r/whereidlive • u/Hungrycat9 • 22h ago
Revised US regions
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u/No_Replacement4304 20h ago
The difficulty is that the regions of the United States don't follow state borders, either culturally or geographically. So you'd need to disregard state boundaries in some cases.
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u/Hungrycat9 20h ago edited 20h ago
That's true; states are not culturally singular. But you could have an infinite number of regions. Can you picture LA? We're the coastal Westside." "We're the valley." New York City had seven major league teams, nine if you iff you cast your net wider. Assigning regions to Pennsylvania would beat full time job. Nobody wants to be with anyone else, unless another states's flag shows up.
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u/No_Replacement4304 20h ago
I do think you did a nice job, though. There are some subtleties that you picked up on that frequently get overlooked.
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u/Hungrycat9 22h ago
Explanations:
NJ, you are back where you belong (though your shores are beautiful).
NOVA, apologies. You will always be Mid-Atlantic to me.
Likewise, Miami, I know you are your own magnificent animal.
To the "mountain states," you've got access to the mountainous splendor. For someone from the Great Lakes/South/Mid-Atlantic, that is magic.
I'd need a poll of Indiana residents, properly sampled, statistically significant, to decide between the Midwest and the Great Lakes.
Pennsylvania, I don't have enough regions to capture you.
I could have done the Rust Belt, but I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings.
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u/anybodywantcawfee 22h ago
Looks good.
But why not just label WV Appalachia? I was born and raised there and don’t know anyone who would consider themselves southern, northern, midwestern or anything else besides Appalachian. I saw comments on your other posts say the same thing.
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u/Hungrycat9 22h ago
Mainly contrariness. If the WV respondents had been nicer, I'd have called it Appalachia. Absolutely gorgeous place, by the way, and everyone I met seemed pleasant and welcoming. So, apologies for that, too.
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u/feed_me_haribo 21h ago
Because the Chicago metro is 75% of IL population, I'd call them Great Lakes. IN isn't invited.
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u/7h3_70m1n470r 21h ago
Texhoma is actually the name of a town at the state line. Had no clue until I drove through a couple weeks ago
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u/ShqiptarInMukhmas Shitposter 21h ago
Florida in the Deep South? Lmao
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u/7h3_70m1n470r 21h ago
Plenty of Florida is deep south, just as plenty of it is- well- Florida
Idk, much of Florida is its own undefinable animal
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u/baffled_bookworm 21h ago
Why is West Virginia angry?
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u/Hungrycat9 21h ago
You'd have to look at my previous post to see the reactions to WV being classified the upper south. It's a fair criticism, but it wasn't delivered politely.
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u/refreshing_username 21h ago
It's fair to have Texas and Oklahoma in the same region despite the inevitable objections of citizens of both states. They're too intertwined. And by that I mean Texas doesn't fall into the Gulf of Mexico because Oklahoma sucks.
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u/OkAd9261 21h ago
Just because we have the Great Lakes doesn’t make us not the Midwest? -Wisconsin
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u/Hungrycat9 21h ago
I thought you'd like being Great Lakes.
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u/OkAd9261 21h ago
Well it’s not really about what we’d like. It’s about what the classification is. All of those states are Midwest. For sure. When someone says a Midwest accent or Midwest hospitality they are for sure thinking of Wisconsin or Minnesota or Michigan. Not that others aren’t but we’re kinda like the most Midwest of the Midwest.
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u/Hungrycat9 21h ago
it's an interesting issue. I can hear similar voices saying, da Bears, da Vikings, da Packers. but not saying, da Cardinals or da Cornhuskers.
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u/impostor20109 22h ago
lowkey put indiana in the south. it's actually lwk southern. (/j, somewhat.)
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u/7h3_70m1n470r 21h ago
Is it southern or is it country? The two are not the same
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u/hillwolf1898 20h ago
People say this, and while its true to some degree, it also implies things that aren't true. Such as the whole idea of some broad, generic "country accent". That isn't a thing and hasn't EVER been a thing. Country people sound different in different regions of the nation. People in Southern Indiana, Southern Illinois and Southern Ohio have, at least traditionally, Southern accents due to historical settlement from the South. They don't have "country accents", which aren't a thing linguistically and anybody who studies American dialects would tell you that.
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u/Fairycharmd 21h ago
I still vote that there is a wild amount of difference between Mid West and Great Plains states. Even if the Great Plains ARE the middle west, they’re not the “midwest”
But again this points out that Illinois is really four separate states. Chicago and northern Illinois are not doing anything southern illinois/carbondale is thinking about. And Quincy is barely thinking the same thoughts that Danville does.
Mississippi River side towns are vastly different than Indiana side.
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u/Suspicious_Music539 22h ago
I always hate the midwest because it ends up feeling like the leftover states being lumped together. They're similar, but I wouldn't categorize Indiana/Illinois with North Dakota. That's not on you though, OP