Clarence "Sparr" Risher

Who lives in The South? Is Pittsburgh on the East Coast? These are the questions I occasionally find myself asking, any time I see or hear someone name a region but with a clearly different definition in mind than the last person who referred to it. More so whenever I encountered people actively arguing about whose definition was “right” or “true”. Eventually, despite my complete lack of qualifications as a professional statistician or survey-writer, I decided to gather some data. I took the map drawing code used by Bostonography for their 2013 neighborhood survey and adapted it for my needs, then asked a bunch of people to fill it out. That was eight years ago, and rather than let the project sit forgotten I figure it’s time to actually write up some of the results.