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Statehood for the Western reserve now

The Western Reserve has the economy to become its own state and so it shall be.

Free Cleveland from Ohio , give it city state status now. Liberation of Cleveland.

Yeah, NYC native and current resident here, and I've also lived upstate NY (close to Plattsburgh). I identify with NYC more than NY State, and NY State more than most America.

No shit,,, I knew we were simpatico 🤙

New England is its own thing for sure.

As a Tri-Cities native, I concur

Yes. I’m a Jersey girl forever.

This is such a fascinating question. I asked my daughter- she has no memory of living in CA, though she was born there, but she considers herself Californian because she was raised by two Californians, and absolutely not American or Texan.

Opposite for me. In my youth, I used to say I wouldn't go to war for the US but I would for NYC. As folks try to narrow US identity I increasingly claim it for myself (esp as I have roots in the southeast and Midwest and spent formative years on the west coast) and insist on an expansive definition.

i've always identified with my city first: chicago, then los angeles. i do also somewhat identify as a californian. i do not think of myself as american even though it's technically true.

People’s Republic of Boulder, y’all I also identify as a Coloradan, but sometimes I venture outside my bubble and I wonder…

state: not really. Chicago: yes. Absolutely.

As a native Austinite, HELL NO

I am a Clevelander, I was born one, I will die one, my family have been Clevelanders for 150 years We saw the rise of standard oil The depravity of the Ohio gang of Warren G Harding We built the planes and tanks to send hitler to hell

I love my country of Minnesota

That's on purpose and it's so you'd ignore the 2nd coup attempt.

I was a military brat who got dragged to a new state every couple of years, so I never had a home state. And as the kid of a Vietnam vet I grew up with a rather unvarnished view of American virtue. All of which is to say: Cascadia or bust!

I don't know that I have a home state anymore because my time has been so weirdly divided but I definitely feel less American

I am Appalachian, with a strong connection to my culture and I do love East Tennessee, specifically (the part of our state that was largely Union in the Civil War) I could give two shits about the US as a whole the more I have to stomach JD Vance, the more vocal I am in my Appalachian disapproval

I identify more strongly with being from the upper Midwest than I do America in general I suppose.

Yes

And I’m happy to cheer on Team USA at the World Cup and Olympics. Except when I’m cheering for Mexico! 🇲🇽

Yes, for sure. Chicago and Illinois being in the center of the administration's sights has certainly made that easier.

Unfortunately, not as I am from Texas. But I probably would if I could.

100%

I was born in Vermont which is a whole different country from the rest of the US.

I live in Florida now but I typically identify from where I grew up, Philly area

No. I am from Texas.

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not really, but i've identified with the state i grew up in (rhode island) much more than i identify with the US at large for a long time already. i think some states lend themselves to this more easily

It ain't easy being an immigrant here, but citizens here have it much better than folks in the US, IMHO. Just the idea that people get to go home at the end of the work day, and have reasonable alternatives to driving is huge!

I definitely relate more to California than I do to the US

I’m a New Yorker, so yes, but city.

A region of my state. Western Washington, FTW!

(Politically. Missouri is actually a low key beautiful place.)

This is how I feel about living in South Mississippi, at least to an extent. The coast is definitely its own thing

Former New Yorker, Marylander, Texan, Californian, and New Jersey gal. After leaving Texas, I definitely had more of a "regional" identity. I left the United States feeling a strong affinity for Western New York and the Finger Lakes region. Fuck the USA; I'm from Rochester.

And truthfully I feel far more connection with Cleveland specifically than Ohio totally

Yeah, I'd probably say so. Illinois or at least the greater Chicago metropolitan area.

Ohioan, so no, not at all. Cincinnatian, absolutely.

For example: for all of the sins of this country, there are elements of American hospitality, conviviality, congeniality, etc., that are just absent from much of Europe, ranging from community dynamics to customer service. But I have encountered those things in Latin America, oddly enough

I moved 2000 miles away from my home state for a reason, so, no, I guess? I still consider myself a Texan, but the state did everything it could to tell me I didn't belong there.

Minnesota first. Minnesota only?

I’m a New Yorker, and that means NYC. And I am an American. Both are true at the same time.

Ask anyone from Maryland, they will shove that beautiful flag down your throat and explain to you why it's the best.

i think less actually but ive been in Missouri so

I've been identifying as a Californian since energy companies robbed us by manipulating electric plant outages, and the rest of the country laughed at us and said it was our own fault. So, over the last 25 years, yes. And I was only living here for three years at the time.

I've lived in Ohio long enough to be "from" here now, so no. I grew up in Indiana, so also no. If anything, I'm proud of being from The Great Lakes and/or The North Coast.

Where you live was what i meant but it's interesting that people interpreted this in multiple ways.

I’m from California, so I always have. But more to the point, I’m from Berkeley, so doubly so.

When I was young I had a different impression of America & now I see myself as a Californian because I can't deny my own origins. 🤷‍♂️ I don't trust Republicans to accept my choices or my bronzed skin so these days I don't really feel a brotherhood with that side of America.

I live in Massachusetts so yes! We do have some loud MAGAs here but they are outnumbered

sort of, but then somebody like Ted Wheeler or Tina Kotek gets elected and I remember that I moved away from there for a reason. I will say that I haven't completely given up on (northwestern) Oregon like I have the US as a whole, though…

It’s not just recently, but when I travel I generally tell people I’m from New York City rather than “America”. It engenders a very difference response.

i've always felt more like a (NY/NJ/CT) tristater than anything else, and defintely moreso now. (we are not perfect!!! it's the most populous region of the country and we could do a lot better with our influence)

fistbump in exhausted indiana solidarity

I’m from Georgia, so it’s mixed. Lived in Alabama for years and that’s a big, fat no.

I mean, my current state kinda sucks too, so I've been identifying with my city more than anything.

Oh yes. I fly a Minnesota flag on the front of the house. I don't think I would ever hang a US flag.

More than I did, certainly, though I'm still an American first. It's been less than a decade since I moved to Oregon, though. If I'd grown up here, I might feel an even stronger attachment to it.

Yes, I grew up in Western New York state & am a longtime Buffalo resident. Also, we’re so close to Canada that I feel like I identify more with Canadians than red state Americans.

Left Texas for Illinois. Illinois is home in ways Texas never was.

we should figure out an anniversary tagline along those lines. "You thought we were kidding."

yes

Probably “I’m American but I’m from Maryland, we hate Trump.”

I’m a Floridian, so either identification feels bleak.

Definitely. Arizona, esp the valley, is…. Well, it’s home lmao. We are loud and strange. You have a whole lot of everybody here. Moved here from fleeing Texas over a decade ago and I don’t think I could ever leave if I had any say in the matter.

I've always thought of myself as a *Texan* before I think of myself as an American, but I think that's just how growing up here is

No but only because my home state is somehow worse

I fled my home state of Georgia and moved to Massachusetts. I definitely don't identify with Georgia and I've only been in Mass for six months, so I don't really identify with it yet.

Parts of the USA are slowly becoming Scotland?

Yes, but it started more than 5 years ago. I have lived in OH, TX, & IN & am from WA. As a sports fan, once Seattle teams started making more waves, I grabbed onto that identity. Then it turned into “I miss the PNW.” Found many cool friends in those states, but none felt like home home for me.

(And yes. For reasons.)

Yes, but I'm from NJ so that shouldn't be too surprising? I think so anyway.

I grew up in Nebraska, but have lived in Illinois for seven years. I identify more with Illinois than Nebraska or the US as a whole.

Yes, for sure.

I’ve always identified with NYC over the country, especially the NYC of “Ford to City: Drop Dead.” NYC to US: fuck you, too.

This is a hard one. I do identify with Texas in a vague way but it’s at the forefront of so many shitty things. I used to be able to be like “oh but I live in Austin” but Austin is starting to be associated with more and more shitty things. I just want to get out of here

I have barely identified as an American since 2016. I think I find solidarity with people who have similar climate and socioeconomic conditions as me. That does even always include my entire state! NY is too big. XD

I've moved around too much to have a home state. I have deep ancestral roots in New Mexico and an abiding fondness for Maryland though.

Texan here, and, uh...noooooo.

Always have. I am California first.

City more than state, but yes.

Was just talking about this with a couple of friends this week. All of us were agreeing that we we're more likely to call ourselves Californians than Americans. This included one adult transplant, one childhood transplant, and one born & raised Angeleno.

Many such cases

i probably be more tied to a regional identity if i was more involved with regional things

I live outside the US now but I definitely feel like a Philadelphian and a New Yorker (both city and state) than an American. I don’t feel more Canadian than American but I think that’s because it’s my job to be an American (I’m a prof of US politics).

100%, MA being my current longtime home state, and my birth home state Philadelphia LOLz

Interestingly, yes.

Less, but that’s only because I’m in backwards Tennessee.

As a former Texan, absolutely not As someone who has resided in Virginia for over a decade now ... no, but it does feel safer and more like someplace we could live long-term

I just spoke of my personal relationship toward that kind of attitude. I think identifying with a state is fine, great even, building a local community is awesome. Its just that kind of attitude is too associated with state first, nation second kind of thoughts that make it impossible for me.

The federal government is and has been attaching cities and states so the discourse is downstream of that.

What

I would say no, because I've always identified very strongly with being a Washingtonian.

For sure. I will be the first person to tell you Massachusetts exceptionalism is a problem but there is real opportunity to get some important work done here. Opportunity that just doesn’t exist in many other states and is nonexistent on the federal level.

I might, but I haven't been living in my home state for many years. The state I live in now I can never think of as my home state.

As an American living in Canada, I've felt like this since the GWB era. While I don't miss the US as such, I do miss Massachusetts, New England and the Northeast in general, especially the area around Cape Ann. Sometimes painfully. At this point I wish it were part of Canada.

I live in Florida.

I'm from Santa Cruz, CA. I grew up in NY, moved back to CA at 34. It took 10 years to feel like CA was home. I've driven across this country enough times in the last 5 years to know how much most of it hates me. I don't hate it back and they can't claim it. I am a patriot, painful as that is.

If you mean where I Live now-absolutely. If where I was born NOOOOOOOOO

Somewhat more with the state I grew up in, yeah Wherever I am should be a good place to be though