About

The Map of U.S. Cultural Stereotypes refers to an image macro of a drawing of the United States, with each state labeled by a cultural signifier meant to poke fun at its cultural image in the country, such as "Gays & Vegans" for California and "Chaos" for Florida. The meme is similar to several other map parodies, such as The World According to and Jesusland.

Origin

On July 22nd, 2020, Twitter^[1] user @WynterStorm24 posted the earliest known image of the map, writing, "Hey Twitter friends, where are you from" (shown below).

Spread

That day, the image spread onto other platforms. Facebook^[5] user Rae Marie Craig shared the meme with the caption, "Where are you from? I’m from Farms, but I live in Gays & Vegans." The post received more than 13,000 shares and 1,200 reactions in less than 24 hours (shown below, left). Later that day, Redditor Bymmijprime shared the Facebook post in the /r/BrandNewSentence^[3] subreddit. Twitter^[2] user @IAmDawnM shared the image with the caption, "I'm from farms. How bout you?" The post received more than 4,400 likes and 3,100 retweets in less than 24 hours (shown below, center).

On July 23rd, Instagram^[4] user @_theblessedone shared the image with the caption, "Apparently some Italian guy traveled to all 50 states and made this." The post received more than 47,000 likes in less than 24 hours (shown below).

Various Examples

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