- itsgroundhogdayagain ( @itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml ) English15•3 months ago
Jersey sure as shit ain’t “Chesapeake”.
- Snowyday ( @Snowyday@startrek.website ) English9•3 months ago
I assure you that nobody in Philadelphia considers themselves to be part of the Chesapeake region
- DAMunzy ( @DAMunzy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English4•3 months ago
Yeah, I’ve lived in PA and NJ for 20+ years as an adult. Never heard anyone reference Chesapeake.
- MajorHavoc ( @MajorHavoc@programming.dev ) English9•3 months ago
Neat!
Though, I’ve found a lot of folks from a lot of parts of this map would just tell me they’re “from the Midwest”.
- Anyolduser ( @Anyolduser@lemmynsfw.com ) English5•3 months ago
That’s shorthand we use for people outside of the Midwest or those unfamiliar with the region.
It’s similar to a person from a suburb of Boston just saying they’re from Boston for simplicity’s sake even if a lot of important nuance and context is lost.
- sawdustprophet ( @sawdustprophet@midwest.social ) English5•3 months ago
I’ve found a lot of folks from a lot of parts of this map would just tell me they’re “from the Midwest”.
I would venture to say that the part of all of these regions adjacent to the Midwest could be considered subregions of it. Many people you’d meet in these areas would be likely to say they’re in the Midwest.
- Azal ( @Azal@pawb.social ) English3•3 months ago
Don’t worry, living in what the map calls “lower midwest” the midwest will do its best to not include.
I live in Missouri, friends living in midwest states “Missouri isn’t Midwest.” They can’t tell you exactly where it is, but it sure isn’t midwest. And the exclusion seems to continue all the way northward until I’m convinced Wisconsin is just attempting to rename itself “Midwest” so that no one else can claim it.
- Pandantic [they/them] ( @Pandantic@midwest.social ) English5•3 months ago
Some of these things seem solely topographical-based.
- psvrh ( @psvrh@lemmy.ca ) English5•3 months ago
I’ve read a variant of this that’s little more interesting, and useful, because it includes the backstory, as well as Canada’s role (which does overlap a lot of the US).
It’s not 100% accurate, largely because of urbanization, but you can see how we got to where we are today.
- Fermion ( @Fermion@feddit.nl ) English4•3 months ago
I’ve never heard anyone refer to the mid Atlantic south, but the piedmont is common.
- PyroNeurosis ( @PyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English3•3 months ago
Mid-atlantic, sure. Never Mid-atlantic-south.
- downpunxx ( @downpunxx@fedia.io ) 4•3 months ago
very few call it nyc metro, most locals refer to it as the tri state
- seeking_perhaps ( @seeking_perhaps@mander.xyz ) English6•3 months ago
Similarly, areas surrounding DC in Maryland and Virginia should be labeled DMV, not Chesapeake.
- Drusas ( @Drusas@kbin.run ) 2•3 months ago
That’s a tough one because Tri-State can refer to different states. I’m guessing for you it’s New York, New Jersey, Connecticut?
Having grown up in South Jersey, that was also called the Tri-State area, but it referred to New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York (sometimes Delaware instead of New York).
- Strocker89 ( @Strocker89@beehaw.org ) English3•3 months ago
We should take this list and divide it into government districts. There are a lot of unhappy people and a lot of parts of states, conservatives in states where liberal centers control politics, and vice versa. This map corrects a lot of those areas of people with similar beliefs could be divided into similar districts.
- MindTraveller ( @MindTraveller@lemmy.ca ) English2•3 months ago
This guide is inaccurate. The region labelled midwest is actually in the east. And the region labelled deep south is actually in the northern hemisphere.