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What is purpose of this? Or point? Not trying to argue anything, just generally curious.

 

like this one

 

Yes, yes, because Memphis and Wheeling are practically like brothers.

 

Take that vertical line in California and just chop off the Eastern parts of Oregon and Washington. Those parts are basically Idaho.

 

Yep, like this.

 

This is how the US works.

 

What was the context for Nate suggesting this map? Did he give some data to back up this assertion?

 

I love how it looks like Louisiana, Arkansas and Tennessee is doggy style fucking the shit out of Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida

 

"Yeah man, but check it, what if there were 13 regions?"

"Ok, ok, I got this.... hmmmm.... [Splits red region into Ark/Tenn and Ky/WV] How 'bou that?"

 

Nate Silver says "these boundaries would ABSOLUTELY NOT strictly be along state lines" , then he should not have made this halfassed map.

to me it looks like he's trying to group mostly by politics and somewhat by economics. AR-WV belt are the rural hillbillies, little-to-no big cities, lots of white southerners, reliable GOP-voting, timber/mining resource extraction based economies.

I would guess that Memphis and S. Arkansas and the other flat, agricultural, heavily-black, sometimes-Democratic-voting areas would probably be grouped in w MS/LA/AL. And the hilly, non-agricultural rural parts of southern Ohio/IN/IL/MO would be orange-red colored territory.

 

Georgia seems more like Alabama than SC to me

 

Honestly SC and AL are more similar to each other than Georgia.

 

I haven't spent a lot of time in AL. I took that NY Times language/dialect quiz though and my top two matches were my current area and two areas in AL. "Hawk" for life baby

 

I addressed this.

 

It's honestly pretty easy to forget the character of your entire state and just get locked in on the small area where you live. When I get out in the car and take a road trip into the hinterlands I'm like what is this place

 

For me, the Atlantic adjacent land stretching from Delaware to the outer banks, NC - including eastern Maryland, eastern shore VA, and the Virginia Tidewater area is its own distinct region culturally.

 

Was about to say Arizona -> Utah widest disparity between states that border each other, but then there's Colorado -> Wyoming up there all lined up.

 

They say instead of going east or west, Antarctica workers go clockwise or counter-clockwise.

Which I still don't understand, but then again, I refuse to drive anywhere in Atlanta either.

 

hurts antarctica tourism iyam

 

I had a coworker from Tennessee that said Dang all the time. We all started using it as a joke. Now i find myself saying it un-ironically sometimes and it makes me laugh.

 

Got durn
Got dang
Got dawg

We have a lot of ways to avoid cussin'

 

Dang

 

Dag bern

 

Dadgum

 

I use dang a lot. Mainly as a substitute for damn, goddamn, goddamnit etc

 

You’re a PC cuck if you don’t say god damn/damnit whenever the opportunity arises

 

My grandfather says "gosh dern it"

 

God damn it here

 

Or if you don’t like taking the Lord’s name in vein.

 

Who are you, Harvey Specter?

 

Where are there snakes above the 60th parallel?

 

In your mum’s bum

 

How are there penguins at 0 latitude

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galapagos_penguin

 

It is the only penguin found north of the equator.[2] The cool waters of the Humboldt and Cromwell Currents allow it to survive despite the tropical latitude.

 

Galapagos also have the only amphibious iguanas.

 

Thanks, Master and Commander

 

IDK how much Delaware has in common with the outer banks

 

People didn’t know about the Galápagos penguins?

 

Not everyone is the perfect person in the world

 

To be fair my wife is a bit crazy about penguins so that’s why I know

 

Less than 10% is average, great is 10% and outstanding is like 18%?
I expect my humor to at least have some effort