Region 1: The Pacific Northwest

This is Washington and Oregon. I consider the entirety of the two states to be the Pacific Northwest.

Region 2: The True West

This is Texas (especially the western half of Texas), New Mexico, Arizona, and southern California. It is the region I most want to visit.

Region 3: The Other West

Colorado, Utah, and Nevada.

Region 4: The Plains/Middle America

North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska (when I remember Nebraska), Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa.

The Ozarks are also a separate subregion in this region to me.

Region 5: The Midwest

This one triggers even me. I consider the midwest to be Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, and Michigan. These are not western states. Ohio is borderline Eastern. But my brain calls them Midwest.

Region 6: Appalachia

Kentucky, West Virginia, most of Tennessee, parts of Virginia.

Region 7: The Bayou

Louisiana

Region 8: The Deep South

Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia.

There are two subregions: The Delta and Atlanta. Atlanta is different enough from the true south to be its own region to me.

Region 9: Florida

Florida

Region 10: Atlantic coast/the start of New England which is what I consider the 13 colonies

South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

I also consider this the Tidewater Region.

Region 11: New York City

I associate this entire region with New York City. It consists of New Jersey, New York, and Connecticut.

Region 12: True New England

Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine.

Vermont and New Hampsire are the pinnacle of this region to me.

Leftover states:

Northern California, Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland, and Delware are, in the words of my mom when she RIGHTFULLY critiqued a character I wrote at thirteen, "Just kind of there."