Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-27104094-20171125215702/@comment-31763506-20171228161149

The Fulminato wrote: in italy is often use "the other side/shore of the atlantic" for the USA And, of course, another problem with the metaphor is that the coast of the US is (for the most part) considerably far to the South of Europe latitudinally. The five big cites, Boston, NYC, Philadelphia, Washington and Miami are (about) the same distance North of the equator as Rome, Madrid, Valencia, Ibiza and Luxor, Egypt, respectively. Gibraltar and Malta are both roughly opposite to the coast of North Carolina, which is in "The South" by US standards, but barely half the drive from New York to Florida. (There's actually a really tacky tourist destination on the main East Coast highway at the border between North and South Carolina called "South of the Border ", which pretends to be what a White South Carolinian businessman would consider Mexican.  It's apparently fallen on hard times since I was a boy, now that it's (almost) cheaper to fly from the big cities of "The Northeast" to Florida than it is to drive.)   Most of "The South" is about on a level with the coast of Morocco and Western Sahara, and the traditional border between Northern and Southern states, the Mason-Dixon line, passes through Majorica.

Free tip for Spanish speakers who might pick up slang from the Hispanic Western Hemisphere: Don't ever call a White American "Yanqui" unless you know they are from New York. It's still considered a mild insult in some parts of the South, comparable to how a Valencian might react to being called a "Catillian" by a foreigner, and mostly used to refer to a sports team that almost everyone outside of New York despises.

Sorry, got nostalgic for my family's annual vacations to our grandparents' house in Florida for a bit there.