I once dated a California girl that thought New England was a state.
It isn’t? LOL How about the people who think that New Mexico is part of our Southern neighbor?
I had to deal with a customer service rep who thought that New England was really Great Britain… heck of a thing when you are shipping a package
Wichita is a State. I know this because I had a buddy who played baseball at Wichita State.
We dated?
I knew a young man named Eddie Baldwin while in the US Army in the late '60s. Eddie was from NY City. Eddie had no use for, nor understanding of, anything west of the Hudson River. Eddie once laughed uncontrollably at me when I uttered a colloquialism with which he was unfamiliar. I didn't get mad, I got even. When Eddie and I parted company some 9 months later I had him convinced, among other things, that we were still dealing with Indian uprisings out here in the West.
Some of the most naive, even most of the naive, people I have ever met are east coast, big city people.