Similar to the project being run at Bostonography on collecting data of what people define each neighborhood in Boston as, the website Regional Differences is doing the same for the entirety of the United States.
When you go to the site, you're prompted to draw the regional boundaries are for what you think each region of the country is called as such as the Corn Belt, Appalachia, Rockies, ect... After you've entered in all the areas you able to, you can submit your selections and see what the rest of the site's users have entered in the amalgamation map. The website is Regional Differences, but if you want to go straight to the results, those are at http://regionaldifferences.com/results.html. The results include the percentage of what region the users thought a specified point in the country was.
I find this site interesting because we all have different opinions of what the different parts of the country are called. Such as what one person might consider the MidWest, another might just think of as the Rust Belt. We always have our textbook definitions of what academics consider the regional boundaries to be, but what do regular people consider the parts of the country to be called? Furthermore, using the data of where respondents considered home, we can derive what each part of the country calls everywhere else.
Here is the link to the Bostonography project.
