thank you for your service.

respect

Respect for the deserving one. You truckers and your rail-brothers of the train operators are the backbone of our country, as you operate the logistics of this nation.

I'm a 25 year driver myself and have to agree with you. America is such a beautiful diverse place and Kyle outdid himself here. Keep Rollin!

Good job

I would have also included Syracuse and Onondaga county as well as even Utica. You can see a lot of rust belt influence that ties them more to buffalo than Albany, NYC, Boston, etc.

@@Blipblorpus Syracuse seems to be the dividing line: to the east you have Jets/Giants fans who drink soda. To the west, you have the people who (correctly) drink pop while watching the Bills.

Just like Pensacola, Florida, culturally, is completely different than Miami, Florida

I'm from the Midwest and noticed this as well. Accent and everything. Buffalo is actuually a lot closer to Detroit than I thought

they should not even have given Cleveland a new football team when the Browns left. They could have rooted for the Bills

Yes because where I live in Mississippi is more like Louisiana.

​@@jblue04 The section of South Carolina that I live in is more like Louisiana than the rest of SC. Same goes with Georgia.

I live in Atlanta and I agree, anythin north of like Gwinnett or Cobb is a whole different thing but goin south and east its pretty much the same

@@dan-patrickobrien3580 oh yeah you talkin bout like Charleston and Savannah. I jus call em New Orleans Jr. 😂

@@jackkeown6370 lol yeah I live in the Charleston area.

Don't forget about skid row. It's another level, its make california so diverse 🤣🤣🤣 i think texas don't have something like that. It's hot topic here in asia.. So when someone comment about california, first thing pop up in my head isn't hollywood but your beautiful street full of sh eet 🤣🤣 That street make me memorized about our capital on 90s... but yall have that in california is quite amazing 🤣🤣

@@el_lo Man, you're not even from the US and you're shitting on our state lmfao. Skid Row isn't even that bad it's so close to everything else in LA. It's sketch yeah but there's way more dangerous streets in that city you don't want to dream of going down.

Skid row is just infamous and it has been for decades. It's really nothing special lol. There's plenty similarly run down areas in the US and even in California.

@@el_lo Yeah, you're clearly not from CA, and you sound like you have a political agenda. Maybe next time try writing your comment completely with emojis. It would make more sense.

​@@el_lo You think you're being clever and funny but your comments are equal to that of what a kindergartner would say who is trying to impress his classmates. Embarrassing for you but you obviously didn't realize that.

I'd think one on Great Britan would be fascinating. Or anywhere in Europe. Or the World. 😬

I'd think one on Great Britan would be fascinating. Or anywhere in Europe. Or the World. 😬

In Michigan we call the northern half of the lower the north woods as well not just the U.P.

In WI, it is generally North of Wausau. I am a North Woods native ;)

In maine we call our northern woods the north woods too. Ik very creative

Most people call it “up north”

@@trowwzers5057 I've lived in Wisconsin my entire life (not "up north") and I've only ever heard it as "up north". Never heard the term "north woods" before.

Let's separate everything west of the Pecos River off into its own region. Then, let's separate the area between the Pecos and the Balcones Escarpment off into its own region.

Orange County Texas is damn near Louisiana-esque with the food we eat and the lives we lead in our lil corner of the swamps.

West is desert, east is THICK woods and swamps. Couldn't get anymore opposite

@@Heavywall70 I would also put extreme SE Texas with the southern Louisiana region. Even Houston has lots of bayous and swamps, not to mention a large Cajun population.

True I always say anything east of Austin is the south whereas anything west of Austin is the south west

I actually have a physical copy. It's a lot more grounded in the 70s than i imagined.

I'm from Detroit so I defuntely understand. Windosr, Ontario is right across the river and it's literally like another suburb of Detroit. If you go to a bar or something there you'll see Red Wings games on TV and the Canadians always come across the border to attend games

Damon, you must live near Vancouver, no?

@@ES2990 but us windsorites still say ‘eh’ all the time when in detroit, we stand out!

@@ES2990 To officially be an old man, back in the pre-cable days, having Channel 9 in Windsor, including Hockey Night in Canada, made us some of of the most privileged viewers in the US. Great kids programming too.

The Anchorage borough from Palmer / Wasilla to Seward could be separate, also, culturally and politically. Kenai peninsula, Kodiak and across the Aleutian chain. I subdivided the regions for FNBA in the early-1990s per new lending guidelines and this was our division.

@@TheRealBrook1968 I like that

Biodiversity and climate zones, sure, but I had to chuckle at “low population density” and “diversity.” It’s fucking Alaska. The only diverse and culturally significant population are the indigenous people that are shat on.

@@gogogaga7441 Alaska is a diverse state both in environment and in population. On what grounds do you measure “cultural significance”? Surely, the cultural heritage of the state lies mostly with the many Alaska Native peoples, but about 66% of the state’s population is made up of white people, and a notable 5% of Asians.

I agree. Having grown up there, it's not something you can lump all together in terms of geography or culture. I would divide it into 6 regions: the Panhandle, Cook Inlet, the Aleutians, Western, Northern, and Cental. You could subdivide some of those as well, depending on how detailed you wanted to get.

I really like this idea! I would definitely add a region for the southern tip though. That’s it’s own place

Too bad he ignored the Florida panhandle and majority of Alabama. I was curious as to what we here in the panhandle were considered and he just noped right on past us lol.

@@sirraf23 I mean... to be fair, even most Floridians would nope past the panhandle. Y'know... when we remember that it's there.

@@omargoodman2999 that's funny because where I live seems to have a lot of people moving from south Florida complaining about the crime down south.

Good way to put it - soft and overlapping borders help, even county vs. state lines. New Mexico and even Colorado can join Florida on some of that overlap.

Completely agree about Maryland. I grew up in the real South and moved to Maryland for a job after college. And I always bristled when some Northerner called Maryland the South. There is NOTHING about Maryland that reflects the South in any way. Mid-Atlantic best describes it.

I came here to say the same thing. I grew up in central MD. I think you can see the trend towards the South in the more rural parts of the state, like in the western two counties, the Eastern Shore, and counties south of DC. I remember seeing pickup trucks with gun racks and the Confederate flag on the highway, with MD plates - that's not "mid-Atlantic". On the other hand, I wouldn't classify anything along the corridor between DC and Baltimore as "southern", and folks there will get offended if you try to tell them they're southern. Maryland is its own thing, maybe "Chesapeake" is a better description for most parts of the state, and more "Appalachian" for those counties in the west. My Wisconsin cousins always thought I had a southern accent, but folks from southern Virginia thought I didn't. To quote from The Devil and Daniel Webster by Stephen Vincent Benet: "'Tis true the North claims me for a Southerner and the South for a Northerner, but I am neither." -- The Stranger

Nobody ever considered Maryland the south. From my understanding it was always the northeast.

@@dan-patrickobrien3580 Definitely not true. It’s on the edge of the South but it was never “considered Northeast from the start.”

@@jeremiah_12 middle Atlantic but definitely not the south.

yeah because these are really rough personal subregions, nothing official

I noticed that the area that I'm from, Middle Tennessee, was never included.

A large swath of California - SF, LA, SD, Scramento, and more - weren't mentioned.

@@Carson218 We're included, as you can see at 2:52, in the South region, but not in a subregion. The regions aren't necessarily divided into subregions such that every part is in a subregion. The subregion is simply a part of a region with distinct geographical characteristics. I don't think Kyle explained that very well.

Especially when weighing things a little more anthropologically, such as the Intermountain West -- the area with a large historic link to the Mormon pioneers in addition to proximity to Salt Lake City. A sub-sub-region, if you will.

don't forget southeastern minnesota, the valleys of the upper mississippi and st. croix rivers. it has been called "little switzerland" for its climate and scenery.

I think he overlooked Alabama. Isn’t there some sort of region around the Mississippi River? He may have mentioned it and I missed it

@@AngelaMastrodonato The Mississippi Delta, no?

Yeah he Completely missed Mid TN/Central AL

He also missed the “Driftless” area in Southwestern Wisconsin, Southeastern Minnesota, Northeastern Iowa, and Northwestern Illinois. It’s a very beautiful area with sprawling hills and bluffs. The area is called that because the glaciers didn’t flatten it when moving.

How about the people who like to say Virginia and Kentucky aren't southern because they arent like their home states of Alabama? Kills me every time.

I live in Michigans U.P. but always loved visiting Northern Kentucky. As you said it still feels a lot like the Midwest but with just a touch of that southern charm. Very nice place to visit, always have a good experience.

Having gone through Kentucky via Cincinnati on several occasions, Northern Kentucky really does feel like where the Midwest meets the South. I remember stopping for breakfast at a Waffle House once just outside of Covington and I could hear a lot of southern accents.

I very much agree. I’m from south eastern Kentucky, and when I went up to northern Kentucky for college I could really see the difference. Northern Kentucky very clearly shows when the south starts to transition into the Midwest imo. Even had people asking me about my accent, when I’m also from Kentucky, just the south 😅

@@imalwayspanicking Yes there’s a difference in culture, but we are Kentuckians all the way.

I was originally from Evansville, Indiana. My dad was from Louisville. I think I am right on the cusp of the South; but mostly Midwestern. I have lived in Ohio/Fla/Illinois/San Francisco; so much has been lost; but I think a little of that original impression remains.@@imalwayspanicking

He talks about that in his video “regional terms in the us defined”

Most of WV, is depressing...

I agree, I live in WV someone in Cali will tell me I'm east coast, someone in pa will tell me I'm Midwest and West Virginians themselves mostly identify as Appalachian

@@angelmart08 It's in the Methamphetamine Subregion 😂

He is only identifying states in the regions. WV is being canceled as a state,Manchin introduced a bill.

and the North woods region is SPACTACULARLY beautiful this time of year through October...... If you ever get a chance - GO THERE.

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I agree the only difference I have as someone who lived in Arkansas, Kansas & Missouri. I would say that the Ozark sub region for the south should stretch up to the Lake of Ozarks in Missouri.

When you said the Mississippi Coast is more similar to South Louisiana than Northern Mississippi, I think that you meant more similar to South Louisiana than Northern or Central Mississippi, or even South-Central Mississippi.

@@jamesgoode9246 Yes Agreed! Thank you!

Mardi Gras in the US was actually started in Mobile, AL

I thought it was odd he didn’t include a specific “Gulf Coast” region at all 🤔

He completely left out the Gulf Coast region of Mississippi and Alabama.

Oh very! It is basically appalachia just like WV lol

Honestly all of Northern VA, Maryland, and Delaware are all part of that transition

@@charlietaylor5047 Yea but Maryland went from a southern state to a northern state while Delaware was historically always in the middle colonies the southern portion of the state aligns more with Southern culture than Phily culture

Actually there is also a subregion there. The eastern half of Maryland, Virginia, and all of Delaware is called "Delmarva." Part of it (after crossing Bay Bridge) going east, is also called "The Eastern Shore because most of it is saltwater marsh land. I always considered Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, North Carolina, and South Carolina the Mid Atlantic states, with the Low Country being the coastal areas of the Carolinas. Now what you are calling the Mid Atlantic, I would take Virginia and part of Maryland out of there. Beginning in Maryland from Baltimore and points north, and what you included, I would call the Eastern Rust Belt, since there is so much industry in the area. This is a very interesting video. Thank you!

@@Miami7 Baltimore and Philly are definitely a hybrid of Rustbelt and East Coast. So I agree with the term "Eastern Rustbelt."

The Eastern Shore is Southern. I would say the Western Panhandle is basically Appalachia. West Virginia 2.0. Southern Maryland (Charles, St. Mary's, Calvert Counties) are a hybrid of South and Mid-Atlantic. But I would argue Charles County will become more and more Mid-Atlantic as it grows in population and becomes an extended suburb of DC.

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having lived in both i don’t notice it, what’s usually the difference in accent?

i always thought of that region as the rust belt. in my head, i defined the area as going from west virginia through buffalo reaching towards cleveland, through pittsburgh and binghamton, into buffalo and rochester

Rochester reminds me of Wilmington, DE & Buffalo reminds me of Bridgeport, CT.

Very true. I grew up just south of Youngstown. Anything south of there pretty much begins Appalachia and you get a noticeable southern accent. Cleveland and Akron have their own unique accent (mostly sharper “A’s”)

California is not welcome. Dont worry. OR and WA will firmly tell you California has cooties. ID and MT can kick it with us. Northern Californian wish they were from OR.

He is not disputing that but merely talking about the geographical landscapes and people therein. You have to agree that Western Washington is very different than eastern Washington vs southern Oregon despite it being the "PNW."

@@heatherpaige8897 and Eastern Oregon is basically Western Idaho.

Chawndel said it perfectly. Saaa-lute.😎👍

Spokane area considers itself Pacific Northwest but its just more similar to Montana than Seattle. The wet vs dry difference is what divides them

To be honest, in my attempts to not over discuss California since I'm from there, I sometimes under discuss or leave it out without thinking about it. But I do think that south of the northernmost part of the state and north of the Grapevine is a separate subregion. "Not-quite-desert agricultural and coastal" subregion.

@@GeographyKing and good luck clsssifying the Owens Valley. Most of it would be very similar to the Central Valley, then you get to Bishop which is where tourism and agriculture have a head-on collision. Let's face it - you could just about turn the state into a country with all the cultural diversity.

@@GeographyKing Indeed. One can easily make the case that California itself contains or parts are contained within four or five separate subregions

@@GeographyKing while I think the Central Valley is under discussed and interesting, you played it right by not over-doing California. This was about off the radar multi state regions and you nailed em.

@@GeographyKing Nice overview. I was wondering what happened to Coastal California! I do agree that Riverside and SB counties belong in the southwest. The only other thought is that the Rocky Mountain Region got lumped with the Southwest and I would say that from SLC over to Denver, down to Santa Fe up through western Montana could be broken out.

Surely left out Biloxi, Ocean Springs, Mobile and Pensacola. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Really interesting. i would love you to explain. ,@@naydee

Your itchy nut has been scratched 😁🤣

But I totally get it. 😁😁 I feel the same as a geography nerd.

Viper Geography King

Same I'm also a geography nut and I appreciate these videos

That's an understatement. You could fit 3 UKs into Texas, alone.

@@francisdashwood1760 he said the south, not just texas

@@nick3718 LOL...I know what he said, genius. You may note that I wrote ''alone'' after Texas, duh...lol.

Maryland is a southern state btw, I don’t blame the guy because only half the counties are

In general the whole southwest is a lot less homogeneous than described in this video.

I was thinking the same!

TLDR it’s small/medium size towns taht we’re big manufacturing hubs that have been in steep decline. SW NY W PA OH especially Appalachia OH parts of IN MI WI. Sections of IL can be seen as RB

Now that even the Mountain States salt their roads, perhaps we should consider "rust belt" to be outmoded nomenclature.

I've made many of the same observations over my trucking career, although I would note that the boundaries are not always defined so neatly by county lines.

I had a "word person" tell me that the "rust belt" was not about rusty cars. She, IIRC, contended it was about the soil. I was not familiar with that. I could never find my saved reply, but I can say for sure people mean rusty cars.

As someone from this same area, but living in LA I totally agree; however, I do wish he would’ve spent some time on coastal south and central California. He sorta skipped it

I agree. I hate to be *that person from California* but our state alone has so many different biological and social regions it's worthy of its own video imo. Coastal south vs coastal north, wet vs dry forests, Central California, the High Desert, the Sierra Nevada's, the chaparral/Inland Empire, the rural north, etc etc. Also as someone from the IE as well, I always considered us to be where the Southwest meets the LA sprawl specifically, both a gateway to the Southwest and to coastal California as a whole. Completely socially separate from LA.

@@ghoulannabanana I hate to be that person too but, none of us in Nor Cal say Central California. It just seems to be everyone in So Cal that gives that distinction. I never really get the opportunity to ask them why they call it that. We all consider it (the Valley) a sub region of Nor Cal no different than the Bay Area.

Kyle grew up in Ca. Thats why he knew.

Honestly I’ve always associated Las Vegas and Salt Lake with the Southwest culturally and geographically, albeit a specific subregion of it. Both are desert cities with high elevations and both were at one point claimed by Mexico, and later by Mormons -This goes for a lot of northern/central Arizona too I feel the 15 freeway between SLC and Reno sort of loosely marks the northwestern border of the Southwest if that makes sense, any further into Nevada you start to hit eastern Oregon/Idaho which is very much a different thing

@@zoey2211 Grew up in St. George and have never thought of Salt Lake City as Southwest. Kyle got it right.

I agree. I was disappointed he never mentioned the Intermountain West. People always forget the overwhelming influence the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints had in settling the area, and how its reflected in the culture. I grew up considering everything as far north as Boise ID to as south as Phoenix AZ, as far west as Las Vegas NV and as far east as Denver CO as the Intermountain West. Also, when I moved to the Portland area, I was surprised by how many people considered Idaho part of the Pacific Northwest. Maybe they're only thinking of the panhandle?

@@jazzcatjohn grew up in eastside Salt Lake and went to high school in Tucson, and I always have 🤷‍♀️

@@zoey2211 I15 is between Vegas and SLC, Reno to SLC is I80.

The Piedmont region borrowed its name from the same region in Italy, but the etymology is the same: at the foot of the mountains. And yes, the Piedmont is more or less the foothills, though in North Carolina the Piedmont region is actually sandwiched between two mountain ranges - the Appalachians and the Uwharries. The one issue I have with the video is with saying that the culture in this region is more or less the same as on the coastal plains (or low country). It isn't. The food culture, for instance, is quite different. That's not to say that there is no overlap, of course, but once you get into the Piedmont seafood is far more scarce than it is along the coast. Along the coast it seems like everyone has a boat, in the Piedmont most people do not and boating is generally something one does on vacation if at all. Culturally, much of the Piedmont has more in common with Appalachian culture than with low country culture.

Im from the piedmont south! Nice to meet you 😊

@@alanlight7740 I think it depends on the state. I'm from Piedmont VA and historically it was settled by people from Tidewater, so it had that plantation culture (although smaller than in Tidewater). Even the Piedmont Virginia dialect is very similar to the Tidewater dialect. I do agree with the food comment and regardless of the state, Appalachia certainly influenced the Piedmont's culture.

@@wesmorgan7729 - no doubt there's some overlap and some variance. I grew up in Charlottesville before moving down to the Waxhaws (near Charlotte), and I even spent a year in the Piedmont part of Alabama. Each place has similarities and distinct differences. Charlotte is about in the middle of the Piedmont in the Carolinas, and it also marks a meeting point for three distinct cultures: Tidewater, Appalachian, and Deep South. But the dividing line is blurry. This particular region also has German influence from the gold miners who came in the early 1800s, and the Piedmont area of Alabama has a bunch of Italians who came in the 1870s. My point was simply that lumping the Piedmont together with the Tidewater culture is far too simplistic.

@@wesmorgan7729 -- I think the Piedmont region was named for the Piedmont region of Italy because of its topography, not because of its culture.

I lived in Roanoke VA for 5 years. Western VA definitely does not see itself as Mid Atlantic. Western VA residents identity themselves as Appalachian. I have friends in Richmond, and they identify as Mid Atlantic. Somewhere in-between the two cities is the psychological dividing line between the two regions.

New Jersey and NYC are absolutely mid Atlantic in fact to me NJ is as mid Atlantic as it gets

New Jersey probably is a Mid-Atlantic state but most consider it a suburb of New York and Philadelphia. Like this video there are gray areas subject to opinion and interpretation.

@@randylee1777 Definitely even Connecticut is what I’d consider a bedroom state to nyc as Ri is to Boston.

Given how much the South was divided in the video, I'd think it'd be fair to divide what's called the Mid Atlantic here into at least two sub regions, one Baltimore area to Norfolk, the other one, the greater NYC area going as far north as Albany. Arguably metro Philly, southern NJ and DE would be another one. But if we want to avoid just dividing into metro areas, I'd lump them in with the more northern region.

I totally agree. I am originally from Maine, but I moved to the New Orleans area about 7 years ago. Then about 3 years ago I moved just south east of Baton Rouge and I was amazed by the difference from N.O. to B.R.. Especially the accent. I'm always telling people how amazed I am that people here in south east LA sound totally different from only 30 or 40 miles away. And I mean totally different. One thing that is very obvious is that the people around N.O. tend to not pronounce their Rs in many words similar to the North East, but 30-40 miles northeast and they use a hard R like people from the south. I've lived in many areas of the country, but I've never seen anything like this

From the family of mine that’s been to NO, they say it’s similar to Key West. Well not including any French stuff obviously.

@@la7era1u54 keen observation. One thing that Hollywood has never gotten right is the NOLA accent.

@@chewy99. that's an interesting comparison.

No new Orleans is not unique. Citation: some dick hipster who made a youtube video: "Your city is not unique"

Yep. Once you get out of the Springfield/Branson metro area, it gets pretty hicky, pretty fast! It's completely different from the rest of the state above I-70 or the cotton fields in the SE part of the state.

The Osarks felt lonely as hell to me. I live across the river in Illinois further north, not far from Hannibal. In 2018 I drove down there to bail out a friend who had no way home. I had never been that deep into Missouri before and I was expecting more of the same I was used to seeing along the river, but no. It still had the caves and geography, but it seemed so empty. For a popular vacation area the towns surrounding the lakes are just depressing to look at. Well at least the ones I traveled through from the north and into Laurie. I was in town for about 20 minutes before my friend and I headed home as I just wanted out of there. It made home in Adams county Illinois seem comparatively comfortable.

@@MintyLime703 and yet, those people are mostly content and would likely give you the shirt off their back if they thought you needed it. Most actual towns are not right off the highways, most want to live further away from traffic noise. I have traveled to most states and I am always happy to get back to Missouri where people have more manners and are extremely friendly and caring, even in the suburbs of big cities.

I live in central iowa. Northern Missouri is definitely like us. It's only the very southern part of Missouri that I would even consider South

I need to travel more below Del Rio. But one guy I know who teaches in San Antonio, but lives in Harlingen on breaks plus travels all over. He considers south Texas the "southwest" but not the "desert southwest". The latter he says is where creosote bush takes over west of the Pecos. Sounds good!

@@desertdc123 -- Yee Mon, I believe that your "one guy" is correct.

I felt like the Colorado and Utah portions I kinda disagree with, that is more intermountain west than anything else

id say that makes sense. it is culturally more closer to NM, Arizona and inland southern california than austin, or san diego for example

El Paso, yes, because it sticks way out there in the Southwest. But not San Antonio, it is just regular (ugly) South Central Texas. Not the Southwest.

that’s pathetic

I love the Midwest. I do see the beauty of farms, trees, small hills, wildflowers, clear seasons, enough moisture, small cities, short commute times. all the normal foods--theater-stores.

Thank you!

Wouldn’t say I10 is the line depends where you are. Heavy cajun influence all along 190 and even into avoyelles parish. As long as you stay more central in the state

@@ConnorM1995 yea. That is a nice little pocket, although, there are differences in the way those people and the more southern people speak and understand.

Detroit: the 3rd most dangerous city in the U.S. 💩

I’ve been out of Michigan almost 20 years now. I’m a Saginaw native, while Saginaw has gone downhill over the years, I have noticed Detroit has been turning around over the years. Toledo seems worse than Detroit now. We had no issues going into downtown Detroit and going to eat in Greektown.

I am from Houston but lived near Detroit for a while. I agree, the city, kind of like Houston, is extremely underrated and misunderstood, albeit a bit crime ridden. Some of the best Arab, South Asian, and Greek food in the US too.

Not trying to defend Kwame or any of the other corrupt politicians in Detroits past, but I'm going to blame Detroit's rough patch more on General Motors than Kwame.

Ya so has East St Louis lol

I’m from Albany and do the same when someone says Buffalo.

i'm gonna argue that eastern shore is more Mid-Atlantic than western maryland tbh, as someone from central that's how it's always felt.

In general the beach areas of the country seem to be a lot more similar to each other than the states they are attached to. Also the Baltimore-Washington split is just as a big division that the Eastern v.s Western shore.While Western Maryland is very much Appalachian or Pennsyltucky.

@@Marylandbrony I feel like Baltimore - Washington is more of a spectrum than a sharp division. Maybe it's just me though since I worked in Howard county with coworkers from Baltimore while living in Montgomery county myself. Either way, they're definitely more similar to each other than the Eastern shore and Western MD are to the Baltimore / Washington areas.

@@danielamir452 Howard county is pretty much right in the middle. I'm from Silver Spring myself, but live in Burtonsville, near both the PG and Howard County lines. Southern Howard County (north Laurel, Fulton, even parts of Columbia) is definitely more DC than Baltimore due to the proximity to Montgomery and PG, plus all the federal campuses nearby south of the Patuxent. There's a reason there's so much wealth there.

As someone from Georgia who lived in Maryland near Annapolis for a few years, I was NOT in a Southern state when roaming around Maryland. nothing there reminded me of the South. Beautiful people and culture but more like Delaware to me.

Yeah try calling people from Central & South Florida "Southerners" and the looks you will get won't be pleasant!

Seconded! Narrator's knowledge corroborates my experiences of the regions / sub-regions I've been to, also.

Thanks!

Amen to that

yea, also, as kind of a wildlife/cultural anecdote, I think you can say you've left the Midwest and entered the Ozarks/the South when the average fisherman has 6 dozen different crappie jigs in his tackle box but has never seen a walleye in his life.

Here in southwest MO the attitudes and way of life are far more southern than midwestern.

Thats right South of Missouri river ya in the south... And KC and Omaha is the Heartland of America...Not midwest..

@@davehughesfarm7983 I learned that the heart of the confederacy in Missouri was in the KC area and east along the Missouri River with good soil where was a need for slaves.

I was going to say the same thing. As someone who lives in Massachusetts but very close to New Hampshire there isn't much difference when you cross the border. It's basically still Greater Boston. I'd say you really hit the cultural shift at the lakes region. Also, I think the Berkshires in western MA probably belong more in the Northern New England subregion since they're more similar to Vermont than eastern MA.

Agreed

I’m from Wayne County too! I grew up just outside the town of Wayne. Having lived and visited areas around the U.S. I lived for quite a while in northern Kentucky and northern Maine. I’m with you Southern West Virginia is definitely Southern with maybe some rust belt flair.

Much of my family moved to the Catskill Mountains NY. When I moved to NC, I visited the western mountain (Smoky Mountains) region part of the state. I was amazed at how much more similar the mountain culture of NC is with NY State mountain culture - much more than mid and east NC in the same state.

I guess you get a break since you’re not from the US, because I was about to say if you need the states labeled you’re on the wrong channel! 😉

Jerk... stop trolling

i means those are still plains tho. There aren't really plains outside of the midwest.

Yeah in Texas, I would not lump in the Northeastern Woodlands or the Gulf Coast with the Texas Great Plains. The areas are all quite different. The Northeastern Woodlands are much more akin to northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and the southeastern corner of Oklahoma. Driving through, it is moderately populated, a little bit poor, very conservative, and very "southern." You'll probably encounter some Confederate Flags. Meanwhile, the Gulf Coast is also "Southern," but more urban and diverse. It has some Acadian influence, especially around Beaumont. The cuisine is noticeably different (more seafood) and it has a booming economy of oil refinement and shipping centered around Houston, with the city and suburbs leaning left and everything else leaning right. The Great Plains in Texas can of course be divided between High and Low Plains, with the Low Plains including Dallas, San Antonio, Austin, etc. This is the Texas Heartland. It's moderately populated and farming oriented, with some cowboy culture too. It is divided politically, with the big cities leaning left, and everything else leaning right. The High Plains are where it stops feeling "southern" completely. Now you're in the Frontier, aka, the "West." This is the Amarillo, Lubbock, Midland/Odesa area. It's much drier here than in the Low Plains, and farming is replaced by ranching. The High Plains are thinly populated and very conservative, but the economy does well due to the oil production here. Finally, you have the Rio Grande Valley. I feel like this is a region of its own with the high degree of Latino influence. The area is poor economically but rich in culture, and leans left to a high degree. I'm not sure if this is "Southern" or "Western," but either way, it is certainly a unique part of Texas. It can be further divided between Big Bend Country (very hilly and very sparsely populated outside of El Paso) and the Southern Valley (more flat and more populated). Big Bend Country feels very "Southwestern," but the Southern Valley feels more "Southern."

@@daltonmiller5590 the northeastern woodlands are also called the Piney Woods. My dad grew up there in the Arkansas portion.

@@carlstevens781 Oh true! I forgot that this was where that referred to. I tried really hard to come up with a name for that region but couldn't think of one lol

Yup. From 80-84, I lived in Seabrook TX, on Galveston Bay, there was a distinctive Cajun flavor to the area. We had Gumbo cook offs and enjoyed a good bottle dance!

I actually think you are onto something re watersheds and regional consciousness. Certainly in a state like NY which has a complex drainage system (made more complex by an artificial river that gave rise to so many of its cities). I live in a part of NYS that drains north to Lake Ontario and the St Lawrence River and our local news media seems to coincidentally cover those areas more frequently. I think nationally you probably see this happening as well. It likely has an effect on what you consider to be “home” or “neighbors.”

@@eedgerton769 I know it’s a much smaller scale, but the region of Idaho I live in is called the Magic Valley. It was named for a century old irrigation system that transformed the desert into a huge farming area. It really does connect us because we all depend on it.

@@help8help where does the water come from, river or?