I love that Ohio is purple in all of these

Colorado markedly absent as most people polled were likely from elsewhere and as such brought their own vernacular

Anybody use the word fucker as a term of endearment? "What's up, fucker?"

The top three are used in California.

I mainly stick with Dude and Buddy (Buddy being my go to for strangers "Thanks Buddy")

In my office a few years back I started ironically calling people "Homie" and that overtime morphed into a gender neutral term of endearment we all used for each other.

I really wonder where "Homie" fits into this

In Florida I mainly hear the top 3.
Bottom 2 would probably get an odd look.
That's really interesting I never thought that something as simple as "bro" would be different in different states

I love that New England doesn't show a preference for any of the choices. My theory: Boston throws off the curve with "asshole" and "fucker" and the data scientists didn't want to cover cursing.

Anything goes in Michigan.

Suggests that in Georgia, Americans don't refer to their friends

Northeast US left off because they just say "Yo asshole"

People really say "fella"? It seems centered around Louisiana?

What up, fucko?

https://media.tenor.com/qZXJ8qoEJTcAAAAM/friends-joey.gif

Don't forget "guy" and "chief".

Hypothesis: you can go to the Great lakes region and just make random noises and people will be like "hey, what's up?”.

So there's PAL, where's NTSC, and SÉCAM?

You can call me Al.