Renee DiResta used Google autocomplete to see what stereotypes popped up. She typed in "Why is [State] so" and let autocomplete do its work.
For Utah, she got "weird," "conservative," "depressed" and "salty."
Some of the other stereotypes cut across multiple states.
The single most common result of all was “boring,” which appeared for 18 states with no particular regional concentration. Other popular terms (returned for >10 states) were “humid”, “windy”, “expensive”, and “liberal”. Strangely, Connecticut and Pennsylvania both returned “haunted”; apparently there are a lot of ghost sightings (and related walking tours). My favorite result of all was “enchanting”: New Mexico is beautiful.
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