Neat!
Though, I've found a lot of folks from a lot of parts of this map would just tell me they're "from the Midwest".
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I've found a lot of folks from a lot of parts of this map would just tell me they're "from the Midwest".
I would venture to say that the part of all of these regions adjacent to the Midwest could be considered subregions of it. Many people you'd meet in these areas would be likely to say they're in the Midwest.
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It would be pretty interesting if voting was broken down by these regions. It would probably be a lot more culturally representative.
Jersey sure as shit ain't "Chesapeake".
Neither is Pennsylvania, this map is way off.
I feel like there's a weird feral vibe in Philly anyway, Definitely should be a specific region.
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If you go up to any Hoosier (resident of Indiana) and tell them they live in the Ohio River Valley, you're getting punched in the face
Missing the rust belt and the Bible belt...
I've never heard anyone refer to the mid Atlantic south, but the piedmont is common.
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I don't think New England is a useful category anymore, since modern-day Maine doesn't has more in common with the Boston area than it does with upstate New York. I'd extend what they're calling the "NYC Metro" area from Boston in the north to Philadelphia (or maybe even D.C.) in the south as a sort of east coast mega-city.
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Central Texas is nothing like East Texas, so that makes the rest of this map suspect.
I agree, but also they're different regions on this map. I'm more upset about being lumped in with Dallas. Ultimately when you're pumping large areas together, there are going to be dissimilar places within it, but they might also be more similar than some of us care to admit
Yea, this map is nonsense.
I've never heard half of these names used like this.
"Chesapeake"... First I've never heard it used as a region, second the region so labeled on the map would be better called Mid-Atlantic (~~and that wouldn't really be accurate either~~) that really is the Mid-Atlantic region.
Third, the Chesapeake doesn't even extend to PA, let alone up to NY or Jersey, over there is the Delaware Bay, so should we call that region "Delaware"?
I've never once heard anyone call that region Chesapeake.
Then there's the Texas nonsense - there's West Texas, Central, East (sometimes jokingly referred to as Arkansas) I'll allow Rio Grande though I've never heard that used.
The West stuff... Yea, no. The Rockies, OK.
Also, it looks like the "Central Valley" in CA extends uphill to the top of the Sierras and Lake Tahoe. Plus "Socal" is as far north as Carmel.
No. Carmel is the Central Coast. You might as well add that to the Central Valley and add some new group for the Sierra Nevada mountains that includes northern CA above Sacramento. The north coast is culturally and geographically similar to the Sierras. "Socal" doesn't extend farther north than Santa Barbara.
Chesapeake kinda looks like it’s the Chesapeake bays watershed, for what it’s worth.
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A lot of those are overlapping, like Appalacha and the Great Lakes both extend into Upstate NY, much of lower Appalacha is also considered mid-atlantic, etc
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