See, that's also something interesting. Certain parts of the U.S. are said to have "cultures." The South that can be loosely defined as the ex-Confederacy, the southwest (especially Texas), California (which most people overgeneralize as SoCal), certain cities (New York, Boston, even Chicago to a lesser extent). But tell someone you're from Ohio (or even Cincinnati) or east central Illinois, and it's just assumed there's no there there. Not just that people don't know the specifics of Cincinnati's quite interesting culture, but that they assume that culture doesn't even exist.