Odd Assumptions

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I remember when I was in sixth grade, my best friend came back from visiting her family in Arizona, and she told me about her cousins asking her how far apart her neighbors lived from her (we reside in Oklahoma). They were under the very weird impression that Oklahoma was so sparsely populated that miles of land would go by before you’d get to the next resident. Uh, no. That is not the norm. I also remember meeting someone from a state I will not name because I don’t want to paint everyone with the same broad brush, that just marveled that I had no accent. He couldn’t believe if I hadn’t told him he would have had no clue what state I was from, especially not Oklahoma. Okay… Don’t get me wrong- plenty of people in Oklahoma have detectable country or Southern accents. You can tell my dad grew up in the country. But my mom, sister, and myself apparently have no accent (obviously this negates the fact that we all sound American). It just makes me wonder sometimes. Do people judge others from what they see in the movies? Maybe from a pit stop they made while traveling to another state? Most of these assumptions are amusing, and not offensive. It just tickles my funny bone.