Even culturally Raleigh doesn't have a "coastal" vibe, it's much more on par with Charlotte/Greensboro/Asheville than it is with places like New Bern or Wilmington.
And no one calls anywhere "Tidewater" besides Hampton Roads-Williamsburg VA. The dividing line for the Carolinas is I-95, and North and South are distinctly different. There maybe could be a Coastal Cities region of Wilmington-Charleston-Savannah, maybe, but definitely East NC and East SC are different.
Texan here. I like how you did Texas, although I'd leave Midland/Odessa in the lower great plains with Amarillo and Lubbock. Midland/Odessa are culturally tied to Lubbock, Amarillo, not Albuquerque and Phoenix.
I feel like the area around Austin should kind of be its own thing like how the SF bay area is carved out. From New Braunfels to Round Rock along I35 is very different from the rest of Texas, even the other liberal strongholds.
Fly over country had always been awkward for people doing this. Lumping Eastern Nebraska with Great Lakes and knocking other plains states into a different group is just weird.
The foods, language, and lifestyles of agricultural/prairie spaces is very different than the woodlands or lakeside places.
Those of us in the largely rural middle share much more culture with the rest of Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Eastern Colorado, etc. than we do with lakeside Illinois, Michigan, etc
As a Midwesterner, I’ve never considered Nebraska or Kansas a Midwest state. TBH I almost think the “midwest” should really be divided into “Great Lakes” and “Great Plains” (separate from the Rockies/Frontier).
Put Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in Great Lakes.
Then Iowa, South North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and half of Missouri into Great Plains.
Yeah. The experience of living on mostly flat spaces, relatively little water or woods, our climate, etc shapes us differently than the woods and lake people's to the northeast. It shaped the native tribes living in both planes as well.
Names get weird. Midwest, great plains, Central, heartland... I think Great Plains is the one that would be most readily understood.
Yeah presence of water is a good way of looking at it. Like coastal cities feeling different than inland.
That’s essentially why I put Minnesota with Great Lakes. Their shoreline is short but they have a lot of lakes. Indiana is low on the water chart but they’re culturally similar to Ohio, Michigan, Illinois.
You see a lot of these, but this might be the most accurate one I’ve seen yet. People picking it apart but from a cultural standpoint I think it’s right on
100%. It’s crazy how many comments are like “You don’t understand MY tiny neck of the woods perfectly, clearly you should have shifted this color border by 3 pixels!” 🤦♂️. OP, I think you did a beautiful job, and it’s refreshing seeing a cultural map like this with genuinely meaningful divides. I’ve lived all up and down the west coast and I think you nailed it.
I know! My home area also apparently has no distinct cultural identity, even though no one around us would claim us I am sure.
I wonder if this map fails to capture the "city effect" kind of like state-based election maps. So sure it is accurate for the places where frankly there are not a lot of people, but underrepresents the city cultures.
“Northwoods” … I’m from Michigan ( plus 35 years ), lived in the “ down river area “ ( between Detroit and Toledo ). I lived in West Michigan … Grand Rapids, Lake Shore” and I lived “UP NORTH” Michigan. haha never heard or used the term “Northwoods” … always been UP NORTH for the Northern part of the lower Peninsula.
The Chicagoland line extends a little too far into Wisconsin and not far enough into Indiana. Lots of Bears fans and people who work in Chicago in that whole northwest corner of Indiana.
I also just discovered, right this moment, that on regular-antenna-TV there’s an entire channel devoted to Chicago Sports - CHSN. I don’t even think we have this for the Milwaukee/WI teams.
So, maybe we are closer to Chicagoland than I realized.
That's a good map, but Northern Virginia is Mid-Atlantic, not Piedmont. VA culture shifts massively once you get south of Richmond. I would never call people in Alexandria and Arlington "Southerners." They're much more like the Northeast.
Bakersfield, Redding, and Boise all fall into neat little trifecta areas. Unfamiliar with the first two but having grown up in Boise, yeah it’s got some awesome and varying geography within just an hour drive in pretty much any direction.
As someone from Sacramento I’m not sure I’m in the same cultural area as Bakersfield or Fresno. Our congressional representative have polar opposite viewpoints.
Culture maps like these usually have a somewhat formulaic naming schem – as they're meant to map cultures as they are in reality, which seldom fit the culture map in people minds.
The colours just mean that the culture there is distinct. Any hue shift means that the culture is overall similar, but with some differences.
The part of the Great Lakes region I’m most familiar with (Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan coast) starts having cornfields within walking distance of the lake. The culture doesn’t feel any different than farming areas deeper in Wisconsin.
I mean the general region line then sure but the colored areas are pretty representative. Also Texas might not be the Deep South but it definitely shares identity with the south as a whole.
Hmm what is “the south” then if the southern most point of the southern most state does not fall under “the south”? I think this whole diagram is dumb though because it’s supposed to be “cultural regions”, and seems we are discussing terrain and geography
I thought it was about culture and terrain? Even then, Austin, San Antonio and further west from there, the culture and terrain look much more Southwest than straight Southern. East Texas and even Houston is definitely Southern though, but it looks very different from Central, South and West TX.
I consider West Virginia to be Central Appalachia. Southern Appalachia is East Tennessee, Western NC, Southwest Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky. There's also a pinch of NE Georgia and NW South Carolina, but not much.
Southern Appalachia on the edge of the deep south.
I think mid sized cities are hard to fit, because they aren't big enough to have a footprint like NYC, Chicago, or SF. But they still have an identity separate from the larger rural cultures around them.
For example, Huntsville Alabama has the highest PHDs per capita in the US, but its labeled as deep south, which fits if you go 2 minutes outside of town.
I tell people I'm from the mountains of Alabama and they laugh, picturing Alabama as flat farm land from the south. But I grew up a 20 minute drive from Chattanooga.
Aha! I know exactly what you mean! Honestly we might be related 😆 My family on that side goes back for generations in/around Chattooga county (and DeKalb), worked the lumber and cotton mills for eons. People will say ohhhh you mean Chattanooga? No ma’am, in fact I do not lmao
Sprinkle in the Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and maybe some Osage along the west edge of 18 and 20, and you'll start to see Tulsa in a little different light.
Aloha, Talofa, and Hafa adai from “American Oceania”. Good to see Hawai’i is its own thing, but lumping the shittiest maps ever of CNMI, Guam, and Tutuila (ignoring the rest of American Samoa) is culturally crazy. Different languages, food, ethnic background, political relationships with the US government….
Lol. The map attempts to include all the islands of CNMI, yet leaves out some islands of American Samoa.
It really can't be understated how different the cultures are between islands in the Pacific. I mean even Guam food leans in on it's ranching culture than fishing culture.
Why is Mid-Atlantic not more of a thing? I know it’s not much, but the I-95 corridor between NOVA, DC, Baltimore and Philly…Don’t really see those as North or South.
Did someone really just lump New Orleans with Biloxi, Mississippi on a cultural map? They’ve either never been to New Orleans or don’t understand what culture means.
I don’t mean to be petty, but as someone whose parents are from western upstate New York, and as somebody who’s from South Florida, this map could be much more granular and complex.
North Florida from Central, Florida to South Florida to the Keys are literally so different we joke about them being entirely different states and even feeling like different countries.
People from the finger legs region west are night and Day different personalities and lifestyles and also cultural heritage from people that live in the Hudson Highlands or general Albany, East of New York
This captures our diverse cultures very well!
BUT 😉 expect to hear complaints from ppl in the metro areas. Large cities seem to be their own culture...
Huh, Wikipedia has a very broad definition of upstate NY. I wouldn’t have considered western NY, finger lakes, nor the southern tier to be part of it. To me I picture more the Adirondacks and that sort of thing.
I’m from the southern tier and tell people I’m from “upstate” because in the south, there are only two places you can be from if you’re from NY: NYC or Upstate. That’s it. And most people just assume NYC if I say NY. The state attached to the city isn’t real.
Southerner here and can confirm that anything north of NYC is "Upstate" for me, much to the chagrin of my parents who are from New York state and have corrected me several times over ::shrugs:: :-)
Thank you for confirming. Sometimes locals will ask “which part” of NY I’m from, but I don’t know why they ask. If I say “Finger Lakes area” they look at me blankly like those are words they have never heard in combination before. Sometimes I’ll get a “my cousin’s neighbor lives in Troy. Is that nearby?” or “My husband went to a meeting in Syracuse once.”
Not including the entire western border of WV in the Ohio River Valley is insane. They have more in common with the people over the river than they do with the rest of us.
I think this map does well with the Virginia issue. Nova is culturally northeast and while tidewater feels a bit more southern, it has the strongest infrastructure ties to the northeast (and has for a long long time). The gray color feels appropriate at communicating this as well. Bravo.
Oh yeah and bonus points for drawing the line through Richmond.
The Alaska portions of these maps always crack me up. Alaska is huuuuuge. There might not be many people, but there's a lot of regional variation both culturally and geographically. You could easily divide Alaska into 5 of these regions - SE, S Central, Aleutian, North Slope, Interior... Also kind of an odd choice to just say the northern bit of Alaska is "Alaska First Nation." Ok, so if I go to Angoon or Klawock, villages in Southeast Alaska that are almost entirely Tlingit people, are those not "Alaska First Nation"? People who haven't lived in Alaska just don't know Alaska.
Not sure about western Colorado and eastern Utah being “northern Rockies.” The landscape and climate are much different than the northern portion of that region.
Dusty old timers milling about an abandoned mine shaft or a young couple in brown leather hiking boots and red shoelaces with their dog in a handkerchief around its neck.
The central valley of california is most definitely not a singular cultural region. I won't go through them all but suffice to say Fresno, Bakersfield, and Kern County are their own little islands of insanity apart from the rest of California though they have more in common with Stockton and Modesto than anywhere else.
And you have the lower tip bent around into Burdoo, Mojave and Searles valley areas which are vastly different cultures.
Always strange seeing Searles Valley/Trona mentioned on here. I suppose at least there were people to have a culture, unlike over in Panamint Valley.
But yes, that stretch of the 395, from Boron, Red Mountain, Randsburg, Trona, Ridgecrest, Inyokern is definitely its own thing. Different from Lone Pine and Bishop; and much different even from Adelanto/Hesperia or Mojave/Palmdale.
Yah. My family came from Trona and Burdoo. Some time earlier this year Trona came up in media a lot more than it usually does and then dropped off the radar again.
Anything in NC east of the fall line but not marshy beach land is called “Coastal Plain” Tidewater is exclusively on the coasts and a few river mouths.
Raleigh is pretty squarely Piedmont, nobody would even remotely consider it a coastal city.
Apparently its cultural and not geographical. They are saying many of the Coastal people or culture are in Raleigh.
Geographically it is certainly in the Piedmont. I am from the Western Piedmont 'The Sandhills'
Even culturally Raleigh doesn't have a "coastal" vibe, it's much more on par with Charlotte/Greensboro/Asheville than it is with places like New Bern or Wilmington.
And no one calls anywhere "Tidewater" besides Hampton Roads-Williamsburg VA. The dividing line for the Carolinas is I-95, and North and South are distinctly different. There maybe could be a Coastal Cities region of Wilmington-Charleston-Savannah, maybe, but definitely East NC and East SC are different.
I'd agree with the Wilmington-Charleston-Savannah lumping and you are spot on that those are drastically different places 20 minutes west from each.
If not piedmont it would be part of the Coastal Plain region which is missing on this map but in NC is more commonly used than tidewater
I didn't even notice they had it shifted to far west. Yeah, I'm thinking the boundaries of these zones aren't as accurate as they could be.
Texan here. I like how you did Texas, although I'd leave Midland/Odessa in the lower great plains with Amarillo and Lubbock. Midland/Odessa are culturally tied to Lubbock, Amarillo, not Albuquerque and Phoenix.
I feel like the area around Austin should kind of be its own thing like how the SF bay area is carved out. From New Braunfels to Round Rock along I35 is very different from the rest of Texas, even the other liberal strongholds.
Fly over country had always been awkward for people doing this. Lumping Eastern Nebraska with Great Lakes and knocking other plains states into a different group is just weird.
The foods, language, and lifestyles of agricultural/prairie spaces is very different than the woodlands or lakeside places.
Those of us in the largely rural middle share much more culture with the rest of Nebraska, South Dakota, Kansas, Eastern Colorado, etc. than we do with lakeside Illinois, Michigan, etc
As a Midwesterner, I’ve never considered Nebraska or Kansas a Midwest state. TBH I almost think the “midwest” should really be divided into “Great Lakes” and “Great Plains” (separate from the Rockies/Frontier).
Put Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota in Great Lakes.
Then Iowa, South North Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, and half of Missouri into Great Plains.
Yeah. The experience of living on mostly flat spaces, relatively little water or woods, our climate, etc shapes us differently than the woods and lake people's to the northeast. It shaped the native tribes living in both planes as well.
Names get weird. Midwest, great plains, Central, heartland... I think Great Plains is the one that would be most readily understood.
Yeah presence of water is a good way of looking at it. Like coastal cities feeling different than inland.
That’s essentially why I put Minnesota with Great Lakes. Their shoreline is short but they have a lot of lakes. Indiana is low on the water chart but they’re culturally similar to Ohio, Michigan, Illinois.
They are also heavily wooded in the upper half. I would almost categorize them as Southern Canada
You see a lot of these, but this might be the most accurate one I’ve seen yet. People picking it apart but from a cultural standpoint I think it’s right on
100%. It’s crazy how many comments are like “You don’t understand MY tiny neck of the woods perfectly, clearly you should have shifted this color border by 3 pixels!” 🤦♂️. OP, I think you did a beautiful job, and it’s refreshing seeing a cultural map like this with genuinely meaningful divides. I’ve lived all up and down the west coast and I think you nailed it.
I agree completely, sure no area is a monolith but this is one of the best classifications I’ve seen
Boston: Am I a joke to you?
I know! My home area also apparently has no distinct cultural identity, even though no one around us would claim us I am sure.
I wonder if this map fails to capture the "city effect" kind of like state-based election maps. So sure it is accurate for the places where frankly there are not a lot of people, but underrepresents the city cultures.
Boston does not, in fact, have a distinct cultural identity.
True, it has several.
Also, western MA isn't remotely what anyone would consider "maritime".
Yeah no culture in Boston where the country started revolution, tea party, great map.
“Northwoods” … I’m from Michigan ( plus 35 years ), lived in the “ down river area “ ( between Detroit and Toledo ). I lived in West Michigan … Grand Rapids, Lake Shore” and I lived “UP NORTH” Michigan. haha never heard or used the term “Northwoods” … always been UP NORTH for the Northern part of the lower Peninsula.
I’m in the Milwaukee area. I wouldn’t consider us to be in Chicagoland, but then again I do see tons of Illinois plates and Cubs/Bears gear.
BUT I have heard the term Northwoods and there even was a soda brand back in the 80’s/90’s that we get 3L bottles of orange and grape soda.
The Chicagoland line extends a little too far into Wisconsin and not far enough into Indiana. Lots of Bears fans and people who work in Chicago in that whole northwest corner of Indiana.
I can see that.
I also just discovered, right this moment, that on regular-antenna-TV there’s an entire channel devoted to Chicago Sports - CHSN. I don’t even think we have this for the Milwaukee/WI teams.
So, maybe we are closer to Chicagoland than I realized.
Yeah I live "up north" and that's all I hear it referred to as
That's a good map, but Northern Virginia is Mid-Atlantic, not Piedmont. VA culture shifts massively once you get south of Richmond. I would never call people in Alexandria and Arlington "Southerners." They're much more like the Northeast.
It is Mid-Atlantic in the map tho...
DMV region is not tidewater or appalachia region
This chart is highly debatable
Yeah! The legend doesn't even say which color is better
…. Did you mean to phrase that like that
Bakersfield, Redding, and Boise all fall into neat little trifecta areas. Unfamiliar with the first two but having grown up in Boise, yeah it’s got some awesome and varying geography within just an hour drive in pretty much any direction.
As someone from Sacramento I’m not sure I’m in the same cultural area as Bakersfield or Fresno. Our congressional representative have polar opposite viewpoints.
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Not sure what you’re saying, this map has Indiana 100% in the yellow-tan/midwest
Milwaukee is not part of Chicagoland
I can bike there from Chicago...
It's definitely part of the great metro area.
But do they share the same culture? I’ve lived in Chicago for 30 years and have relatives in Milwaukee and they do not feel like the same culture.
But what do the colors MEAN? What's Great Lakes culture?
Culture maps like these usually have a somewhat formulaic naming schem – as they're meant to map cultures as they are in reality, which seldom fit the culture map in people minds.
The colours just mean that the culture there is distinct. Any hue shift means that the culture is overall similar, but with some differences.
Which doesn’t extend through to erie buffalo or Rochester? Buffalo is more like Cleveland than it is Albany or any other place.
Honestly, the rust belt. Some great breweries though!
Great lakes are Midwesterns with less corn and more water
The part of the Great Lakes region I’m most familiar with (Wisconsin’s Lake Michigan coast) starts having cornfields within walking distance of the lake. The culture doesn’t feel any different than farming areas deeper in Wisconsin.
The colors just seem to be color schemes picked to help differentiate between the overarching regions. Nothing beyond that.
A lot of folk in Fairfax county must have lobbied to get removed from the South
They can have it!
I reckon
Looks like they start the south at Fauquier and Rappahannock.
I look at 39 & 40 and say “Pacific Northwest”.
Texas is geographically southern, but it's not part of "The South"
And this map reflects that.
It literally has half of Texas in it”the south”
I mean the general region line then sure but the colored areas are pretty representative. Also Texas might not be the Deep South but it definitely shares identity with the south as a whole.
What would Texas better fall into then? Lived in Texas all my life and have never heard of it not being in “the south”
The eastern part is definitely Southern. But central and headed further west it gets more Southwest like.
I’d never refer to San Antonio or South Texas as “the South.”
Austin is literally where the South meets the Southwest, you start to see the terrain change.
Hmm what is “the south” then if the southern most point of the southern most state does not fall under “the south”? I think this whole diagram is dumb though because it’s supposed to be “cultural regions”, and seems we are discussing terrain and geography
I thought it was about culture and terrain? Even then, Austin, San Antonio and further west from there, the culture and terrain look much more Southwest than straight Southern. East Texas and even Houston is definitely Southern though, but it looks very different from Central, South and West TX.
Same with Southern Appalachia.
West Virginia?!?
I consider West Virginia to be Central Appalachia. Southern Appalachia is East Tennessee, Western NC, Southwest Virginia, and Eastern Kentucky. There's also a pinch of NE Georgia and NW South Carolina, but not much.
Exactly. Texas is just Texas.
I hope this was made by AI, cause otherwise it's thoroughly inaccurate human slop
It nailed my hometown perfectly.
Southern Appalachia on the edge of the deep south.
I think mid sized cities are hard to fit, because they aren't big enough to have a footprint like NYC, Chicago, or SF. But they still have an identity separate from the larger rural cultures around them.
For example, Huntsville Alabama has the highest PHDs per capita in the US, but its labeled as deep south, which fits if you go 2 minutes outside of town.
Same here. I’ve tried explaining my family is from southern Appalachia and people don’t understand how. Northwestern GA for the win!
I tell people I'm from the mountains of Alabama and they laugh, picturing Alabama as flat farm land from the south. But I grew up a 20 minute drive from Chattanooga.
Aha! I know exactly what you mean! Honestly we might be related 😆 My family on that side goes back for generations in/around Chattooga county (and DeKalb), worked the lumber and cotton mills for eons. People will say ohhhh you mean Chattanooga? No ma’am, in fact I do not lmao
We seriously might be, my great grandma was Cherokee from the area and on my grand dad's side we've been in DeKalb for ever.
Hi! My father grew up in Ft. Payne, and our relatives are all over Sand Mountain and the area.
What types of Phds though? STEM-related?
Yes, its a major space and defense hub.
Pretty accurate to me
It’s just a repost, I’ve seen this map for years.
At a National scale it's not too bad.
Certainly adjustments here and there but again, this is at small scale.
If it were web based and we could zoom in, there would be a LOT more granularity. Hell, every city over 100k would have all kinds of variations.
What about it do you find inaccurate?
That hard line down the West Coast is accurate though.
Where’s the “lowcountry” of South Carolina?
Interesting to look at. LA, Orange County, Palm Springs, and San Diego are not all one cultural region. SoCal could be split into at least those.
Yep. At least 4: LA, OC, SD and IE (the black sheep).
By definition Mid-Atlantic can’t be in the Northeast
Sprinkle in the Choctaw, Muscogee (Creek), Cherokee, and maybe some Osage along the west edge of 18 and 20, and you'll start to see Tulsa in a little different light.
Aloha, Talofa, and Hafa adai from “American Oceania”. Good to see Hawai’i is its own thing, but lumping the shittiest maps ever of CNMI, Guam, and Tutuila (ignoring the rest of American Samoa) is culturally crazy. Different languages, food, ethnic background, political relationships with the US government….
Lol. The map attempts to include all the islands of CNMI, yet leaves out some islands of American Samoa.
It really can't be understated how different the cultures are between islands in the Pacific. I mean even Guam food leans in on it's ranching culture than fishing culture.
Why is Mid-Atlantic not more of a thing? I know it’s not much, but the I-95 corridor between NOVA, DC, Baltimore and Philly…Don’t really see those as North or South.
Nobody uses the term "Southern Tidewaters" for coastal South Carolina and Georgia-- maybe it's some term used behind closed doors in academia.
But most people just call it the Lowcountry.
Did someone really just lump New Orleans with Biloxi, Mississippi on a cultural map? They’ve either never been to New Orleans or don’t understand what culture means.
I don’t mean to be petty, but as someone whose parents are from western upstate New York, and as somebody who’s from South Florida, this map could be much more granular and complex.
North Florida from Central, Florida to South Florida to the Keys are literally so different we joke about them being entirely different states and even feeling like different countries.
People from the finger legs region west are night and Day different personalities and lifestyles and also cultural heritage from people that live in the Hudson Highlands or general Albany, East of New York
Whoever made this and the numbering system, and then the list system, needs to never do that again
This captures our diverse cultures very well! BUT 😉 expect to hear complaints from ppl in the metro areas. Large cities seem to be their own culture...
What makes Wichita, KS, part of the lower Midwest, but Independence, KS, which is more like the Ozarks, part of the lower Great Plains?
I’ve never once heard Buffalo be considered part of upstate NY.
Agreed Buffalo & Rochester are very much Western NY and have little in common with Upstate NY
Huh, Wikipedia has a very broad definition of upstate NY. I wouldn’t have considered western NY, finger lakes, nor the southern tier to be part of it. To me I picture more the Adirondacks and that sort of thing.
But hey, I’m from Ontario so what do I know?
I’m from the southern tier and tell people I’m from “upstate” because in the south, there are only two places you can be from if you’re from NY: NYC or Upstate. That’s it. And most people just assume NYC if I say NY. The state attached to the city isn’t real.
Southerner here and can confirm that anything north of NYC is "Upstate" for me, much to the chagrin of my parents who are from New York state and have corrected me several times over ::shrugs:: :-)
Thank you for confirming. Sometimes locals will ask “which part” of NY I’m from, but I don’t know why they ask. If I say “Finger Lakes area” they look at me blankly like those are words they have never heard in combination before. Sometimes I’ll get a “my cousin’s neighbor lives in Troy. Is that nearby?” or “My husband went to a meeting in Syracuse once.”
Frontiersmen stories are fairytales
Florida is afu.
ND & MN don’t like being separated
What's that dot of blue in south Florida?
Lake Okeechobee, I believe.
You just made this name up, didn't you?
It's Florida. It makes its own reality.
Not including the entire western border of WV in the Ohio River Valley is insane. They have more in common with the people over the river than they do with the rest of us.
I think this map does well with the Virginia issue. Nova is culturally northeast and while tidewater feels a bit more southern, it has the strongest infrastructure ties to the northeast (and has for a long long time). The gray color feels appropriate at communicating this as well. Bravo.
Oh yeah and bonus points for drawing the line through Richmond.
Suffolk county is more culturally upstate than NYC metro
I'll be deep in the cold, cold ground before I recognize Michigan as being even similar to Ohio.
Texas is wrong
What the heck is “Mezquital” and how is the very defined borders of West Texas only that and not Southern New Mexico/Arizona?
The Alaska portions of these maps always crack me up. Alaska is huuuuuge. There might not be many people, but there's a lot of regional variation both culturally and geographically. You could easily divide Alaska into 5 of these regions - SE, S Central, Aleutian, North Slope, Interior... Also kind of an odd choice to just say the northern bit of Alaska is "Alaska First Nation." Ok, so if I go to Angoon or Klawock, villages in Southeast Alaska that are almost entirely Tlingit people, are those not "Alaska First Nation"? People who haven't lived in Alaska just don't know Alaska.
Not sure about western Colorado and eastern Utah being “northern Rockies.” The landscape and climate are much different than the northern portion of that region.
I’d Push the N. Great Plains-Upper Midwest border further East, right around the Missouri.
The western part of CO attributed to 32 is generally considered "the western slope" not the Northern Rockies. though, you got the Front Range right!
i live in Boise, Idaho... only 8.5% of the people here identify as LDS /Mormon.
The Great Basin culture is evident, but Boise is really a fusion of cultures, faiths, and ideologies.
Pretty good breakdown of the PNW. The I-5 corridor from Eugene to Vancouver, BC is a better mark of “Cascadia” than the state lines.
That’s urban coastal Cascadia, but Cascadia as a whole is bigger than that.
What do I do with this map?
Serious question. Trying to learn.
What is the Sierra Nevadas culture?
Dusty old timers milling about an abandoned mine shaft or a young couple in brown leather hiking boots and red shoelaces with their dog in a handkerchief around its neck.
I don't know if this is accurate but if feels accurate.
I’ve stayed for 3 to 4 months in the Sierra Nevadas and came across them lol
Lumping Medford with Reno is a bit of a stretch.
Also, it makes me suspicious to see a fairly major regional center like Boise at the juncture of several regions.
Just south and west of STL is fully considered Ozarks, not "lower midwest".
This is the only map that gets my home region (6) right.
"cultural" you say....🤣🤣🤣
The Southern Tidewater region does not go that far south in my experience
Source?
Reno is definitely not Jefferson
Southern Tidewater, here below Savannah.
I remember this from like 20 years ago lol
“Pacifica forever!”
I like the Midwest and split of MO with south and upper Midwest with the frontier.
Interesting interpretation
Leaving Reno out of the Great Basin is a choice
This is so wrong; Vegas is way closer in culture to Southern California then PHX. Actually, both cities are culturally like southern California.
I approve! Best cultural map I’ve seen for my region.
This is so broad as to be meaningless. Ehat the heck os the “classic Sourhwest”? There is no such thing if you know the history of the region and
No such thing if you know the history and contemporary dynamics
Cascadia represent! Holla at ya boy.
Klahowya, tilikums!
this chart is foul. suggesting Detroit and Green Bay share culture
I live in 9/11 💀
46 is wrong.
The central valley of california is most definitely not a singular cultural region. I won't go through them all but suffice to say Fresno, Bakersfield, and Kern County are their own little islands of insanity apart from the rest of California though they have more in common with Stockton and Modesto than anywhere else.
And you have the lower tip bent around into Burdoo, Mojave and Searles valley areas which are vastly different cultures.
Always strange seeing Searles Valley/Trona mentioned on here. I suppose at least there were people to have a culture, unlike over in Panamint Valley.
But yes, that stretch of the 395, from Boron, Red Mountain, Randsburg, Trona, Ridgecrest, Inyokern is definitely its own thing. Different from Lone Pine and Bishop; and much different even from Adelanto/Hesperia or Mojave/Palmdale.
Yah. My family came from Trona and Burdoo. Some time earlier this year Trona came up in media a lot more than it usually does and then dropped off the radar again.
great basin has like three people in it
And they have a distinct culture
Tbh Reno feels more like the capital of the Great Basin to me than part of “Jefferson”
https://www.motivf.com/american-nations-partnership
This link is to a much better researched "american nations" theory.
Ah ha! I knew eastern Ohio wasn’t considered the Midwest.
Iowa - Bumblefuck.
Who cares about 'murica
Anything in NC east of the fall line but not marshy beach land is called “Coastal Plain” Tidewater is exclusively on the coasts and a few river mouths.
Source: learned geography from an NC school.
Doesn't mention the stupid people region....
No, Central Florida is on there
Oooh, sorry, calling it central now ,,🤣