Regional variation in the US: A 1996 linguistics study inspired a map [...] showing “soda” prevalent on the coasts, while “pop” held sway in the Northwest and

Regional variation in the US: A 1996 linguistics study inspired a map [...] showing “soda” prevalent on the coasts, while “pop” held sway in the Northwest and Midwest, and the generic “coke” took the South. There must be some electoral significance to this. https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-map/ https://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/the-soda-vs-pop-m...