Little_Noodles t1_iwxnlba wrote
I haven’t had that much experience with this, but are they using the term as a less politically charged euphemism for the whole “Pennsultucky” deal?
The state is anchored by two left-leaning counties on either end, each fringed by somewhat less predictable townships making up blueish-to-purple counties on the border.
If “central” isn’t a geographic divide, but a cultural and demographic line between where the state’s population is most concentrated at either end, with the demographic and political trends associated with that concentration, and where that kind of density, demographic diversity, and political leanings shift … then, yeah, “central” is associated with the center of the state, even if it isn’t central geographically.
It’s the center counties’ demographic and political trends, radiating outward as far as they can go before hitting Pittsburgh and Philly’s competing demographic and political trends. Where that boundary becomes a battleground is the border of “central”.
msip313 t1_iwxuntd wrote
This post has some long sentences.
Little_Noodles t1_iwxvrwy wrote
Yeah, it’s meta or whatever. I’m locating my clauses and parentheticals centrally.
Either that, or I was killing time on my phone while also distracted by doing something else.
GraffitiTavern t1_iwy2n84 wrote
Well Dauphin(Harrisburg) is also considered South Central PA and its blue, in general what unites South Central more than anything is the PA Dutch culture and generally being in between SEPA and Western PA at least in my experience
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