Every Cultural Region Of The United States Explained

The United States of America is a large country with a diverse landscape of cultures, economics, politics, and geographies, a true land empire. And while we might be familiar with the South, or the Midwest, or New England, what defines each geographic and cultural region of the U.S? How many American regions are there? This is every cultural region of the United States explained, exploring the geography, history, culture, and background of every region in America.

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[MonsieurDean]

Let me know what you think of each of these regions. If there's anything you think should be changed, do let me know. As well as if you have additional insight on the cultures of these regions.

[fyrfx]

As a St. Louis native, I should bring up how insanely difficult it is to classify St. Louis into a single region, as it is basically the mixing point between the Southern, Midwest/Plains and Great Lakes cultures and St. Louis culture and identity takes some inspiration from all three. You get the typical "nice person" midwestern feel, while everybody seems to be more southern in terms of cooking and to a lesser extent accent (a lot of people say "y'all" for example), while also being a very blue-collar town like many Great Lakes cities.

Edit: thx for all the support, i think this is my most well-received comment yet. again thank you and have a wonderful day 😊

[axolotl]

It is honestly craxy to put southern california in the same group as the rural west.

[MiguelDLewis]

The Black Belt and the Mexican-American Southwest should be their own cultural regions I think. They’re so culturally distinct from the Southeast and Southwest surrounding them. They’re like mirror images of each on the map.

[thedoomofred]

As a resident of the area I think you got the whole Plains, Scandamerica, and West region wrong in various ways.
If you want to judge agriculture in these areas look to a map showing short, mix and tall grass prairies. The short is cattle and wheat, mix is wheat and corn while tall is corn and soy. These characteristics run north and south.
Then culturally look to a map that shows what city people defines there region. The smallest is Valentine Nebraska. You can use small rivers to split up those regions instead of using the Missouri, which is to culturally significant to use as a border.

[TheSpaniard]

Btw, your map has Appalachia spreading too far west, especially in Tennessee. Once you get past the Cumberland Plateau, the geography becomes largely flat and the culture is overwhelmingly similar to the South (e.g. cities like Memphis and surrounding region). Even on the Cumberland plateau (cities like Nashville), the culture is largely distant from true Appalachian culture.

[crd]

I keep telling you that the Cajun region (or Arcadia as you call it.) extends across southern Louisiana all the way to Houston, Texas. Go in any restaurant and you are more likely to find Cajun Fare than traditional Texas fare. The people I grew up with all had French ancestry, i.e. names like Thibideaux, Ritter, Ladoux, Bourgeois, Bordraux, etc. It is very different from Texas culture, and very much Cajun.

[BaseballRoman]

I live in New York, have family in Massachusetts, and went to college in Massachusetts. I have never once, in my entire life, ever heard anyone refer to Boston as being in the “Mid-Atlantic” region. Bostonians share much more culturally with the rest of New England than they do with New Yorkers or Washingtonians, despite their similar urbanization. That’s like a really bad, almost comical miss for me.

Not to mention lumping Coastal Southern California with the Rural West, and incorporating the 2nd largest city in the US (Los Angeles) with like 15 million people in its metro area into the “Rural West” despite Los Angeles and Southern California sharing very few cultural or geographic similarities with the rest of the group you call the “Rural West.” What is going on here?

[GeoPol]

Why tf did you put Southern California with the Rockies 😂

[kronosbot]

This has actually really helped me visualize the migration of my family's past generations in North America; from arrival in New England, to the Ohio River Valley, to our current home in the Mid-West. And it has certainly helped to explain the mannerisms of our old, distant cousins.

[Marquipuchi]

calling anywhere in New England mid atlantic outside of fairfield county ct is a big yikes.

[u_lightningwolf]

i think more of Massachusetts and perhaps Rhode island would be culturally closer to New England than the Mid Atlantic

[ayelmao]

Their is no way you just tried to argue that Boston and Providence are Mid-Atlantic and not New England that literally doesn’t even make aense

[francogiobbimontesanti]

Brazil next. You will be surprised how much it mirrors the US

[jamesmorgan]

Boston and Cape Cod are not part of the "Mid-Atlantic."

[morsecode]

A surprising number of Americans in northern Wyoming are descended from Polish coal miners that arrived in the 1900’s. I’m one of them

[adamkerman]

I love your fresh new take on the makeup of our great nation! This has definitely changed my outlook on local American cultures.

[deanfirnatine]

Your cultural regions in the NW are not correct, there is one culture around Seattle Puget Sound area that does not go beyond that area and a similar one around Portland basically islands culturally, they share a culture with other far left urban areas but both are surrounded by the traditional rural Western culture, 45 minutes from Portland is rodeo country, ranchers, farmers and loggers and the two sides hate each other.

[heresyhunter]

When I saw the map at the end, I exclaimed, 'Oh, it's beautiful'. I would totally buy that at put it on my wall. I'm in school in Greenville, S.C. and it's interesting how I see 'The South', and a little bit of Appalachia. Being originally from the Mid-Atlantic, the contrast is absolutely shocking.

[isabellaereshki]

Appalachian culture is mostly in the borders depicted here great job, though the geographic region goes from Maine to Georgia they taught us in school and then further updated that when I was in college that it also extends up into parts of Canada and across to almost Texas amazingly enough. Also while I was in college or few years later they started finding evidence that the same land that comprises the Appalachian chain actually matches up identically with land in Scotland and Ireland, at one point they were apparently connected before the land masses moved apart. Which makes it more amazing that the Scots-Irish wound up settling the Appalachians along with German settlers/refuges who came here after passing through England and or Ireland on the way here.