What is the Alabama of your country?

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Hi everybody, my girlfriend showed me a Tiktok about manga authors adding unnecessary incest plotlines to their works and I thought immediately "They are from Monterrey" (we are from Mexico).

I remembered that the States have a similar joke about Alabama and I started wondering if other countries also have a state or city associated with people who are, for some unknown reason, attrated to their cousins.

Here in Mexico there even is a kind of saying for these people «A la prima se le arrima».

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Saarland in Germany, supposedly

The reasoning goes that the population there is so small that there really isn’t an ‘outside the family’.

Sweden

Source country: Denmark

I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.

Kinda necessary when your population is less than 400,000.

Go back not that far, relatively, and everyone living there (who isn't a immigrant) is related in some capacity.

I guess they're OK with being just a little bit related. Like just a skosh.

There's a line you won't cross, and that line depends entirely on how horny you are.

Also from Denmark. I came here to say Lolland-Falster, but yours work too!

North of France for, well, France.

Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.

Like in the movie "Bienvenue chez les Ch’tis" (Welcome to the Sticks)?

Yep those guys.

Too bad cause as you can see it in the movie they are actually really cool and friendly peoples.

People in Alabama are suuuuper friendly (outside the voting booth or inside their siblings)

I always thought it was corsica. What part of the north? More towards brittany or Lille? Or normandy more specifically?

Lille, what we call "Les ch’tis" so the 59th department.

I don’t feel like Corsica is considered inbred but maybe because they are noisier (wannabe independent and former terrorists) and probably because it’s a beautiful sunny vacation area.

North doesn’t attract that much tourists even if it is in fact a cool area. That might change with the yearly heatwaves.

lmao theres literally a movie about someone from the south being stranded in the north

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1064932/

It's kinda funny to me that anywhere in france could be considered the sticks. You can't go 5km without some kind of a town or village. Relative to apalachia or the rockies it may as well be manhattan.

Alberta - I love me some mennonites, but they are really into 'keeping it in the family'.

-Source: Married a mennonite and absconded out of province with her.

Until I moved here I thought having a swastika on your truck would mean you'd find it on fire the first night you parked near other people.

So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...

That explains a lot.

If you want to go province by province, BC has Bountiful BC home of a bunch of fundie LDS members that marry and breed with their daughters.

Nothing more backwards and family fucking than the fundie LDS.

I'm from Norway and I immediately thought, "Well, Toten, maybe?" — though I personally hadn't heard any incest jokes about that place.

So I looked up "Norges Alabama", and the first result was a song by that title, about Toten, whose first line and refrain translates as, "I'm going out to ride, ride my cousin".

...So I guess I've heard incest jokes about Toten now.

Tasmania

I was gonna say Queensland. But Tassie actually does get the most Alabama type jokes.

Tasmania for incest, north Queensland for rednecks, NT for weird fucked up "Florida Man" antics.

Yeah I think you've got it right. But then what this suggests is the ridiculous idea that a very large proportion of the country is sucking on lead paint chips, fighting roos and fucking their sister. But we did have a vote recently that actually confirmed that, so... Maybe it's not ridiculous

I mean I'm just basing that off stereotypes. I've met some absolutely lovely north Queensland people, dated a Tasmanian for a while despite not being related, and I'm not completely convinced the NT even actually exists.

asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?

Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.

Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world's oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.

Which has a few interesting details:

  • The Hittite version claimed the Egyptians asked for peace; the Egyptian version claims the Hittites asked for peace
  • The signatories for the Hittites were the king and his wife, the "great lady" Paduhepa

Also, about a century and a half earlier, there was nearly a marriage between an Egyptian queen who asked for one of the sons of the Hittite king, something so unheard of they commented about how mind blowing the request was. Unfortunately the prince they sent was assassinated en route, as otherwise the joint marriage would have established a kingdom the largest the region had seen or would see until Alexander the Great.

(That story and what may have really been going on with the queen involved is probably one of the most interesting hidden details in all of history as best I've seen.)

Thanks, I'd never read about Paduhepa. That's a fun rabbit hole.

Where's the NEWEST peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians from, though? I'm guessing Birmingham.

Alabama

Also, incest isn't limited to Alabama. Also applies to Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Don't really know how it got started but this seems to include all the places that can have some hardcore hillbillies.

Not a specific place but the small villages encrusted in the remote valleys of the Alps in Northern Italy are quite full of stories that quite match the description. There is even a small borough I can think of which is nicknamed "the village of the assassins" due to its inhabitants having mental disorders due to genetic detects.

Florida

Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?

Florida’s Sunshine Laws just make their trash public. I shudder to think what happens in Alabama without our knowledge. 😬😬😬

I know it doesn’t make sense, but can’t blame the guy, he probably went to school in Florida

Norwich

The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads

I'd argue the whole county, but Norwich is certainly the eye of the storm on that front...

As an American who has lived in the Southern US and East Anglia, I feel like Norwich/Norfolk is more Mississippi and Suffolk is more Alabama. But I really don't have anything to back that up other than Suffolk feels more rural. And Norfolk seemed more willfully ignorant. At least this was the case 20 years ago when I lived there.

I was more basing it on fucking their kin and having webbed toes :P

Fair enough. There I go over thinking things again.

In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them "culchies".

A cluchie is just a way of saying country person. It has absolutely nothing to do with incest.

Same in the UK, lived in the Midlands and the people in the next village over we're "fennies" (because they lived in the fens). Cue jokes about webbed feet and incest

From a historical perspective Finland is essentially "Alabama: the country", and for example there's a bunch of rare genetic diseases that are much more common in people with Finnish heritage. Population has always been pretty sparse so it's not much of a surprise that people, err… "kept it in the family" so to speak – and it's not exactly uncommon even nowadays in some of the more rural areas (ie. pretty much the majority of the country 😅 )

well that explains everyone getting naked together and the folk heroes fucking their sisters and whatnot

To be fair, incest is like weirdly common in many myths; for example the gods of the Greek pantheon got up to some really freaky shit that makes the light sister-fucking in the Kalevala seem practically wholesome.

Interestingly the story of Kullervo's sister-fucking (which I think was accidental, but I'm too lazy to read the article to check) leading to terrible consequences was intended as a warning against the practice, because there was a heavy taboo on incest – and that's a bit hilarious considering the fact that that we were such prodigious sister/cousin/etc-fuckers for such a long time that our gene pool now has turds floating in it.

Those amateurs in Alabama doesn't have anything on us yet; we can reassess the situation once they have as many ridiculously rare hereditiary diseases as we do per capita.

This is probably super localised but Kinloch Rannoch in Perthshire, Scotland.

"Bring me a sheep, dear mother

I'll have no other lover..."

(to the tune of Scotland the Brave)

Take it with a pinch of salt like all regional stereotypes, but Norfolk, England tends to have this one in the UK (Norwich, which others have mentioned, is in Norfolk).

Weirdly enough, I've nvr heard of a state in my country (Brazil) that would be our 'alabama'. I'm sure someone will correct me soon tho

Parana, maybe?

Really? Nvr heard any incest jokes from any reagion including parana

I was more of thinking they could be a good candidate. Rural, used to be called "Russia Brasileira" in online memes.

Southern Jutland for the redneck backwardness and incest/zoophilia, the island of Lolland for the rural poverty and hopelessness.

Saguenay (Lac Saint-Jean). In Québec,Canada. Very known for it's high cosanguinity.

Not quiet an alabama but an particular hindu community, who marry their uncles daughter(mom's brother). well none are in my sights of relatives though.

For the province of Québec I would say it's Saguenay.

For the rest of the country, it would be Quebec

Neighbor right below you guys.

This is true. Yes, Qebec City and Montreal are world class cities. outside those cities it's Le Kentucky

People are disagreeing with you, but as somebody from one of the most liberal states in the US, Massachusetts, it's very much the same thing here - the cities are as progressive as it gets, but you don't have to drive too far before you start seeing the Trump flags and Bible thumpers in their lifted pickups. It's very easy to fall into that lifestyle if you've never been more than 50 kilometers from the house you were born in and never seen somebody with a different skin color from yours. And it doesn't matter if that house is among fields, forests, or coastline.

Mmmm IDK... Have you ever visit the province? Gatineau is 300k+ souls, Sherbrooke, Trois-Rivieres, Chicoutimi are now all over 100k, with about a half-dozen more cities with 70k+ population. Not exactly only field and forests. Kentucky as like 2 cities with more then 100k. It's actually quite a populated province, 2nd in Canada.

I'm a 20 minute drive from you kweebs. You guys have some serious rednecks,. and even worse, they speak this God awful fucking old world French that's pronounced wrong.

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as someone in the united states, this "alabama is the backwards hick place for dumb yokels" thing is pretty annoying and classist.

Also, historically that's way more of an Appalachian (and especially West Virginian) thing. Isolated mountain passes meant that for some families, they were the only people for miles. The Deep South is mostly flat plains and swamplands, thus they had less incest.

Skellefteå is the Alabama for Sweden, and most of Noway and Denmark too. However, for the whole Nordics, we have Iceland. The whole country of Iceland.

Apparently there’s a phone app that lets them know if they’re related or not.

New Hampshire/backwoods Maine.

New England does not consent to being considered a part of the same country as the Bible Belt/Florida.

Jokes aside, New Hampshire is known as "The South of the North" for its very..."conservative" political stances.