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10:22pm April 26, 2012
allies-person: bittergrapes: sharpless: 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] So many poor, deceived people in this great nation of ours. I am from that little bubble of Central Illinois that says soda  I didn’t realize that people in California said soda, despite living here for seven years.  I could just have been not paying attention, though. I am glad to be back among my soda-saying peers. I grew up with my entire family saying coke. Which makes sense I guess for the Oklahoma/Arkansas people but where the hell did my Oregonoid mother get it? I guess my grandfather on that side lived in Arkansas a long time so maybe that’s it. I don’t know. I also don’t know why the entire family quit saying it suddenly before I was a teenager.

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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]

So many poor, deceived people in this great nation of ours.

I am from that little bubble of Central Illinois that says soda 

I didn’t realize that people in California said soda, despite living here for seven years.  I could just have been not paying attention, though.

I am glad to be back among my soda-saying peers.

I grew up with my entire family saying coke. Which makes sense I guess for the Oklahoma/Arkansas people but where the hell did my Oregonoid mother get it? I guess my grandfather on that side lived in Arkansas a long time so maybe that’s it. I don’t know. I also don’t know why the entire family quit saying it suddenly before I was a teenager.

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    See, that doesn’t happen to me. If someone were picking up drinks, they would actually list the ones they were getting,...
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    Yeah, but when you are referring to soda in general people around here do tend to say Coke. I know my whole family does....
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