And for bonus points–which state did you leave out? 
North-East - States included: Connecticut, Maine, New Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont
This is an abomination which cannot be allowed to stand.
Based on those groupings, I’ve lived in (had a mailing address as opposed to visiting/passing thru) all of the regions but Central.
OOPS! I somewhat trusted (without actual checking) that a site on education might not leave out Massachusetts, but I was wrong. Mea culpa.
Anybody else want to find a better definition of “regions” and start over?
Well, I voted Mid-Atlantic because that’s what we call ourselves, but you’ve put us in the North East. That’s because we are walking distance from New Jersey but we sure can’t walk to Connecticut. Or, what John Mace said, only nicer.
Still, I’m in what is locally known as the tri-state area: New York, New Jersey and Connecticut. Where’s Pennsylvania in your scheme of things?
According to that website:
… but if you’re asking me personally then I’m not sure. I would have hoped the “Self-Identify” thing would have yielded more consistent answers than it did. Maybe “region” is too personal to be meaningful to the whole group?
It’s because New York is a big state. New York City is actually more south than quite a bit of New Jersey. But calling Buffalo Mid-Atlantic is strange since it’s in Canada.
Just for giggles, how would you group the Northeast into “regions”? And how far south and west does the Northeast extend?
If it matters, I have had similar issues with The South. 
Laughable regions. I live near Mexico and the Gulf of Mexico, and I’m in the same region as the Manitoba border? When I lived in Kansas City, I commuted every day from the New Orleans region to work in the Bismarck region.
Sorry. Didn’t mean to piss you off. (Hm… I seem to use that phrase a lot in my life.)
As a native Southern Californian now living in Northern Washington, I’ve always called Northern California, Oregon, and Washington (and Idaho, grudgingly) the Pacific Northwest. To me ‘the Northwest’ implies Minnesota to Montana.
I doubt there is any way of carving up the US that will satisfy everyone. But the thing about New England is that is the only region of the US that is actually defined and that everyone agrees on. All the rest is up for debate. You might be able to say “The South” is all the former Confederate States, but VA and TX don’t have much in common (ever seen the movie Giant, with Rock Hudson and Elizabeth Taylor?).
CA is its own thing, and it might even be better to put that state into 2 different categories since NorCal and SoCal don’t abide each other much.
As a norther Californian, it doesn’t surprise me that you, a southern Californian, would lump us into The Pacific Northwest. 
I can’t imagine anyone in the Bay Area thinking they live in The Pacific Northwest. We ain’t got no totem poles, for one thing!
The Bay Area is on the Central coast. 
It’s NEW ENGLAND, bay-bee! Region ONE in the Old Farmer’s Almanac. 
(I think of the “northeast” as New Jersey and so on.)
Parts of upstate New York have a New England vibe, which confuses people.
No one in New England is confused about that.
I’d say NY, NJ and CT are in the North East. I wouldn’t call them New England but have no problem saying they’re Mid-Atlantic.
That’s because quite a bit of the early population hadn’t divided the area up into separate states yet. The Duxbury (Vt) staybehinds would say regretfully about the branch that moved to Keene Valley “They’re N’Yawkers now…”. They weren’t when they went there though. I’d say people north of Schenectady (I was born near there) are pretty New England-ish. My mother was a Lake Placid native and her family were always worried when we went to New York to see the other grandparents in the Bronx. They thought Albany was plenty far enough and big enough.
Somehow I’ve managed to end up in a place that has a lot of New England influence- Port Gamble is modeled after a Maine village. We just don’t get much snow.
Yep, odd. I would think there would be a mountain region.
Even here in the Finger Lakes, we identify more with New England than we do with downstate folks in the greater NYC metro area. Small villages, maple trees, lakes. Just more rural poverty around here than in New England, and we don’t have the prep schools of Massachusetts.