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Location: northern Vermont - previously NM, WA, & MA
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Northern NM: ABQ, Santa Fe, Taos, Espanola, Los Alomos etc. Basically the very center of history, culture, commerce, and settlement in the state, and tends to lean more left politically and has most of the best scenery in the state.
Southern NM: Includes Las Cruces, Truth or Consequences, and Ruidoso. It has it's bright spots like White Sands and the Organ Mountains. It's a center of agriculture that grows everything from green chile peppers to pecan orchards and anything else that grows well in an irrigated desert climate. Much closer to Mexico and more apparent in the feel and culture of the area.
Eastern NM: Includes Roswell, Hobbs, Clovis etc. It's known as little Texas, it's very conservative and is the center of the oil/gas/energy industry in the state.
Western NM: Largely ignored, a lot of Indian Reservation land on the high desert.
Hampton Roads/Tidewater....Richmond/Petersburg/Hopewell (Central Virginia)...Northern Virginia (northern Virginia)...Eastern Shore...Southside or SoVA? (I guess).
Most of every thing west of Richmond is generally referred to as "out there by West Virginia" or "Up in the mountains" unless the place is known, like Blacksburg/Tech, Charlottesville/UVA...and probably Roanoke...all of which still are proceeded by "way out"---(city/town name)---followed by " by West Virginia" or "up in the mountains."
I don't know about the state as a whole, but some of the divisions of Missouri are: Southwest MO, South Central MO, Southeast MO, Mid-Missouri, Northern Missouri and the St. Louis area. I am from Southeast Missouri and lived in Mid-Missouri as well, but there may be different terms used in the rest of the state. If someone refers to "Southern Missouri" as a whole you know for a fact that they aren't from here.
Southern California, Central California, Northern California, The Bay Area. Although there was recently a proposal to divide into 6 states. That's just goofy. i could see a divide between Northern and Southern California, that would work!
MD and VA have been done so I'll do some bordering states:
Delaware: Above and below the canal, with below being "Lower, slower Delaware", though the beach resorts are often treated separately. Sometimes, its simply Sussex county= Southern Delware, Kent County= Central Delware, and New Castle County= Northern Delware.
Pennsylvania: Northwest, Northern (or North Central), NEPA, Metro Pittsburgh, Laurel Highlands (the last two can be grouped for SWPA or simply Western PA), SCPA/Dutch Country/Capital Region, SEPA, Pocono Region, Lehigh Valley (East Central PA). The area around Sunbury to State College is often considered Central PA, though occasionally the Harrisburg region simply uses it instead of SCPA.
West Virginia: The Northern Panhandle, The Eastern Panhandle, Northern, Central, Southern, and occasionally a separate Ohio Valley region that may or may not include the Northern Panhandle.
North Carolina: Outer Banks, Inner Banks, Wilmington Area/Southeast, Triangle, Triad, "Metrolina" (Charlotte area), Sand Hills (South Central), Blue Ridge Mountains, Asheville Area, Great Smokey Mountains. But like MD, VA, SC, and GA, can simply use Mountain, Piedmont, and Tidewater/Coastal Plain as the three main geographic regions. Directional designations are seldom used in North Carolina.
In NC, it's usually the Mountains, the Piedmont and the Coastal Plain. The most notable subcategories among those three would include the Sandhills and the Outer Banks.
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