I am from wisconsin. Well, almost oregon. Mom got pregnant with me in oregon, but dad got called back to wisconsin as the country was gearing up for war. Think I have lived and worked in another 9 states since leaveing home. Yes, I have noticed differances in people generaly speaking depending on the area.
The biggest misconception from my view is california. The rest of the country are quite open about hateing californians. First of all, when I first lived and worked there it was rare to actualy find someone who was actualy born there! Everyone I knew was from somewhere else!
How many times have you heard people complain "it was nice here untill the californians discovered it"! My wife is one of the very few people I know that was actualy born in california! And she was from a hay ranch, not the city.
Sorry, but when I worked in lousianna and texas for two different 6 month stretchs, I noticed bragging, downright lieing and BSing was carried to and admired as a fine art. Might of been just my luck of the draw and being made to hire people for a hard minimum wage job.
West virginnia was a interesting place to work, and I was lucky to get out alive.
I think my best workers were in wisconsin and northern michigan. Definetly not down south but that all was close to 50 years ago.
As far as politics go like in california and probley elsewhere you got to remember that the big citys control the people in the country. That really is the answer to a lot of these stupid observations we sometimes have.