Unread postby polecat » Sat Feb 28, 2004 1:47 pm 
			
			
			
			I believe the map is quite good.  I grew up in southern Ohio and almost everyone called it pop.  I went to Ohio State University and everyone except the out-of-state students from the Northeast called it pop.  I worked in Michigan and almost everyone called it pop.  I'm now in eastern upstate NY, and everyone calls it soda.  However, when I travel to Buffalo and Rochester, almost everyone calls it pop.  When I travel to Syracuse and New England, almost everyone calls it soda.  I wonder how people who live on the lines of demarcation, like somewhere between Rochester and Syracuse, communicate when they want a carbonated beverage?  They must do a lot of pointing.