And Look, I ain't trying to be overgeneralizing or rude, but I was Born in Wisonsin, gf from Quintana Roo, so I feel qualified to speak on this.
Point 1: Wiscon's biggest cities are Green Bay, Milwaukee (where I was born) and Kenosha. Madison is the outlier. Yucatan's buggest cities are Cancun, Merida, Playa Del Carmen, and Campeche. Both hug the coast like their lives depend on it.
Point 2: Living in Wisconsin is like living 10mi away from either a nature documentary or a cryptid slasher waiting to happen. Yucatan literally has an entire civilization buried under the jungle.
Point 3: The rest of the Wisconsin is farmland and rural communities, and Wisconsinite/Cheesehead might as well be a dialect of American English to anyone foreign to the state. Yucatan has Spanish and Maya, and Maya is both fascinating and comprehendible to outsiders. For example me when I visited Chichen Itza.
Point 4: If you leave the city you will never have more than 2 bars in either region.
Point 5: Yucatan has the Tren Maya, which is VERY new and that means it's still working out the kinks. The furthest the Amtrak goes into Wisconsin is Milwaukee, which is bascially a sneeze away from Chicago, and that's the only city it connects to outside of Wisconsin.
Point 6: Yucatan lives and dies by Cochinita Pibil, which is this slow roasted pork, just as Wisconsin worships cheese more than Jesus. And in both cases the reverence is well deserved, that shit is GOOOOOOOOOD.
Point 7: Both people are too chill for the environments/situations they are in. How do they walk out into 100+ degree weather and just exist? I guess like how we Cheeseheads walk out into 20-30 degree weather in shorts.
Point 8: SO MANY COWS. It's not as pronounced in Yucatan but they are still everywhere just better hidden.
Point 9: These are real towns in Yucatan: Tixcacalcupul, Xnoh-Ox, Oxkutzcab, Xohuayán, Kantunilkín (I actually visited this one on the way to Isla Holbox). And those were just the ones I could find on a map. These are real towns in Wisconsin: Mukwonago, Wauzeka, Gays Mills, Lemonweir, Weyauwega.
Point 10: Yucatan has cenotes, Wisconsin has the Dells. Everyone loses their minds over these things and yeah they're cool but it's like how everyone wants to see the Mona Lisa and now the Louvre is so overcrowded.
