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Can you name the largest cities in the South region as defined by the US Census?
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Unidentifiedkiwi
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Source:
US Census (2010)
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Rank
City
Population
4
2,099,451
7
1,327,407
9
1,197,816
11
821,784
14
790,390
16
741,206
17
731,424
19
649,121
20
646,889
21
637,418
24
601,723
25
601,222
Rank
City
Population
27
597,337
31
579,999
39
437,994
40
420,003
43
403,892
44
399,457
46
391,906
51
380,085
53
343,829
55
335,709
60
305,215
63
295,803
69
295,803
71
295,803
75
295,803
77
295,803
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US Cities by Region: South Quiz
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rangerboywv
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 05:23 GMT
-4 points
i wouldn't consider any city in oklahoma or texas as the "south" they're more midwest, southwest.
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TheShawarmaAce
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 12:49 GMT
-10 points
why is Atlanta not on this list?
TheShawarmaAce
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 12:50 GMT
11 points
nevermind, I am an idiot. Also why is Baltimore considered south. It is pretty east if you ask me
knoxvillian
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 12:59 GMT
19 points
While I agree that Oklahoma and Maryland aren't really that "South", since you're working from a source and their interpretation of the South there's no reason to argue about it. Good quiz.
zifyoip
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 15:28 GMT
1 point
It seems that Garland, Texas, should be one of the bonus answers.
Zephos
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 22:15 GMT
6 points
What kind of harebrained definition counts Maryland in the south.
Unidentifiedkiwi
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 22:45 GMT
13 points
The definition of the United States Census Bureau.
(For the record, I agree that Maryland, Delaware, and Oklahoma are misclassified)
jermceleb
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Oct 12th, 2010 at 23:00 GMT
11 points
Maryland is south of the mason dixon line
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Klaus
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Oct 13th, 2010 at 01:58 GMT
-17 points
Since when is Baltimore and Louisville considered South? And why is Los Angeles or Phoenix not on here?
Trek222
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Oct 13th, 2010 at 03:05 GMT
6 points
@Klaus: Los Angeles and Phoenix are not part of the South, they are part of the South West.
GiantsJoe2110
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Oct 23rd, 2010 at 01:49 GMT
5 points
What's ironic is that the Census beureu defines Baltimore as "South," the NFL defines it as "North," and many people think of it as "East/Northeast."
rivere
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Aug 11th, 2011 at 19:57 GMT
0 points
Imo, Oklahoma and Texas are south, Maryland is east. A lot of southerners live in east texas especially, and texas doesn't identify with the great plains states or the west, while oklahoma is a little more western but still southern. Despite, this is the US Census designation so there's no disputing it.
mneh
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Sep 23rd, 2011 at 10:51 GMT
3 points
Maryland was a slave state at the start of the Civil War. Baltimore was so fervently Southern in sympathies that Lincoln had to sneak through it at night on the way to his inauguration for fear of assassination. When the war started, Baltimoreans attacked Union soldiers.
mneh
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Sep 23rd, 2011 at 11:02 GMT
2 points
As for Oklahoma, most of it lay south of the Missouri Compromise line of 36° 30' and was therefore considered a territory open to slavery during the antebellum period. The tribes that controlled it (for it was Indian Territory) threw in with the rebels at the start of the war.
SomeoneRandom
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Sep 28th, 2011 at 13:04 GMT
-3 points
These population figures are clearly wrong. Please use the 2010 census figures, because these numbers clearly overestimate the populations of Dallas, Houston, and Atlanta while hugely underestimate the population of Louisville.
AtomicOtter
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Sep 28th, 2011 at 20:55 GMT
7 points
Does Jackson, MS really need to be a bonus answer? In a quiz where Jackson isn't even close to being a correct answer it'd be nice not to have to type in JacksonJacksonville.
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british
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Nov 3rd, 2011 at 23:42 GMT
-5 points
I agree with SomeoneRandom. These figures are ridiculous! Houston is over 200,000 more than it actually is as conducted in the census. And practically 300,000 less than what Louisville actually is! Fix this. I'm pretty sure the positions would change and some may even drop out or others might replace. Also having Jackson as a bonus is really quite annoying, maybe replace it with Augusta, Georgia; it is more populated than Jackson or even Little Rock.
Rob42
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Feb 23rd, 2012 at 22:22 GMT
0 points
Good quiz, but I ended up getting almost as many bonus answers as "real" answers! Amazing how city populations differ greatly from metro populations, particularly in the cases of cities like Atlanta or Miami. As for the definition of "South", well, I think that it is undisputable that anywhere which lies south of the Mason-Dixon line is in the south, for that is the historic north-south dividing line. I think that the likes of Texas and Oklahoma are more debatable, given the fact that both states are someway west of the atlantic coast. However, I think that the u.s. consensus is about dividing the country up into four equal parts in terms of population, more so than actual location.
Game published: Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:00 GMT
log417
:
Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:23 GMT
93 points
I am from the true south New Orleans.....if you ask me Washington DC and Baltimore are not considered the south. We would call that the north...seriously.
crazylegs
:
Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:27 GMT
70 points
@log417:
I'm from Canada and
I'd
call that the north.
climbingpianist
:
Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:34 GMT
26 points
The south is pretty far north. :)
munga
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:41 GMT
40 points
South? Baltimore is like the same latitude as Atlantic City, New Jersey & Cincinnati, OH.
Tony_A
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:42 GMT
1 point
@log, I've always found it humorous that it takes me about 3 hours to get from my home near Baltimore to Penn Station in NYC, and over 2 hours just to go to Richmond.
Meltha
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:48 GMT
30 points
Oklahoma is in the south? The census is using a fairly odd definition of "south" here.
StevieB82
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:53 GMT
14 points
Traditionally, Maryland is not considered a southern state, and Washington was built on the border between north and south, and geographically speaking it is all in Maryland (see prior point).
y2dre4
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:57 GMT
19 points
The Mason Dixon line is at the northern Maryland border, which was the original dividing point between the North and South. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mason%E2%80%93Dixon_Line
match
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 19:58 GMT
14 points
Maybe if "South" were more defined, Baltimore and D.C. would be more guessed.
SecretMike
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:02 GMT
55 points
The south says we're in the North and the north calls us the south. Maryland is the red-headed stepchild of American geographic regions.
kpforthree
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:21 GMT
15 points
You lost me at El Paso.
thewildboo
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 20:43 GMT
12 points
The mason dixon line may have divided "north" and "south" in the civil war, but that's about it. Maryland is a mid-atlantic state (same group at Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware).
MrMN
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 21:17 GMT
4 points
It's obviously not just based on "north and south" during the war. Maryland never seceded, and neither did Kentucky. It's also not slave and free states because Missouri was a slave state. I don't think most people would consider El Paso in the south either. Defining a region as just "south" will get as many different responses as the "midwest".
gracie
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 22:09 GMT
2 points
if you're going to base this quiz on a totally weird definition of "south," you should include a map of the included region, or at least a "this includes the mid-atlantic and southwest" note.
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Shortney87
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 22:55 GMT
-14 points
Agreed there should definitely be a map. Last time I checked, Arizona, New Mexico, and southern California were all in the Southwest region...defining them as part of the South...
sfturd
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:16 GMT
22 points
It wasn't that hard to figure out what states were being considered here, especially with the time limit so high. Just consider it an added challenge and move along.
JBNelson
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:32 GMT
1 point
Just sayin, The south in my mind is everything in the corner, the borders are virginia, louisiana, kentucky, and arkansas, maryland, texas, these aren't the south, if you go there, you will see the big difference.
JimKatz
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Aug 15th, 2012 at 23:48 GMT
15 points
Two things to bear in mind. First, the Census uses state borders, not cultural definitions, so Texas and Oklahoma are all-or-nothing. (Maryland and DC have lost some of their Southern character, but for many years were unambiguously Southern.) Second, these are city limits, not metro areas. The number of people living in the area around Atlanta or Miami dwarfs many of the cities ranked above them, because city limits are not uniformly decided.
dancastro
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Aug 16th, 2012 at 00:29 GMT
6 points
@Shortney87: the problem is that there is no such thing as a "Southwest Region". For the Census Bureau there are only four *regions*: Northeast, Midwest, South and West, and therefore a southwestern state must be necessarily South or West. A more detailed partition is that of Census *divisions* of which there are nine. For example, the South region is constituted by three divisions: South Atlantic, East South Central and West South Central. Texas and Oklahoma, for example, are West South Central.
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scotch6
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Aug 16th, 2012 at 00:57 GMT
-12 points
Miami a "southern" city?
duke00
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Aug 16th, 2012 at 01:02 GMT
8 points
It is a geographical quiz not a cultural one. And the South is just as varied as any other region of the country. DC and MD are both under the mason-dixon line and are considered southern states/regions. (and if anyone has ever been to southern md. would find that it fits the southern stereotype so many want to box the south in anyway.)
veda1984
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Aug 16th, 2012 at 01:44 GMT
4 points
I honestly don't know how Maryland became part of the south. Anyone from Maryland does not identify themselves as southern, unless that particular individual grew up in the southern states and then moved there. But the ultimate test between northern and southern cities, especially for Washington DC and Maryland, is the Sweet Tea test. If you can't find or order sweet tea in Washington Dc or Maryland, then it is not part of the south..sweet tea is that much a part of the culture down in Dixie, that if you can't find it, then you are in Dixie anymore...lol
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