Marrying a woman from Louisiana has been similarly instructive to me as regards "the South".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Nations_of_North_Amer...
I also don't think the US ended up absorbing much British cuisine, certainly native food(s) and immigrant waves have contributed much more than England.
https://www.newsweek.com/psychology-psychopaths-dark-triad-m...
and my first though is "What's different about South Dakota and North Dakota" and got told by a friend who's a geography nerd that much of South Dakota is really weird and isolated and different from other states.
The difference in the Dakotas for this study is probably small sample size issues, 144,000 American responses means a few hundred from each Dakota max, or that the extreme poverty is worse in South Dakota.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecotopia
Wow, hadn't thought about that book in years (the action takes place in 1999!).
Seems accurate but interesting this is the only area with crossover.
I live pretty much on the border between two regions on the map, and you can definitely see a difference just driving one county north or south. But of course you also see exceptions on both sides, in both individual homes or small towns that seem more suited for the other side of the border.
Very much not the same as US "midlands" in my opinion.
Low key writing this has made me realize how much of my life has just been migrating up and down I-40.
Middle Indiana is halfway between Kentucky and Chicago but it feels like it has more in common culturally with the former than the latter to me, even if that wasn't the case 50 years ago.
I get where you're coming from though. The fact that some metro Atlanta counties are grouped with "Greater Appalachia" but others are somehow in the "Deep South" is the head scratcher that jumps out at me.
> All the way in the south
(all in good jest)
If there was some good standard survey on cultural views, you could compare geo regions on the summary stats of their responses, and cluster them. But you'd need a _huge_ number of responses to get good county-level data. And then I think we'd expect to see lots of county-to-county differences reflecting the urban-rural contours, immigration differences tied to industry, etc, rather than these big, uninterrupted regions. E.g. I would think King County, WA and Alameda County, CA have a lot more in common with each other than either does with Del Norte County, CA.
wagwang•1h ago
tokai•1h ago
Apocryphon•1h ago
tokai•1h ago
«First Nations (French: Premières Nations) is a term used to identify Indigenous peoples in Canada who are neither Inuit nor Métis.»
If you can make space for New Netherland, it doesn't make any sense to collapse all northern native cultures together, when they are just as or even more diverse than the US east cost.
cgh•38m ago
ojbyrne•51m ago
wagwang•37m ago