Forget red states and blue states. The true geographic divide is the way people refer to carbonated beverages i.e. soda, pop and coke.
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The Lede
Cartographer Alan McConchie collected over 400,000 responses on his site PopVsSoda.com and mapped each regional variation of fizzy drink nomenclature with a magenta square representing an area that says "coke," a cyan square meaning more "soda" speakers and yellow indicating more "pop" sayers.
Key Details
- Matador Network's Olivia Harden delineated the Northeast to Mid-Atlantic as the main soda speaking region. "If you look at soda, you see New England, you see New York, you’re dipping down into Maryland."
- Conversely, "pop has taken over a significant area of the country, covering the northern regions of the country and the Midwest," Harden explained.
- "Coke dominates the south, even though the rest of the country uses coke exclusively to refer to Coca-Cola," she concluded.
