I saw this cool map showing the projected US mega regions, and if you look at it:





Then realignment moves start to make a lot of sense when put into geo-demographic context (the art isnt great but you get the general idea:




The fight over the mega regions is what its all about.

Cool - West Virginia has its own region.

(05-08-2014 02:17 PM)10thMountain Wrote:  I saw this cool map showing the projected US mega regions, and if you look at it:





Then realignment moves start to make a lot of sense when put into geo-demographic context (the art isnt great but you get the general idea:




The fight over the mega regions is what its all about.

Yes, Richard Florida has made a fortune off recycling prior work on the phenomenon. You need to work on your red line boundary as it's way too far east omitting Louisville and ND.

(05-08-2014 02:26 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  Cool - West Virginia has its own region.

Pretty much the opposite ... WV is in the grey space between three regions, which would be why WVU was available when the Big12 urgently needed a school, PDQ.

(05-08-2014 03:14 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  Yes, Richard Florida has made a fortune off recycling prior work on the phenomenon. You need to work on your red line boundary as it's way too far east omitting Louisville and ND.

Add a red circle around Louisville, like the orange one around WVU.

(05-08-2014 03:21 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 02:26 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  Cool - West Virginia has its own region.

Pretty much the opposite ... WV is in the grey space between three regions, which would be why WVU was available when the Big12 urgently needed a school, PDQ.

(05-08-2014 03:14 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  Yes, Richard Florida has made a fortune off recycling prior work on the phenomenon. You need to work on your red line boundary as it's way too far east omitting Louisville and ND.

Add a red circle around Louisville, like the orange one around WVU.

You left out dots forming a circle around N.D..

(05-08-2014 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 03:21 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 02:26 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  Cool - West Virginia has its own region.

Pretty much the opposite ... WV is in the grey space between three regions, which would be why WVU was available when the Big12 urgently needed a school, PDQ.

(05-08-2014 03:14 PM)lumberpack4 Wrote:  Yes, Richard Florida has made a fortune off recycling prior work on the phenomenon. You need to work on your red line boundary as it's way too far east omitting Louisville and ND.

Add a red circle around Louisville, like the orange one around WVU.

You left out dots forming a circle around N.D..

That would be a large circle or box stretching from Milwaukee to Boston and south to Cincinnati and over to Baltimore.

(05-08-2014 03:34 PM)JRsec Wrote:  You left out dots forming a circle around N.D..

Yes. Yes, I did. I don't care to argue how much in the ACC ND is or is not, so I left that for someone else to argue.

And in this context, why the ACC wants the ND relationship is because of its national brand ... indeed, ND is arguably more important to the ACC in its move further north into the Northeast Corridor than it is in terms of exposure in the Great Lakes metro-region.

The mid Atlantic is a sub region of the northeast just as new england is

(05-08-2014 05:19 PM)gosports1 Wrote:  The mid Atlantic is a sub region of the northeast just as new england is

Surely in mega-regions terms ... the Mid-Atlantic is a sub-region of the Northeast Megaregion, or "Northeast Corridor". There's no harm in being specific rather than general about it, as generic terms like "Northeast" and "Midwest" have different connotations to different people.

Looks like the area from Louisville/ Cincinnati to Atlanta is also slated for Major growth by 2050 although I won't be around.

(05-08-2014 03:21 PM)BruceMcF Wrote:  

(05-08-2014 02:26 PM)Tigeer Wrote:  Cool - West Virginia has its own region.

Pretty much the opposite ... WV is in the grey space between three regions, which would be why WVU was available when the Big12

I was being facetious, and WVU has plenty of alumni and fans in all three of the regoins surrounding it.