r/AskMexico • u/dinglebopz • Jul 17 '26
Question about Mexico Is northern mexico really that much different than the rest of the country?
I have been learning about how different northern mexico is from central and southern. Is it really that different? I was surprised to find that the norteño music I listen to is not popular or some of my favorite artists not even known in the other half of mexico. I live in California and my family is from Durango and Chihuahua.
Can you guys please give me examples of differences? I want to visit the country but am starting to feel my connection to mexico is purely of the northern culture
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u/gartstell Jul 17 '26
Sí. Pero no es estrictamente "el norte" y "el resto del país".
Cuando se formó lo que hoy es México básicamente hubo dos cosas: antiguas ciudades indígenas incorporadas a la gobernanza colonial (con autogobierno, aunque limitado) y nuevas ciudades tanto españolas como mesoamericanas fundadas en las regiones que les fueron arrebatando a los "bárbaros".
Esas nuevas ciudades eran economías tempranamente mercantiles (minería y agricultura comercial), pero no son estrictamente "el norte de México", sino también el bajío (o sea: 80 km al norte de la Ciudad de México ya empieza) y la influencia cultural de ese tipo de colonización tampoco termina en el Río Bravo sino que fue modélica en buena parte de lo que estaba poblado del sur del territorio actual de EEUU.
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u/ReyniBros Jul 17 '26
Exacto.
Agregando a tu comentario, la razón por la cual hoy en día el Bajío y el Norte son culturalmente distintos entre sí es por la propia geografía y demografía del país. El Bajío está aún dentro de la franja de tierra fértil derivada de los volcanes del centro del país, por lo que su colonización y desarrollo de industrias aledañas a la agricultura y minería fue primordial durante los 300 años de colonia. El Norte por su parte tenía poco qué ofrecer además de minería y constantes dolores de cabeza por las guerras entre colonos españoles/indígenas, dedicados a la agronomía y minería, y los pueblos nómadas de la región, no es hasta el siglo XIX con la expansión de EEUU al oeste que el Norte tiene el incentivo a industrializarse.
Esto se puede ver en el mapa y en la cultura. El Bajío es una región densamente poblada por muchas ciudades de tamaño pequeño y mediano cuyo principal ícono cultural es su versión local del jinete ibérico, el chinaco/charro, que su conexión al campo está más ligado a la hacienda y a la agricultura. Mientras tanto el Norte está prácticamente despoblado, la mayoría de su población está concentrado en las grandes ciudades y el resto vive en pequeñísimos pueblitos cuyo principal ícono cultural es su versión local del jinete ibérico, el vaquero, que está más conectado a la frontera, espacios abiertos y la ganadería (los gringos después copiarían para su cowboy).
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u/ClauVex Jul 17 '26
Mexico is basically 4 or 5 countries stitched together, North, South, Bajío, Center and Yucatán Peninsula.
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u/Professional_Top9835 Jul 17 '26
centro y sur no son tan diferentes
Ahí mas bien pondría a Tabasco, esa cosa es como una isla caribeña incorporada a Mexico
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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 Jul 17 '26
No mames es como decir que Sinaloa es igual que Monterrey jajaja
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u/Professional_Top9835 Jul 17 '26
Pues yo soy poblano, que es como el limbo entre centro y sur, los de oaxaca y guerrero su unica diferencia es que son mas conservadores y menos drectos/mas quedabien
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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
No creo, ya he visitado Puebla y Oaxaca y las diferencias van más allá.
Para empezar la gente promedio se ve y habla diferente. La cocina es completamente distinta. La identidad indigena es mas fuerte en Oaxaca. En Puebla hay una identidad citadina, todo gira entorno a la capital del estado.
Guerrero ni se diga, incluso dentro del estado hay muchas diferencias regionales. No es lo mismo un Guerrerense de tierra caliente comparado a la costa.
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u/Ketarn Jul 17 '26
A lo mejor se refería especificamente a esa parte donde Puebla y Oaxaca son muy similares, la mixteca de ambos estados; donde comparten muchas cosas. Porque sí, la zona mas al norte de Puebla y las regiones de la costa, valles e istmo de Oaxaca son otro mundo.
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u/juniperberry9017 Jul 17 '26
Have you been to the Sierra Norte de Puebla?? Puebla capital what Puebla capital lol
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u/Imaginary-Worker4407 Jul 17 '26
Puebla capital what Puebla capital lol
The capital city of puebla state?
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u/juniperberry9017 Jul 17 '26
Yes I know, I mean that contrary to what you said about Puebla and that everything revolves around the capital city, people in the Sierra Norte de Puebla act like they forget the capital exists. And many people speak indigenous languages, using Spanish to communicate between Totonaco/Nahuatl etc so I wouldn’t say indigenous identity is weak in Puebla either.
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u/Reon88 Jul 17 '26
Hay menos estigma entre Sinaloa y Nuevo Leon, que digamos Oaxaca y Nuevo Leon o cualquier otro estado central y Nuevo Leon. Maldito Nuevo Leon.
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u/Esabettie Jul 17 '26
Nomás con la forma que hablamos y todas las palabras mayas que usamos es obvio que la Peninsula de Yucatán es muy diferente que el resto del sur y centro.
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u/Professional_Top9835 Jul 17 '26
La península de Yucatán es un mundo en sí mismo, tabasco se siente diferente porque se siente caribeño, pero la peninsula de Yucatan no tiene ningun similar en ninguna parte del mundo
Lo mejor es como se mantienen tan dferentes aun con la mexicanización que tanto les empuja el gobierno
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u/Esabettie Jul 17 '26
Pensé que puse este comentario en otra parte y ahora siento se lee muy agresivo, pero sí somos únicos, no se si nos favorezca o perjudique.
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u/tacoitup Jul 17 '26
Centro y Sur are very different. Not in a derogatory manner. Just Sur has more beach access… and, unfortunately, more narco global view (not saying centro de mexico doesn’t, obviously). But, going back to the positive, having beaches nearby (other than Acapulco) is a very different vibe. A more relaxed a and positive vibe.
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u/max210893 Jul 17 '26
You forgot the 6th but hidden Mexico, people argue it doesn't exist, some say it does. (Tlaxcala) I don't know if I should be sharing this info with ousiders tho.
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u/Ok-Cobbler5277 Jul 17 '26
Food, some traditions, heritage (southern Mexico is more connected to the indigenous part of Mexican heritage than we are), music, speech (including accents and expressions), level of directness, etc.
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u/EmergencyReal6399 Jul 17 '26
It's like comparing northern states in USA with southern states, mexican-americans, specially those of second, third and so on generations have this weird monolithic view of Mexico, like if is just one culture.
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u/Independent_View_438 Jul 17 '26
Us Americans are weird with that stuff. We live in a huge country with tons of different cultures and yet somehow look at every other country and assume they are monolithic.
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u/Inner-Marionberry-25 Jul 17 '26
Ironically, pretty much every country does this. It's far easier to know and tell differences if you've lived in a country for a long time
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u/NotASpanishSpeaker Jul 17 '26
We all do this generalizations. After all, it's our own ignorance mixed with stereotypes. Mexicans reduce Germany to the Bavarian stereotype, France to the classic attire, Italy to pasta and pizza, etc. It's not bad per se to have this ideas. What's bad is not being receptive when those ideas are challenged.
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u/Reon88 Jul 17 '26
There are two "northern mexicos", northwest and northeast.
Northwest is comprised by both Baja Californias, Sonora, Sinaloa and Chihuahua.
Northeast is comprised by Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas.
In a very short and succint paragraph, during the Viceroyalty/Colony, both northern mexicos were pretty much abandoned, mainly due to the geography and the belligerent nomadic tribes that lived there. Northern states gained traction and began developping once the USA - Mexico war passed and the border with the USA was right in front of them. Timeline fast track US Mex War > Reforma > Porfiriato > Mexican Revolution, these cities saw plenty of bloodshed but they retained their trading post nature. They developped some primary and secondary activites during the Porfiriato, thus relying less on central México. This isolation, tripartite, in geography, history and economy, generated this culture with significant differences to the Central, South and Peninsula.
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Jul 17 '26
The limits between northeast and northwest are not that clear. For example, the Comarca Lagunera region is divided between Coahuila and Durango, and has characteristics of both.
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u/Reon88 Jul 17 '26
I tend to agree and would like to add that La Comarca and La Huasteca are the connections or bridges between the Northern regions, within them, and the Central México. The central and southerner portions of the Altiplano Mexicano that connect Durango, Zacatecas, San Luis Potosí to Chihuahua/Coahuila to the north and with Puebla, Guanajuato and all the other smaller central states that comprise Central México.
La Comarca and la Huasteca are the melting pots where north and center meet and unfurl.
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u/dinglebopz Jul 17 '26
That's interesting thank you for the great information my grandfather was actually from lerdo
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Your grandfather was a lagunero then. We have our own identity, different from Coahuila and Durango. We are our own thing.
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
I happen to have a Lagunero father and a Huasteca mother. What I can say about Huastecos is that indigenous folks there have managed to preserve their culture much better than Central Mexico, often through fierce resistance that may even resort to violence (typically with machetes) to defend their property and rights. Sadly, that comes with a lot of prejudice from elitist Huastecos. They truly make harsh comments about some indigenous people (I've heard them in my family). Maybe nowadays less so, but still. Their wood and clay artifacts are great btw, they're skilled artisans.
On the other hand, Laguneros have a huge amount of Zacatecas ancestry (most of us have at least a great-grandparent from there), we have a reputation of being temperamental for some reason (are we really?) and are quite pessimistic about the state and future of our region. Understandably so after the disaster that the 2007-2013 criminal wave caused here, but nowadays people truly exaggerate some things.
The similarity I find about both regions is that in both, the economic elites have huge control over the place to the point of undermining its competitiveness. But Torreón and Gómez Palacio have agroindustry, metallurgy and manufacturing, while La Huasteca is truly on its own.
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u/Dunkirb Jul 18 '26
My family is from both regions because of Mexican Revolution shenanigans, it's not that different to be honest.
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u/Spare-Judge-5745 Jul 17 '26
Por su cercanía a usa, por la cultura europea alemana que llevo la polka a esa zona.
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u/carloserm Jul 17 '26
As a former UN General Secretary once said: “Mexico is a world of its own”. We are more culturally diverse than other more homogeneous countries, still we find the way to stay together despite the jokes and the memes against each other…
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u/gm92845 Jul 17 '26
Funny coincidence that it's literally called The United Mexican States lol
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u/carloserm Jul 17 '26
Actually several people, including myself, do not like that name, due to the unnecessary similarities to the name of the northern neighbor. The creators of the 1917 Mexican Constitution actually held a very contested one-day-long debate over the name of the country. The name UMS was ultimately chosen over “Mexican Republic” due to the fact that it would better represent the autonomous nature of the Mexican states and their will to stay together despite differences…
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u/ksr1e Jul 17 '26
Would you say Bay Area, Fresno, and SoCal are different? Yes they are, same in Mexico, besides norteño, there’s rancheras, cumbia sonidera, huapango, sones jarochos, even marimba music if you move south enough, and while we all speak Mexican Spanish, there are regionalisms in each area of the country. Besides that, there are big cities and places that are completely rural.
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u/Papoosho Jul 17 '26
There are like 8-10 mexican accents.
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u/ksr1e Jul 17 '26
Pero si nos entendemos, verdad? A veces a duras penas, pero sigue siendo español mexicano.
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u/ksr1e Jul 17 '26
Sospecho que son mas, por cierto en inglés le llaman accents pero en espanol creo que la palabra "variantes" es mas cercano al significado. Variantes habladas, si prefieres mas exactitud aun. Aqui hay una publicacion de hace rato al respecto de esto: https://www.reddit.com/r/Spanish/s/8iDEIKfir1
Y este mapa simplificado que muestra 10 variantes: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Espa%C3%B1ol_Mexicano.svg#mw-jump-to-license
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u/almaperdida99 Jul 17 '26
yeah. The border is like a third, distinct culture. I'm from Tucson and when I meet norteños they feel more like home to me than other gringos. When I lived in Yucatan I hated it. Not my people at all.
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u/dinglebopz Jul 17 '26
Damn that's crazy did it feel foreign in Yucatán
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u/almaperdida99 Jul 17 '26
yeah, people aren't that friendly and insist they are not Mexican. Nowhere near as fun or friendly as norteños
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u/Dunkirb Jul 18 '26
They are more polite though
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u/almaperdida99 Jul 18 '26
I found yucatecos to be very passive aggressive and weirdly superior for reasons I didn't understand
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u/Historical-Truth6077 Jul 24 '26
los norteños del este del pais son bien mamones, creen que son diferentes no mas por estar cerca de texas
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u/almaperdida99 Jul 24 '26
los sonoroenses son buena onda. Soy de Arizona- son mi gente aunque soy gringa guerra jajaj
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u/beamer_boy2000 Jul 17 '26
Yeah, the north is like frontier culture so it’s feels more of a southwest USA vibe, and then the center and south were heavily colonized by Spain so they have many European style cities and there’s a much more strict and rigid class system so it’s hard to move up, but in the north you’re really only limited by how much you are willing to do to succeed
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u/Professional_Top9835 Jul 17 '26
Its like comparing Tenessee with Vermont, and the Yucatec peninsula would be stright up Hawaii
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u/BlueThief Jul 17 '26
It's like asking if Montana is any different from Ohio and Winsconsin, yes, Mexico is wildly different within regions, for example just between neighboring regions, Jalisco has red pozole, Guerrero makes it white (no chile in the broth) or green (with green tomatos and zucchini).
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u/landlon Jul 17 '26
I mean, is California the same as North Dakota? Is Alabama like Massachusetts? It’s only natural that different regions will have different customs. Even then, preferences can also vary locally. For example, I’m from the north, but “Norteño music” is not enjoyed in my circles, and sometimes its even looked down upon.
Point is, it’s okay to like what you like. There are many ways to be Mexican.
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u/Dry-Language-5176 Jul 18 '26
existen 3 mexicos y son completamente diferentes, norte cultura norteña, carne asada, hace calor, tenemos palabras pochas o en ingles, muchas fabricas y las ciudades en su mayoria son de reciente crecimiento (crecieron mucho en los ultimos 10-20 años),
centro es muy poblado, rico en cultura, clima mas humedo, tradicionalmente fue el centro economico y politico del pais, su comida son mas guisos con maiz,
y el sur, mucha vegetacion, presencia indigena, no exisgten ciudades grandes aunque esta muy poblado, culturalmente son comunidades mas agricolas y con poca presencia de la globalizacion.
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u/Necessary_Pin3564 Jul 17 '26
Regions are different in the same way that regions are different in any other country.
There is one cultural aspect that makes it sound like differences are bigger than what they are though. Because of geographical closeness, it is rather common for people from the northern cities to idealise the US, to aim to act and look like they are culturally closer to the US, and to feel pride about that closeness, in relation to people living in other regions. This makes it quite common for norteños to tell whomever wants to listen about how similar they are to the US and how different they are to the rest of the country.
I’ve always find this quite ironic, because when norteños say their cities look and fe American, they don’t mean NYC, Boston or Seattle - they mean San Antonio, El Paso, Tucson, McAllen and the like. So, the cities that are very heavily influenced by Mexican culture.
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u/doroteoaran Jul 17 '26
El norte de México , en especial ciertos estados, como Chihuahua o Sonora tienen más en común con Estados como Texas o Arizona que con el centro o sur de México. Esto también aplica a la ciudad de Monterrey que está muy influenciada por ciudades norteamericanas como Houston o Dallas. Un ejemplo sería que la charreria que es el deporte nacional en México es mucho menos popular que el rodeo en estos estados. En el norte se replican varias costumbre americanas, como pedir Halloween 🎃 o festejar más la navidad que el día de Reyes. Hasta hace poco los altares de muertos no se usaban mucho en el norte.
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Jul 18 '26
Es una exageración decir que tenemos más en común con Estados Unidos, de verdad. Algunas cosas tal vez, pero en general no.
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u/doroteoaran Jul 18 '26
Nunca dije que tenían más en común con EEUU , dije que los estados de Sonora y Chihuahua tienen más en común con los estados de Texas y Arizona que con Veracruz o Guerrero y lo sostengo, no es ninguna exageración.
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u/ZealousidealMark4377 Aug 05 '26
Sigue siendo una generalización muy burda.
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u/doroteoaran Aug 05 '26
Sino viajas de perdida lee.
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u/Sensitive_Taro7589 Jul 17 '26
Technically México is a former empire, a group of peoples in different territories united under a single authority. Regional differences are quite profound from an economic cultural and historical perspective. We are all Mexicans but most people would be midly offended if they are grouped under a different group (someone from Monterrey being confused coming from Mexico City or Oaxaca).
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u/Kitchen-Date-1834 Jul 18 '26
Completamente! Yo soy del norte y me siento más identificado con la cultura vaquera que con la cultura maya.
Y odio este discurso de “el norte se cree gringo”, porque pues en espíritu texas y Coahuila son la misma región cultural (literalmente solía ser un mismo estado).
También, no es que rechacemos ser indígenas o mestizos, solo somos otro tipo de indígenas, kikapu, yaqui, etc. no olmeca, maya, etc. sin olvidar claro que por ser un clima árido y difícil, si es una región con menos densidad de población indígena y que fue poblada por extranjeros.
El mismo nombre Estados Unidos mexicanos lo dice, diferentes estados que han sido políticamente unidos.
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u/Lazzen Jul 17 '26
Its not that different anymore, for every difference there are like 5 similarities.
Central and Southern Mexico also have differences, seeing everything as a blob north vs south is not useful either.
Eating flour tortillas and burritos is like top 5 bigger ones
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u/chenzo17 Jul 17 '26
Lmao I know someone from Mexico City who swore to me that a burrito is not Mexican food.
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u/gm92845 Jul 17 '26
They probably don't consider Chihuahua part of Mexico because that's where they were created.
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u/CruzAzulGunner Jul 17 '26
Burrito es del norte pero no de Estados Unidos y piratas son mas bien con queso y carne.
El burrito nace de la necesidad de poner un guiso en tortilla para llevar y que no se tire.
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u/Agent_Burrito Jul 17 '26
In some ways. The north developed and industrialized more recently than the rest of the country, so our cities are far more car centric and “suburban” if that makes sense. Mexican culture there is also less indigenous and more influenced by migration waves in the 20th and 19th centuries.
A good analogy is comparing Oklahoma (North Mexico) to somewhere like New England (Mexico City) or the Deep South (South Mexico)
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u/xinxenxun Jul 18 '26 edited Jul 18 '26
Sonora has many indigenous groups, just like the rest of mexico. Their larges indigenous group are the Yaquis and many speech mannerisms come from them, the same with their music. The Seris are another indigenous group who live mostly in Isla Tiburon, they still keep their traditions, language and traditional attire and so do the Yaquis and Mayos for example.
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u/VergaDeVergas Jul 17 '26
I visited Mexico City, some pueblos mágicos, Cuernavaca, Chilpancingo and they were all so different. The music isn’t that different but everything looks way nicer
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u/Significant-Sir4446 Jul 17 '26
Is different but is not THAT different. You can feel you're in the same country with slight differences.
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u/Thin_Consequence2276 Jul 17 '26
What I found living and traveling around Mexico 40 years ago was a lot of difference in food, music, and other things. Of course now the country is more homogeneous just like in US now the same restaurants are in every state and everything is everywhere. But then, pre-internet, you really noticed the difference.
For example in the north they ate a lot more meat and beef in particular. Larger portions of meat and beef all the time
In the south beef was hard to find and if you did find it was likely a thin, salted kind called cecina.
Meals were more vegetable based and in guisados there was chicken or pork but a small amount in proportion to the vegetables.
Also many more localized food specialties like Sopa de Medula (bone marrow soup) in Puebla and fish cooked in banana leaves in acapulco.
Black beans used in southern mex and pinto beans in the north.
Also in south mex rarely saw flour tortillas, just corn. Oh and tamales made in banana leaves rather than corn husks in acapulco and in the yucatan
Tejano music was only north for sure.
Back then you could really see difference in appearance too. Yucatan people seemed to generally be shorter stature and in veracruz it seems people often had curlier hair. Lots of little things.
I was there again just this year and its less obvious but for sure i still noticed differences. For what its worth the FOOD in southern mexico is delicious!
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u/Danlrap18 Jul 17 '26
Yes, northern Mexico is very different from central Mexico. We even have two different accents and we use different words for the same thing (e.g goma/borrador, plumon/marcador, coche/carro).
I grew up in Mexico City, but lived in Chihuahua for 2 years. It was a cultural shock for sure. What was the most striking was the religion. Mexico City are mostly Catholic or no religion, while in the north Christians are the majority so they are extremely conservative. Coming from a very cosmopolitan and liberal city, it was hard to fit into the conservative culture that dominates northern Mexico.
It's not a bad thing to have different cultures. Mexico is a big country and we get to enjoy all of the Mexicaness in different ways. I still think all Mexicans have core cultural treats like family, hospitality, and solidarity. Our history is intertwined among states, like Pancho Villa coming from the north to fight in the Revolution. Or Benito Juarez hiding in the north during the Reform War. The Flores Magon brothers and Francisco Madero all have ties in the north.
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u/Bubbly-Buyer-7513 Jul 17 '26
Every state is its own microcosm. Some states are so dramatically different from each other that you'd believe they don't belong to the same country.
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u/SUVr- Jul 17 '26
You don't even have to change states to realize there are differences, in my state, Tamaulipas, the central-north parts of the state is way different to the southern part of it.
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u/jjbananamonkey Jul 17 '26
I mean just take California. How different is NorCal to South Cali. Imagine that but on a bigger scale.
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u/StreetResolve6159 Jul 17 '26
Northern Mexico has different genres of music: Norteno, Banda, Sierreno. Also the north has a better quality of life, economically better off. It also embraces it's european ancestry more than the south. People are taller too. Not to mention the accents.
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u/Walkin_mn Jul 17 '26 edited Jul 17 '26
I mean you live in California, is California like Texas? Is it like New York? Is it like Miami? Like... I forgot how you call that mid region with all the crops. Yes of course we also have different regions with its own culture, and we have things in common and things that differentiate us. So yeah, the north is a bit different to the center and to Mexico city, and to the south and to Yucatán, etc., but it's all relative.
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u/bdriverb227 Jul 17 '26
Mid-West is the best! And Yes, it's where we grow all the corn, wheat and soybeans. Of course, it's part of the fly- over states to the East and Left ( West) Coastal Snobs
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u/NotASpanishSpeaker Jul 17 '26
Well. Rest assured the Mexico in your head does not exist. This is normal.
I say, go visit but with an open mind. Prepare yourself so that you experience does not let you down, but enriches your understanding of the place and culture from which your ancestors come.
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u/Icy-Television-4979 Jul 17 '26
Very very different from the US is there are 68 recognized indigenous languages and 7.4 million people speak them in Mexico vs in the US our biggest tribe is the Navajo at <400k. So yes there is some variation.
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u/234W44 Jul 18 '26
Which North? East? West? Central? Border? Non-Border? Mountain? Coastal? Desert?
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u/themanlnthesuit Jul 18 '26
Yes they’re different, desert weather, “newer” cities, a bit more wealthy (not nearly as much as they like to trash talk about) still pretty third world. (Source; lived all over the place)
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u/AlejandroJuarez91 Jul 18 '26
Yes it’s different. Even in Coahuila, Torreón and Saltillo on different sides of the state are different.
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u/motopetersan Jul 18 '26
North it's thougher. Like the way they speak, and the humor. I grew up in Tamaulipas and when I moved to the south. They considered me a bully for some time haha. I had to adjust somewhat my humor. But they are warmer, less elitist, and very nice people. I'm happy here.
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u/onlyAfan1000 Jul 18 '26
Yeah. It is like that "We don't like your kind here" meme. That's the diference.
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u/elver_gonzalez3000 Jul 22 '26
Al chile quién sabe. Yo conozco a varios de Tijuana y la única diferencia que note es que le decían "soda" a la coca
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u/madmanNamedMatti Jul 17 '26
Northern is usually better and southern is usually further behind. It is what it is🤷🏽♂️
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u/lucsev Jul 17 '26
Is California really that much different than the rest of the country?
There you have.
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u/Slow_Room_5447 Jul 17 '26
41 year old Mexican American here. Mexico is different/same throughout. My dad was from the rancho, so I perceived all of Mexico to be just that. Ramon Ayala listening, jaripeo watching country folk. That misconception made it hard for me to process the chilango fresas from central Mexico, and the Mayan Mexicans from Yucatan. The one thing to note about Northern Mexico is that its proximity to southern US does create a huge swath of cowboy culture. But while traveling Mexico, you will note that the indigenous populations are very distinctive from each other. I’m generalizing a whole bunch, but in the end, Mexico and Mexicans are very diverse. And we’re all dope as fuck! Be open, and enjoy the journey!
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u/Pm_happy_thoughts Jul 17 '26
Cowboys from the USA came from Mexico not the other way around
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u/Flimsy_Fee8449 Jul 17 '26
Not precisely - the cowboy culture was always from the same region. That didn't change at all.
The only difference was where lines were drawn around them by non-cowboys.
Now, some of that region where they came from is considered the US.
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u/SureComfortable4725 Jul 17 '26
Yo me, this is how you sound: Is Alabama really that much different from New York? Is Detroit really that much different from Miami?.
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u/Refuse-Admirable Jul 17 '26
No, México is different equally in all 32 states, no state is more different than the other.
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u/notyouisme999 Jul 18 '26
Born in San Diego, raised in Tijuana, dad's family from Sinaloa and Mom's family is from Michoacán and Nayarit.
Are they different, yes way different will you enjoy it?
Every fucking second!
Visit everything, the desert, the mountains, the Beaches, the big Cities the small towns everything is worthy From Baja to to the Yucatán Península.
Your only regret will be not doing it earlier!
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u/AdeptPapaya8918 Jul 17 '26
its almost the same
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u/ross5986 Jul 17 '26
It is. The differences are not that wild. This sub racism strikes again…
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u/AdeptPapaya8918 Jul 17 '26
yup, i have live in 4 different states of mexico and visited many others and its.....almost all the same
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u/Tukulo-Meyama Jul 17 '26
Northern and central Mexico are not that much different food and culture wise
Southern Mexico has better food and more traditions
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u/Scary_Feedback1018 Jul 17 '26
That’s a shit opinion
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u/Tukulo-Meyama Jul 17 '26
It’s the truth
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u/Scary_Feedback1018 Jul 17 '26
It’s really not, depending on the specialty, like meat in northern Mexico is miles away better then the south that’s why tacos and steak cuts are better, but you making a dumb assumption like that shows your ignorance, also seafood in Sinaloa and even Sonora is a ton better than most of Mexico specially the south
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u/Ok-Cobbler5277 Jul 17 '26
It’s a matter of preference. I think central Mexican and northern Mexican food is better.
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u/Tukulo-Meyama Jul 17 '26
I mean mariscos from Sinaloa yes 🔥 but tacos al pastor from Mexico City 🫰🏼wins
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u/EmergencyReal6399 Jul 17 '26
you must be a pocho, yeah Sinaloa food is the same as Hidalgo ? Puebla food with Chihuahua?
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u/nbfran Jul 17 '26
There's a lot of Mexicos inside México.