Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Tek) 9/26/83; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!decvax!ucbvax!ucbcad!tektronix!tekchips!wm From: wm@tekchips.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Re: Geography Message-ID: <875@tekchips.UUCP> Date: Tue, 19-Jun-84 13:24:31 EDT Article-I.D.: tekchips.875 Posted: Tue Jun 19 13:24:31 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 21-Jun-84 06:53:41 EDT References: <783@trwrba.UUCP> Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 43 When I lived in North Carolina I told someone I was moving to Oregon, and he asked me if that was near Kansas. I said yes. Definitive Geography of the Contiguous United States - East - New York to DC, plus Florida New England - anything northeast of NY The South - south of Mason Dixon, west to Texas, except Florida. Deep South - any rural area in The South Midwest - west of the Appalachians to the Great Plains Great Lakes - Michigan, Wisconsin Great Plains - Dakotas south to the Texas Panhandle Southwest - Texas, New Mexico, Arizona The Coast - California Northwest - Oregon & Washington west of the cascades Rockies - from the Cascades/Sierra Nevada east to the Great Plains Each of these areas has a capital - East - New York City New England - Boston The South - Atlanta (alternate - Leroy) Deep South - Macon County Midwest - Chicago Great Lakes - Motown Great Plains - St Louis Southwest - Dallas The Coast - LA (sometimes, LA *is* The Coast) Northwest - Seattle Rockies - Denver If you work for a phone company, replace all these with the time zones - eastern, central, mountain, pacific. Also, if you live in Los Angeles, The Coast is NYC, California is Southern California, and San Francisco is part of the Northwest. Wm Leler tektronix!tekchips!wm wm.Tektronix@csnet-relay