While I didn’t used to think this way, I sure have no problem splitting us into two or three Nations. What we have now is unworkably absurd.
Greater Appalachia.That confirms what we all knew in Northern Ohio.Everything south of Columbus is really Kentucky.
There are important cultural differences in regions, but the most important one in terms of the US is the chasm separating the corrupt, left-wing elite (both business and political) whose actions are driven by its insatiable desire for both more wealth and more power, leading it to try to gain total control over every facet of society in order to rob it blind and impose its own lunatic and perverse agenda, by force if necessary.
I think Woodward is largely delusional. He is stereotyping whole regions for probably his own reasons. We could stereotype people who come up with theories like that as largely self-important knuckleheads who are trying desperately to manufacture some notoriety for themselves.
And DC is NOT Commieville?
Having grown up in Yankeedom, spent 11 years in Tidewater, 7 in Appalachia and now 11 in El Norte, I have to agree. They are different cultures.
I promise I could fix it. You wouldn’t like the methodology, but it would be fixed. It would all become one nation.
Looks like I’ve always lived in the “Midlands” - PA and South Jersey. Based on the little bit of traveling I did, the map does seem spot on.
I am a Greater Appalachin living in El Norte. Who knew?
I’ve seen this map and subsequent descriptions before, and they are just as much stupid, east coast elite nonsense now as they were the first time.
To suggest that New York and DC merit their own micro-cultural regions, while then lumping (just as one example) Kansas City and Toronto into one broad region is utter nonsense. The bigger point this illustrates is that we ar all products of our own experiences, and our perceptions of the world reflect that.
I’m a rural Northwest Indiana kid. Ask me to slice the US into eleven regions and I could probably create a somewhat defensible thesis on how northwest Indiana to South Bend, greater Chicago and Milwaukee, and southwest Michigan to Lansing are a distinct micro-region called “Michee Goumee”. At the same time I would see no problem in lumping Philly, NYC, Boston, and Baltimore into one big area called “east coast hell”. Does that make me right? No, it just means I know a great deal about my home area and want to further a narrative.
Butcher’s aplenty see opportunity to carve US up...
Atzlan US Southwest state carve up:
http://www.mayorno.com/WhoIsMecha.html
Russian gov’t propoganda future US territory carve up:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB123051100709638419
Agenda 21 Re-wilding America map:
http://www.dcclothesline.com/2013/11/17/agenda-21-population-control-map-usa/
FEMA 10 regional control districts:
http://maps.redcross.org/website/maps/images/NationalLevel/FEMA_Regions.pdf
Family oldsters were right back in the 80’s when they said: “no matter how much it seems there is to complain about in the USA, believe it or not, you’re living in the good old days.”
Conceptually kind of right. But not really accurately divided or described. America has never been a monoculture. That’s part of what makes it fun.
An interesting take. Of how much use? I don’t know.
Might quibble with some of the particulars. Northern Missouri seems a lot like it belongs with Appalachia to me. Shoot, some of the southern counties of Iowa do too. And the border in Northern Iowa seems quite arbitrary. Ain’t a dime’s worth of difference between Sioux and Lyon counties, for example. Or with the southern counties in Minnesota.
Yankeedom = East Anglia
Tidewater = Wessex and Mercia
New Netherlands and Midlands = north midlands
Appalachia & deep south = borderlands between England and Scotland
That is one big and silly map!
And wrong.
I suggest renaming the “Tidewater” region to “Sewage”
North Carolina NOT divided between three “nations” and we certainly aren’t culturally the same as “Blue” Delaware and Maryland. This must have been written by some inside the beltway “expert” left who’s never actually visited beyond it.