U.S. States by Region Quiz

Can you name the U.S. States by Region?

created by motomuse

Enter a state in the box below
Correctly named states will show up below
Click any empty Region or State to answer for that location
States must be listed in alphabetical order in each region.
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New England

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The South

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U.S. States by Region Quiz

by motomuse

Created Jan 17, 2011 in Geography
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	newenglander:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 01:21 GMT	3 points
	this quiz raises the issue of where to group virginia. if this quiz is based solely on geographic position, then virginia could be grouped in the mid-atlantic. but if culture and history were taken into account, thats where it gets complicated (in my opinion, if they seceded from the union, they've forever earned the title of being 'southern').

	AmblingPoodle:	Jan 18th, 2011 at 08:03 GMT	4 points
	Entirely too subjective. New England & the Pacific states are easily nameable; states belonging to every other region you lay out are open for debate.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 19th, 2011 at 01:24 GMT	1 point
	I liked the quiz, I think you put all the states in reasonable regions. Of course the regions are subjective. That's what makes it an interesting quiz.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 19th, 2011 at 01:48 GMT	1 point
	@newenglander: of course the Confederacy makes a convenient way to group the states of the south. Geographically, you could also consider the Mason Dixon line a convenient way to define the southern states. Of course, when a region gets to be that large you end up with states as different as Maryland and Delaware, and Texas and Louisiana in the same region. One cultural aspect they all share is that they were all slave-holding states at the start of the Civil War. Although if you go back far enough you'll find slavery in New England states as well. If you use secession is a criterion then you might have to come up with a scheme that separates Vermont from the rest of New England (Vermont Republic, 1777-1791) as secession is not solely a southern conception.

	tapioca:	Jan 19th, 2011 at 06:33 GMT	1 point
	Northern Virginia is very much like Washington DC and has no trace of the deep South. "The South" is usually considered to start at Richmond (halfway though the state.) Is West Virginia south? The census thinks so as most of it is below the Mason-Dixon but it refused to join the Confederacy. Maryland is entirely under the Mason-Dixon but stayed with the union.

	tahitiwahini:	Jan 22nd, 2011 at 04:38 GMT	1 point
	If by Northern Virginia you mean Arlington Country, Fairfax Country, and Alexandria then I would agree with your characterization that Northern Virginia now is very similar to DC. If you're talking about anywhere else in VA it has (and definitely had more so in the past) a very southern character. Times change. DC was a very southern city until WW II. Maryland stayed in the Union because the Union could not possibly have allowed it to secede given where DC is located. As a border state, one could best characterize Maryland's loyalties as decidedly mixed. In the 1860 election Lincoln received 2% (two percent) of the Maryland popular vote. 25,000 Marylanders left Maryland at the start of the war to serve with the Confederate forces. The first blood shed in the Civil War was in Baltimore (the Pratt Street Riot) wherein a Massachusetts regiment was fired upon by Baltimore citizens. Things have changed much since the Civil War era, but at the time Maryland was very much a southern state. Maybe the regions need to change over time as well.