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View Poll Results: is pittsburgh northeatern or midwestern?
Northeastern 100 51.28%
Midwestern 45 23.08%
other 50 25.64%
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Old 06-02-2014, 07:58 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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There isn't any place with the "Pittsburgh accent" outside of the Western PA. Seriously, I have heard nothing even close anywhere else. Just listen to the guy in this video:

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I really didn't think he sounded that bad. If you want an annoying accent, it's a Boston/Massachusetts one to me.
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Old 06-02-2014, 08:01 PM
 
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I really didn't think he sounded that bad. If you want an annoying accent, it's a Boston/Massachusetts one to me.
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Old 06-03-2014, 07:03 AM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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I really didn't think he sounded that bad. If you want an annoying accent, it's a Boston/Massachusetts one to me.
Six years of schooling in (western) Massachusetts means I can fake a Boston accent pretty well. Much better than I can do a Pittsburgh accent, despite living here for nearly a decade now. I do it from time to time to crack my wife up.
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Old 06-03-2014, 07:50 AM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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I'm sorry, but since when does a Polish presence make a city northeastern? Illinois' third largest language group is Polish, does that make us Northeast now, too? Did you also know that Pittsburgh's largest European ethnic group is German, which the Midwest is heavily known for and many Midwest towns are mostly German?

Bet you didn't know that there a lot of Italians in Detroit, too.

Also, Pittsburgh is 440 miles from Chicago, does this now make it also Midwestern?

In my opinion, Pittsburgh is perfectly within the Northeast region of the USA. So it is geographically Northeastern.

Culturally, it's got that blue collar, small town feel that many Midwestern towns have.

Linguistically, the Pittsburgh accent has elements of Southern and Midwestern dialects. Very little if any Northeastern is seen in Yinzer talk. People in the Northeast don't say "pop", Midwesterners do. People in the Northeast don't say "still" or "crick" instead of "steel" or "creek", Southerners do.

So, it's really a hodge podge owing more in common to the Midwest and then the South than the Northeast.
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.
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Old 06-03-2014, 08:27 AM
 
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Cincinnati is more culturally conservative than Pittsburgh in both the city proper and the metropolitan area, and its also beholden to the state politics of Ohio, which behaves very much like a Midwestern state. On the other hand, Pittsburgh is arguably the most culturally liberal major city between Chicago and the East Coast (Ann Arbor, MI is not a major city), and even its suburbs aren't quite as conservative as Cincinnati's, considering only small slices of neighboring counties consist of people who have rejected Pittsburgh and Allegheny County, as opposed to entire neighboring counties near Cincinnati and Hamilton County. And though Pennsylvania is conservative relative to the Northeast, it's still more liberal than much of the United States, and behaves more like a Northeastern state than many people admit.

There's also more of a "hole filling into the donut" effect in Cincinnati than there is in Pittsburgh, though it's not nearly as extreme in Cincinnati than it is in Cleveland or Detroit. On the other hand, Pittsburgh is more like Buffalo and Rochester, which did see some disinvestment, but still have plenty of neighborhoods that are intact and ready for reinvestment.
I'm a little bit confused about where this Midwest = conservative idea keeps coming from. Having grown up in the Midwest, then lived in Pittsburgh for a while, I can tell you, you guys are one of the most conservative big cities I've ever seen...
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Old 06-03-2014, 08:31 AM
 
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To play the Devil's Advocate (the Devil made me do it): Wichita and Omaha are sometimes considered Great Plains cities; Wichita is often considered a western city as well, though it's not quite to the 100th meridian (ONE of the definitions of "west" in the US). There are lots of cities that have "dual personalities". My DH, who is from Omaha, says Omaha is "Mid-Plains" when people ask if it's midwest or Great Plains. Some people call Denver a midwestern city, and/or a Great Plains city.
Denver is not Midwest. The people that told you that are wrong.

Pittsburgh's not Midwest either. I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not Midwest...
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Old 06-03-2014, 01:45 PM
 
Location: Foot of the Rockies
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Denver is not Midwest. The people that told you that are wrong.

Pittsburgh's not Midwest either. I don't know what it is, but it's definitely not Midwest...
Having lived in metro Denver for 34 years, I can tell you some, if not many, say Denver is the midwest, including some who live here.

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There are actually a number of businesses in Denver with the name "Midwest" in them. Acutally, I think Denver is a Great Plains city.
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Old 06-03-2014, 04:47 PM
 
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Having lived in metro Denver for 34 years, I can tell you some, if not many, say Denver is the midwest, including some who live here.

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There are actually a number of businesses in Denver with the name "Midwest" in them. Acutally, I think Denver is a Great Plains city.
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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Old 06-03-2014, 05:49 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Six years of schooling in (western) Massachusetts means I can fake a Boston accent pretty well. Much better than I can do a Pittsburgh accent, despite living here for nearly a decade now. I do it from time to time to crack my wife up.
A few years ago I went to Toronto and while I was there I saw a Blue Jays vs Red Sox game. There were some Red Sox fans behind me and I thought they were talking funny on purpose just to annoying people in the stand. By the end of the game, I realized that's how those guys behind us really sounded. While I am a Pittsburgh native, I don't think I have the accent on most things and have a hard time making up a Pittsburgh accent,
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Old 06-03-2014, 06:04 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Imo anything west of the mountains is midwest. That makes pittsburgh "other".
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