What do you call soda, soft drinks, Coke, etc. and what region do you live in? (store, station)

[Toxic Toast]

I call it soda. Most of the people I know in Indy call it pop.

[MassVt]

New England here ( MA, VT)..

For most people, it's "soda", although there are some Boston natives who might call it "tonic" ( very localized); around the rest of MA, and New England, it's "soda"...

When I lived in Wisconsin, I heard both "soda" and "pop"...

[GLS2010]

That map is wrong because the majority of everyone in Orlando calls it Soda, not coke.

[PatDJohns]

Soda in NY

[michigan83]

Pop here in Michigan.

Actually, we are so strongly in the "pop" column that a lot of menus and advertisements use the word "pop." It is almost 100% usage here.

[J'aimeDesVilles]

Pop.
Currently live in Michigan, from Ohio.

[boreatwork]

soda is soda in md...coke is coke..sprite is sprite....but I just call it a beverage

[ABQalex]

I'm in New Mexico and I use the generic "coke" to describe all corbonated beverages. That's also the most common usage for most people in Albuquerque.

With all the transplants we have from other areas I think that explains why our shade of red on that map isn't deeper. Growing up we knew people form California who said "soda" and I thought it was so weird.

"Pop" and especially "tonic" have to be the weirdest ones to me, though.

It's funny, though, my grandpa was from Mexico and he used the term "pop". He and his family were mining people in northern New Mexico so I think they probably gained that usage from fellow miners who were from the midwest. Because of that "pop" has an old-timey, Depression-era vibe to me whenever I hear it.

"Tonic" just sounds very Victorian and to do with trains to me. I imagine a person on a train heading out west in the 1880s and having a "tonic".

[CoffeeAndBeer]

Soda!

Everyone in St. Louis calls soda - soda, you almost never hear "pop." That's because soda is called soda! Calling any soda "coke" doesnt make any sense at all...

I do ask for a cola if I don't care if it's pepsi, coke, or generic.

Native St. Louisan.

[GunnerTHB]

Soda & Coke, SE Missouri.