Common features of each region

[Docere]

Obviously there's huge variations in each (Census Bureau) region. But what are some things that can be said to be common features in each state at least partially?

No boundary shifting please.


Northeast: Towns/boroughs (i.e. no unincorporated places), high number of Catholics

Midwest: Corn, high German ancestry

South: High number of Baptists

West (lower 48): Empty rural areas, mountains, presence of Mormons

[iheartthed]

Using Census Bureau definitions, the Northeast Mid-Atlantic is pretty narrowly defined, but it is fairly mountainous and dotted with post-industrial cities and towns. All of the biggest cities in the region went through a post war, post industrial, population decline. The biggest cities on the eastern half of the this region have all started to grow again (NYC, Philadelphia, Newark), while the cities in the western half are still struggling to pull out of the dive (Pittsburgh, Buffalo, Rochester).

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by Docere

Obviously there's huge variations in each (Census Bureau) region. But what are some things that can be said to be common features of the regions as a whole.

No boundary shifting please.


Northeast: Towns/boroughs (i.e. no unincorporated places), high number of Catholics

Midwest: Corn, high German ancestry

South: High number of Baptists

West (lower 48): Empty rural areas, mountains, presence of Mormons

not the entire midwest is corn. the lower midwest has a lot of cattle country (i have cattle on my farm almost exclusively...the soil is too rocky for corn, etc and i cut white oak to sell for bourbon barrels), forests, and well lots of bbq in missouri...the only traditional bbq region the midwest has.

[iheartthed]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

not the entire midwest is corn. the lower midwest has a lot of cattle country (i have cattle on my farm almost exclusively...the soil is too rocky for corn, etc and i cut white oak to sell for bourbon barrels), forests, and well lots of bbq in missouri...the only traditional bbq region the midwest has.

There's not a lot of corn in Michigan either. There are some corn fields, but not the miles and miles of it that you see in Illinois or Iowa.

[Centropolis]

Originally Posted by iheartthed

There's not a lot of corn in Michigan either. There are some corn fields, but not the miles and miles of it that you see in Illinois or Iowa.

yeah, meant to include the northern swath of the midwest, too.

[Camelback]

There's more to the West than mountains and Mormons, lol. The West is 80 million people spread over 1.9 million square miles.

[Docere]

Originally Posted by Centropolis

not the entire midwest is corn. the lower midwest has a lot of cattle country (i have cattle on my farm almost exclusively...the soil is too rocky for corn, etc and i cut white oak to sell for bourbon barrels), forests, and well lots of bbq in missouri...the only traditional bbq region the midwest has.

Clarification: By "the whole region" I meant each state in the region has at least some elements of these features. Not every geographic square inch.

Michigan and North Dakota are the least "corn belt-y" states in the Midwest.

[urban_encounter]

Originally Posted by Docere

Obviously there's huge variations in each (Census Bureau) region. But what are some things that can be said to be common features in each state at least partially?

West (lower 48): Empty rural areas, mountains, presence of Mormons

West: Tents, mounds of trash, stolen bicycles, junkies, rats.

[Camelback]

Originally Posted by urban_encounter

West: Tents, mounds of trash, stolen bicycles, junkies, rats.

Lol. You forgot about drought, the entire West is nothing but a sandy wasteland (that's home to 80 million people, excluding Texas from the count).

[urban_encounter]

Originally Posted by Camelback

Lol. You forgot about drought, the entire West is nothing but a sandy wasteland (that's home to 80 million people, excluding Texas from the count).

Haha, good point….

There’s so much to love about the West but it’s so difficult to see any light at the end of the tunnel as it pertains a lot of our challenges.

[Steely Dan]

Originally Posted by Docere

Clarification: By "the whole region" I meant each state in the region has at least some elements of these features. Not every geographic square inch.

Michigan and North Dakota are the least "corn belt-y" states in the Midwest.

If this wikipedia map is accurate, it looks like Missouri might be the least corny Midwest state.



Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corn_Belt


According to the wikipedia page, more than half the nations corn is grown in just 4 states: Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, and Nebraska.

[Buckeye Native 001]

I knew there was more to Indiana than corn.

The only thing that absolutely positively screams "Arizona" are the saguaro. Well, that and the giant hole in the ground...

Mesas for the Southwest in general?

[mrnyc]

not only is it not all just corny, but in nw ohio at least and elsewhere there is at least as much soybean and tomato production.





lower 48 usa farmland in general

[Docere]

The Corn Belt does seem to be a thread that links the Midwestern states.

[SIGSEGV]

In the South, this counts as as a salad:

(Southern Bite)

In the Midwest, this counts as a mountain:
(Wikipedia/Geography21)

In the West, this counts as a river:
(Wikipedia/Famartin)

In the NE, this counts as as a street:

[biguc]

What does this even have to do with cities?

As far as I can tell, there's a US subforum. This subforum has been cluttered, especially lately, with US-centric threads. The thread about San Francisco's homeless initiatives is one thing--we all know that San Francisco has a runway homelessness problem; their successes and failures in dealing with it are broadly instructive. Same with how Atlanta approaches urbanization.

But factories in the Southwest? The differences between Rochester and Buffalo? Who cares?

And then there's this thread, which isn't even a city discussion. I guess cities exist in regions but this regional talk should go in a regional subforum.

[Pedestrian]

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You might ask, "What does California have in common with Tennessee?" Now you know.

[Pedestrian]

Counties where selling alcohol is prohibited:

Red = total prohibition; yellow = restrictions

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