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Question: Which region  (as I define them) do you live in?
#1
Southeast
 
#2
Mid-Atlantic
 
#3
New England
 
#4
Midwest
 
#5
Southwest
 
#6
Great Plains
 
#7
Mountain West
 
#8
Pacific Coast
 
#9
Not an American
 
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Total Voters: 32

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Joe Biden 2020
BushOklahoma
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E: -4.77, S: 3.48

« on: November 03, 2007, 05:08:14 PM »

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 Tongue
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Joe Biden 2020
BushOklahoma
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Posts: 24,921
United States


Political Matrix
E: -4.77, S: 3.48

« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2007, 08:59:58 AM »

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.
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