The Holy Grail of Regional Linguistics
Jul. 2nd, 2004 04:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
omorkaBehold: the Coke vs. Soda vs. Pop Map of the United States.
By county, even.
A few random comments:
There's a color change from "almost everyone says Coke" to "over 50% says Coke" at the Harris/Fort Bend county line. Remind me to ask my kids when we go back to school what they call a soft drink in Fort Bend . . .
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quantumduck and bassfingers are in solid "soda" territory. At least that's not completely alien.
Unfortunately, it looks likememeslayer is not so lucky - unless I'm totally forgetting which end of the state he's on, he's in foreign lands, where they say "pop." Eugh . . .
WTF is up with Jackson, MS that it's green? Ditto for Austin? And what's wrong with Alaska? There's no pattern there whatsoever.
Boy, you can see where the Yankees live in Florida, can't you?
There's a huge blob island of soda-speakers centered on St. Louis. South and east of there is coke-land, and north and west of there is all pop. I wonder why? There's also one county of soda people in southeast Mississippi, in a county with no major towns in it, which is strange.
There are large chunks of Utah that are colored for "no data." I vaguely wonder whether this is because those counties are all Mormon, and no-one there drinks soft drinks, or if there's just no one in those counties at all.
I'm easily amused today . . .
By county, even.
A few random comments:
There's a color change from "almost everyone says Coke" to "over 50% says Coke" at the Harris/Fort Bend county line. Remind me to ask my kids when we go back to school what they call a soft drink in Fort Bend . . .
quantumduck and bassfingers are in solid "soda" territory. At least that's not completely alien.Unfortunately, it looks like
memeslayer is not so lucky - unless I'm totally forgetting which end of the state he's on, he's in foreign lands, where they say "pop." Eugh . . .WTF is up with Jackson, MS that it's green? Ditto for Austin? And what's wrong with Alaska? There's no pattern there whatsoever.
Boy, you can see where the Yankees live in Florida, can't you?
There's a huge blob island of soda-speakers centered on St. Louis. South and east of there is coke-land, and north and west of there is all pop. I wonder why? There's also one county of soda people in southeast Mississippi, in a county with no major towns in it, which is strange.
There are large chunks of Utah that are colored for "no data." I vaguely wonder whether this is because those counties are all Mormon, and no-one there drinks soft drinks, or if there's just no one in those counties at all.
I'm easily amused today . . .
