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heywriters: staypuftmarshmallowqueen: fostertheory:staypuftmarshmallowqueen:foxfinding: staypuftmarshmallowqueen:possiblythreefourthspeahen: ashbelero: fabulesque:theoneandonlydeadrobin:weirdfact: USA Cultural Regions Map This is super cool For non-Americans: this is actually accurate and reflects how Americans understand ourselves and regional identities. These aren’t official labels, but they’re not totally made up either. Further proof that Central Jersey does not exist as its own culture. You’re from SJ, Burlington people. Suck it up. The fact that I immediately zoomed in on NJ and went >:O proves that you are correct and I ought to suck it upStill gonna fight people who think we’re New York tho The west coast is pretty wrong.‘Cascadia’ isn’t a thing. I’ve not heard anyone in either state use that term before. ‘PNW’ or Pacific Northwest, definitely. Cascadia, no. SoCal going clear up to Monterey and Salinas is super funny. NO ONE in that area considers themselves to be in SoCal. You really can’t call it SoCal north of San Louis Obispo. The Central Valley definitely doesn’t extend to the Eastern border, culturally or topographically. Those are the Sierra Nevadas, a really amazing mountain range. The Central Valley is flat as a fucking pancake and the dullest drive possible West of the Rockies, and is farm country. Those mountains are full of ski resorts and national parks. Aside from voting red because fuck the Bay Area and SoCal they’re really different. Also Las Vegas is just East California, there I said it. Cascadia has it’s own flag and an entire session movement with it’s own “national anthem”?It is DEFINITELY a thing in certain circles.It’s just that the U.S. portion of Cascadia is pretty small compared to the amount of the “cascadia region” that’s in Canada.But, regardless of all that, there is a very distinct cultural difference based on which side of the cascades mountains someone lives.It’s not unreasonable IMO to name the “west side” of the mountain range as cascadia, simply as a term to denote a specific cultural region.It’s not like anyone really uses “columbia basin plateau” as a personal identifier. They say the name of their town, or that they live in central/eastern/whatever part of the state.That area needed to be given a name for the map, and Cascadia is a term that has been used to describe specifically that region before. You hit the nail on the head in the first bit there–‘certain circles’ and ‘mostly Canada’. As people have said in the tags, Cascadia isn’t really a cultural region Americans would identify for that area. Pacific Northwest is. I don’t know much about the delineations of “out west”, though I’m vaguely aware that the frontier delineating Northern from Southern California is under dispute (i.e., it depends on who you ask). For the Midwest, the region I am most familiar with, I think these are reasonable zones of culture, though I would quibble with some of the names. The Ohio River originates a little bit above the “e” in “Upper” in “Upper Appalachia”. It drains into the Mississippi right above the “r” in “Upper South”. It is the border of all those states in between. So you can see most of the actual Ohio River Valley is excluded from what they mark as the Ohio River Valley. And the northern part of the alleged Ohio River Valley I think doesn’t drain to the Ohio. But you know that scene in the Blues Brothers movie where they are outside of Chicago, pull into a bar, and they say they play both kinds of music, Country and Western? Yeah, different cultural zone.The part labeled “Great Lakes” isn’t wrong, but it also overlaps with what is called “the Rust Belt” and also could be considered Upper Midwest.The term “Northwoods” I heard more in Minnesota and Wisconsin than in Michigan. For all three states, a more common term for that zone is “Up North”.What’s labeled “Chesapeake” isn’t wrong, either, but they also call themselves “Mid-Atlantic”. I don’t know much about the delineations of “out west”, though I’m vaguely aware that the frontier delineating Northern from Southern California is under dispute (i.e., it depends on who you ask). Basically. It’s something like this:People not from/familiar with Southern California: That’s basically LA and around there right?People not from but somewhat familiar with Southern California: South of the Central Valley, right? (* basically yes)People from Southern California and/or very familiar with Southern California: Once you come off the Grapevine* that’s SoCal. San Luis Obisipo? That’s too far up PCH that’s the coast. Anyone on the coast north of like, Santa Barbara, hell even them, they hate it when you say they’re in SoCal. They’re ‘coastal’ (as if LA isn’t on the fucking coast.) Bakersfield’s kind of north, they’re still in the Central Valley. No not *the* Valley, that’s the San Fernando Valley. Very different. Las Vegas is just East California.Meanwhile:San Luis Obisipo: WE’RE NOT SOCAL WE”RE CENTRAL COAST HOW VERY DARE YOU. >:(Bakersfield: We’re literally in the Central Valley, lol?* i.e. south of Tejon Pass okay, all these additions are hilarious and valid. i was going to add the rust belt and UP additions for Michigan too. lastly, though this is super specific, the part of norcal i live in is generally called “gold country.”idk why the midwest is so far east, but i bet it has to do with the mississippi river and the fact that the US was essentially settled east to west by americans (the spaniards, French, and indigenous peoples established regions too)the person in comments who is shocked that most of new york is considered “upstate new york”… i mean, that one city covers like, what, 6 square miles and should prolly rightfully be it’s own country, so yeah. Ok I live in the PNW (WA to be exact) and we ABSOLUTELY DO embrace Cascadia in these woods. It’s a tongue in cheek thing and has a LOT to do with the fact that if we became a thing, we would absolutely be financially viable given our propensity towards tech, our import/export shipping lines and our agriculture. We also could be a pretty decently sized small country (GDP wise last time we talked about it)We would never DO it. We couldn’t, but it’s HILARIOUS to toss around every time someone talks about Texas ceding the nation how WE could actually do it and be successful. -- source link