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Montana, South Dakota and Colorado are very "Great Plains" in the eastern parts and "Mountain West" in the western parts.
I agree with your observation, but I would also add Eastern Wyoming to the Great Plains family.
And while Western MT is very much a part of the Mountain West in the sense of geography and culture, it, along with the Idaho Panhandle, is also considered by many to have a sociocultural essence similar to that of the Pacific Northwest.
I disagree with Tennessee being more influenced by Alabama. Southern Middle Tennessee might be influenced, somewhat...but certainly not the state as a whole. And that is negated a bit by how many people from Alabama are drawn north into Nashville. Between Nashville and Birmingham, Nashville has the much stronger cultural influence these days.
The only way Alabama influences Tennessee is the beatdown UT gets every third Saturday in October in the recent past .
Other than that I dont see how one really influences the other.
As I've stated before, Maryland is a state with a severe case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Central MD is strongly influenced by DC and NoVA, the Eastern Shore and Southern MD has ties with the more rural and/or Southern-feeling regions of Virginia + 'lower slower Delaware', Baltimore is sort of a mini-Philadelphia these days, Western MD is a blend of rural West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania (with very little influence from Central MD), and extreme northern parts of Maryland (i.e., Emmitsburg) is strongly influenced by South Central PA.
Indiana has many cultural blends as well compared to most Midwestern states - southern portions feel like northern Kentucky, western portions (especially northwestern portions) feel like Illinois, far northern portions feel like Michigan, and eastern Indiana feels like Ohio.
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Agree with this map except for some key things about Missouri. The purple areas representing KEntucky and Tennessee need to be colored in purple, and the rest of the southern half of Missouri needs to almost be colored turquoise as the Arkansas/Oklahoma influences come into at least 1/3 of the state.
IMHO, there are a few fundamental cultures in the U.S., most of which blend into each other.
Yankee is found in New England, and Upstate NY. It also formed the predominant cultural influence for the Upper Midwest/Great Lakes culture, which is prevalent in Northern Ohio, Michigan, Chicagoland, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and to an extent the Dakotas).
New York City culture is really its own thing. The influence in New York State peters out around Albany (if that high), although it has Long Island and portions of Connecticut. It has around half of New Jersey and to an extent portions of Pennsylvania (particularly Scranton) as well.
One of the great streams of migration in the U.S. is Midland culture. This sprung from Philadelphia, and to a lesser extent Baltimore, and swept westward. Much of Ohio, Illinois, and Missouri comes from the same wellspring, which is why there are so many architectural similarities between Philadelphia, Cincinnati, and Saint Louis despite the huge physical distance involved. Since the migration went through Appalachia (mainly Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia) there are southernish aspects which are missing from areas further north, particularly in terms of accent in places.
Southern culture is split profoundly between Highland and Lowland, with no state currently existing as a perfect example of one or the other. African-American culture is of course its own thing, which is heavily intertwined with lowland southern culture.
In the West, things have been, for the most part, too recently settled, and too transplant heavy, for unique local cultures to have yet been developed. But some continuance with elsewhere can be seen. For example, San Francisco was settled by people from New England, and not only has similar speech patterns, but very similar architecture and politics. Also in California, the area around Fresno/Bakersfield was settled by Southerners in large numbers, and today is one of the most conservative portions of the state.
There are also oddball areas here and there. Things like the Cajun and Creole cultures in Louisiana, the old Spanish culture in New Mexico, and various Amish/Mennonite enclaves. Arguably Mormon culture has developed into its own thing, but the roots of it are from the Yankee stock, and pretty recognizable, even if the politics have drifted in a very different direction.
Southern[/b] culture is split profoundly between Highland and Lowland, with no state currently existing as a perfect example of one or the other. African-American culture is of course its own thing, which is heavily intertwined with lowland southern culture.
VA, NC, and GA are good examples of this. Even TN might qualify, with western TN being the uppermost extension of the MS Delta region.
VA, NC, and GA are good examples of this. Even TN might qualify, with western TN being the uppermost extension of the MS Delta region.
I'd also add Arkansas into that mix. The northwestern half of the state is composed of the Interior Highlands, and that region has a layout and culture similar to Appalachia, while the southeast leans more towards the Delta and Lower South regions.
I'd also add Arkansas into that mix. The northwestern half of the state is composed of the Interior Highlands, and that region has a layout and culture similar to Appalachia, while the southeast leans more towards the Delta and Lower South regions.
Yep, same as TN in that regard.
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