Reply #81: I think we're at a point where every 21 year old should be....

[Zookeeper]

required to take a cross-country road trip.

Including native Californians. "Everyone" visits California, but what I found when I lived there, was that native Californians rarely saw a reason to travel east of Las Vegas (NYC was an exception). It's that belief that CA is the promised land, so why bother with anyplace else. I knew Californians who thought the upper midwest has snow on the ground all year. :D

That said, every region has it's misunderstandings about other areas. It's depressing how little genuine curiosity Americans have for different regions of our own country.