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I live in the armpit of Florida, and here it’s “soda”.

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The Invisible Borders That Define American Culture

One of the clearest regional differences in the U.S. can found by tracking the words people use to refer to soft drinks, which is in fact the map you saw at the top of this story. Pop or soda, or even Coke, these small linguistic differences are not as small as we might think. While “soda” commands the Northeast and West Coast (green) and “pop” is in between (black), “Coke” reigns in the south (turquoise). These small distinctions can often act as touchstones for larger cultural differences.

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#it’s soda you weirdos

I remember vaguely bitching about this sort of thing yesterday. 
 

Coke has always bugged me, because Coke is a SPECIFIC KIND of soda or pop. XD It’s not an all-encompassing term. You don’t call fucking Sprite COKE.

weird ive always said soda..and i live in wa. and what the hell south, coke is a specific brand not a general term for soda.

hahah “What’ll ya have to drink?” “Coke” “What kind?” “Sprite”.  <—-Texas

*Except for Austin where Coke means Coke.

I’m from New England and I still call any fizzy beverage a “Coke”. It’s not that weird, after all, most people call tiny little beige bandages “Band-aids” and pre-cut squares of tissue paper “Kleenex”.

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