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05-13-2010, 02:53 PM
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Location: Austin, TX/Chicago, IL/Houston, TX/Washington, DC
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Okay, we all know geographically these cities are placed in a region but have more in common with another region.
Would you consider Pittsburgh to be in the Northeast region or the Midwest region? Which one do you think it has more in common with?
Would you consider Louisville a southern city or a Midwestern city? Which region does it have more in common with?
Would you consider Kansas City a Midwestern city? Or a mountainous western city like Salt Lake City or Denver? Especially since the city across the state St. Louis is very much Midwestern.
I've always wondered about the cultures of these cities and if they display cultures of another region better than the ones they're geographically in. What do you guys think?
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05-13-2010, 03:07 PM
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Location: The City
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Pittsburgh = Midwest
Louisville = Southern
Kansas City = Midwest
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05-13-2010, 05:13 PM
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Location: Floyd County, IN
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Pittsburgh= Appalachian, Eastern, Midwestern
Louisville= Southern, Midwestern, Appalachian
Kansas City= Plains, Midwestern, Ozarkian
Order of regional influences from most to least dominating.
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05-13-2010, 06:08 PM
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Location: Southern Minnesota
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Pittsburgh = Northeastern
Louisville = Southern
Kansas City = Southern, with a little Midwest influence
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05-13-2010, 10:28 PM
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Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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Pittsburgh = Northeast
Louisville = Midwest
Kansas City = Midwest
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05-13-2010, 10:36 PM
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Location: The City
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Quote:
Originally Posted by GraniteStater
Pittsburgh= Appalachian, Eastern, Midwestern
Louisville= Southern, Midwestern, Appalachian
Kansas City= Plains, Midwestern, Ozarkian
Order of regional influences from most to least dominating.
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See to me living in PA - there is a vast differance between the eastern part of the state (more in common with Jersey than most of PA) and the western part - Pittsburgh to me seems more like Cleveland or Cincinatti than it does seem like Phialdelphia - but I do agree in some ways it may be the largest city quasi appalachia city -also it's closet NE ties are actually to DC (of which it is much closer to than Philly or NYC) and DC is in many ways the least NE city in the NE corrider |
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05-13-2010, 10:46 PM
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Location: Chicagoland
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Kansas City: Midwestern
Pittsburgh: split
Louisville: split
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05-13-2010, 11:04 PM
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Location: Boston
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Pittsburgh- Midwestern
Louisville- Southern
Kansas City- Midwestern
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05-13-2010, 11:59 PM
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Location: The canyon (with my pistols and knife)
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I lived in Pittsburgh for 15 years. Its focus has always been on the Northeast. I found a map illustrating the most common Facebook connections between various major cities, and the top three for Pittsburgh were Washington DC, Philadelphia and New York, in that order. The only cities to its west that made the top 10 were Youngstown, OH (4th), Chicago (6th) and Cleveland (10th).
Compare this to Cleveland, whose top five were four other Ohio cities plus Chicago. (Pittsburgh was Cleveland's 10th as well.) Cleveland is more Midwest-inclined, and Pittsburgh is more Northeast-inclined, and the social connections prove this. Cleveland is a Midwestern city with a dash of Northeast, while Pittsburgh is a Northeastern city with a dash of Midwest. The Pennsylvania/Ohio state line is almost as much a social boundary as it is a political boundary.
(Louisville is a Midwestern city with a dash of the South.)
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05-14-2010, 02:08 AM
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Location: Kansas City
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How can Pittsburgh have western in it's name at all?
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