I grew up in California and believe it or not, California traditionally is a southwestern cowboy hat wearing, rodeo going place. I can speak to my culture here and have never lived in places like Michigan or New York and can't attest first hand to what traditional culture may exist there. The beautiful thing about a country of this size, is we have many different types of culture all within the borders. Even Germany, a country the size of Montana, the north and the south have very different cultures. For example, lederhosen and durndles come from south eastern germany (and parts of austria and northern italy) and traditionally speaking have no place in any other parts of Germany. Just because lederhosen doesn't exist in the north doesn't mean it isn't a part of German culture. I mean, they even speak different dialects that are almost different languages, but that is a conversation for another time.