Some historical regions were never administrative at all: just names on old maps

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The South exists in people's heads long before any boundary does A perceived region can outlive the dialect that created it Medieval marchlands left a legacy in local dialects and land tenure Administrative regions usually outlive the governments that created them Belts overlap and nobody agrees which one a town belongs to Colonial empires redrew the cultural zones of whole continents and the seams still show today Why division boundaries survive long after the reason for them is gone Why "the Bay Area" keeps growing in everyday speech Weather presenters use vernacular regions because official ones mean nothing to viewers Everyone knows where the Midwest ends until you ask two people

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