Geographic distribution of DU

[marmar]

Always fascinated to know where DUers come from. And I apologize in advance for some of the regional groupings -- I know they're not perfect and there will be quibbles. But there are only 10 lines available on s survey.

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	New England (ME, NH, MA, VT, RI, CT)
	4 (4%)
	Northeast/Mid-Atlantic (NY, NJ, PA, DE, MD, DC, VA, WV)
	22 (20%)
	Mid- and Deep South (KY, TN, Carolinas, GA, FL, MS, AL, LA)
	17 (15%)
	Arklatex (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas)
	11 (10%)
	Great Lakes (MI, OH, IN, IL, WI, MN)
	23 (21%)
	Heartland (IA, NE, MO, KS, Dakotas)
	7 (6%)
	Mountain West (CO, WY, MT, UT, NV, ID)
	5 (4%)
	Pacific Coast and Southwest (CA, OR, WA, NM, AZ)
	20 (18%)
	Non lower-48 (HI, AK and territories)
	0 (0%)
	DU du monde (International)
	3 (3%)
	2 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Trailrider1951]

1. Washington State here

I moved here from Texas 3 years ago to be near my children and grandchildren. Looks like we got out of Texas in the nick of time.

[Wawannabe]

8. Moved here

Three yrs ago too. From MO.

Howdy pardner! 😁
I'm in Seattle

[Trailrider1951]

21. Hello my friend!

I'm glad to meet you! I live down near Orting, and have a nice view of Mt. Rainier out my window. It's really a great place to live!

[nolabear]

10. I moved to Seattle thirty years ago. I love the Gulf Coast but...

It’s just easier here, if incredibly more expensive.

[underpants]

2. Whoa whoa whoa there. Virginia lumped togethuh with New YORK and New Jersey?

[BGBD]

26. WV and VA

certainly don't belong with the Northeast.

Honestly, states don't work well as geographic ranges, most are in many different ones.

[Kaleva]

36. State boundaries don't follow neat geographical lines.

[octoberlib]

3. North Carolina is mid - Atlantic

but quibbling aside , that’s where I currently reside.

[nolabear]

13. Love NC. I lived there for years and Mr. Bear's fam is there.

You have to experience NC to appreciate how conservative and yet liberal it is.

[octoberlib]

18. I'm originally from the mid west but I love

being close to the beach , mountains and I-95.

[babylonsister]

4. Come from originally or where we live now? nt

[marmar]

5. current.

[Laelth]

6. Interesting division of the nation into various regions.

Not knowing its source, but curious about that, just one state stands out to me as being “out of place,” so to speak. I think that LA has more in common with ArkLaTex than with the Deep South (principally because LA is heavily reliant on the petrochemical industry in a way that the rest of the Deep South is not).

Either way, interesting poll.

-Laelth

[Mike 03]

7. Fun idea for a poll!

Thanks. This is fascinating!

[flor-de-jasmim]

9. For those of us living outside the US,...

It would be interesting to have two categories: Americans abroad vs non-Americans.

[drray23]

11. Virginia is south, not mid-atlantic.nt.

[SlogginThroughIt]

28. When I lived in VA I was told by southerners VA is NOT the south

[NutmegYankee]

31. Quickest way to get a bar fight beat down is to say that in Richmond, Va.

The second quickest is to start cheering the Yankees in a Boston Sports bar.

[LAS14]

12. Does this get bumped when someone votes, or does it have to get a reply? tia las

[marmar]

14. I think the reply rules still apply for a bump

[Peacetrain]

15. Iowa Iowa, where the corn grows tall...!! (till you get hit by a derecho wind..

then you are from Ill. Ill.

[jcgoldie]

16. Arklatex sounds kind of sexy...

Is that really a geographic designation or did you make that up?

[marmar]

19. I hear it on the Weather Channel all the time. :)

[dalton99a]

24. Ark-La-Tex includes only 16 counties in East Texas (out of 254 Texas counties)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark-La-Tex

[TomSlick]

41. My part of Arkansas is not really in the ArkLaTex.

It's close - a county or two to the northeast - but really a different vibe.

[littlemissmartypants]

17. I understand the grammar and spelling nazis DU but

Geography nazis, really?



Fun post, marmar.

❤ lmsp

[marmar]

20. LOL

[hermetic]

22. Kickety

[A HERETIC I AM]

23. Jacksonville, FL.....

Which is basically Southern Georgia, for all intents and purposes.

I should say I was living in Northern LA County when I joined DU, back in the Dark Ages, before there were even people.




Sheesh....I've been a member here for 17 years and ten days.

[H2O Man]

25. Rural republican upstate New York.

My 90-year old aunt recently said that our area is part of the 1950's Mississippi.

[marmar]

27. My first job out of college was in Syracuse.....

... and when you got outside of the city and immediate suburbs, it got really 'Bama really quickly.

[H2O Man]

29. True, unless

you are on Onondaga Nation Territory. (Chief Waterman used to say that Syracuse was a suburb of Onondaga.)

[maxsolomon]

30. Airzona and Washington in the same region?

Okay...

[Ohio Joe]

32. Well...

I'm a born and raised Jersey boy. I then went to NY, then CT, then MA and then Ohio where I was when I joined DU. I then went back to MA, then back to NJ and now reside in the great state of Colorado... I'm very happy here and do not expect to move to any other state.

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Illinois

Northeast part. Roughly 60 miles south southwest of Chicago.

[smirkymonkey]

34. New Englander (MA), but native NYer.

However I think I have spent enough time in New England now to be considered an honorary Yank.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. Not many from the Great Plains.

Overall population could be a big factor, though.

[Kaleva]

37. US Census geographical region map

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:US_Census_geographical_region_map.svg

[Lucinda]

38. From California...poll answer reflects current perch in Smoky Mtns

❤️ ✿❧🌿❧✿ ❤️

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

39. West Sonoma County, California. nt

[LAS14]

40. Bumping for visibility. nt