Yeah I would have agreed with you until I saw the band Turbofruits post this video:

IHOP here in Northern Virginia. We moved from Raleigh though, and that seems like Waffle House territory with IHOPs here and there. When I went to school in western North Carolina, I had a NC born and bred friend who would ONLY eat at Huddle House or Waffle House, never IHOP b/c it was "Yankee" and inferior.