What kind of bro are you?

[Indy Texas]

The United States of Bros: A Map and Field Guide

Sound off, Atlas bros.

[dead0man]

Not any of them are a good fit (as I'm not a "bro"), but I suppose a mixture of Colorado,Great Plains and Silicon Valley bros.

[tik 🪀✨]

All of these caricatures sound like people I never want to associate with.

For what it's worth, ten years ago I was usually found wearing comfy khaki shorts, thongs, an 'ironic' t-shirt, and smoking stupid amounts of weed with my all male group of friends. Now I'm still wearing comfy khaki shorts and thongs and 'ironic' t-shirts, but only because I am a youngish working-class slob. I don't smoke weed and most of my friends are women. I don't know what I was closest to. Chicago bro sans sportswear? In any case I did and still do find young males of these descriptions really grating - I suppose my secret shame is yet also finding them attractive if they open their mouths and aren't idiots. Yech.

[Bacon King]

Brooklyn with a bit of Manhattan

[Goldwater]

All of these caricatures sound like people I never want to associate with.

For what it's worth, ten years ago I was usually found wearing comfy khaki shorts, thongs, an 'ironic' t-shirt, and smoking stupid amounts of weed with my all male group of friends. Now I'm still wearing comfy khaki shorts and thongs and 'ironic' t-shirts, but only because I am a youngish working-class slob. I don't smoke weed and most of my friends are women. I don't know what I was closest to. Chicago bro sans sportswear? In any case I did and still do find young males of these descriptions really grating - I suppose my secret shame is yet also finding them attractive if they open their mouths and aren't idiots. Yech.

I sure hope "thongs" must means some different in Australian English than it does in American English...

[tik 🪀✨]

Sorry to dash your hopes but both items are applicable. I only intended to mean flip flops.

[Goldwater]

Sorry to dash your hopes but both items are applicable. I only intended to mean flip flops.

Ah, right. I guess it's kind of like when British people hear Americans talk about "pants".

[tik 🪀✨]

I don't know, maybe seventy years ago I am an expat by the way, I'm from Ohio. And when I was a kid we knew that thongs were flip flops but a thong was just the undergarment that served as inspiration for a terrible Sisqo song.

[🐒Gods of Prosperity🔱🐲💸]

Not a bro by this definition, but of those I guess I'd go with a distant relative of Brooklyn.

[Del Tachi]

Southern frat bro of course.

[free my dawg]

Masshole, naturally, with a mix of LA.

[DemPGH]

None fit me well, but I'd say Portland with a bit of D.C.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Combination of Southern Frat bro and DC.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

None of these fit (not a terrible)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

None of these fit (not a terrible)

You are definitely a Miami bro.

[RosettaStoned]

 The LA Bro, (I dress better though).

[Starbucks Union Thug HokeyPuck]

NJ has a bro-style all it's own that is not in any way described here. 

[Boris]

I share the uniform of the Chicago bro, the intoxicant of choice of the Miami Bro, the hobbies of the Colorado bro (or I would if I lived anywhere that was not flat), and the secret shame of the Silicon Valley bro. Southern frat people sound absolutely terrible.

[Хahar 🤔]

I'm very familiar with the Mid-Atlantic bro. Last night on the Metro I saw a black dude looking like that (down to the salmon-colored shorts) amidst a herd of white bros. It was bizarre and not a little sinister.

[Maxwell]

Mid-Atlantic is probably closest, or Dallas.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Great Plains kinda fits the way I usually dress, though no cowboy hat or pickup truck. I'll just go with "UDM wanna-be hick fraternity brother" for the time being, though even that has its nuances. I don't want to over-generalize on the applicability of over-generalizations, but in this case, it doesn't cover it all. Hell, there's only one description applicable to anywhere near my part of the country.

Thinking about it, though, I do know people who could fit into a few of these categories.

[traininthedistance]

Great Plains kinda fits the way I usually dress, though no cowboy hat or pickup truck. I'll just go with "UDM wanna-be hick fraternity brother" for the time being, though even that has its nuances. I don't want to over-generalize on the applicability of over-generalizations, but in this case, it doesn't cover it all. Hell, there's only one description applicable to anywhere near my part of the country.

Thinking about it, though, I do know people who could fit into a few of these categories.

Yeah, overgeneralizations are overgeneralizations and they don't tend to be all that accurate no matter where you apply them.

That being said... I'm very much not a "bro" by outlook or habit, but yeah I guess I do have some passing similarities to the Brooklyn variety if you squint the right way.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

I don't much consider myself a bro; that said, I'm closest to Mid-Atlantic.

[morgieb]

Urgh, they all sound awful. I guess that's what happens when you use caricatures.

I guess the best fit is LA, but even then it's a pretty average one.

[Smid]

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