The continued insistence that Pittsburgh is the Midwest (Newport, Williamsburg: transplants, real estate)

[gladhands]

This map splits the US into five UK (population) sized regions:

America is too big. Here

Guess where it puts Pittsburgh?

They had to extend the Northeast all he way down to Hampton, VA to exclude Pittsburgh and Buffalo. Why is it so hard for people to accept that the Northeast extends more than 200 miles from the Atlantic?

[UKyank]

The bigger question why does anyone care what region of the country pittsburgh is linked to?

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by UKyank

The bigger question why does anyone care what region of the country pittsburgh is linked to?

Probably the same reason a lot of Brits don't consider themselves European. Or the fact that people think there's a meaningful difference between English, Scottish and Welsh.

[ProFiction]

It's not like people are ignoring facts. It's a matter of opinion and convention.

[UKyank]

Is either being considered in the Midwest or northeast or Appalachia or midAtlantic or whatever other way one chooses to split up the country geographically better or worse in any way? That's my primary confusion.

[eschaton]

Originally Posted by ProFiction

It's not like people are ignoring facts. It's a matter of opinion and convention.

The U.S. Census defines all of Pennsylvania as part of the Northeast. In addition, basically everyone who lives here, whether old timers or transplants, considers Pittsburgh to be Northeastern. I'm not sure why it's subject to debate.

[Tinare]

Some people have way too much time on their hands.

[Blackbeauty212]

It's Northeast, was always the Northeast, will always be the Northeast. It's like when real estate brokers try to create new neighborhoods, everyone knows it's BS.

Just like that whole Chi-Pitts mega-region, what a bunch of Non-Sense that was.

[PghYinzer]

Didn't they just draw lines around areas that contained as many people as the UK? So if you start in Maine and start counting people, the areas end when they hit the right number of people. So if they carved out the Hampton, VA area, but added in Pgh the math wouldn't work. To get Pgh to hang out with Boston on this map, you would have probably had to carve out another area, and since Pgh is the farthest west it makes sense that it was the one area that didnt make the cut.

[gladhands]

Originally Posted by PghYinzer

Didn't they just draw lines around areas that contained as many people as the UK? So if you start in Maine and start counting people, the areas end when they hit the right number of people. So if they carved out the Hampton, VA area, but added in Pgh the math wouldn't work. To get Pgh to hang out with Boston on this map, you would have probably had to carve out another area, and since Pgh is the farthest west it makes sense that it was the one area that didnt make the cut.

Without doing the actual math, I think that adding Northern VA and Hampton/Williamsburg/Newport News to VA would free up enough space to extend the Northeast to Pittsburgh. This particular bit of gerrymandering makes me suspect the person who drew ton,the map has ties to Hampton, but doesn't consider himself a southerner.


EDIT:

Northern Virginia has a population of 2.6 million. You get another 400k from that little sliver leading down to Hampton.