US regions you learned in school vs your "personal" US regions

[RINO Tom]

I think we pretty much learned the Census regions ... but, as I previously posted one time, this is how I view them:

While we're on the subject, I think this is the most basic breakdown for me (I think that just because DC was such a crutial "breaking point" in the Civil War, I am fine with letting Maryland and Delaware shed their original Southern stock for Northeastern):

However, if we are going to divide by subregion, my map would look something like this:

THE NORTHEAST
Dark Red: New England
Red: Non-New England Northeast
Pink: More Mid-Atlantic

THE SOUTH
Dark Green: The Deep South
Green: Clearly Southern but significant differences from the Deep South
Light Green: Part of the geographic region that is the South, some culturally Southern areas, but a very significant population of people who would not identify as Southern

THE MIDWEST
Dark Blue: The core of the Midwest, Big Ten Country, etc.
Blue: The Plains, clearly Midwestern but different culturally than Big Ten Country (more of a Western influence)
Light Blue: Really just fits into the Midwest by default ... parts of it are Plains-ish (KC), parts are Midwestern (STL), parts are Southern

THE WEST
Dark Yellow: West Coast
Yellow: Southwest
Light Yellow: Mountain West
Gray: When you do subregions, Alaska and Hawaii really just deserve their own, LOL.

[RINO Tom]

I was taught that New Englanders were traitors and Southerners were patriots.

Modern Southerners are largely patriots!  One generation of their ancestors were traitors, though.  Not sure why any Southerner who loves God and country would feel a shred of attachment to those treasonous bastards when the modern South is 1,000 times better than the sh**thole and dysfunctional "society" that seceded.

[RINO Tom]

What makes Indiana Southern?

Though Southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana are all culturally Southern (IMO), there is no way in hell that the state of Indiana is part of the South.  It might have a few more Southern influences (even my sister living in Indianapolis says it is noticably more influenced by the South than Iowa), but it's clearly a Midwestern state.

[RINO Tom]

Democratic 279 A secular map
GOP 259

Was your teacher of the OC family?

[RINO Tom]

What makes Indiana Southern?

Though Southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana are all culturally Southern (IMO), there is no way in hell that the state of Indiana is part of the South.  It might have a few more Southern influences (even my sister living in Indianapolis says it is noticably more influenced by the South than Iowa), but it's clearly a Midwestern state.

This may sound crazy, but there are people who think that Wisconsin has more in common with the South politically and even culturally than with the rest of the Midwest. There might be a grain of truth to this claim, but it's obviously an exaggeration.

Those people have literally never been to Wisconsin.  Absolutely nothing Southern about it.  Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio (POSSIBLY Iowa) have a few culturally Southern areas, but even that's a stretch.  Rural + conservative =/= Southern.  Plenty of rednecks in Vermont.

[RINO Tom]

What makes Indiana Southern?

Though Southern Missouri, Illinois and Indiana are all culturally Southern (IMO), there is no way in hell that the state of Indiana is part of the South.  It might have a few more Southern influences (even my sister living in Indianapolis says it is noticably more influenced by the South than Iowa), but it's clearly a Midwestern state.

This may sound crazy, but there are people who think that Wisconsin has more in common with the South politically and even culturally than with the rest of the Midwest. There might be a grain of truth to this claim, but it's obviously an exaggeration.

Those people have literally never been to Wisconsin.  Absolutely nothing Southern about it.  Kansas, Illinois, Missouri, Indiana and Ohio (POSSIBLY Iowa) have a few culturally Southern areas, but even that's a stretch.  Rural + conservative =/= Southern.  Plenty of rednecks in Vermont.

I found a pretty funny article:

https://www.wpr.org/wississippi-reporter-examines-whether-wisconsin-has-more-common-southern-states

When Georgia starts voting Democratic and Maine goes Republican, will the former no longer be considered a Southern state and the latter then will? Haha.

LOL, exactly ... the definition of "The South" and "The Midwest" and the other regions don't just change.  Virginia will be a part of the South as long as this country exists, whether the self-obsessed folks in NOVA like it or not.