[Salamander]

Many years ago, Parade magazine did an excellent feature on the spread of regional dialects in the US, focusing heavily on “Southern Highland” [hillbilly, basically] and that map has it down, precisely.

Follow the dialect, you follow the culture.

I can understand Texans perfectly but New Englanders and coastal southerners give me problems.

Arkansas is not as unique as you think.

There is a good book on Ozark myth and folklore [another hallmark of ‘culture’] and everything in that book is identical to the folklore of where I live.

The map is valid, with the exception that they should have run “Greater Appalachia” farther north into western PA.

[ncpatriot]

I agree with you about running Appalachia into PA:

The map is valid, with the exception that they should have run “Greater Appalachia” farther north into western PA

[9YearLurker]

Ha—you’re probably right.

[Pelham]

Tidewater living in El Norte. With some Deep South and Greater Appalachia thrown in for good measure.

[Doug Loss]

The map is valid, with the exception that they should have run “Greater Appalachia” farther north into western PA.

Not just western PA, but pretty much all of north-central PA too. The author clearly doesn't have any idea of the various cultures in PA.