Ain't no fucking way Indiana is in the "Nice" category

I get that this is basically a politcal compass meme overlayed on a map (and also that this is in cartography anarchy), but here's how I'd actually divide things up based on basically 0 practical experience:

Acts nice, is nice: West Coast (WA, OR, CA, HI) (WA might have to move down to the next category if they're feeling surly)

Acts mean, is nice: Northeast (ME, NH, VT, MA, RI, CT, NY, PA, NJ, MD, DE)

Acts nice, is mean: Southeast (AR, LA, KY, TN, MS, AL, WV, VA, NC, SC, GA, FL), Midwest (ND, SD, NE, KS, MN, IA, MO, WI, IL, MI, IN, OH), and Alaska

Acts mean, is mean: The rest (ID, MT, WY, NV, UT, CO, AZ, NM, OK, TX)

"Acts nice, is mean" still makes up a large part of the country, but "Acts mean, is mean" has been trending up for about a decade now.

The colder the weather gets, the more we tend to be nice. Its just natural when you're living in a state/province where breaking down on the side of the road in winter can mean death.

And I'm only half kidding. I do honestly believe that a shared experience of harsh winters creates empathy. Same reason Nordic countries are nice to each other mostly as well.

As a Canadian, you can extend the top two up to us and it would still mostly fit.

I'm on the "acts mean, is nice" side in Ontario, and you all can get fucked 🖕

Let me help you with carrying your groceries, fuck face.

The bible belt / coal belt is not nice.

Near as I can tell since moving back, being "Iowa nice" means "be white and republican and talk down to everyone else" so no, more like acts nice, is mean for us.

“The entire Midwest disliked that”

My experience having lived across the US has been closer to https://youtu.be/u3qJlWQNNxA?si=EU_dgGLT-vWgmNXy - I haven't met a kind ("actually nice") person in Northern California who grew up there.

Edit to add: err, except my wife of course.

Who ever made this has never been to Minnesota. Or Iowa for that matter.

PNW should be: acts nice, is scared

As a young Tulsan on my first tech support job, it took me ages to figure out that Yanks aren't as mean as rattlesnakes, they just talk that way.

This map applies to every individual city as well, just make sure "acts mean is mean" is the rich quadrant of the city and the rest will map nicely.

Alaska: Fuck off and leave us alone.

Im a european, been to san francisco once, nicest fucking people ive ever met.

As someone who used to live in new York, can confirm. New Yorkers come off as rude but usually they just have places to be, when they're not trying to get somewhere they're quite nice.

This is oddly quite accurate