What are the characteristics of American folklore?

1, "Bible Belt": refers to the southeastern and south-central states of the United States, including Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Arkansas, Tennessee, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and other states with a high proportion of blacks. Because there are a large number of evangelical Protestants in this area, the folk customs are very conservative and they are very enthusiastic about religion. The Bible is the basic principle of their daily work, and the attendance rate of churches is much higher than that of other parts of the United States. In the American TV series TBBT (The Big Bang Theory), Sheldon is often teased about his hometown and his mother's living habits because he comes from conservative southern Texas.

2. Every year on March 17, St Patrick's Day, the Chicago River in Chicago will be dyed green, and a parade will be held on Fifth Avenue in New York. People all over the country will wear at least one green dress, trousers, shoes, bags and even hats. St Patrick's Day is an official Christian festival to commemorate St Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. It's also Ireland's National Day. Because green is the color of the Irish flag, every year on this day, Irish people and Irish descendants all over the world will wear green to celebrate this festival. St Patrick's Day is mainly popular in the northern States of the United States, because the southern States have a high proportion of African-American population and relatively few Irish descendants.

When Americans mention "soft drinks", people in different areas use different words. People in New England and the West Coast (and a few central regions) covered with bright green refer to soft drinks as "soda carbonated water", while people in the Midwest covered with black use "Pop" (soda) and people in the South covered with emerald green use "Coke".

4. The culture of the West Coast of the United States, represented by Silicon Valley and Bay Area, focuses on technology and start-ups, while the culture of the East Coast of the United States, represented by new york, focuses on fashion, art/entertainment and media. People on the west coast are keen to talk about sports, health, outdoor sports and other physical feats, while people on the east coast prefer indoor sports and love beauty.

In addition, there is an "8/6 phenomenon" (8/6 phenomenon), that is, a woman who can be rated as 8 points in the Silicon Valley Bay Area can only get 6 points at most in new york (because there are more men in the Bay Area, while there are more women than men in new york).

5. When it comes to folk custom freedom, California with very high ethnic diversity has to mention California's painful traffic. Except for the Bart system of public transportation in the Bay Area in northern Canada (similar to the subway, connecting San Francisco, San Jose, Oakland, Berkeley, Sacramento and other major cities in the Bay Area), there is basically no public transportation in other parts of California. In many parts of the United States, the leftmost lane of the expressway is designated as a carpool lane, which is a special passage for cars with more than two people. Highway 405 in the southern Canadian city of Los Angeles is called "the largest parking lot in North America" (see the picture below), which shows the popularity and ownership of cars in California.