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California comes closest. You'll find every climate, every terrain type, and every density type. Mountains, ocean, desert, temperate rain forest, flat farmland, pine forests, open hilly areas with oaks, wine country, flat warm beaches and cool rocky coastline, hot and dry places as well as snowy cold places. High density urban areas to very rural. It almost has everything.
California has nothing that resembles the Northeast or South.
California has nothing that resembles the Northeast or South.
San Francisco does resemble a Northeastern city in layout, and people in San Joaquin valley and Blacks speak in Southernish accents. There's a little bit of all of the US in California.
I don't think any state represents ALL regions of America. However, the one state that I believe represents more regions than any other state would be Ohio or Pennsylvania. These two states blend the Northeast, Midwest and South pretty well.
There's nothing Southern about Pennsylvania. If there was, then I would never have experienced the degree of culture shock that I did when I moved to Georgia. And don't even bring up Confederate flags; I've seen them in California and Nevada before, and nobody would ever suggest that those states have a Southern influence in their cultures. Until Pennsylvania has even one county that's plurality Baptist, or any territory at all that's south of the "sweet tea line," then it's not Southern, period.
By the way, I'd say Missouri is the best representation of all four regions. The state is largely Midwestern, with a Northeastern exclave in St. Louis, Southern influence across the southern tier of the state, and more of an open, Western feel as you go west.
California comes closest. You'll find every climate, every terrain type, and every density type. Mountains, ocean, desert, temperate rain forest, flat farmland, pine forests, open hilly areas with oaks, wine country, flat warm beaches and cool rocky coastline, hot and dry places as well as snowy cold places. High density urban areas to very rural. It almost has everything.
California doesn't really have seasons. Much of America has a 4 season climate. Way up in the mountains there is snow, but not in the areas where most people live, and certainly most people do not associate "snow" with "California".
There's nothing Southern about Pennsylvania. If there was, then I would never have experienced the degree of culture shock that I did when I moved to Georgia. And don't even bring up Confederate flags; I've seen them in California and Nevada before, and nobody would ever suggest that those states have a Southern influence in their cultures. Until Pennsylvania has even one county that's plurality Baptist, or any territory at all that's south of the "sweet tea line," then it's not Southern, period.
By the way, I'd say Missouri is the best representation of all four regions. The state is largely Midwestern, with a Northeastern exclave in St. Louis, Southern influence across the southern tier of the state, and more of an open, Western feel as you go west.
I guess. I mean, I could see MO having a significant Midwestern and southern blend, but saying that it has a hint of Northeastern or Western representation is stretching it. How the hell can you say that it represents the Northeast when the states immediately to the northeast of MO, such as Kentucky don't even feel northeastern at all?!
I guess. I mean, I could see MO having a significant Midwestern and southern blend, but saying that it has a hint of Northeastern or Western representation is stretching it. How the hell can you say that it represents the Northeast when the states immediately to the northeast of MO, such as Kentucky don't even feel northeastern at all?!
First of all, Kentucky is not northeast of Missouri; it's southeast. Second of all, St. Louis was developed very much like a Northeastern city.
In terms of culture, any swing state. Probably florida and ohio represent all U.S cultures, i don't know about geography though
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