I associate Chess with One Night in Bangkok, and the rest of the album(s).
Very true. And if you say “Tampa Bay,” most non-Floridians will incorrectly assume “City of Tampa”.
My elementary schooling largely ignored geography; I constantly work at learning what I failed to learn in childhood. I suspect I’m not the only American for whom this is true.
Can y’all spot the flaw in this logo?…
Gateway to the West, hence Gateway Arch
You know what’s always annoyed me about American geography? The fact that the Great Lakes don’t drain into the Mississippi-Missouri basin. I mean, its sources are right there! No mountains or anything in the way! It’s just… wrong.
I say we dam the St. Lawrence and see what happens.
To a Montanan, a “Californian” (or various other less polite terms) is someone from anywhere other than Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, the Dakotas, Alberta, Saskatchewan, or Alaska.
No, Colorado isn’t Midwest; it’s West.
Like, we all remember that Wild West sharpshooter, Annie Oakley? Ohioan.
Chicago pretty much did see what happens. They reversed the direction of the Chicago River, so that the city’s sewage would keep moving down a river, and not just accumulate in a mostly-static lake.
Hey, that’s my line.
I lived there 20 years and will always have a soft spot for the Saint Louis, warts and all.
It’s been described as the northernmost outpost of the South, the southernmost outpost of the North, the westernmost outpost of the East, and the easternmost outpost of the West.
If the 1950s-2010s USA had a cultural center of gravity, it was there.
No joke, not lying, I originally @'d you. I had included:
@garygnu knows what I’m talking about.
Then I deleted it because I didn’t want to pester you.
No saguaro cactus or mesas in El Paso. The city is built around the Franklin Mountains however.
Yes, but are there saguaro cactus (cacti?) or mesas in Old El Paso?
I’ve never been there, to be honest, I always just pass it.
and southeastern is Appalachian
Is it that something “Established 1938” isn’t all that old, as those things go?
It’s missing Marty Robbins and a Mexican girl!
Yes it is. Cedar Hill on the eastern border of Cleveland is the escarpment at the western edge of the whole Appalachian system. Where I grew up. Now I live on the Virginia Piedmont, by the corresponding eastern edge (the fall line). My pioneer ancestors started out near here in Maryland in the 18th century, then settled on top of the Allegheny Ridge after the Revolution, and several generations later my grandmother moved from Homestead to Cleveland. Only for me to reverse the entire migration. I like the symmetry and closure of it all.
Popular Bumper Sticker ‘round these parts…
There is only One Great Lake… Tahoe
Really? My parents grew up in Cleveland Heights, off Cedar Road, maybe Cedar and Lee.
So instead of midwesterners they’re hillbillies; can Jews be hillbillies? It would also explain the first cousin marriages a few generations ago…
Here’s a map that separates regions by accent. According to it Ohio is “Central Midland”.
No, it’s a geography-related thing.