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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:04 AM
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That Canadian map is actually how I see Canada lol. My bad.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:23 AM
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The original map is pretty stupid. Greater Appalachia goes into New Mexico, and also seemingly includes Dallas? Why is there one county in northern Iowa that is Yankeedom and is surrounded on three sides by the Midlands? What makes that county so much different? The NYC metro is so distinctive that it is separate from the rest of Yankeedom and New Jersey, but parts of the Dakotas, parts of Colorado, and parts of New Mexico are more similar to parts of New Jersey than NYC?
I think all of the maps are pretty ridiculous.

I'm sure most that are familiary with me know that I scrutinize how outsiders classify Alabama. Alabama's Big 4 (Tuscaloosa is making a run to be the 5th "Big") are all extraordinarily different culturally, economically, and ecologically.

Painting with such a broad brush placing many different regions is horribly shortsighted and ignorant. I'm going on a 5th year living in Birmingham, and while I'm more than comfortable in larger cities, such a dense and urban environment still feels a bit foreign to me. Growing up in North Alabama, I was (maybe still am) used to a lot of flat terrain, a highly educated workforce, great school systems, and very frequent, violent weather. None of those things really fit in something called the "Upper South", "Greater Appalachia", or the "Deep South".

Many of these cultural designations are simply phantasmal and do a diservice by categorizing citizens that live in these reigons into groups that are wholly inaccurate representations of their cultural identity.

Hope that made since... I'm on my 3rd glass of wine.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:31 AM
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That Canadian map is actually how I see Canada lol. My bad.
As a Canadian I think it's totally out to lunch.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:31 AM
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.......how many times is this dumb map going to be discussed on SSP?
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 12:33 AM
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this has been discussed at least 9 times.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 1:57 AM
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The original map is pretty stupid. Greater Appalachia goes into New Mexico, and also seemingly includes Dallas? Why is there one county in northern Iowa that is Yankeedom and is surrounded on three sides by the Midlands? What makes that county so much different? The NYC metro is so distinctive that North Jersey is a different region than South Jersey, but parts of the Dakotas, parts of Colorado, and parts of New Mexico are more similar to parts of South Jersey than NYC?
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 2:11 AM
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The original map is pretty stupid. Greater Appalachia goes into New Mexico, and also seemingly includes Dallas? Why is there one county in northern Iowa that is Yankeedom and is surrounded on three sides by the Midlands? What makes that county so much different? The NYC metro is so distinctive that North Jersey is a different region than South Jersey, but parts of the Dakotas, parts of Colorado, and parts of New Mexico are more similar to parts of South Jersey than NYC?
Not to mention Quebec and the Louisiana Bayou being the same cultural nation and NYC still identifying as New Amsterdam despite that cultural heritage being gone for a solid 300 years.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 3:09 PM
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well of course i would agree with you,

but according to the retarded map you posted, they are.

they're all in "the midlands" region, which is just plain old absurd.
Yikes. Check your glasses. Philadelphia is grouped with New York in the "New Netherlands" region.

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Not to mention Quebec and the Louisiana Bayou being the same cultural nation and NYC still identifying as New Amsterdam despite that cultural heritage being gone for a solid 300 years.
Lol, I think you're taking it a little too literally.

New Netherlands: "Dutch founded, a global trading culture; materialistic; multicultural; committed to tolerance and freedom of inquiry and conscience"
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Yikes. Check your glasses. Philadelphia is grouped with New York in the "New Netherlands" region.
You check your glasses. Philadelphia is clearly in "the midlands" region, along with places like omaha and thunder bay, among others.

and that fact is one of the many reasons why that map is absurdly stupid.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 3:35 PM
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Hope that made since... I'm on my 3rd glass of wine.
Oh!? You drink wine instead of beer or stronger drinks?
You're a right kind of fellow, my type of guy. Lol.

"New France" has been far too small since the 7 years war in my opinion... I actually doubt Louisiana or Alabama has anything left related to contemporary France, even though we'd be welcome over there as exotic ancestors actually deserving of respect, but it's been the same all over the US for us Frenchies.
Even Texas is in fact welcoming to us. I never saw anybody in the US to really hate us. Some just pretend to do so for fun, pretty much like in England. But it's nothing serious.

Only Quebec is so-called New France, cause it's about languages, people.
Languages are a hellish thing to keep us all divided.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 3:46 PM
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Maps like this that break down the regions are better and make more sense. Some edits I would make based on what I know about these states:

Colorado
Move the Southwest region higher up along the Front Range to just south of Colorado Springs including the cities of Trinidad and Pueblo and the San Luis Valley. That portion of Colorado is culturally different than the "Northern Front Range" which includes Colorado Springs and the Denver/Boulder metro. I would keep that mixed with Mountain Frontier but the drop-off to Upper Midwest is just outside Denver. Some would even say that Denver is the largest Midwestern city outside of the Midwest because of its similar built form and all of the Rust Belt transplants.

Honestly there should be another region within Upper Midwest to distinguish the high plains of Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas from the farmland of Iowa, southern Minnesota and the Red River Valley including eastern North and South Dakota. There should be another subregion for Northern Minnesota which is unlike anything else in the U.S. with its forests and lakes, and the Boundary Waters.

Oklahoma
Pretty accurate showing how Oklahoma City and Tulsa have more in common with Kansas City and Omaha but a good portion of the state aligns more with the culture of the South. And then there is the Ozark topography and culture which is completely different than the rest of the state. Tulsa is on the edge of this subregion and as a result is a very different city than OKC even though they are only 90 miles apart.

Texas
Shows how Texas functions as its own subregion, which is a blend of the South and Southwest. I would move the Texas region further west to encompass the Permian Basis oil drilling area around Midland. The only true "non-Texas" Southwest area is around El Paso down to Big Bend National Park. I would also extend the High Plains region I mentioned for Colorado down to include the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. That subregion would go from Lubbock TX all the way up to South Dakota.

You could make a case for a couple of sub-regions within "Texas": north coastal from Corpus Christi up to Beaumont; piney woods in the eastern part; north texas around DFW; Austin and the Hill Country; San Antonio and points south; and the borderlands in the Rio Grande Valley (only predominantly Spanish-speaking area within the continental U.S.)
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 10:57 PM
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Omaha and Philadelphia are not part of the same region.
Amarillo and Ottawa, then?
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 11:15 PM
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Maps like this that break down the regions are better and make more sense. Some edits I would make based on what I know about these states:

Colorado
Move the Southwest region higher up along the Front Range to just south of Colorado Springs including the cities of Trinidad and Pueblo and the San Luis Valley. That portion of Colorado is culturally different than the "Northern Front Range" which includes Colorado Springs and the Denver/Boulder metro. I would keep that mixed with Mountain Frontier but the drop-off to Upper Midwest is just outside Denver. Some would even say that Denver is the largest Midwestern city outside of the Midwest because of its similar built form and all of the Rust Belt transplants.

Honestly there should be another region within Upper Midwest to distinguish the high plains of Colorado, Nebraska, Wyoming and the Dakotas from the farmland of Iowa, southern Minnesota and the Red River Valley including eastern North and South Dakota. There should be another subregion for Northern Minnesota which is unlike anything else in the U.S. with its forests and lakes, and the Boundary Waters.

Oklahoma
Pretty accurate showing how Oklahoma City and Tulsa have more in common with Kansas City and Omaha but a good portion of the state aligns more with the culture of the South. And then there is the Ozark topography and culture which is completely different than the rest of the state. Tulsa is on the edge of this subregion and as a result is a very different city than OKC even though they are only 90 miles apart.

Texas
Shows how Texas functions as its own subregion, which is a blend of the South and Southwest. I would move the Texas region further west to encompass the Permian Basis oil drilling area around Midland. The only true "non-Texas" Southwest area is around El Paso down to Big Bend National Park. I would also extend the High Plains region I mentioned for Colorado down to include the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. That subregion would go from Lubbock TX all the way up to South Dakota.

You could make a case for a couple of sub-regions within "Texas": north coastal from Corpus Christi up to Beaumont; piney woods in the eastern part; north texas around DFW; Austin and the Hill Country; San Antonio and points south; and the borderlands in the Rio Grande Valley (only predominantly Spanish-speaking area within the continental U.S.)
Generally agree obviously there are ways to nitpick especially when it comes to your points on Colorado and Texas, I would also probably make the Bay area its own cultural island but I generally find this to be the best map Ive come across with reasonable and not overstated cultural regional differences.

I mean the fact that all the Yellowish regions encompass "the west" splitting the Southwest and Mountain frontier into sub regions and the Pacific coast into sub regions. All of these places are still more alike eachother than they are like New England or The Deep south. Etc.

Whoever made it just did a very good job.
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Old Posted Sep 27, 2019, 11:39 PM
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.......how many times is this dumb map going to be discussed on SSP?
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this has been discussed at least 9 times.
I'm pretty sure I recall that I suggested already a modification of the forum software so that from now on, any attempt to post a new thread about that map gets the user instantly banned and the thread removed.
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That map shows Austin as an island in Texas. It really isn't. It's the most progressive major area in Texas but still very Texas. Texas is so big and diverse (not all rootin' tootin' conservatives) that there's a little bit of Austin in all the major cities.
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That map shows Austin as an island in Texas. It really isn't. It's the most progressive major area in Texas but still very Texas. Texas is so big and diverse (not all rootin' tootin' conservatives) that there's a little bit of Austin in all the major cities.
As I mentioned there are distinct subregions within “Texas”. Houston and the coastal areas have a very different feel than Dallas/Fort Worth. As does Austin and San Antonio. Tyler is about as different from Amarillo as Midland is from Brownsville. Yet all are still part of the Texas culture which is unique amongst the U.S. states.
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San Bernardino is The Far West, while Riverside is El Norte.

Also no mention of actual Nations, like Navajo/Hopi Indian lands, they're just lumped in there with Salt Lake City, Las Vegas, Spokane and Denver.

Nearly identical if you ask me!
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Dear lord, we already had a post about this exact map and concluded it was nonsense.
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Old Posted Sep 28, 2019, 4:53 PM
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San Bernardino is The Far West, while Riverside is El Norte.
When driving on I-10 from Houston to Pensacola I actually thought I had gotten lost, for a moment I was sure I was instead driving from Ontario to New Brunswick and the maps and GPS were all lying to me, as I suddenly found myself home to my great puzzlement.


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Dear lord, we already had a post about this exact map and concluded it was nonsense.
We had this exact thread at least five times already, and concluded every time that it's absolute nonsense.
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