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What's the closest American equivalent to the Nord-Pas de Calais region?

posted 15 years ago by dachshundweaver
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I'm sort of stuck between Alaska (north, cold, remote, with people that refer to the mainland U.S. as the "lower 48" just as the Ch'tis call the rest of France "the South") and the Deep South (a region ON the mainland about which others have created a mythology, its own rich history, dialect).

[–] Karl Self 15 years ago

New Jersey. The only difference being that, whereas eyer American despises New Jersey, I don't think the French are as biased against the Pas de Calais region.

[–] Redrum237 15 years ago

The Deep South. That's where the rednecks are.

[–] IdRatherBeAtDisney 15 years ago

My husband is from the Nord-Pas-de-Calais. I have always thought of the area he grew up in (outside of Lille) to be very much like Iowa with an accent. It's very flat, lots of farming.

[–] BigTua 15 years ago

Canada!

I accidentally a Coca-Cola bottle

[–] tibelge 14 years ago

I think there are many places like it, without the alcohol unfortunately when it's a dry county. France does not know what dry county means, and they would crack up at it in a jiffy. There is one major French thing missing everywhere but in France: the cafés. It's a mix of bar, tea salon, coffee house, Hooters, and Olive Garden. Nowhere in the US for sure...