1y ago

What is the Alabama of your country?

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.
  
  Icelander here. Our Alabama is Selfoss
- Sweden’s response:
- Savage.
- Sweden and Denmark have a bit of a history, so I'm not sure what to believe: https://satwcomic.com/nordic-brothers
  
  Me, I only tell the truth.
- 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.
- North of France is England. Are you starting something Pierre?
- 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.

For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.
- Uruk. They just forgot the second "U"
- Or Volendam. They all look the same and have 1 of 5 surnames.

The Alabama of my country is Alabama
- Lemme guess..you're from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!
  
  Argh! Don't say Ni!

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.
- Alberta is the Texas of the North, I think Sask is more Alabama / Arkansas.
  Source: live in Sask 😢
- 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.
- Fuck can they run though
- 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.
- Nah, Alberta is the Georgia. Saskatchewan is the Alabama :D
  
  Gotta agree, went to Saskatchewan for a cousin's wedding.
  Guy had a confederate flag truck parked out front
  
  I don’t know what non-Americans think of the US state of Georgia the way I know about their Alabama and Texas views.
  Why Georgia?

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.
- I’m happy we all got to go on this journey today

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.
- Your sister is your mother Your father is your brother You all fuck one another A tassie family
  
  I'm my own grandpa

asked/answers from one month ago: Non Americans, what province is the "Alabama" of your country?
- Thanks!! Gotta read it later on desktop, for some reason the link breaks the app I'm using
  
  Doesn't open in Jerboa either, but I am able to copy paste it.
- Pretty amazing how the answers are so similar.

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

alabama

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.
- Central PA.
  
  Pennsyltucky
- Anywhere low population densities limit the dating pool.

Florida
- Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?
  
  They're certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.
  
  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
  
  Native Floridian, can confirm.

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.
- This isn't an issue for Lauterbrunnen too, is it?

For switzerland it's appenzell
- damn was not fast enough lol
  
  Sry 'bout that ¯⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

Norwich
- The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads
  
  As long as the broads consent first, of course.
- 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

Queensland

Burgenland

The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books

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
- Girl, no. Our Alabama is most definitely Roscommon.

In France that's north

Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.

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.

Alabama is the Alabama of my country

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).

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)

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
- Do people from Acre even exist though?
  
  Now that's one I heard a lot lol
- Parana, maybe?
  
  Really? Nvr heard any incest jokes from any reagion including parana

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

Birmingham

Nord pas de Calais for France

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

Saskatchewan.

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.

Skellefteå in Sweden.

Urk.
- Why not Limburg?

Santiago del Estero
- entre solo para ver esto

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
  
  Cool

Norwich
- norwich is nice
  the north is worse

Veneto, stuff like this & more happened there
- Veneto is more like Texas tbh

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.

Limburg
anywhere but Tokyo and Osaka?
- Limburg??? Nog nooit van Urk gehoord?
  
  Nog nooit van België gehoord?

as someone in the united states, this "alabama is the backwards hick place for dumb yokels" thing is pretty annoying and classist.
- What's your go to, Mississippi?
  
  Thank God for Mississippi
  
  Kentucky, personally. Incest ran so deep it turned that one family blue. The fugates IIRC.
  
  Or Misery.... I mean Missouri.
- You seem fun.
  
  You don't
- 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.
- Alabama has some good shit, people just like to scapegoat

Falkirk.

Kerry

Gold Coast

Sheppey...
They got webbed feet over there

Galicia

Podlasie and Podkarpacie

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.

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