Hi everybody, my girlfriend showed me a Tiktok about manga authors adding unnecessary incest plotlines to their works and I thought immediately "They are from Monterrey" (we are from Mexico).

I remembered that the States have a similar joke about Alabama and I started wondering if other countries also have a state or city associated with people who are, for some unknown reason, attrated to their cousins.

Here in Mexico there even is a kind of saying for these people «A la prima se le arrima».

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[–] 106 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Saarland in Germany, supposedly

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  • [–] 95 points 2 years ago* (11 children)

    Sweden

    Source country: Denmark

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  • [–] 41 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I dunno, Iceland’s right there with their dating apps that specifically make sure you aren’t related.

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    [–] 63 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    North of France for, well, France.

    Remote mountainous regions for Switzerland because besides fucking their cousins, they also lack oxygen with the high altitude.

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    [–] 53 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For the Netherlands, Urk. Which I always thought sounds aptly like orc.

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    [–] 52 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    The Alabama of my country is Alabama

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  • [–] 52 points 2 years ago (8 children)

    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.

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    [–] 44 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    Central Anatolia in Turkey. A lot more religiousness=half humorous half real stereotype of kid/cousin/donkey diddling.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Unnrealated Anatolian fun fact time. The world's oldest known peace treaty between the Hittites and Egyptians originates from Anatolia.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    Alabama

    Also, incest isn't limited to Alabama. Also applies to Mississippi, Tennessee, Kentucky, and West Virginia. Don't really know how it got started but this seems to include all the places that can have some hardcore hillbillies.

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    [–] 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    For switzerland it's appenzell

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    Your position is that Florida is more Alabama than Alabama?

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  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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    In Ireland, pretty much anyone who lives outside a major urban centre. We call them "culchies".

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    [–] 11 points 2 years ago

    In France that's north

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    The province of Manabí in Ecuador. Its even in books

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    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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    [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Everybody gangster till Kashmir walks in.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    Alabama is the Alabama of my country

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