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Panhandle & North of I-4 - If anyone doubts Florida is Southern they need to pay this region a visit. Jacksonville, Gainesville, Tallahassee & Pensacola - all traditionally Southern cities and wouldn't be out of place in Alabama or Georgia.
I-4 Corridor / Central Florida - Mix of traditional Southerners, transplants from the Midwest and Northeast, Hispanics, retirees, etc. Tampa & Orlando are this regions largest & signature cities.
South Florida (Broward & Palm Beach) - Large population of transplants from the Northeast, large Jewish, Hispanic & Black Islander communities, less noticeably Southern than Central FL but moreso than Miami.
Miami - Distinctly Latinized, heavily Hispanic. Cubans are the largest single ethnic group in the county. Large Latin American & Caribbean Islander immigrant population along with mix of Northern transplants, Europeans and Jews. Miami's "Southernness" is pretty much evident only in the Black American community.
South Florida (which is really southeast FL... at least that's what most people think of) - Cosmopolitan. Liberal. Northerners. Heavy Latin American influence.
Central FL - Slightly cosmo. Lots of midwesterners and NYers. Some rednecks.
Northern Louisiana: Protestant, southern cooking like grits and fried catfish, iced tea, rolling hills with trees and red soil
Southern Louisiana: Catholic, Cajun cuisine like jambalaya, boudin, gumbo, fried seafood, lots of beer, flat prairies, swamps, and marshland
New Orleans: Catholic, Creole cuisine like redfish meuniere, bananas foster, hurricanes and other exotic drinks, urban landscape surrounded by water and swampland or marsh.
Basically, there's New Orleans, Cajun Country, and everything else.
Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Almost every big city is regarded by people outside the metropolitan areas as an alien place, and vice versa. The non-urban part is often called anything from "Upstate" to "BFE".
No exception to that here in Massachusetts, I-495 is the unofficial boundary of many things revolving around Boston. Within this semi-circular outer suburban highway metro Boston's influences are strongly felt. Cape Cod and the Islands are in their own little world but still fairly connected to Boston. Worcester county is more or less a buffer zone. Everything west of that is Western Mass which is fairly cut off from the rest of the state with different mentalities and a more bucolic part of the state.
New Hampshire could be split in two also. South of Concord and Portsmouth/Rochester is the Southern NH area which is at times coined Northern Mass as there are many little cities, suburbs, and bedroom communities that are closely linked to Mass by commuting and shopping (NHites commute to Mass, people in Mass shop in NH with no sales tax). The real Granite state starts north of the Lakes Region or West of the Merrimack Valley.
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No exception to that here in Massachusetts, I-495 is the unofficial boundary of many things revolving around Boston. Within this semi-circular outer suburban highway metro Boston's influences are strongly felt. Cape Cod and the Islands are in their own little world but still fairly connected to Boston. Worcester county is more or less a buffer zone. Everything west of that is Western Mass which is fairly cut off from the rest of the state with different mentalities and a more bucolic part of the state.
New Hampshire could be split in two also. South of Concord and Portsmouth/Rochester is the Southern NH area which is at times coined Northern Mass as there are many little cities, suburbs, and bedroom communities that are closely linked to Mass by commuting and shopping (NHites commute to Mass, people in Mass shop in NH with no sales tax). The real Granite state starts north of the Lakes Region or West of the Merrimack Valley.
Don't forget our magical weather barrier, I-90, where snow stops and smiles begin
What I mean by this question, is does your state have regions that are thought to be different from the other, either by the attitude of the people there or by distinctive geography? Examples of different areas in states
West and East River South Dakota
Eastern and Western Montana
North and South Idaho
Where I live in Wyoming you don't seem to hear much difference in the different regions.
This. I've only been here a year and I've even found myself making snide comments about "East River." LOL
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned that Upper and Lower Michigan are on different continents and speak different languages.
It's been a long time since anybody has thought that Los Angeles and San Francisco are in the same state, or even on the same planet.
One third of Colorado is a state that looks like Kansas.
North of Gainesville, people call it The Real Florida.
Every state that has an Appalachian region refers to that part as being in a "state" of Appalachia, which on some issues enjoys federal status. Or, for example with some colleges giving "residence" status to students from any state's Appalachia, rather than from within the state. In Maryland, that is contemptuously referred to as Garrett County, which is like an undeveloped overseas colony where people should not be allowed to call themselves Marylanders although technically, one supposed, they could be.
Every state that has an Appalachian region refers to that part as being in a "state" of Appalachia, which on some issues enjoys federal status. Or, for example with some colleges giving "residence" status to students from any state's Appalachia, rather than from within the state. In Maryland, that is contemptuously referred to as Garrett County, which is like an undeveloped overseas colony where people should not be allowed to call themselves Marylanders although technically, one supposed, they could be.
Sounds like NE Louisiana.
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