Rhode Island Stereotypes

Within the passed few days multiple, treacherous and seemingly never ending winter storms made there way through New England. All the snow sparked hibernation but also curiosity within me. I have noticed through out the last week that even the most experienced with snow are sent into frenzy at the sight of a single snowflake. Rhode Island, although small has a huge stereotype of freaking out the second someone says “snow”, but in a very strange way. With every storm whether it be hurricane Sandy or winter storm Nemo residents of Rhode Island are said to run out and get milk and bread, but why? The milk would go bad if the storm was strong enough to knock out the power, bread is nothing with out deli meats and I do not see anyone eating milk and bread together expect for the delicacy of toast for breakfast. This bring up a question of why do us ocean state residents carry such a stereotype? I have never …show more content…
It may not impact the world in a large way but it does inspire questions.
An experiment is necessary in order to answer the question, do Rhode Island residents really travel to the market to pick up milk and bread in preparation for an up and coming storm? In this research study, the independent variable would be that there is an approaching snowstorm; the dependent would be whether or not a trip to the local market for milk and bread is taken. I hypothesize that when the weather channel says a snowstorm is expected residents in Rhode Island will stock up on bread and milk at the local market. The research design that I would select would be correlation. I would choose correlation, not experiment, because I am comparing the two variables for a relationship without altering either variable. Due to