Regional Bias Quotes

While the government underwrote the West more than any other region, the myth claimed that hardworking Western cowboys and settlers wanted nothing from the government but to be left alone to work out their own destiny.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

The biggest challenge I have with Washingtonians is they think Illinois is exclusively a Democratic state.

Growing up in the south, N.Y.C. always seemed like a destination to visit but not to live in.

People instantly assume you can't have a platonic friendship with someone of the opposite sex. I think this may be specific to L.A. - or America.

I live in New Jersey now, which always gets a bad rap here and there, but I must say, I enjoy living here too.

My mom's mother was from Virginia, but I don't feel much of a tie. I'm very much anti-South for many, many reasons. Whenever I go down there, people are always looking at me funny, you know.

An Indiana Member of Congress says, "A Sunday in San Francisco will convince any one that at least two thirds of the population are composed of heathens and infidels".... But does the Indiana mind suppose that we came all the way to the Pacific to acquire faith and practice virtue? We could have done that sort of stupid business at home.

I come from the south, so you're useless and you're a bit pathetic. That's the first thing that the northerners think of you.

Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.

People don't talk about small-town racism in Illinois or upstate New York. They're like, 'It's the South.' And it is. It's there. But it's everywhere. But everywhere, there are also amazing people.

Professional Southerners sicken me.

On my best day, I cannot do Scottish people. I don't even believe that's a real accent, to be honest with you. I think they probably sound like us when they're in the house. It's how they keep people away from them.

I mostly get noticed in shopping malls, airports, red states. The Cheesecake Factory. I am more likely to get stopped in San Antonio or Oakland than in New York or L.A.

One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.

The chairman thought it was violent. If he had come from Montana, he wouldn't think it was so violent.

I don't think anybody from the South will be nominated [for President] in my lifetime. If so, I don't think he will be elected.

My tax dollar, which goes to New York State Council on the Arts, is by and large only spent to fund people from the state of New York! And you want to be the cultural capital of the world?

Who cares about a kid from the Midwest writing pentameter? It's stupid.

I don't think it's safe to allow anybody from the Middle East into this country.

Most people in England don't live in the North, and people are snobby in England, so they wanted a band from the South.

As far as the industries go, in the North, they think I'm a South Indian actress; down South, I've always been thought of as a Bombay girl. I guess it's sort of an identity crisis, even though I'd like to belong to all the industries.

Yankee" still signifies to them those traits of character which the southern press has been so long in the habit of attributing to the northern people; and whenever they look around them upon the traces of the war, they see in them, not the consequences of their own folly, but the evidences of "Yankee wickedness.

Being a politician from Louisiana is emotionally difficult. Everyone you meet outside the state thinks you’re corrupt, and most of the folk in the state are sure of it.

When I went to LA I was almost 30, I'd been nominated for two Tony awards, and on the New York theatre scene I was pretty well known. I went out to LA to meet with casting people, and I remember walking into one meeting and saying: "Hey, how are you? I'm Patrick..." And they said: "I'm so sorry! I thought you were British!" When I asked why, she replied: "Because you're 30 and I've never heard of you!"