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BigAppleBadger · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:

Better than the first one... but it doesn’t make any sense to put Chicago in the same region as the Texas panhandle. Something is seriously off there. Northern Indiana, northeastern Illinois and SE Wisconsin are as Rust Belt as anywhere. And eastern NY is not like Ohio or SE Michigan (western NY, in places like Buffalo, for sure).

BigAppleBadger · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
I currently live downstate in Illinois. Do you consider us from the same region?

How far downstate?

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
How far downstate?

Near Champaign. Originally near Madison, WI

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
Better than the first one... but it doesn’t make any sense to put Chicago in the same region as the Texas panhandle. Something is seriously off there. Northern Indiana, northeastern Illinois and SE Wisconsin are as Rust Belt as anywhere. And eastern NY is not like Ohio or SE Michigan (western NY, in places like Buffalo, for sure).

I don't say that I agree with any of the maps except those that show the divide between urban and rural areas. And I totally agree about the rust Belt comment.

BigAppleBadger · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
Near Champaign. Originally near Madison, WI

Yes I consider Champaign the same region.

Big city vs small city isn’t the same as being in a different region. Obviously where you live isn’t like Chicago, but it’s not unlike a lot of Kane or Will counties which are partly suburban Chicago.

Now if you said Carbondale, then nope. I had a high school buddy that went to SIU. That’s Kentucky.

huskers1217 · Sep 25, 2018

Winged_Wheel88 said:
I'm thinkin' Wendy's. More specifically...Scott Frostys.

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kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
I don't say that I agree with any of the maps except those that show the divide between urban and rural areas. And I totally agree about the rust Belt comment.

Champain is an island. Get 10 miles outside of Champaign and it is totally different culturally and politically. I live about 20 miles out and it looks as empty as rural Iowa. The Corn Belt is a real thing.

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
Yes I consider Champaign the same region.

Big city vs small city isn’t the same as being in a different region. Obviously where you live isn’t like Chicago, but it’s not unlike a lot of Kane or Will counties which are partly suburban Chicago.

Now if you said Carbondale, then nope. I had a high school buddy that went to SIU. That’s Kentucky.

Have to go. 10 mile drive one way to pick up milk and bread. Yeah. I said rural.

BigAppleBadger · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
Champain is an island. Get 10 miles outside of Champaign and it is totally different culturally and politically. I live about 20 miles out and it looks as empty as rural Iowa. The Corn Belt is a real thing.

That’s everywhere though. It’s not like rural Georgia is the same as Atlanta, or the Central Valley of California around Bakersfield is like LA.

Champaign is small so you get to the sticks quicker. And it’s a college town. Same with Madison.

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
That’s everywhere though. It’s not like rural Georgia is the same as Atlanta, or the Central Valley of California around Bakersfield is like LA.

Champaign is small so you get to the sticks quicker. And it’s a college town. Same with Madison.

But, it is nothing like Chicago.

Scapegoat · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
Have to go. 10 mile drive one way to pick up milk and bread. Yeah. I said rural.

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

Scapegoat said:

Never accept head from a cow with horns.

BamaDude · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
Mideast? You mean like Iraq and Syria?

No sir. The Midwest starts when you cross the Appalachian mountains. It’s the part of the country that was known as “the West” by citizens of the new nation just after independence from Britain, and was never settled by the British. What is now Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana was called “the Northwest Territories”. That’s why you’ve got Northwestern University in Chicago.

People started calling it the “Middle West”, or Midwest, as the country spread even farther to what we now call the West. Oklahoma is the West, not the Midwest. They had cowboys and Indians and shit.

That’s the history, but even today, Milwaukee has a hell of a lot more in common with Buffalo or Toledo than Tulsa. The Midwest largely coincides with the Rust Belt.

Oklahoma, Arkansas & Texas make up the Southwest. On the other side of Texas is the Far West. At least that's the way it stacks up when the Associated Press breaks down football scores by region.

BamaDude · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
This is some bullshit.

West Virginia is the “Washington DC area” but Delaware (where Washington people go to the beach all summer) isn’t?

Arkansas is the “Gulf”, but Alabama and the Florida pandhandle aren’t?

The “central Midwest” consists of the far southwest boundary of the Midwest, and a state that’s not even in the Midwest?

Wyoming and Seattle are the same, but Georgia and South Carolina are their own distinct regions?

What loser hoosier came up with this crap?

FIFY

WizardHawk · Sep 25, 2018

huskers1217 said:
fuck wendy's

I mean sure, why not? :noidea:

kburjr · Sep 25, 2018

BamaDude said:
Oklahoma, Arkansas & Texas make up the Southwest. On the other side of Texas is the Far West. At least that's the way it stacks up when the Associated Press breaks down football scores by region.

As good a map as any. Time zone divides work too. Most maps I've seen include New Mexico and Arizona with the Southwest. However, I don't think Galveston considers itself as Southwest.

Sgt Brutus · Sep 25, 2018

kburjr said:
Buy a turban

I’ll go Jihad on yer ass

Wild Turkey · Sep 25, 2018

I believe I can fly.
I believe I can touch the sky.
Every night and day.
Oklahoma won't come to play.

fishinabarrel · Sep 25, 2018

What in the sam hell has happened to this thread?

cwalke3408 · Sep 25, 2018

BigAppleBadger said:
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Looks Mideast to me

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