Do you agree with the Regions in the Return to Normalcy book?

[Del Tachi]

DMV belongs to the South

The Midwest should be bigger, picking up MO as well as ND-KS

If you want to lob the Mountain West off from the West Coast that's fine, but NV and probably AZ should go in the California-based region

[Del Tachi]

Also nobody serious ever considered KY or WV midwestern.

Agree on KY, but most of WV's population is concentrated near the Ohio River.  WV is definitely more economically connected to OH or PA than it is VA.

[Del Tachi]

TBF, you can split the U.S. into no more than three, broadly-defined cultural/ethnic regions:



A Puritan-derived, moralistic Yankee culture, a more honor-bound plantation-based Dixie culture, and a heavily German/Scots-Irish derived dominant Midland culture.  You also have four unique ethnic enclaves that deny this typology based in New York City, French Louisiana, Latin-Carribbean South Florida and the Hispanic Southwest.

Obviously not perfect, and maybe even a laughable exercise, but I like the map.  It is somewhat based on shrinking the 9 Nations of North America down to 3.