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[–] [email protected] 61 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I feel like this map was designed to piss off everyone.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

New England is fully correct so no one there will be mad.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Where's the pacific northwest? It's labeled weird.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

All of Cascadia.

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jersey sure as shit ain't "Chesapeake".

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Neither is Pennsylvania, this map is way off.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I feel like there's a weird feral vibe in Philly anyway, Definitely should be a specific region.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Delaware Valley.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Absolutely never will you catch a southern Illinoisan saying we’re from/in the south. We say Midwest or southern Illinois to be more specific.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

I never understood why people think WV is a southern state. 1) It fucking snows and is cold af in winter. 2) We literally exist because we ain't traitors.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Central Texas is nothing like East Texas, so that makes the rest of this map suspect.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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, and there's no Mid-Atlantic on this map, but there's a Mid-Atlantic South (which I've never heard anyone use - VA is Mid-Atlantic).

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 - it's the Mid-Atlantic.

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.

A source would be useful, perhaps knowing the context (like how this is used) would clarify things.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... I've heard of Cascadia before, but people here would say they're in the Pacific NW region.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Chesapeake kinda looks like it’s the Chesapeake bays watershed, for what it’s worth.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The map labels central Texas as Texas and east Texas as Deep South. They're labeled differently. I don't understand your comment.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

I grew up in the Deep South part of Texas and moved to and currently live in Texas Texas. I have a lot of feelings about this map that I can't really convey.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

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".

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

That's shorthand we use for people outside of the Midwest or those unfamiliar with the region.

It's similar to a person from a suburb of Boston just saying they're from Boston for simplicity's sake even if a lot of important nuance and context is lost.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

That’s because the majority of these regions are horseshit. Nearly everything around the Midwest in this map doesn’t exist and we’ll just say we’re from the Midwest

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Don't worry, living in what the map calls "lower midwest" the midwest will do its best to not include.

I live in Missouri, friends living in midwest states "Missouri isn't Midwest." They can't tell you exactly where it is, but it sure isn't midwest. And the exclusion seems to continue all the way northward until I'm convinced Wisconsin is just attempting to rename itself "Midwest" so that no one else can claim it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I assure you that nobody in Philadelphia considers themselves to be part of the Chesapeake region

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And no one from Indiana says they live in the Ohio River Valley.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, I've lived in PA and NJ for 20+ years as an adult. Never heard anyone reference Chesapeake.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I've never heard anyone refer to the mid Atlantic south, but the piedmont is common.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Mid-atlantic, sure. Never Mid-atlantic-south.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

very few call it nyc metro, most locals refer to it as the tri state

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Similarly, areas surrounding DC in Maryland and Virginia should be labeled DMV, not Chesapeake.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I've read a variant of this that's little more interesting, and useful, because it includes the backstory, as well as Canada's role (which does overlap a lot of the US).

It's not 100% accurate, largely because of urbanization, but you can see how we got to where we are today.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Nothing in Texas is part of the south. Not only will the south tell you that, Texas will tell you that

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Hard disagree. I lived in Dallas for 15 years. Longview and Tyler are classic Southern.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

I've got some bad news for you hoss

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Well, they don’t even get all of Texas. So, who cares what they have to say. Can’t even keep their whole state. Who knew “Texas” was just a small chunk in the middle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Some of these things seem solely topographical-based.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

SoCal does not go up that far not even close. Gross

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

As a non-american, I have never heard of "northwoods" before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

The Rocky Mountains extend into NE Washington state. The map is a very rough approximation at best.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

This guide is inaccurate. The region labelled midwest is actually in the east. And the region labelled deep south is actually in the northern hemisphere.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Missing the rust belt and the Bible belt...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

NEPA will not be happy about being considered "Upper Appalachia."

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