As someone intimately familiar with the politics and culture of Ohio, boy howdy does this chart fuck up really badly on the edges. For instance, Guernsey and No

As someone intimately familiar with the politics and culture of Ohio, boy howdy does this chart fuck up really badly on the edges. For instance, Guernsey and Noble counties not considering themselves Appalachian is absurd. A case could maybe be made for the ones like Muskingum despite all the stuff named after the mountains in Zanesville, since it does import a bit of culture from Columbus, but some of these are just egregious. Franklin and Delaware counties both being labelled as Appalachian despite encompassing the greater Columbus metropolitan area as a whole is pretty laughable, as Columbus is the most Midwestern city in Ohio. I don't know if you can call this spot on if similar mistakes are made all over the borderlands of this map.