I thought this was pretty interesting, although Im not sure if I would put the northern Midwest with the upper-east coast. I always thought we were two different groups of people, but I guess Mr. Woodard has more knowledge then I do haha. Also, Wisconsinites and Chicagoans classified as one? What nonsense - they don't even know what cheese is! haha (jokes).
Thats the one that really got me too. Besides being a tenuous geographic relationship given the other regions, the culture, but not necessarily voting history is very different. But I would also think that by segmenting Yankeedom, the author would be forced to split up some of the other regions too, which would distract from his point.
Yeah I mean I get why each "country" looks the way that it does, but if I were him I would add something else to the equation that would break up some of the areas (counties in this case) that dont belong.