Where in the United States do you live?

[Frodo]

Here is how I define the regions:

Southeast:

Mid-Atlantic:

New England:

Midwest:

[Frodo]

Southwest:

Great Plains:

Mountain West:

Pacific Coast:

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Midwest

[Verily]

Mid-Atlantic, and why is West Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic? It belongs in either the South or Midwest.

[Frodo]

Mid-Atlantic, and why is West Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic? It belongs in either the South or Midwest.

I mulled over both those options, but in the end decided that the 'Mid-Atlantic' was the best compromise solution.  Considering that West Virginia seceded from Virginia in part because of the latter's decision to join the Confederacy, combined with the fact that there were few -if any- slaves or slaveholders in the state ruled out the South for me.   

And as for the Midwest, I came very close to including West Virginia with that region, but decided against it in part because of the fact that West Virginia has more in common with Pennsylvania than, say, Ohio, given its long and intertwined history with coal-production. 

[Joe Biden 2020]

Mid-Atlantic, and why is West Virginia in the Mid-Atlantic? It belongs in either the South or Midwest.

I mulled over both those options, but in the end decided that the 'Mid-Atlantic' was the best compromise solution.  Considering that West Virginia seceded from Virginia in part because of the latter's decision to join the Confederacy, combined with the fact that there were few -if any- slaves or slaveholders in the state ruled out the South for me.   

And as for the Midwest, I came very close to including West Virginia with that region, but decided against it in part because of the fact that West Virginia has more in common with Pennsylvania than, say, Ohio, given its long and intertwined history with coal-production. 

West Virginia is nowhere near the south.  The south starts at Tennessee and North Carolina and goes south from there.  Virginia is not even in the south.

As for me, I live in the wonderful Great Plains.  You all should know where by now

[Tetro Kornbluth]

I don't Obviously but If I was to move to the United States New England or the Mid-Atlantic (New York state in particular; but probably not the city.) would be where I choose to live. Certainly not the South or the Interior. (And that's not really for political reasons as much cultural btw.)

[Queen Mum Inks.LWC]

Midwest

[nclib]

Southeast.

The south starts at Tennessee and North Carolina and goes south from there.  Virginia is not even in the south.

Northern Virginia is not part of the South, but the rest of the state of Virginia is quite Southern in terms of both culture and politics. I figured out in a different thread that VA without No. VA is slightly more Republican federally than NC.

[Josh/Devilman88]

Southeast.

The south starts at Tennessee and North Carolina and goes south from there.  Virginia is not even in the south.

Northern Virginia is not part of the South, but the rest of the state is quite Southern in terms of both culture and politics. I figured out in a different thread that VA without No. VA is slightly more Republican nationally than NC.

NC and FL are the two most non-southern states in the south...

[Padfoot]

I've always considered Virginia to be a part of the Mid-Atlantic.  I think people get to hung up on Union v. Confederacy when designating modern regions.  Some of the old Civil War lines still exist culturally and politically but its been 140 years and some things have inevitably changed as well.  As a result I really don't think you can lump the entire ex-confederacy into one region anymore.  I will concede that some states can be difficult to place though because regional lines could run directly through them or because certain states may be too unique or diverse to pigeonhole them into just one region.

I think the Census sub-regions are pretty accurate though:

[Nym90]

Midwest

[2952-0-0]

Where I am right now has characteristics of both the Midwest and the Northeast, but still has many differences with either.

[phk]

San Diego.

Pacific Coast.

[Joe Biden 2020]

Oklahoma is one of those weird states.  It is in the west, the midwest, the high plains, the great plains, the ozarks, the southern plains, and the extreme western fringes of the southeast.

Whats interesting is that all of the boundary lines between the different regions meet and intersect in downtown Oklahoma City.

A lot of our weather is determined by the Rocky Mountains just to our west and the Gulf of Mexico just to our southeast.

[Tender Branson]

Not an American ...

[Ban my account ffs!]

Midwest... though when most people think of the midwest, they think of farms and rolling countryside.

Where I live has much more in common with northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan... rooted in timber, mining, tourism, outdoors... with a strong liberal populist tradition.

Being close to the geographical center of the North American continent, on the continental divide, and our proximity to Lake Superior, our weather is influenced by a great many things, but most often it comes down to cool to frigid air from Canada mixing with warm, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico which creates storms in the summer and blizzards in the winter.

Our landscape was created completely by glaciers that retreated 10,000 years ago and left us with thousands of lakes.

[Smash255]

Mid-Atlantic