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[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat -3 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Most of these are pretty shoddy, but this one is really good. It's detailed and accurate about a lot of the idoiosyncrasies.

Like FlyingSquid I would have pushed "The South" a little further north into Western Pennsylvania, and up through Missouri into south Indiana. And what in the world is "The Northwoods," that's the YooPee and Wisconsin is upper midwest. But other than that it's spot on as to a whole lot of the details. South Florida as part of the Caribbean, Washington/Oregon as part of the interior once you get away from the coast... it has a lot of little important details right.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Absolutely not. Culture has far more to it than politics.

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[–] nzeayn@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

northwoods is a regional forest, like a boreal forests but not quite one. it runs from the boundry waters in Minnesota down to duluth. through this weird gross area on the southern edge of lake superior. before finally getting into an area smart enough to say it's michigan even though its not touching michigan, thus no longer being gross. and the people living in that forest are definitely their own kinda people.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 23 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (2 children)

The people who made this do not understand American cultural regions. The top level general ones are pretty well known. North East, Mid East, South East, Appalachia, Mid West, Great Plains, Bible Belt, Rockies, South West, SoCal, Valley, North West.

If you want to drill down that's fine but the borders here make no sense at all.

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[–] HomerianSymphony@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Could be worse. Could be-

[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (1 children)

From an outside perspective, I'm not sure Alaska and the rest of the Pacific have much in common culturally. Same for various areas of the "Interior".

Alaska... is weird. It consists of a few city's and an enormous amount of very sparely populated land, it has no income tax on individuals and literally pays its residents.

[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

Lumping Philly into the Jersey area is how you start wars.

Personally I think this map is far better at mapping the cultures of the US (source: Monsieur Z "Utahism")

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Locally 0.3 is referred to as The NYC TriState Area

[–] FourPacketsOfPeanuts@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (6 children)

TriState area

I only ever hear this phrase in an American context. Are your states more likely to meet with 3 at a point or something? I never hear "quadstate" or "bistate" area?

[–] ignirtoq@fedia.io 4 points 3 days ago

It's a mathematical property of regions of a 2D space that 3 will naturally meet at a point, but 4 or higher have to be contrived to meet at a point. In the US we do have the 4 corners, which is where Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and Utah, so there is precedent.

[–] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 2 points 3 days ago

There’s the quad cities

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[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

I think this would have worked better without the changing color grades

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (2 children)

As someone who has spent many years in both South-Central and West-Central Indiana... What? We're the South in all but name.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (2 children)

You may be rural and conservative but Indiana is in no way "Southern".

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (5 children)

Have you been to this part of Indiana? Because you walk into an Indiana diner and you'll see a lot of familiar stuff on the menu that belongs in the South. You'll also hear accents that sound like they belong in the South.

It's really silly to think that Southern culture just stops at the Kentucky border line.

Also, I'm talking about the southern half of Indiana. Not all of Indiana.

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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 3 points 3 days ago (28 children)

Being a rural hick doesn't make you southern. It's only been the last 20-30 years that Midwest small towns have been trying to preteend that they are southern rednecks.

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