Plan B Forum

America can be divided into 11 culturally distinct nations according to a new book out in the US.

You live in?

I live in

fear of being mistaken for an Australian

Well at least you're not living in fear of being mistaken for an American...

While I am living in New Netherlands, my veiws tend towards Greater Appalachia and Far West.

I live in North Mexico where there are a lot of Chinese restaurants.

Born and raised in the Tidewater, happily ensconsced in Yankeedom (and really, that god-awful baseball team in the Bronx should be called the NY Gothams, or something, because they aren't *real* Yankees).

oldr_n_wsr wrote:While I am living in New Netherlands,

No, you're in Yankeedom. New Netherland doesn't extend out to LI (I think it gets Brooklyn, but it's hard to tell, and in any event that should be totally it's own country, or planet, probably).

The map says I'm in the Midlands, but my state is divided between that and New Netherland, and frankly I don't see much difference between our northern and southern counties (I even would say some in the "New Netherland" north are far more "Tidewater" or "Greater Appalachia" conservative than some in the "Midlands" south).

Whatevs.

Apparently I'm in Yankeedom...though I'd be hesitant about mentioning that to anyone else on the south side of Chicago, where we all live happily in Whitesoxdom. (Obviously, I'm with Guin re changing the name of "that god-awful baseball team in the Bronx"--or maybe the author should have come up with a name for that region which didn't have so many negative connotations, and not just for baseball fans.)

Here's a link to the original, longer article by Colin Woodard in Tufts Magazine; very interesting and worth a read. (BTW, you can click on the map in the article to enlarge it quite a bit and examine it in more detail; Guin's right about LI being mostly in Yankeedom.)

ETA: I don't much like his calling the eleven regions/cultures "distinct nations". We fought a war over that.
E pluribus unum.

Is the OP "Philosophy" or "Religion"? Inquiring minds etc.

Looking at Econo's larger map, I was actually born and raised in the Midlands, on the Tidewater border. My family comes from the Tidewater though, and was there from colonial times until the post-Civil War industrialization.

Sue U wrote:Is the OP "Philosophy" or "Religion"? Inquiring minds etc.

Philosophy one would think?

No, you're in Yankeedom. New Netherland doesn't extend out to LI (I think it gets Brooklyn, but it's hard to tell, and in any event that should be totally it's own country, or planet, probably).

I stand corrected.
While I may reside in Yankeedom, my heart belongs to Greater Appalachia and hte Far West (after my wife gets done with it of course).