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West coast/Pacific Northwest: Alaska, Wash. St., Oregon, Cali, Hawaii
Rocky Mountain States: Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming
Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico, the western most half of Texas
Plains states: North and South Dakota (def. not rocky mountain states based on geography alone), Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, top half of Texas. (Iowa could be a midwestern state, but it looks more like a plains state)
Midwest: MN, WI, MI, IL, IN, OH, the northern half of Missouri
deep south: LA, AR, southeast Texas, MS, AL
Southeast: SC, FL, GA
Mid-Atlantic: VA, MD, DE, PA
Northeast: NY, (maybe PA), NJ, CT, RI, MA, VT, NH, ME
or, I would go with this, the mid-south: MO, TN, KY, AR, NC
by calling the Midwest the Great Lakes region instead, Missouri moves to the mid-south term, and Iowa to the plains states definition. MI, WI, MN, IL and OH all touch one or more of the Great Lakes. Michigan touches all but that silly Lake Ontario.
As much as I like it, I don't know if I would call Texas its own region. It's so large, that's true, but it encompasses a wide range of climate and geography. Winters in northern, panhandle Texas are far different from those in Galveston or El Paso for that matter. Much of Texas I would consider the southwest. But areas around Houston could almost be the deep south.
It's difficult to label a whole state northern, midwestern, southern, etc., especially those states that border other regions. For instance, I lived in Columbus, OH and eastern OH at one time. While I consider those areas midwestern, eastern OH has an Appalachain influence. This influence is stonger the further south in Ohio you go. My home state of Maryland is technically southern since it falls below the Mason-Dixon line, but Baltimore looks and acts like a northeastern city. Western Maryland is totally different, but usually is not considered southern or northeastern. I lived in Florida too, and geograpically it's southern, but it's filled with transplants that ultimately changed the culture of the state, except in the some of the rural northern and central counties.
All of Virginia used to be Southern. But now i would accept northern Virginia as "mid-atlantic" because so many people there aren't from Virginia any more. Fredericksburg is now the dividing line culturally I would say.
However, it certainly isn't anything like the northeast. Northern Virginia is kind of "southern light". I think thats the best way to describe it.
Northern States: N. England, New York, New Jersey, Penn., Del., Maryland, W. Virginia*, Ohio, Indiana, Illinios#, Michigan, Wisc., Iowa, Minn., Missouri*.
Border States: Florida, Virginia, Kentucky
Southern States: Carolinas, Georgia, Tenn., Alabama, Miss., Loui., and Ark.
* some southern # very little southern
I did a research project in college drawing the borders of the mordern day South. I used catagories such as cuisine, music, sports, geographic location, and cultural history. The 100% inclusive states are as follows:
-Alabama
-Arkansas
-Georgia
-Louisiana
-Mississippi
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Tennessee
People from Kentucky, West Virgina, Oklahoma, or Virgina can get away with telling people from New England or the Upper Midwest that you are Southern, but you might get laughed at if you tell someone from one of the 100% inclusive states that you are.
As far as where the line dividing the Northeast and Midwest starts...it really doesn't matter to people in my neck of the woods. To us you are all Yankees.
I did a research project in college drawing the borders of the mordern day South. I used catagories such as cuisine, music, sports, geographic location, and cultural history. The 100% inclusive states are as follows:
-Alabama
-Arkansas
-Georgia
-Louisiana
-Mississippi
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Tennessee
People from Kentucky, West Virgina, Oklahoma, or Virgina can get away with telling people from New England or the Upper Midwest that you are Southern, but you might get laughed at if you tell someone from one of the 100% inclusive states that you are.
As far as where the line dividing the Northeast and Midwest starts...it really doesn't matter to people in my neck of the woods. To us you are all Yankees.
Very true. Most Okies consider themselves Southern (or better said Southwestern) culturally, but we really could care less what other folks from other states are thinking in this regard.
As a lifelong Okie we were always taught that we were part of the true Southwest....which is exactly where wikipedia places us. So I really don't know how that is confusing to so many other folks in different parts of the country. Obviously, Okies have a lot of southern influence in terms of speech, food, music, religion, and overall culture. OK, TX, AR share many similarities culturally if that helps for folks that have never been to OkieVille.
I did a research project in college drawing the borders of the mordern day South. I used catagories such as cuisine, music, sports, geographic location, and cultural history. The 100% inclusive states are as follows:
-Alabama
-Arkansas
-Georgia
-Louisiana
-Mississippi
-North Carolina
-South Carolina
-Tennessee
People from Kentucky, West Virgina, Oklahoma, or Virgina can get away with telling people from New England or the Upper Midwest that you are Southern, but you might get laughed at if you tell someone from one of the 100% inclusive states that you are.
As far as where the line dividing the Northeast and Midwest starts...it really doesn't matter to people in my neck of the woods. To us you are all Yankees.
Where does Florida fit in?
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