Forum Members' Locations - Regions Poll

[RINO Tom]

For the purposes of this poll, here are the regions, as I chose to define them:

NORTHEAST
New England
CT - MA - ME - NH - RI - VT

Mid-Atlantic
DE - DC - MD - NJ - NY - PA

SOUTH
Deep South
AL - AR - GA - LA - MS - SC

Border South
FL - KY - NC - OK - TN - TX - VA - WV

MIDWEST
Big Ten Country
IL - IN - IA - MI - MN - OH - WI

Plains/Border Midwest
KS - MO - NE - ND - SD

WEST
Mountain West
AZ - CO - ID - MT - NV - NM - UT - WY

West Coast
CA - OR - WA

Non-Lower 48
AK - HI

[RINO Tom]

The only region worth anything and the only region full of real Americans who actually have things to offer to the world.

Well then, I know your avatar must NOT describe your actual location!

Foreign posters: sorry!!  Totally blanked on that.

[RINO Tom]

I'm in South Florida (Boca). It's neither the deep south or the border south, so I feel like I don't have an option to pick in this thread.

LOL, I wasn't trying to create some subjective cultural regions here.  The "Border South" is simply comprised of states that are a part of the South but not considered to be the "Deep South," including (all of) Florida.

[RINO Tom]

One of the 7 states of "big 10 country"

I don't remember what big 10 refers to

The Big Ten Conference includes most of the flagship universities in those states:

Minnesota
Wisconsin
Iowa
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio State
Penn State
Rutgers
Maryland
Nebraska
Michigan
Michigan State
Purdue
Northwestern

These are mostly huge schools with strong academic reputations that this have a ton of alumni in the area, so they leave a pretty strong cultural footprint in the Midwest. The members west of Iowa and east of Ohio (except Penn State) haven't been members of the conference for as long, so their states don't get lumped in with "Big Ten Country" as often.

An example would be the media would routinely do "Big Ten Battleground" graphics, where they'd show the current polling results in each of those Midwestern states on the screen.

[RINO Tom]

Going to college in Big 10 Country, but I still think of myself as a New Englander.

Where?  And nothin' wrong with staying loyal to your roots!  I went to high school and college in Iowa City, but I still consider myself an Illinoisan at heart.

[RINO Tom]

Going to college in Big 10 Country, but I still think of myself as a New Englander.

Where? And nothin' wrong with staying loyal to your roots!  I went to high school and college in Iowa City, but I still consider myself an Illinoisan at heart.

Replace Illinois, German, or Lutheran with white and tell me you would still say this.

Why would I say that when it's not remotely the same?

[RINO Tom]

Going to college in Big 10 Country, but I still think of myself as a New Englander.

Where? And nothin' wrong with staying loyal to your roots!  I went to high school and college in Iowa City, but I still consider myself an Illinoisan at heart.

Replace Illinois, German, or Lutheran with white and tell me you would still say this.

Why would I say that when it's not remotely the same?

Can you choose your ethnicity? Can you choose where you were born? Can you choose your skin color? Are the answers to these questions the same?

"White" is clearly a broader term that doesn't carry the cultural distinctiveness that being from a specific state or having ancestry from a specific country or being part of a specific religion, all things that unify the people involved over shared ideals.  Being proud of being "White" is as ridiculous as being proud of having blonde hair - there is no inherent culture to either, unless you think that people who don't have those traits are inferior or something.

Now quit trolling a thread about forum members' locations and go outside or something.

[RINO Tom]

Going to college in Big 10 Country, but I still think of myself as a New Englander.

Where? And nothin' wrong with staying loyal to your roots!  I went to high school and college in Iowa City, but I still consider myself an Illinoisan at heart.

Replace Illinois, German, or Lutheran with white and tell me you would still say this.

Why would I say that when it's not remotely the same?

Can you choose your ethnicity? Can you choose where you were born? Can you choose your skin color? Are the answers to these questions the same?

"White" is clearly a broader term that doesn't carry the cultural distinctiveness that being from a specific state or having ancestry from a specific country or being part of a specific religion, all things that unify the people involved over shared ideals.  Being proud of being "White" is as ridiculous as being proud of having blonde hair - there is no inherent culture to either, unless you think that people who don't have those traits are inferior or something.

Now quit trolling a thread about forum members' locations and go outside or something.

"New England" is clearly broader than an individual state, just as "white" is broader than German ethnicity.

But it is less broad than a country, which is an example you and I both addressed as perfectly understandable to be proud of.  A White American has more in common with a Black American than they do with a White Italian.