It’s pop here in MN. Little stores that use those signs behind the counter that you stick letters letters to them say pop.
Sodas have ice cream in them, unless it’s a float.
Same goes for Kansas City MO too where I grew up. Its a coke or pop… either will do. BTW in St Louis just on the other side of the state its soda.
I now live in Vegas where its Soda.
What idiots! Soda has ice cream in it! Duh.
Lsura:
Weird thing about Moxie – it’s popular here in New England – especially in Maine – but it’s brewed down there in Georgia.
There’s a bit about Moxie in Poundstone’s “Big Secrets”. Apparently Moxie was pretty big nationwide, even giving us the expression “getting your Moxie up”. It started to dive after the second world war. One theory is that they lost out because they cut their advertising budget.
Someone was drinking one at the Fourth of July barbecue I went to. He described it as “a strong Dr. Pepper”. Me? I’ve never had the Moxie to try it.
It’s possible to get one here in Boston, but it’s still not exactly common.
Pop. Although I feel rather dumb calling it that.
Neither.
We call if soft drink and nothing else.
The only time we use the word soda is for Creaming Soda, Soda Water and, very rarely, ice cream soda.
As for Pop, we use it when singing about weasels. Or maybe spontaneously vanishing from the space-time continuium.
(hijack)
btw did you know Pop Goes The Weasel orginates with Cockney slang and was originally about a tailor getting drunk and having to pawn his iron. Or ‘pop’ his ‘weasel.’
And don’t even get me started on Ring-a-ring-arosies…
(/hijack)
Ditto on all counts. 
By the way, it looks like nobody has posted the Great Pop Vs. Soda Controversy page, which has a lovely little java map of the US which (slowly) displays regions for the various forms.
Minnesota, and we say it the right way. Pop.
Seriously though, why all the contempt for using the word pop? Personally, I think it’s more fitting than any of the alternatives.
Soda: It sounds like an insult “You are so duh!”
Soft drink: Seems to me most liquids are…
Coke: They get enough advertising as it is without this.
Pop: Now that actually makes sense. There’s an image that goes along with it of bubbles popping.
Soda-pop: Well, it’s a walfway good slang.
My brother told me about an exchange he once had in the south.
Him: I’ll have a pop.
Clerk: You mean a coke?
Him: Um, no.
Clerk: Then what DO you want?
Him: Doctor Pepper.
Clerk: So you DO want a coke?
Him: Huh?
It’s been mentioned that it’s “pop” in Portland, NoCal and the Western Canadian provinces. Well, it’s “pop” in Seattle as well. I’ve always called it “pop”, and though I was born here in WA, I grew up in El Cajon/Riverside, and I’m pretty sure it was “pop” there as well. My dad’s from the Midwest, and he’s been known to call it “soda pop” on occasion. I’ll be in LA later this month, and I’m going to carefully note the phrase in most common usage.
I call it soda in south Fl. My volleyball coach is from Iowa, and it’s funny to hear her say pop.
Born and raised in Los Angeles, “pop” is NOT the common term there. I see on the L.A. news and local TV, and the term “soft drink” crops up there as well.
But it does look like “soda” is also used in LA, and it doesn’t sound odd to me - I’ve heard it used as well. But I think “soft drink” was particularly used in my household because my grandfather was English, and we always had the relatives from England visiting. (And I am guessing that “soft drink” is a term used by many English people?)
It’s “coke” over here in the Florida panhandle. Then you get into the different kinds (7up, RC, etc.). Every once in a while you get the term “bellywasher” over here since this is L.A. (Lower Alabama).
TGIF: Faygo is still quite popular in Michigan. I really miss Faygo Rock & Rye, which, as I try and think of what it tastes like…well, it tastes like Rock & Rye. 
I Also miss Red Pop, like you said. Mmmmmmm, now I’m thirsty.
I still say pop, since I was raised in MI. It’s (shudder) “soda” here in Arizona though. I really don’t like that word to describe a drink. As other’s have mentioned, soda is what you use to bake with. Nobody blinks when I say pop though, since everyone in AZ is originally from somewhere else…very often the Midwest.
I was born and raised here in Tampa.
I can agree with (because we use them ALL here) the “coke”, “soda”, “drink”, “soft drink” and all those other ways to refer to it EXCEPT “pop”.
Man, “pop” sounds soooo lame. Nobody here says “pop” or “soda pop”.
I’m just gonna echo SoMoMom and say that here in Kansas City, soda and pop are both accepted, although pop is more used. Coke works, too, but is mostly only used when people refer to a Coke Machine or a Soda machine, I’ve never heard pop machine before.
–Tim
Here in Pennsylvania, the usage is split geographically.
In Western Pennsylvania, it is “pop.” None of us really understand why some fathers want to be called “pop,” but it’s alright with us.
In Eastern Pennsylvania, they call the stuff “soda.” I have also heard they eat their young over there, which may explain it.
Penn State is almost dead-center in the state, and draws students from both sections. This could cause trouble, but the student body as a whole came to the compromise of ordering “beer,” which avoided the whole issue.
From the OP:
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Wait lemme check . . .
Um, it appears to be “Beer”.
{hic}
- NM
Soda. Period.
Funny story, I worked in a Sprint PCS retail store at one point, and the manager was from the midwest(forget where exactly). She would always say pop, and we all gave her a hard time about it. For instance, someone would be running to the deli and asking if anyone wanted anything. She would always say, get me a pop, and of course the person going would be a like, a what? I guess its funnier in person lol
Pennsylvania checking in, Pop always.
Down here in Australia it’s neither pop or soda - It’s called a SOFT DRINK.
Wealso call them by their names, like Coke, Pepsi and Sprite.
Yeah we do have them down here. 
Hawaii here.
If you say “pop”, then we KNOW you’re not local…