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The area labeled as Yankeedom in reality has a lot more variation than presented. There is a huge difference in attitudes between the coastal elites and the in
by douche 11y ago
The area labeled as Yankeedom in reality has a lot more variation than presented. There is a huge difference in attitudes between the coastal elites and the inland, more rural populations. You can see this somewhat in the repeated mention of New Hampshire as an outlier - it's a small enough state, with few enough urbanesque areas that they don't reliably dominate.
- Turing_Machine 11y agoSure. New England (what most would call "classic" Yankeedom) has a culture and attitudes that are derived from English puritanism, while the cultures of (say) Wisconsin and Minnesota come from continental Europe (Scandinavia and Germany, e.g.). Even at the urban level, the cultures of (say) Chicago and (say) Boston are wildly different.
- benihana 11y agoYou can say this about any region on this map. I've lived in three of the regions on this map and each of them have smaller regions with different attitudes and ideas. It's a high level general thing explained in a few hundred words, I'm sure there will be small inconsistencies.
- nhdev 11y agoThere is a circle around Boston (that include Manchester and Nahsua, NH) that is very different than a lot of the rest of New England. I moved from Boston to Nashua, NH (a 90k+ person city less than 50 minutes from Boston) and was right at home; yet there are rural parts of New Hampshire I would feel entirely out of place like it is a different country. But at the same time, I feel there is a sense of unity in most of New England. A shared heritage and creativeness ("Yankee Ingenuity") that binds the region together. Sometimes I think about moving to the West Coast (usually around the fourth foot of snow in the Winter) but I do like it here.