Is Pittsburgh Northeastern or Midwestern?

[RINO Tom]

Glad to live in a bubble filled with Northeastern transplants and immigrants who don't care about silly things like regional identity.

I'm not going to copy and paste you into theirony thread or anything, but you clearly just displayed a level of pride in being from *NOVA* that is equal to or greater than anything anyone in this thread has displayed about where they live.

[heatcharger]

Glad to live in a bubble filled with Northeastern transplants and immigrants who don't care about silly things like regional identity.

I'm not going to copy and paste you into theirony thread or anything, but you clearly just displayed a level of pride in being from *NOVA* that is equal to or greater than anything anyone in this thread has displayed about where they live.

Ha, alright. I was talking more about identification with broader, multi-state regions though. To me, it doesn't make much sense for someone in Cleveland to share the same regional pride as someone in Kansas City, even if they are both in the same statistical region. My point was that people who aren't native to their area are even less likely to care about such a trivial thing.

[Thomas Jackson]

Controversial opinion: Pittsburgh is Appalachian, and so neither.

This is actually correct. A little less so for the city proper, absolutely true for everything outside the city limits.

[Thomas Jackson]

Glad to live in a bubble filled with Northeastern transplants and immigrants who don't care about silly things like regional identity.

I'm not going to copy and paste you into theirony thread or anything, but you clearly just displayed a level of pride in being from *NOVA* that is equal to or greater than anything anyone in this thread has displayed about where they live.

Correct. I will say, that IMHO, the fact that *NOVA* is one of the worst cesspools in the entire world that makes the pride even more ironic.

I can't fathom why anyone would be proud of that region.

I think of *NOVA* as the Hillary! of regions.

Granted, I am a bit biased. I think any place with a population density of more than 1000 people per square mile has too many people.

[Person Man]

There's a lot of the Rust Belt that isn't "MidWest". There are a ton of small cities in Northern and Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire that feel very Rust Belty and you wouldn't consider them MidWest. You can say the same about Albant, Buffalo, and Rochester.

[RINO Tom]

There's a lot of the Rust Belt that isn't "MidWest". There are a ton of small cities in Northern and Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire that feel very Rust Belty and you wouldn't consider them MidWest. You can say the same about Albant, Buffalo, and Rochester.

Exactly.  That's why it's so annoying when people say stuff like Indiana is "the South of the Midwest" when it was more Republican than the other Great Lakes states ... states and areas can have a "rural" characteristic or a "culturally conservative" characteristic or a "Rust Belt" characteristic or an "urban" characteristic, etc. without becoming part of the region most associated with those characteristics, LOL.  Every state in the union has urban, suburban, rural and other areas, and those areas are still a part of that state in that region.  Period.

[Obama-Biden Democrat]

There's a lot of the Rust Belt that isn't "MidWest". There are a ton of small cities in Northern and Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire that feel very Rust Belty and you wouldn't consider them MidWest. You can say the same about Albant, Buffalo, and Rochester.

Yea, I am just north of Toronto, so I am only 3-4 hours away from Buffalo, so I know a lot of people who have been there. I went there once to see a Sabres v Leafs NHL game. Buffalo unfortunately does have a reputation as a bit of a post industrial wasteland , at least from the elitists in Toronto. A lot of NHL players have complained about having to play there. To me that does fit the Detroit, Gary or Cleveland stereotype. I have never been to Pittsburgh, but I have read it has been doing much better than Buffalo in terms of turning it's economy into 21st century things like healthcare and away from manufacturing.

[BuckeyeNut]

By the strictest definitions, it's Appalachian. The fact that this question can be debated so intensely really evinces the need to recognize the Great Lakes as it's own separate region. If pressed to choose between Northeastern or Midwestern, I'd call it Midwestern. I certainly don't feel like I'm out of the Midwest in NEOH, and it's not that far from Pittsburgh.

There's a lot of the Rust Belt that isn't "MidWest". There are a ton of small cities in Northern and Western Massachusetts and New Hampshire that feel very Rust Belty and you wouldn't consider them MidWest. You can say the same about Albant, Buffalo, and Rochester.

Exactly.  That's why it's so annoying when people say stuff like Indiana is "the South of the Midwest" when it was more Republican than the other Great Lakes states ... states and areas can have a "rural" characteristic or a "culturally conservative" characteristic or a "Rust Belt" characteristic or an "urban" characteristic, etc. without becoming part of the region most associated with those characteristics, LOL.  Every state in the union has urban, suburban, rural and other areas, and those areas are still a part of that state in that region.  Period.

Except calling Indiana "the South of the Midwest" makes sense.