crochetdragons:fabulesque:theoneandonlydeadrobin:weirdfact: USA Cultural Regions Map This is super

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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.

Also, some of these labels also function a bit like venn diagrams, and there are relative levels of specificity. For example, someone from the gulf coast will probably also identify as someone from the deep south. Gulf coast is more specific, but deep south is more broadly recognized (depending on context). Places near the borders of these areas can also have overlap, like someone in texas might consider their region as the southwest and as texas (as someone from texas though, I can say that we’ve got our own set of regional descriptors from within the state).

Yeah, OP here, and one of the things people in the notes keep misunderstanding is that these are CULTURAL regions, not what people CALL the region they live in.

I’m from central Pennsylvania, and I’ve almost never heard it called “Upper Appalachia”–we were generally described as “Mid-Atlantic”–but having gone to grad school at a university that studied Appalachian culture, I can tell you that people in that light blue area are definitely a distinct cultural group from the regions around it, and that sociologically/anthropologically, “Upper Appalachia” is a very accurate name for that culture. So to Americans, don’t be surprised if the label doesn’t match what you’ve always called your region. These aren’t geographical terms; they’re anthropological descriptions of regional subcultures. (And as the above commenter also says, they’re broad generalities, as well.)