Posted on 04/03/2024 12:31:50 PM PDT by week 71
I’m from Alabama and felt right at home driving through southern Missouri.
Yes, Missouri sticks up like a sore thumb.
But other than that, it looks more like the traditional division of the country into regions — or how Gordon Ramsey’s show divides the country — rather than a plan to split up the US. The change some people make is to add the Southwest and split the west into the Mountain States and the Pacific States.
An actual split of the country would have more to do with the urban-rural split, than with multi-state regions or states.
Yes, but it’s more likely that it was a mistake.
Would we be forced to go to war when Mexifornia (West) invades Canada?
That one isn't even close to being unique to Arkansas.
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Dooley - slippin' up the holler
Dooley - try to make a dollar
Dooley - give me a swaller
And I'll pay you back someday.
Historically, where Appalachia starts is Southern.
This conflict is about SEC and football, they don’t want them there either.
I have a copy of Gone with the Wind translated into French, which I bought years ago in Paris, on the Rive Gauche. A map has Savannah in South Carolina.
Of course it was a mistake.
What color cornmeal do they use in their cornbread? That should settle it.
I love the comments from CA acting like CA should be on its own because it is such an economic powerhouse. They don’t even realize that the rest of the nation would rather not claim them. Would the rest of the nation really care if CA left the Union? I know i wouldn’t. And warn them, if you turn to china we will invade you and take you by force.
CAN WE PLEASE DO THIS TOMORROW?
I live in CA and will be leaving as soon as the national divorce is underway.
horrible map, first of all it would only split into 3 at most one big conservative country in the middle and one small liberal one in the nw, and another small liberal one in the west.
Probably best to leave before it hits the fan.
I grew up in southern Illinois outside of St. Louis. I consider Missouri and Illinois to be where the South and Midwest blend. The southern area are, well, more southern, and the states become more Midwestern as you go north. A lot of that comes from who were the original American settlers: Carolinans, Georgians , etc. in the southern regions, and New Yorkers, Pennsylvanians, etc., in the north. The southern areas of Illinois and Missouri are considered to be linguistically and culturally part of the the Upper South or Upland South.
1. I agree that Missouri belongs in the Midwest region more so than in the South region.
2. I think there is more than one region in what the map included in the “West” region. I think there is a West Coast Region that includes Washington, Oregon and California. Then there is a Southwest Region of Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Then there is Mountain Region of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Whyoming and Colorado.
3. I think of North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa as the Plains Region.
I understand in all the above I have shrunk the Midwest Region to what I think is the heart of the Midwest, just Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.
4. I think Virginia, from a political standpoint, belongs more in the Northeast region than in the South Region.
Since 2000. NoVa is huge now.
PA, for instance, is majority Conservative and pro MAGA, outside of Filthadelphia, Pittsburgh and Harrisburg.
Western MD has far more in common with WV and this area of PA than they have with Baltimore / DC.
Yup! Those Missourians would fit in either category.
All that map would do is make it all happen all over again.
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