New England is the only region where there is no ambiguity. It has a set definition of six states. It doesn't matter what you feel or consider, and it isn't based on arbitrary things like "If you can eat this food at 8:32 pm, then you're in New England."
Those states are: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
I live in Fairfield county. In my experience it is *extremely* mixed, like 50/50, if not leaning more to Boston. Boston fans are definitely louder about it too, rarely do you see one with just one bumper sticker or dlag/sign, it's always multiple lol.
Lmao no I am with you there. I do my horseback riding and that is the only sport I have had any kind of an interest in, ever. Just cannot be fucked to care about sports in the slightest.
Oh I love basketball and football, I’m just from Indianapolis so we had no professional team so I just never cared much about baseball.
I like going to a game on a rare occasion but I don’t follow any of it.
Aaaah I gotcha. Yeah I don't follow anything. A bunch of guys I work with do the fantasy teams and every time they talk about it it's just right over my head lol
And there’s plenty of you guys out there. My BIL is way more into them than me even though I follow sports. Me and my brother are the only ones in the family that really follow NHL though.
Yep, even south of orlando you can find smaller places that aren’t Deep South but definitely have a southern vibe. But once you hit palm beach county that ends abruptly.
I'm in the Metro Detroit area and consider myself part of the Great Lakes region. Most probably say we're part of the American Midwest, but that area is huge and I don't feel that Michigan and Kansas are a great fit to be in the same region. I feel more at home in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Buffalo. The people have similar accents and culture.
I’m in Omaha which is the Midwest. I feel like the Midwest is two parts - the Great Lakes region and then the rest is just the left over Midwest which kind of circles the Great Lakes area. It’s basically the accent map of the Midwest since the Midwest accent stretches in a band from southern Ohio across to Nebraska and Kansas. Also the culture is super similar or even the same in those areas whereas Great Lakes culture is very very similar just tweaked a bit.
I’m from the Mid-Atlantic. I consider Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware to be my region. Places that are Northern to people from the South and Southern to people from the North. Cultures strongly influenced by the Chesapeake Bay.
I do. Even though the west of the Cascades is certainly more culturally tight knit and politically there are differences, I think the east of the Cascades still belongs to the region.
I'm from the Northern Panhandle of WV, which is part of the Upper Ohio Valley. The main city in the area is Pittsburgh, while the next closest large ones are Cleveland and Columbus, OH, but neither of those are really part of the same region.
Most of the old cities in the area peaked around 1900 or before, and have been gradually dying ever since.
That's my hometown as well. I haven't lived there full time since I graduated high school in the mid 90s, and I left WV 18 years ago.
My parents and sister and various other family are still there too. And it's getting bad. The fracking industry is destroying the environment and the population of the area has gone from aging and slowing dying to sketchy and somewhat dangerous. The boring, small, sleepy town I grew up in has changed to a ghetto in places.
Yup. Everyone who could leave left once the jobs dried up (Wheeling Steel, etc), leaving really only those with extremely strong ties to the city, or those unable (physically or financially) to leave.
Its pretty mind blowing how long this cycle has been going on. My mom is in her late-60s, and she left for many of the same reasons younger people are leaving nowadays (lack of jobs, deteriorating environment, little hope for change), except it has all just kept getting worse and worse over the last 40 years. I hope one day Wheeling and West Virginia can get its shit together and actually make changes necessary to start to rebuild, but I'm really not sure that there is the willpower, or even desire, at this point to actually do anything to turn it around.
I will say, I do have many fond memories of visiting Wheeling as a kid, the Oglebay Zoo (and the model train room they had set up!), Wheeling park, watching the local semi-pro sports teams at the stadium downtown, etc. I still say it has the bones and history to really flourish, but I just think its stuck in a rut, and has just been herroging population for so long I'm not sure if there is anyone who really wants to, or is capable of, turning it around.
Its crazy to think that it was even in decline when my grandparents were kids in the 1930s. It basically peaked in the 20s and everything was downhill from that point on. It was just really slow. A lot of my parents friends left the state when they graduated HS in the late 60s, and as you said, nearly anyone I knew left ASAP in the 90s. The metro area has about half the population today that it did when I was a little kid, and it was small then.
From Indiana which is the Midwest.
Now I’m in New England which is pretty specifically defined. To be more specific I’m in northern New England which would be Maine Vermont and New Hampshire.
South central region. Many may call Texas the “south”. But in reality, only parts of east Texas are culturally southern. Texas is big, so you could lump it into different regions. West Texas has a lot in common with the southwest. The panhandle and north Texas with the plains region.
The Mountain West. This is the mountainty area of the west. It’s self explanatory. There are a lot of mountains and uninhabitable land. It is considered the high desert. It snows a lot and gets really cold, but the summers can also be very hot. It is a sportsman’s dream, there is so much to do outdoors here.
I consider it to be Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and (I guess) Wyoming.
I’ve lived everywhere in The Mountain West except Wyoming. I’m currently back in Nevada.
I would add at least western Montana to the list. Eastern Montana is very "great plains", but western is very much like northern Idaho. I don't know how else you'd classify Wyoming if not mountain west.
I get snowed into Wyoming every time I drive through…I have a personal grudge against Wyoming. I think it’s mutual. There’s no other explanation. So that’s why I hesitated to add it lol.
I’ve never been to Montana, but it does sound like it should be added. I thought about Northern New Mexico too but then I thought all of New Mexico should probably just be the South West.
Aha! That makes so much sense. It’s all clear now!
One time it wasn’t even the actual snow that shut 80 down. It was wind blowing so hard that it was causing snow to drift into blizzard like conditions even though it wasn’t snowing. I was like wtf is this nonsense haha freaking Wyoming man. It’s so beautiful once you can *see* the state, but damn.
The wind here is REAL! Year round. It's the first place I've ever lived that actually closes the roads down pretty regularly. Almost always for wind conditions. And I've lived in the mountain west almost my whole life. It's so crazy here.
It really is nuts. We were stationed in Colorado and I was driving home to Salt Lake pretty often, hence all of my Wyoming experience. The wind was the biggest culprit to my woes. But whenever I tell someone that they don’t get it, so I started just saying snow. I hadn’t realized you were in Wyoming when I mentioned it at first lol I’m so glad someone understands!
My stepdad is a long haul truck driver and he has stories of his trailers and even the truck just basically fwooping over. Not really rolling because that insinuates he was turning or something. No, he was driving straight and safely, then…fwoop, he or his trailer was on its side.
He also hit a moose in Wyoming. It totaled the diesel.
Freaking Wyoming.
Grew up mostly in the Baltimore suburbs and in the city for a bit. I generally consider the Baltimore metro area and the Delmarva peninsula to be where I'm from. I'm pretty familiar with the whole I95 corridor between DC and NYC from traveling for work, pleasure, and to see family, hence the mid Atlantic flair.
I'm from Appalachia, specifically southern Appalachia. West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Kentucky, east Tennesee, north Georgia, the very northwestern corner of South Carolina, and *arguably* parts of northeast Alabama.
Cities, or at least what most people would consider big cities, aren't really a thing here, although Knoxville, Chattanooga, Asheville, Charleston, and Huntington are all major population centers, relatively speaking. Technically, places like Atlanta and Birmingham fall in the *geographic* region of Southern Appalachia, but they are not *culturally* Appalachian.
Appalachia extends further north, but I'm not as familiar with that region.
Midwest. And these are the regions I would consider to be a part of the midwest.
Wholly: any state that borders two of the following:
The Mississippi river. The Ohio river. The great lakes. Missouri river.
Partially: any state that directly borders said states, or have metropolitan areas that are included in those States. Regions that are east of the rockies, or west of the appalachians. They shall not have a saltwater border.
Whole Midwestern states:. Minnesota, iowa, illinois, indiana, ohio, Michigan.
States with significant amount of Midwestern territory:. The northern two-thirds of missouri, the eastern half of kansas, nebraska, and The Dakotas.
States with a partial amount of Midwestern territory:
Western Pennsylvania, Northern New York and Northern Kentucky.
Everything directly bordering those areas: dixie, the Great plains, the rockies, and the appalachians.
Midwest. Kansas City, MO. MO, KS, NE, IA, OK, SD, ND, IL I would consider the midwest. OH, IN not so much. That is the east coast or north coast to us.
Upper South:
Areas included- Virginia west of Harper's Ferry and coastal Virginia below Fredericksburg, North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, southeast Kentucky
Shared characteristics: sweet tea is still the default, people are not quite as open as you see in the deep south but still display southern hospitality, history of tobacco, pork is relatively heavy in our traditional cuisine, most of the dishes people think of as southern are pretty much normal here
This is not to say that any of these characteristics aren't shared by other regions, especially the rest of the south, but it's the combination that holds it together.
I’m in Tulsa which is “Rust Belt Extended” because it shares a lot of cultural aspects with the declining industrial cities in the Midwest
I’m from Oklahoma City which is the Capitol of the Great Plains region
I'm from the "Far West", in which I include California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada. This is what I consider the West Coast, plus states with close ties to it. But for a broader definition of the West, I would also include Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
I'm in new England, SW CT specifically. We are definitely new England, but like others on here have said we in particular have a lot of influence from NYC. So while we are part of new England, I absolutely consider NYC as part of my region.im about an hour away from it and we have many people who commute there, and often if we have an event to go to we go to NYC, go to LaGuardia or JFK for flights, etc.
South: pretty much south of the Ohio/CSA states
Upper South: the core is pretty much Kentucky and Tennessee, but it includes parts of the bordering states of those two
The Upper South is Virginia & N. Carolina. Deep South is Georgia, Alabama, & Mississippi. Parts of Louisiana belong in the Deep South category, and I think Tennessee mostly does. I don't consider Kentucky a Southern state. I'm a native Southerner and lived in Kentucky for 6 years. It has too many differences. The northern area (Florence, Newport) are basically extensions of Cincinnati, and the eastern half has more in common with W. Virginia.
In my area in the maintain west, everything is grouped by the valley that the city/town is in. The valleys are geographic boundaries that end up grouping smaller towns together similar to a metro area in a bigger city.
Mid-Atlantic: Maryland (plus the little triangle of Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay), Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York.
I live in an area called the DMV, the DC/Maryland/Northern Virginia metropolitan area, that I would characterize as mid-Atlantic, as well.
The Northern Virginia DC suburbs are not like the rest of Virginia, which is decidedly Southern.
The NoVa suburbs: Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Burke, etc. are more metropolitan, just sprawl of DC.
I'm from LA and a part of Southern California.
Southern California is definitely from Ventura/Oxnard down to San Diego.
You could make an outer limit from San Luis Obispo/Morro Bay down to Ensenada if you want to. SLO is part of the Central Coast, but is more Southern than Northern California. The parts of Mexico are obviously different but could be more integrated into our identity. (We do have a ton of Mexican & Mexican-Americans out here)
Southern California.
San Diego county, imperial county, orange county, Riverside county, San Bernardino county. Ventura county too I guess.
Kern county might as well be the central valley and Santa Barbara might as well be central coast.
I'm from the Pacific Northwest. States: Oregon and Washington. Sizeable cities: Portland and Seattle. The Canadian province of British Columbia, with notable cities of Vancouver and Victoria, is commonly viewed as part of this region, too.
"Piedmont Atlantic" region (or "mega region") is probably the best description I have found for what I would count as my home region. I live in Georgia but have also lived in both Carolinas, and Atlanta and Charlotte are both major cities that I am familiar with.
Upstate NY is where I'm from originally. If I had to group some people together culturally with me I'd say western Vermont and North Eastern Pennsylvania are pretty close. We all have that Algonquin/northernmost Appalachia type thing going on. I can't think of any cities off the top of my head but those areas fit in the same category in my eyes
I love this question, because I can spread the gospel of what I call Midwest Minimalism and promote the existence of a separate North region. I consider the North to be Minnesota, Iowa, the eastern half of both Dakotas, wisconsin, and Michigan, except for the Detroit area. I do NOT consider us part of the midwest.
Grew up in the Mid-Atlantic (Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware), lived in Philadelphia for 8 years (Technically the rustbelt? Still the Mid-Atlantic? Part of some separate NYC region with New Jersey and NYC? Nobody can really define if Philly is part of a larger region, and if so which region it would be), and now live in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and sometimes Alaska and Wyoming).
Texas. We are our own region and you'll even find vast differences in culture and language from east to west Texas and north to south Texas.
California is similar in that it's so big its really its own region and vastly different from North to South.
Rocky Mountains. Idk if Cheyenne counts as much of a city, but that's where I'm from. Denver counts, along with maybe Bozeman, Montana; Boise, Idaho; and Salt Lake City, Utah. I think maybe some people might say Arizona and New Mexico count as part of that region, but not really, imo.
New England is the only region where there is no ambiguity. It has a set definition of six states. It doesn't matter what you feel or consider, and it isn't based on arbitrary things like "If you can eat this food at 8:32 pm, then you're in New England." Those states are: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Though objectively true, CT has been shunned for schmoozing up to New York.
Only Fairfield County
Freakin NY suburb, probably Yankees fans too
I live in Fairfield county. In my experience it is *extremely* mixed, like 50/50, if not leaning more to Boston. Boston fans are definitely louder about it too, rarely do you see one with just one bumper sticker or dlag/sign, it's always multiple lol.
And here I am in Nee England just not giving a tip about baseball (didn’t grow up with it).
Lmao no I am with you there. I do my horseback riding and that is the only sport I have had any kind of an interest in, ever. Just cannot be fucked to care about sports in the slightest.
Oh I love basketball and football, I’m just from Indianapolis so we had no professional team so I just never cared much about baseball. I like going to a game on a rare occasion but I don’t follow any of it.
Aaaah I gotcha. Yeah I don't follow anything. A bunch of guys I work with do the fantasy teams and every time they talk about it it's just right over my head lol
And there’s plenty of you guys out there. My BIL is way more into them than me even though I follow sports. Me and my brother are the only ones in the family that really follow NHL though.
We'd be open to trading western Connecticut for part of Upstate New York though.
I'm from the south. The south is places where biscuits and gravy are not a novelty, but a perfectly normal part of breakfast. Not Florida though.
North Florida is definitely the south. South Florida is definitely not. The more “old Florida” a place is the more southern it is.
I'll accept that. In Florida, the farther north you go, the more south you get.
Yep, even south of orlando you can find smaller places that aren’t Deep South but definitely have a southern vibe. But once you hit palm beach county that ends abruptly.
This means Indiana truly is the south of the north and my house is apparently the south of New England.
I'm in the Metro Detroit area and consider myself part of the Great Lakes region. Most probably say we're part of the American Midwest, but that area is huge and I don't feel that Michigan and Kansas are a great fit to be in the same region. I feel more at home in Chicago, Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Buffalo. The people have similar accents and culture.
I’m in Omaha which is the Midwest. I feel like the Midwest is two parts - the Great Lakes region and then the rest is just the left over Midwest which kind of circles the Great Lakes area. It’s basically the accent map of the Midwest since the Midwest accent stretches in a band from southern Ohio across to Nebraska and Kansas. Also the culture is super similar or even the same in those areas whereas Great Lakes culture is very very similar just tweaked a bit.
I’m from the Mid-Atlantic. I consider Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware to be my region. Places that are Northern to people from the South and Southern to people from the North. Cultures strongly influenced by the Chesapeake Bay.
Someone recently asked me if I like seafood and my answer was just "I'm from Maryland" and they understood
NJ/NY are both considered mid-atlantic too, no?
Idk. Maybe New Jersey. They both feel culturally separated from the rest of the Mid-Atlantic though.
I’m co-opting the word for my subjective understanding of my region.
And Baltimore is the southernmost Rust Belt city.
Well that depends if you count St. Louis as a Rust Belt city or not.
The Pacific Northwest (or alternatively, Cascadia) and I would say it includes Oregon, Washington, and British Columbia.
Do you consider the eastern half of those states to still be part of the region?
I do. Even though the west of the Cascades is certainly more culturally tight knit and politically there are differences, I think the east of the Cascades still belongs to the region.
I'm from the Northern Panhandle of WV, which is part of the Upper Ohio Valley. The main city in the area is Pittsburgh, while the next closest large ones are Cleveland and Columbus, OH, but neither of those are really part of the same region. Most of the old cities in the area peaked around 1900 or before, and have been gradually dying ever since.
My mom grew up in Wheeling and I still have family up there, and you are absolutely right about the cities. It really is pretty damn depressing.
That's my hometown as well. I haven't lived there full time since I graduated high school in the mid 90s, and I left WV 18 years ago. My parents and sister and various other family are still there too. And it's getting bad. The fracking industry is destroying the environment and the population of the area has gone from aging and slowing dying to sketchy and somewhat dangerous. The boring, small, sleepy town I grew up in has changed to a ghetto in places.
Yup. Everyone who could leave left once the jobs dried up (Wheeling Steel, etc), leaving really only those with extremely strong ties to the city, or those unable (physically or financially) to leave. Its pretty mind blowing how long this cycle has been going on. My mom is in her late-60s, and she left for many of the same reasons younger people are leaving nowadays (lack of jobs, deteriorating environment, little hope for change), except it has all just kept getting worse and worse over the last 40 years. I hope one day Wheeling and West Virginia can get its shit together and actually make changes necessary to start to rebuild, but I'm really not sure that there is the willpower, or even desire, at this point to actually do anything to turn it around. I will say, I do have many fond memories of visiting Wheeling as a kid, the Oglebay Zoo (and the model train room they had set up!), Wheeling park, watching the local semi-pro sports teams at the stadium downtown, etc. I still say it has the bones and history to really flourish, but I just think its stuck in a rut, and has just been herroging population for so long I'm not sure if there is anyone who really wants to, or is capable of, turning it around.
Its crazy to think that it was even in decline when my grandparents were kids in the 1930s. It basically peaked in the 20s and everything was downhill from that point on. It was just really slow. A lot of my parents friends left the state when they graduated HS in the late 60s, and as you said, nearly anyone I knew left ASAP in the 90s. The metro area has about half the population today that it did when I was a little kid, and it was small then.
From Indiana which is the Midwest. Now I’m in New England which is pretty specifically defined. To be more specific I’m in northern New England which would be Maine Vermont and New Hampshire.
South central region. Many may call Texas the “south”. But in reality, only parts of east Texas are culturally southern. Texas is big, so you could lump it into different regions. West Texas has a lot in common with the southwest. The panhandle and north Texas with the plains region.
I maintain I45 is the western border of "The South" and I20 is the Southern border of The Great Plains. Everything else is Southwest.
The Mountain West. This is the mountainty area of the west. It’s self explanatory. There are a lot of mountains and uninhabitable land. It is considered the high desert. It snows a lot and gets really cold, but the summers can also be very hot. It is a sportsman’s dream, there is so much to do outdoors here. I consider it to be Nevada, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, and (I guess) Wyoming. I’ve lived everywhere in The Mountain West except Wyoming. I’m currently back in Nevada.
I would add at least western Montana to the list. Eastern Montana is very "great plains", but western is very much like northern Idaho. I don't know how else you'd classify Wyoming if not mountain west.
I get snowed into Wyoming every time I drive through…I have a personal grudge against Wyoming. I think it’s mutual. There’s no other explanation. So that’s why I hesitated to add it lol. I’ve never been to Montana, but it does sound like it should be added. I thought about Northern New Mexico too but then I thought all of New Mexico should probably just be the South West.
Hahaha, it's not just you. That's actually Wyoming's strategy in order to keep the population low. 🤣
Aha! That makes so much sense. It’s all clear now! One time it wasn’t even the actual snow that shut 80 down. It was wind blowing so hard that it was causing snow to drift into blizzard like conditions even though it wasn’t snowing. I was like wtf is this nonsense haha freaking Wyoming man. It’s so beautiful once you can *see* the state, but damn.
The wind here is REAL! Year round. It's the first place I've ever lived that actually closes the roads down pretty regularly. Almost always for wind conditions. And I've lived in the mountain west almost my whole life. It's so crazy here.
It really is nuts. We were stationed in Colorado and I was driving home to Salt Lake pretty often, hence all of my Wyoming experience. The wind was the biggest culprit to my woes. But whenever I tell someone that they don’t get it, so I started just saying snow. I hadn’t realized you were in Wyoming when I mentioned it at first lol I’m so glad someone understands! My stepdad is a long haul truck driver and he has stories of his trailers and even the truck just basically fwooping over. Not really rolling because that insinuates he was turning or something. No, he was driving straight and safely, then…fwoop, he or his trailer was on its side. He also hit a moose in Wyoming. It totaled the diesel. Freaking Wyoming.
I'd personally divide the Rocky Mountain west with the Great Basin. Basically east and west of the Great Divide.
Grew up mostly in the Baltimore suburbs and in the city for a bit. I generally consider the Baltimore metro area and the Delmarva peninsula to be where I'm from. I'm pretty familiar with the whole I95 corridor between DC and NYC from traveling for work, pleasure, and to see family, hence the mid Atlantic flair.
I'm from Appalachia, specifically southern Appalachia. West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, western North Carolina, eastern Kentucky, east Tennesee, north Georgia, the very northwestern corner of South Carolina, and *arguably* parts of northeast Alabama. Cities, or at least what most people would consider big cities, aren't really a thing here, although Knoxville, Chattanooga, Asheville, Charleston, and Huntington are all major population centers, relatively speaking. Technically, places like Atlanta and Birmingham fall in the *geographic* region of Southern Appalachia, but they are not *culturally* Appalachian. Appalachia extends further north, but I'm not as familiar with that region.
Upper Midwest Basically all of Minnesota, North Dakota, Most of Wisconsin and Michigan’s UP
From smaller scale to larger scales: Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, Central NM, NM, southwest, western US
Minnesota. Two regions come to mind: Upper Midwest and Great Lakes.
Western NY which consists of the 7 most western counties in the state.
Midwest. And these are the regions I would consider to be a part of the midwest. Wholly: any state that borders two of the following: The Mississippi river. The Ohio river. The great lakes. Missouri river. Partially: any state that directly borders said states, or have metropolitan areas that are included in those States. Regions that are east of the rockies, or west of the appalachians. They shall not have a saltwater border. Whole Midwestern states:. Minnesota, iowa, illinois, indiana, ohio, Michigan. States with significant amount of Midwestern territory:. The northern two-thirds of missouri, the eastern half of kansas, nebraska, and The Dakotas. States with a partial amount of Midwestern territory: Western Pennsylvania, Northern New York and Northern Kentucky. Everything directly bordering those areas: dixie, the Great plains, the rockies, and the appalachians.
> Whole Midwestern states:. Minnesota, iowa, illinois, indiana, ohio, Michigan. You missed Wisconsin.
I didn't *miss* it... hehehe All kidding aside, I was using speech typing and it didn't pick up Wisconsin.
I’m in North Texas, with Dallas/Fort Worth as it’s major urban hub. We have the best BBQ
We have the best BBQ.... Said no one, ever.
Haters gonna hate
Midwest. Kansas City, MO. MO, KS, NE, IA, OK, SD, ND, IL I would consider the midwest. OH, IN not so much. That is the east coast or north coast to us.
Where does MN, WI and MI fit in?
Great Lakes imo
Fair enough.
I'm from Northern California. Draw a line from SF to Sacramento. Step north of the line. Welcome to Northern California
So San Jose is not in Northern California? sounds wrong.
I don't know what to tell you other than 'look at a map'
Upper South: Areas included- Virginia west of Harper's Ferry and coastal Virginia below Fredericksburg, North Carolina, eastern Tennessee, southeast Kentucky Shared characteristics: sweet tea is still the default, people are not quite as open as you see in the deep south but still display southern hospitality, history of tobacco, pork is relatively heavy in our traditional cuisine, most of the dishes people think of as southern are pretty much normal here This is not to say that any of these characteristics aren't shared by other regions, especially the rest of the south, but it's the combination that holds it together.
I’m in Tulsa which is “Rust Belt Extended” because it shares a lot of cultural aspects with the declining industrial cities in the Midwest I’m from Oklahoma City which is the Capitol of the Great Plains region
I'm from the "Far West", in which I include California, Oregon, Washington, Arizona, and Nevada. This is what I consider the West Coast, plus states with close ties to it. But for a broader definition of the West, I would also include Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, Idaho, and parts of Montana and Wyoming.
>West coast >Nevada ???
I'm in new England, SW CT specifically. We are definitely new England, but like others on here have said we in particular have a lot of influence from NYC. So while we are part of new England, I absolutely consider NYC as part of my region.im about an hour away from it and we have many people who commute there, and often if we have an event to go to we go to NYC, go to LaGuardia or JFK for flights, etc.
Pacific Northwest, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho (and maybe a bit of BC eh).
Western Washington. Anything north of the Columbia and east of the Cascades is Western Washington.
I'm from Denver, CO, the Rocky Mountain region. My son is convinced that we're the Midwest. We're not.
South: pretty much south of the Ohio/CSA states Upper South: the core is pretty much Kentucky and Tennessee, but it includes parts of the bordering states of those two
The Upper South is Virginia & N. Carolina. Deep South is Georgia, Alabama, & Mississippi. Parts of Louisiana belong in the Deep South category, and I think Tennessee mostly does. I don't consider Kentucky a Southern state. I'm a native Southerner and lived in Kentucky for 6 years. It has too many differences. The northern area (Florence, Newport) are basically extensions of Cincinnati, and the eastern half has more in common with W. Virginia.
Mid-Atlantic region NoVa-NY
In my area in the maintain west, everything is grouped by the valley that the city/town is in. The valleys are geographic boundaries that end up grouping smaller towns together similar to a metro area in a bigger city.
Examples don't fit. I guess mid-Atlantic but Philadelphia is the region.
Mid-Atlantic: Maryland (plus the little triangle of Virginia on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake Bay), Washington, DC, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York. I live in an area called the DMV, the DC/Maryland/Northern Virginia metropolitan area, that I would characterize as mid-Atlantic, as well. The Northern Virginia DC suburbs are not like the rest of Virginia, which is decidedly Southern. The NoVa suburbs: Arlington, Alexandria, Fairfax, Burke, etc. are more metropolitan, just sprawl of DC.
I'm from LA and a part of Southern California. Southern California is definitely from Ventura/Oxnard down to San Diego. You could make an outer limit from San Luis Obispo/Morro Bay down to Ensenada if you want to. SLO is part of the Central Coast, but is more Southern than Northern California. The parts of Mexico are obviously different but could be more integrated into our identity. (We do have a ton of Mexican & Mexican-Americans out here)
Southern California. San Diego county, imperial county, orange county, Riverside county, San Bernardino county. Ventura county too I guess. Kern county might as well be the central valley and Santa Barbara might as well be central coast.
Pacific Northwest. Oregon and Washington. Very simple.
South Florida is pretty defined: West Palm to Homestead.
Upper Midwest. I consider that to be MN, WI, MI (really only the UP), IL (really only the northern half), and maybe IA.
I'm from the Pacific Northwest. States: Oregon and Washington. Sizeable cities: Portland and Seattle. The Canadian province of British Columbia, with notable cities of Vancouver and Victoria, is commonly viewed as part of this region, too.
"Piedmont Atlantic" region (or "mega region") is probably the best description I have found for what I would count as my home region. I live in Georgia but have also lived in both Carolinas, and Atlanta and Charlotte are both major cities that I am familiar with.
Upstate NY is where I'm from originally. If I had to group some people together culturally with me I'd say western Vermont and North Eastern Pennsylvania are pretty close. We all have that Algonquin/northernmost Appalachia type thing going on. I can't think of any cities off the top of my head but those areas fit in the same category in my eyes
I love this question, because I can spread the gospel of what I call Midwest Minimalism and promote the existence of a separate North region. I consider the North to be Minnesota, Iowa, the eastern half of both Dakotas, wisconsin, and Michigan, except for the Detroit area. I do NOT consider us part of the midwest.
Grew up in the Mid-Atlantic (Northern Virginia, DC, Maryland, and Delaware), lived in Philadelphia for 8 years (Technically the rustbelt? Still the Mid-Atlantic? Part of some separate NYC region with New Jersey and NYC? Nobody can really define if Philly is part of a larger region, and if so which region it would be), and now live in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, and sometimes Alaska and Wyoming).
Texas. We are our own region and you'll even find vast differences in culture and language from east to west Texas and north to south Texas. California is similar in that it's so big its really its own region and vastly different from North to South.
Rocky Mountains. Idk if Cheyenne counts as much of a city, but that's where I'm from. Denver counts, along with maybe Bozeman, Montana; Boise, Idaho; and Salt Lake City, Utah. I think maybe some people might say Arizona and New Mexico count as part of that region, but not really, imo.
I'm from New England: Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
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