[chasing]

Anyone who thinks Austin is more culturally aligned with Indianapolis than San Antonio is a maniac.

[righthand]

Agreed. What the western parts of this map avoids is that the cultures are a mix of mostly descendent European cultures (Norwegian, Irish, German, etc.) and Hispanic cultures especially in the south differs strongly once you go north of Colorado.

[PaulHoule]

I noticed that recent research showed that South Dakota has a high level of dark triad characteristics:

https://www.newsweek.com/psychology-psychopaths-dark-triad-m...

and my first though is "What's different about South Dakota and North Dakota" and got told by a friend who's a geography nerd that much of South Dakota is really weird and isolated and different from other states.

[dehrmann]

Same for Minneapolis, Boston, and Des Moines.