Saarland in Germany, supposedly
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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.
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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
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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.
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The Alabama of my country is Alabama
Lemme guess..you're from Norway? Nigeria? Definitely somewhere starting with N!
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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 😢
Fuck can they run though
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.
So what you're telling me is that Jordan Peterson is inbred...
That explains a lot.
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For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.
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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.
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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.)
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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
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alabama
Florida
Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?
They're certainly trying to out Alabama Alabama, at least.
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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.
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Queensland
Norwich
The webbed fingers are an evolutionary advantage for paddling in the broads
As long as the broads consent first, of course.
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In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them "culchies".
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The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books
In France that's north
Burgenland
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 😅 )
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Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.
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).
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