The South

[TDAS04]

[Bigby]

I've already voted, but I will make a map:

90% Red: The Deep South, pivotal for the South's very existence. Florida used to be in this category.

70% Red: The Upper South. Different from the Deep South, but still very much Southern. Virginia and North Carolina used to be in this category.

60% Red: Texas. Though it's a mix of Southerners, Westerners, and Latinos, it was a Confederate state and it definitely isn't Yankee. It still fits.

50% Red: Border States. These states were never in the Confederacy, but they are partially or substantially Southern in culture and thinking. They definitely have more in common with the South than the North, especially now.

40% Red: In Danger of Yankeeification. They could end up like Virginia should they continue to slide in that direction. However, Florida north of Gainesville is basically part of the Deep South and not all Northerners are hostile to Southern culture. North Carolina outside of Charlotte has remained similar to the other Upper South states and has resisted slipping into Yankeedom so far.

50% Green: Yankified. Virginia was once Southern, but is no longer. The western and southern bits of the states may have remnants of Upper South and Appalachian culture, but the Northeast has assimilated it well.

90% Green: Always Yankee, at least after 1865. That they had slavery before the Civil War is all these areas have in common with the South. They are now as Northeastern as New York or New England.

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

This will be a realigning election if Va does follow through and fall towards the GOP. Everything then, will count as the South except DC, MD & Del

[Mr. Illini]

Missouri is and anyone who says differently is wrong

[Adam Griffin]

AL, AR, GA, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA*

*Relic

[hopper]

Missouri is and anyone who says differently is wrong

Well yeah now that the "University of Missouri Athletics" is in the SEC now!

[MK]

Texas is more in line with states like NM and AZ IMO

Maryland is like the defacto state for DC

VA is only southren due to history

[Ex-Assemblyman Steelers]

I excluded Delaware, D. C.,  West Virginia,  Missouri and Oklahoma

[Lechasseur]

I consider all of those states to be Southern except for Maryland, Delaware and DC, although I'd say Missouri (a mix of the South and Midwest) and Oklahoma (a mix of the South and the Great Plains, or the Midwest, depending on whether you consider them to be seperate regions or not) would definately be less Southern than the rest.

[nicholas.slaydon]

This, plus East Texas and the Florida Panhandle.

[🕴🏼Melior🕴🏼]

Everything except Missouri, Maryland, DC, and Delaware. 

[Cashew]

The 11 confederate states minus Florida, Virginia.

[100% pro-life no matter what]

[RINO Tom]

If ME starts voting straight ticket GOP, is it no longer part of New England?  Are Colorado and Wyoming not in the same region?

The South, as a region, doesn't change based on politics.

[RaphaelDLG]

All but Maryland, DC, and Delaware

[Trans Rights Are Human Rights]

All but Maryland, DC, and Delaware

[Goldwater]

If ME starts voting straight ticket GOP, is it no longer part of New England?  Are Colorado and Wyoming not in the same region?

The South, as a region, doesn't change based on politics.

I'm not sure how much politics is influencing most people decisions here. For example, I don't usually think of DC or Baltimore as southern, and I doubt that left wing voting habits is what makes me tihnk that way.

[Kingpoleon]

All but D. C.

The culture of Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, and Texas is unmistakably Southern. D. C., Baltimore, Miami, and the like aren't Southern culturally, obviously. However, these states's overall cultures are certainly tied together.

[Antonio the Sixth]

All but DE, MD, DC and MO.

LOL @ people who think Texas is not Southern.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

All but DE, MD, DC and MO.

LOL @ people who think Texas is not Southern.

Geographically, it's majority not. Population-wise it's probably majority is but the fact that its capital clearly isn't is noteworthy.

[Beet]

Everything on the list except for the one state that explicitly became a state solely to escape the South.

[RINO Tom]

If ME starts voting straight ticket GOP, is it no longer part of New England?  Are Colorado and Wyoming not in the same region?

The South, as a region, doesn't change based on politics.

I'm not sure how much politics is influencing most people decisions here. For example, I don't usually think of DC or Baltimore as southern, and I doubt that left wing voting habits is what makes me tihnk that way.

Fine, but nobody denies that Kearney, Nebraska and Chicago, Illinois are both Midwestern places.

[White Trash]

All except DC, MD, and DE.

[angus]

Something like this.  I'm not being too careful or looking up county boundaries, but this is my general idea.  The three shades of red are "The South."  Orange and Yellow at a stretch.



I'd include all on the list except DE, MO, OK, and TX.  (Overall, I think of OK and TX as more cowboy than southern, MO is more midwestern than southern, and DE is more eastern than southern.)

DC is not a state, but it's smack-dab in between two states that lie south of Mason and Dixon's line, so I voted for it to have geographically contiguous south.  

I consider the Deep South to be the states of AL, GA, MS, and SC.  

[RINO Tom]

I now realize I'm totally by myself in this, but I have always associated Arkansas (on a statewide basis, obviously there are counties that wouldn't fit) with the Deep South.  I mean, it voted for Wallace, no?