always referring to the state mental hospital which was located at that address in Columbia for so long.
I wonder if it is like that all over the country?

[conscious evolution]

15. LOL

A couple of years ago I was on a project in Columbia.Some of my coworkers where razzing another because he lived near Bull Street!
In Milville,most locals haven't a clue who Flannery O'Conner is.I think her work is over the heads of most people there.

[mopinko]

10. the town up the river had cops

who were making up for something with their guns.

[AlCzervik]

12. yes, the town is run by criminals, the cops are robbers and the girls have big hair.

it was all true but i'm not sure about the big hair anymore.

[mitchum]

13. The small town I now live in has the reputation of being filled with musicians...

and artists. That's somewhat true, but no one ever mentions how many of them are also poorly dressed alcoholics :)

[salin]

16. not sure what qualifies as a small town

certainly the town that housed where I went to college (pop 7000) - but probably not my home town (back then about 30,000) - but it was a either a large town or a very small city - and it certainly had (and still has - though it is larger today) a stereotype... lots of folks refer to it as "the peoples' republic of Bloomington" due to the U (Indiana University) and the relatively liberal (relative to the midwest) attitudes within the city.

[Indy_Dem_Defender]

17. Since I live in the city

I'll say some of the stereotypes about small towns near me.

One town hates black people, a long time ago black veterinarian built a house there, night before he was to move in, it was set on fire.

Another town is full of country bumpkins, who are 10 years behind in the times, some are scared of outsiders.

Another town is a culture clash, between fake rich yuppies and farmers (very few now), vinyl siding city.

Another town is know for the women being easy and the children being fatherless

Another town is over all hostile towards outsider of any kind entering after dark, cops will follow you around anyone who has license plate from a different county and they hate catholics.

[MountainLaurel]

18. I attended a consolidated high school

That drew students from middle schools in several different towns, and they all had certain stereotypes, as well as some very obvious, very accurate differences courtesy of the manner in which some were settled by the coal mining companies early in the 1900s. My town was the Italian one with the Catholic school, Grant Town was made up of folks with no vowels in their names as well as some blacks. Meanwhile, Mannington was a place that prided itself on the fact that it had managed to run out every family of color that had the misfortune to settle there, kids from Fairview were all remarkably friendly, and Barrackville was as close to mainstream middle-class America as the non-city regions of the county got. Kids there had heard of the Sex Pistols and Dorothy Parker, colleges outside our state, and Doctor Who. The communities that were farther out and unincorporated didn't get talked about much, other than as places to go drink in the woods or to have sex. Or, as places where people the residents didn't know were likely to get shot if they got too close to someone's property line.

[China_cat]

19. Try growing up in Mars.

Talk about your stereotypes.