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View Poll Results: is pittsburgh northeatern or midwestern?
Northeastern 100 51.28%
Midwestern 45 23.08%
other 50 25.64%
Voters: 195. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 06-03-2014, 07:26 PM
 
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Old 06-04-2014, 06:25 AM
 
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Imo anything west of the mountains is midwest. That makes pittsburgh "other".
.... Typical "East Coast Bubblist"
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Old 06-05-2014, 04:57 PM
 
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Upstate New Yorkers say "pop", too. They say "soda" in Milwaukee. There are tons of pop/soda maps on here to puruse.

I do agree that Pittsburgh is northeast.
Pittsburgh is NE geographically and culturally I don't think it is East Coast. It's proximity to the South and Midwest just makes it a hodge podge.

BUT, for those saying the Midwest is conservative, I think that is a misconception. Two of the most Democratic cities are Chicago and Detroit. Granted, Detroit is UAW Democrat but there is a huge Progressive presence in Chicago.

Other regions that are Midwest and Blue are Madison, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, the entire Northwest Region of Indiana, most of Iowa, Minnesota. The Midwest is probably purple at best. But you want conservative, the Midwest isn't the best region to look, unless you want the Western edge of the Midwest (like the Dakotas and Nebraska).

Denver btw is in the Frontier/Mountain region. Not Midwest.
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Old 06-05-2014, 05:05 PM
 
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As a native Midwesterner, that's crazy to me. I'd agree that it could be Great Plains, but doesn't anybody think in terms of "Mountain West" out there?

Granted, the Midwest is geographically large and culturally diverse, but places like Pittsburgh and Denver are just so different from the majority of the Midwest to me that I couldn't bring myself to call either "Midwestern" with a straight face...
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Pittsburgh is NE geographically and culturally I don't think it is East Coast. It's proximity to the South and Midwest just makes it a hodge podge.

BUT, for those saying the Midwest is conservative, I think that is a misconception. Two of the most Democratic cities are Chicago and Detroit. Granted, Detroit is UAW Democrat but there is a huge Progressive presence in Chicago.

Other regions that are Midwest and Blue are Madison, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, the entire Northwest Region of Indiana, most of Iowa, Minnesota. The Midwest is probably purple at best. But you want conservative, the Midwest isn't the best region to look, unless you want the Western edge of the Midwest (like the Dakotas and Nebraska).

Denver btw is in the Frontier/Mountain region. Not Midwest.
Denver is not in the mountains.
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Old 06-05-2014, 05:13 PM
 
Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Pittsburgh is NE geographically and culturally I don't think it is East Coast. It's proximity to the South and Midwest just makes it a hodge podge.
Exactly what proximity to the South are we talking about? No, northern West Virginia doesn't count, because culturally it's not Southern.


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BUT, for those saying the Midwest is conservative, I think that is a misconception. Two of the most Democratic cities are Chicago and Detroit. Granted, Detroit is UAW Democrat but there is a huge Progressive presence in Chicago.
Bill Peduto, the new mayor of Pittsburgh, is a progressive Democrat. He had to win the Democrat primary somehow.
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Old 06-05-2014, 11:16 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia
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Exactly what proximity to the South are we talking about? No, northern West Virginia doesn't count, because culturally it's not Southern.
Historically northern West Virginia is "southern", Bethany in Brooke County voted in favor of the Confederacy in 1861 and there are still southern accents found north of Sutton, even in Monongalia County, Harrison County, etc. True, it hardly counts as the south, but it is not equivalent to Pennsylvania.
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Old 06-10-2014, 05:40 PM
 
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You have some good points.
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Old 06-10-2014, 05:48 PM
 
Location: Lehigh Valley, PA
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Really??!!?!?!? What idiot would even think that ANY part of Pennsylvania is in the Midwest??!?!?!?!

At this rate why not include NYC, Boston and the Jersey Shore too???!?!?
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Old 06-11-2014, 03:14 AM
 
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Old 06-14-2014, 08:16 AM
 
Location: Steeler Nation
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lol it looks like it is in apalachia but it is still in a northeastern state,
so that makes it a northern city.
Here's a map.
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