Charlotte over at Sweet Sundays has three favorite background stitches and she's willing to share!
http://www.sweet-sundays.com/home-main/my-3-favorite-needlepoint-background-stitches
A lot of folks seem to like Nobuko Stitch and t-stitch for backgrounds as well. Here are diagrams I found online. Nobuko is first.
http://rittenhouseneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2011/10/stitch-of-week-nobuko.html
And here is t-stitch.
http://www.notyourgrandmothersneedlepoint.com/2017/02/t-stitch.html
I don't have a favorite background stitch myself. I use a different one with each canvas as they all seem to need something different. Still, if you are stumped for a background, the stitches above all work well.
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