# Define your region (of the US) with a yes/no question **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 16, 2022, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327 "2022-06-16T20:20:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/61 "2022-06-17T15:12:28Z")
It’s my impression that it’s mostly people in the Northwest and in the national capital that refuse to append “State” or “DC” to the word “Washington” ---
**Author:** ![Limmin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f04885/32.png) [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/62 "2022-06-17T15:19:44Z")
> [@Riemann](#): > > Do you have chili peppers on your current license plate? > > Do you have a UFO museum? > > Was the nuclear bomb developed and first tested there? = NM of course. > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It’s my impression that it’s mostly people in the Northwest and in the national capital that refuse to append “State” or “DC” to the word “Washington” Mine too. Annoying, when one lives in Washington state, but the TV is full of talking heads referring to the one-and-only Washington, by implication, being the city. WA state is IMHO 100 times nicer than that East Coast city. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/63 "2022-06-17T15:38:50Z")
[Legend and Fact behind the term “Bubbler”](https://www.sheboyganpress.com/story/news/local/2014/10/31/sheboygan-history-bubblers/18254395/) ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/64 "2022-06-17T15:48:07Z")
Neighbors were at the NY World’s Fair and asked a guard where the nearest bubbler was… “End o’ that building, take a right, and how are things in Milwaukee?” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/65 "2022-06-17T15:57:10Z")
Are the people in your largest city raging assholes that give the rest of the state a bad name? Yes = New York ---
**Author:** ![Knowed\_Out](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/knowed_out/32/7380_2.png) [@Knowed\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knowed_Out)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/66 "2022-06-17T16:02:37Z")
In the past, it was Does your state sell cheap cigarettes across the border from states that sell lottery tickets and fireworks? Yes = North Carolina but we now have a lottery, stores can sell non-noise making fireworks, and tobacco is no longer a cash crop. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/67 "2022-06-17T16:11:47Z")
That sounds more like Massachusetts or Penn to me. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/68 "2022-06-17T16:23:40Z")
I was curious how many different states would pop up to say ours too! ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/69 "2022-06-17T16:27:28Z")
Has your state had four current or former governors sent to prison in the past 50 years? Yes = Illinois ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/70 "2022-06-17T16:31:25Z")
Did your summertime visit not produce the expected warm, sandy beaches, palm trees, and surfers, but instead you had to wear a jacket and hat in the fog? Did you drive 30 minutes inland away from the coast and now you are boiling in 100F? Yes = Northern California ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/71 "2022-06-17T16:46:06Z")
Is the mountain out? Yes/No = Pacific NW ??? = other places ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/72 "2022-06-17T16:57:53Z")
As Mark Twain said, the coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/73 "2022-06-17T17:01:52Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > “Bubbler” is interesting in its regionality: it’s widely used in Wisconsin (primarily eastern Wisconsin), and southern New England, and almost nowhere else. In Rhode Island we have 'bubbla’s. I thought it would be the same in MA. Don’t know about WI. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/74 "2022-06-17T17:02:00Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Are the people in your largest city raging assholes that give the rest of the state a bad name? > > Yes = New York I expected Illinois, then Massachusetts… lot of assholes around, I guess. . > [@amarinth](#): > > Is the mountain out? It wasn’t til my third visit to Seattle that someone yelled “Hey, mountain’s out!” And there was Mt. Rainier! Viewed above the cherry blossoms on the UW campus, it looked so huge and so close that my first thought was “Wait, did I just never look in that direction?” ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/75 "2022-06-17T17:04:42Z")
Does any other state have The Shore? Is that just New Jersey? Maybe the Great Lakes States? I think most states go to the beach. (That have them) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/76 "2022-06-17T17:05:11Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > In Rhode Island we have 'bubbla’s. I thought it would be the same in MA. Don’t know about WI. It’s definitely pronounced with the R in Wisconsin: BUB-blr. ---
**Author:** ![Lancia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lancia/32/17174_2.png) [@Lancia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lancia)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/77 "2022-06-17T17:17:19Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Have you ever drank from a bubbler? > Yes= Milwaukee > [@digs](#): > > Do you drink from a bubbler? > > Yes = Wisconsin > [@Telemark](#): > > That’s true in Boston, too [Portland would like to join the club.](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benson_Bubbler) Or, seeing as how the Portland bubblers were installed _en masse_ in 1912 and have multiplied like rabbit offspring ever since, perhaps Portland is the charter member. ---
**Author:** ![ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chockfullofheadygoodness/32/511_2.png) [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/78 "2022-06-17T17:39:01Z")
Did you learn about Cinco de Mayo in elementary school or from a beer commercial? School = Southern/Central California Beer commercial = rest of country ---
**Author:** ![Dandan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a87d85/32.png) [@Dandan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dandan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/79 "2022-06-17T17:57:10Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > It’s my impression that it’s mostly people in the Northwest and in the national capital that refuse to append “State” or “DC” to the word “Washington” Append? In Maryland, we just refer to it as D.C., saving a syllable over “Washington”. Dan ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2022, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327/80 "2022-06-17T18:17:07Z")
New York, too. Although if people said Washington, our first thought would go to D.C., especially since Washington serves as a metonymy for the government so people refer to Washington that way far more often than they do to the physical district or the state. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/define-your-region-of-the-us-with-a-yes-no-question/966327.md?page=5)