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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I have no idea where people who make this garbage get their info.

First, I see nothing "cultural" about these designations, these are regional designations.

I've lived or worked in quite a few of the places listed, and pretty much every one of those is inaccurate.

The "Chesapeake" label - I've never once heard that term used to describe that region, and I have family and friends who grew up there, and I've spent a lot of time there. If someone were to say "Chesapeake" they'd be asked what region of the Chesapeake they're referring to, as it's that large body of water there - the largest estuary in the world, if I remember right, or if they were referring to Chesapeake City, or just the Bay.

What's labeled the Gulf Coast of Florida, most people would call the Panhandle (which is considered part of the Gulf Coast, just has its own designation), with the rest of the Gulf Coast extending down the entire... Gulf Coast of Florida, which measures in the thousands of miles.

These maps keep showing up, and it's like they're done by someone who's never even read about any of the places, or looked at an actual map.

[–] SapientLasagna@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

What about the unlabelled grey "dread zone" between the pacific and midwest areas? That's accurate, right?

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago

Oh right, they marked that.

It's real, yeah. Don't go there. Wish I didn't.

[–] socsa@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago

Chesapeake just means "people who know that crabs are meant to be steamed, not boiled."

In my experience this is a surprisingly sharp cultural divide among places where eating crabs is common.

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The fact that these are supposed to be cultural categories and it doesn't distinguish Appalachia is enough for me to discount this as total nonsense.

[–] Strocker89 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It literally lists Southern and Northern Appalachia...?

[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 days ago

But it separates them into the south and northeast.

[–] LMagicalus@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days ago

Lumping Philly into the Jersey area is how you start wars.

Personally I think this map is far better at mapping the cultures of the US (source: Monsieur Z "Utahism")

[–] shoulderoforion@fedia.io 3 points 5 days ago

Locally 0.3 is referred to as The NYC TriState Area

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Most of these are pretty shoddy, but this one is really good. It's detailed and accurate about a lot of the idoiosyncrasies.

Like FlyingSquid I would have pushed "The South" a little further north into Western Pennsylvania, and up through Missouri into south Indiana. And what in the world is "The Northwoods," that's the YooPee and Wisconsin is upper midwest. But other than that it's spot on as to a whole lot of the details. South Florida as part of the Caribbean, Washington/Oregon as part of the interior once you get away from the coast... it has a lot of little important details right.

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