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donoramusic: theatlantic: The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences. Read more. [Image: Samuel Arbesman] This entire article is really interesting. Click through to read the whole thing. Those crazy northerners/westerners. 

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The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture

One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences.

Read more. [Image: Samuel Arbesman]

This entire article is really interesting. Click through to read the whole thing.

Those crazy northerners/westerners. 

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    I lived in Missouri until I was 7, and we always said Pop, so when we moved to Florida we had to slowly transition by...
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    Oh my linguistics owo
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    I can’t even tell you how much I get made fun of for saying ‘pop’ in a ‘soda’ state. -.-‘
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