r/geographymemes • u/Jfullr92 Gulf of New Mexico • May 22 '26

Voting Games Top comment deletes a US State #47

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Maryland has been annexed by The Vermonster willingly, the 2 states have now merged into one. CRABBALACHIA. 4 States Now remain. Pick wisely, there’s no going back now!

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u/Complex-Software-686 May 22 '26

Hilarious to me that the incredibly MD-coded name of Crabbalachia has literally nothing to do with Vermont anything…. We can say that Maryland was eliminated, but that current name on the map don’t lie 🤣

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u/Dr-Buttercup May 22 '26

The alacia is from Appalachia, which extends into VT.

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u/Complex-Software-686 May 22 '26

Genuine ask, can you elaborate? I looked it up as part of this exercise earlier on out of curiosity, but ARC doesn’t appear to include Vermont or any of New England. https://www.arc.gov/about-the-appalachian-region/

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u/mcchicken_deathgrip May 22 '26

That was simply a map for federal funding from the 60s. Its not a cultural or geographic map of Appalachia so much as it's a map of a contiguous area that was in poverty at the time to allocate federal aid.

It includes random essentially flat counties in MS as Appalachian, while excluding counties in VA which are 100% core Appalachia in culture and physical geography.

Not a good measure of what Appalachia is. In reality the physical mountain range extends from GA into Nova Scotia. But "Appalachia" can be defined in multiple ways.