
If you've meandered through Europe with a Canadian flag on your backpack, it's time to switch it up. With the US's improving image, it's suddenly cool to be American again — both at home and abroad.
First off, the US is making new friends.

Think you can judge a person by the state they live in? It might not be such a crazy notion according to
new research on the geography of personality. Controlling for factors like race, income, and education, the study profiled 600,000 Americans with a 44-question personality test that evaluates five traits: extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, neuroticism and openness.

The US might be a melting pot, but don't get out that fondue fork just yet — the government knows your ethnic background, where you live, and has
plotted it on a map. This one shows the big overview categories, but what if you're Scots-Irish? They've got a map for that, too.