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I dunno, it seems pretty reasonable. It's one of the better definitions for the Midwest I've seen (not sure about sneaking so far east but I like that it stops a few miles west of the Missouri), properly sets apart areas that should be set apart...
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Golbez posted:I dunno, it seems pretty reasonable. It's one of the better definitions for the Midwest I've seen (not sure about sneaking so far east but I like that it stops a few miles west of the Missouri), properly sets apart areas that should be set apart... Are such wide swathes really culturally similar tho? I can admit that cajun country is the only area i'm familiar with and it seems fine, if a little too far east.
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It's certainly nitpickable (and you could argue that a "cultural map" like this is a hopeless task in the first place), but it's a pretty creditable attempt. I've seen a lot worse.
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Jul 21, 2020 17:43
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I feel like there should be a Mormon zone.
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It bothers me that there’s a Lower Rust Belt but no Upper Rust Belt.
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Badger of Basra posted:It bothers me that there’s a Lower Rust Belt but no Upper Rust Belt. The Upper Rust Belt is in Ontario
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Jul 21, 2020 18:55
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It is funny to me how some of America’s bleakest areas and Canada’s most prosperous ones are right next to each other.
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Jul 21, 2020 18:56
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The green zone includes far too much of Chud California. Needs to hug the coast a lot more. Riverside, San Bern, Kern Counties and other such terrible places should be brown with Texas rather than green with San Francisco.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:09
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:The green zone includes far too much of Chud California. Needs to hug the coast a lot more. Riverside, San Bern, Kern Counties and other such terrible places should be brown with Texas rather than green with San Francisco. Typically californian to lump all your bad poo poo in with a whole different group rather than acknowledge that you aren't a special Good People Zone just sayin
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Jul 21, 2020 19:36
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Badger of Basra posted:It is funny to me how some of America’s bleakest areas and Canada’s most prosperous ones are right next to each other. It's like that in the US too lol. The original American rust belt cities are all throughout the Northeast, the difference and reason they don't get talked about as much as the Midwest's is that they're right near to gleaming mega prosperous cities. So like Newark to Manhattan.. Worcester to Boston... Bridgeport to Stamford...
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Jul 21, 2020 19:50
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Grape posted:I feel like there should be a Mormon zone. 26, 28, and 29 about cover it.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:50
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Also realistically all of populated CT should be dark blue. Maybe not Hartford county? But definitely Litchfield and New Haven counties. Maybe also split New England in two since the bottom three are wildly different than the top three.
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Jul 21, 2020 19:52
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Edgar Allen Ho posted:Typically californian to lump all your bad poo poo in with a whole different group rather than acknowledge that you aren't a special Good People Zone Sounds like I hit it right on the nose and you're a butt hurt West Texan who knows nothing about California.
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Jul 21, 2020 20:18
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Guess the map: Catholic German-language parishes/churches abroad. Go ahead and make fun of the abundance of missions in South America 
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Jul 21, 2020 20:20
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There's no way in the world that Grand Forks would tolerate being in the same region as those bastards from East Grand Forks.
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:Sounds like I hit it right on the nose and you're a butt hurt West Texan who knows nothing about California. Holy gently caress you're right. On the other hand, at least there aren't californians in New York so I know I chose the right coast
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Rolabi Wizenard posted:The green zone includes far too much of Chud California. Needs to hug the coast a lot more. Riverside, San Bern, Kern Counties and other such terrible places should be brown with Texas rather than green with San Francisco. Cascadia really should have a panhandle going down the eastern part of California to just south of Tahoe, too. That would make that part of the state State of Jefferson flag density dot png
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Jul 21, 2020 20:40
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 Grape posted:Also realistically all of populated CT should be dark blue. New York dominates Connecticut even more than it does New Jersey, but New England is still probably the most solid multi-state regional unit in the US. "The South" is probably the biggest, but it has a lot of holes in it and kinda dissolves on the western front, and "the midwest" is united mainly by the fact that nobody cares about them. In the west, states get too big so they can't be rolled into multi-state units and have to be sliced up, but there's no line between chuds and the sea.
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SlothfulCobra posted:
Does this include republicans with libertarian impulses or just straight libertarians. Because either way I don't understand how Kentuckys so low
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Jul 21, 2020 22:03
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SlothfulCobra posted:New York dominates Connecticut even more than it does New Jersey, Very debatable. Like yeah half of Jersey has a stronger pull toward Philly, but northern Jersey is far more NYC oriented than any part of CT could ever imagine.
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Jul 21, 2020 22:21
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Luxembourg is a region of Germany. See also: The Netherlands, Denmark, half of Belgium, Austria, most of Switzerland.
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Grape posted:Maybe also split New England in two since the bottom three are wildly different than the top three. That's kind of the issue my gut is having with most of these cultural zones. Urban/rural cultural divides are generally greater than regional divides in my experience. Just think of Texas or California. If you're going to say that a regional culture has urban and rural manifestations, and understand that one region can be wildly different depending on levels of urbanization, then New England is pretty coherent.
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Jul 21, 2020 22:56
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Grape posted:Very debatable. Like yeah half of Jersey has a stronger pull toward Philly, but northern Jersey is far more NYC oriented than any part of CT could ever imagine. Bro, do you even Fairfield County? Honestly, what I usually see is Fairfield and Litchfield part of the NY metro, New Haven basically floating on its own, and the rest oriented towards New England as a whole.
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Minenfeld! posted:Bro, do you even Fairfield County? I do indeed, but like, northern Jersey is a place where you literally see Manhattan on the skyline lol. quote:Honestly, what I usually see is Fairfield and Litchfield part of the NY metro, New Haven basically floating on its own, and the rest oriented towards New England as a whole. I'd agree, except New Haven feels seamlessly grafted onto the same belt of suburbs/cities that makes up the Fairfield county shore. Going north there's much more disconnect toward Hartford, and going east especially feels like a big transition to a different world.
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FreudianSlippers posted:Luxembourg is a region of Germany. Yeah, see, that's one of the reasons Luxembourg didn't just pick German as its official language.
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Jul 21, 2020 23:58
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FreudianSlippers posted:Luxembourg is a region of Germany.
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https://twitter.com/WBLooneyTunes/status/1279490205993623554
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I was going to comment that the South would surely pick Yosemite Sam, but then I saw that there actually were states that had him, most of them not in the South
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Texas likes Speedy Gonzales because of all the Mexicans. Mexico loves Speedy Gonzales. No idea about Maine. The deep south loves the southerner, pretty simple. Roswell New Mexico. Massachusetts...what? Who? California should probably be ashamed. I guess the Looney Tunes Show in 2011 made her into more of a valley girl? Maybe that's it? North and South Dakota seem more like a joke. West Virginia and Alaska seem like much more obscure characters to be the favorite. No real idea about the rest. I do like Daffy Duck best like my birthplace does. Phlegmish posted:I was going to comment that the South would surely pick Yosemite Sam, but then I saw that there actually were states that had him, most of them not in the South I think most of those states are the ones that value their past as part of the wild west more than anything else, with a little of gold prospecting and crazy prepper stuff thrown in the mix. Yosemite Sam's only been a "proper" southerner once or twice. I don't think there's any shame in liking the villain best, they're often the one from who most of the plot and comedy springs.
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I love that Alaska gets to be part of The Real South, the Super South, and perhaps even the Ultra South. Not sure about that last one because they haven't actually colored it in.
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Why is Louisiana’s favorite looney tune the generic witch? Does she even have a name
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a fatguy baldspot posted:Why is Louisiana’s favorite looney tune the generic witch? Does she even have a name Cos she lives in a swamp
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https://twitter.com/rpxadair/status/1279513567625166848
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Weembles posted:26, 28, and 29 about cover it. Arizona’s got the Mormons who are too extreme for Idaho.
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My dad (big EU fanboy) reminded me a while ago that the true Brexit will be happening six months from now on. I hadn't been keeping up because it seems like it's been going on for decades now. I can't wait until we're in 2024 or something and I can post charts of the British economy's evolution over time, I'm not even particularly keen on the EU but what a dumbass decision lol
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This Corona thing that's going on is a good excuse to postpone it yet again, I'll be surprised if it happens this year.
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Kamrat posted:This Corona thing that's going on is a good excuse to postpone it yet again, I'll be surprised if it happens this year.
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Brexit has already happened. We are in the transition period where the UK's hand is even weaker and they've already denied prolonging the transition period due to the pandemic. It's fascinating to watch because an extension would need unanimous consent from every country in the EU. It's one of those maddening bugs/features of the EU that, in this case, works against the UK. Brexit is such an all-emcompassing clusterfuck, fractally, at every level. It's amazing. 
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