Board 8 > Where is the "tri-state area?" (U.S.)

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I live in an area whose newscasters always refer to the region as the tri-state area. For a long time it had never occurred to me that this term didn't specifically refer to my neck of the woods. However, I know now that it's used in quite a few different places, so what consists of the tri-state area to you?

Other possibilities: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tri-state_area (sorry, Sioux City)

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When I lived in Ohio it was the 3 that you described. I live in Chicago now and I've never seen anyone refer to WI, IL, and IN as a tri-state area

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Chattanooga near TN, GA, and AL

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It's the west coast (WA, OR, CA)

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Near Danville

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Cincinnati for me

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Leonhart4 posted...

Chattanooga near TN, GA, and AL

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Nobody calls delmarva tri state, it's already called delmarva (or Eastern Shore).

Or people use DMV for District Maryland Virginia
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its relative to where you are

so the Chicago one for me
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KingButz posted...

Nobody calls delmarva tri state, it's already called delmarva (or Eastern Shore).

Or people use DMV for District Maryland Virginia

I didn't think so, but it was listed on the wikipedia page, so I figured what the hell. I've at least heard of people blurring those three together in that context.

Leonhart4 posted...

Chattanooga near TN, GA, and AL

I almost included that, just on a whim, looking at the map and where there were cities near triple points.

skullbone posted...

. I live in Chicago now and I've never seen anyone refer to WI, IL, and IN as a tri-state area

Do they just call it Chicagoland?

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I think Chicagoland is technically a more specific area than the Tri-state. Just parts of the states that are actually near Chicago.
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I'm near Chicago and don't think I've heard Tri-State used for anywhere local

the NY one has been ingrained in me by years of TEW using that as one of the most important regions

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UltimaterializerX posted...

New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. The -Penn +Conn people are idiots.

Source: I live here. Literally zero percent of local news does NY/NJ/Connecticut. Its all NJ/NY/Penn.

WHAT?!?

What part of the tri-state area do you live? Because I've NEVER heard of it as anything other than NY/NJ/CT.

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Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio (is the order you would probably hear it from Kentuckians who don't live in Northern Kentucky)

I've heard it my entire life and seen businesses say they serve the "tri-state area" while having the outlines of those three states on their trucks or whatever. It never once occurred to me to think that it had anything to do with Cincinnati.

Kentucky's biggest city is across a river from Indiana so most of us who aren't near Cincy think of Indiana as more of the associated state

That said, Cincinnati's major airport is in Kentucky, so that's a significant association too. Rivers, man.

Menji posted...

It's the west coast (WA, OR, CA)

Yeah as a non-American it took until I was an adult to hear tri-states refer to anywhere other than this.

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lot of Cinci rep here.

Also, puns is totally wrong. Cincinnati is basically the center of half of Kentucky, a third of Indiana, and like a sixth of Ohio. Which makes the proper order "Ohio, Kentucky, and Indiana."

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I've only ever heard the term for the NYC area, but I don't live anywhere particularly close to any area that could be considered one except the Texarkana area, and everybody around here seems to like that name too much to give it a generic one.

Reg posted...

I've only ever heard the term for the NYC area, but I don't live anywhere particularly close to any area that could be considered one except the Texarkana area, and everybody around here seems to like that name too much to give it a generic one.

Arklatex has a better ring to it compared to just calling it tri-state. I mean the region, and not just Texarkana.

As a non North American, always NY area.

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HanOfTheNekos posted...

puns is totally wrong

turbopuns3 posted...

is the order you would probably hear it from Kentuckians who don't live in Northern Kentucky

:thinking:

Kentuckiana is something most Kentuckians I know have heard of before. If there's one for Ohio, I haven't heard it. Well at least not an endearing one. FIFO - Fucking Idiot From Ohio - is maybe just as well known as Kentuckiana, though! :P

Also, not that it gets me hot under the collar or anything but it seems like you're genuinely misinformed so I'll point it out to you, it's totally inaccurate to say "half" of Kentucky is centered around Cincinatti. 25% of Kentucky lives literally in Louisville or Lexington. After that you have about 3 of the top 10 counties by population that are close to Cincy (Kenton, Boone, and Campbell). Quite a stretch from "half" of the state lol.

A lot of people know that the Tri-State Area
Used to be a Bi-State Area with an Adjacent Area over there;
What people don't know is that originally it was three distinct
Single-State Areas, but people don't care.

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Poll misleading. Wiki clearly states parts of Pennsylvania are also included which is how I always thought of it in jersey

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turbopuns3 posted...

:thinking:

Kentuckiana is something most Kentuckians I know have heard of before. If there's one for Ohio, I haven't heard it. Well at least not an endearing one. FIFO - Fucking Idiot From Ohio - is maybe just as well known as Kentuckiana, though! :P

Also, not that it gets me hot under the collar or anything but it seems like you're genuinely misinformed so I'll point it out to you, it's totally inaccurate to say "half" of Kentucky is centered around Cincinatti. 25% of Kentucky lives literally in Louisville or Lexington. After that you have about 3 of the top 10 counties by population that are close to Cincy (Kenton, Boone, and Campbell). Quite a stretch from "half" of the state lol.

Kentuckiana is one I've always heard, but kind of figured it was only the northwestern part. I live like 5 minutes away from Indiana.

I always heard tri-state as near NY

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NY/NJ/CT

Source: I am in NY, we run this.

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ViolentAbacus posted...

Kentuckiana is one I've always heard, but kind of figured it was only the northwestern part.

The northwestern part is another way of saying Louisville.

If you leave Louisville and drive across a bridge you are in Indiana.

turbopuns3 posted...

The northwestern part is another way of saying Louisville.

If you leave Louisville and drive across a bridge you are in Indiana.

I know, but I live like an hour away from Louisville that is in that area. I was being more inclusive.

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Oh you just mean the geographical area that it refers to, I thought you meant only the northwestern part of the state recognizes that it's a thing. My bad.

Anyway, yeah. If you tallied up the number of Kentuckians who live near and/or associate with Indiana in their mind and compared it to Ohio, it's not that close.

Well, there's the whole professional sports thing. But we have UK for that, and I meant more in terms of daily life function anyway.

Wait, actually I still misinterpreted what you meant! lol. Anyway I think you get my point by now.

The part of KY near Indiana is called Kentuckiana, while the part of KY near Ohio is called...Northern Kentucky or just NKY.

All this and not one Phineas and Ferb refeence .. *shakes head*

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Hardcore_Adult posted...

All this and not one Phineas and Ferb refeence .. *shakes head*

Guess you missed my post then

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Guilty.

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Hardcore_Adult posted...

All this and not one Phineas and Ferb refeence .. *shakes head*

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/8-gamefaqs-contests/78802274/941243018

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Caught it on the second look through, kinda doing... things.

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You know, come to think of it, the most associated border states overall by numbers would likely be Indiana and Tennessee. But Indiana/Kentucky/Tenneessee doesn't make for a very efficient tri-state area, geographically speaking.

turbopuns3 posted...

:thinking:

Kentuckiana is something most Kentuckians I know have heard of before. If there's one for Ohio, I haven't heard it. Well at least not an endearing one. FIFO - Fucking Idiot From Ohio - is maybe just as well known as Kentuckiana, though! :P

Also, not that it gets me hot under the collar or anything but it seems like you're genuinely misinformed so I'll point it out to you, it's totally inaccurate to say "half" of Kentucky is centered around Cincinatti. 25% of Kentucky lives literally in Louisville or Lexington. After that you have about 3 of the top 10 counties by population that are close to Cincy (Kenton, Boone, and Campbell). Quite a stretch from "half" of the state lol.

Yeah I was mostly just joshing lol

Cincinnati has a huge footprint in the area it services though, and a lot of that is in Indiana and KY, so it does have a big impact on the states around it.

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as a Washington state native, Tri-State area generically always means NY/NJ/CT unless otherwise stated

Aecioo posted...

Poll misleading. Wiki clearly states parts of Pennsylvania are also included which is how I always thought of it in jersey

If you mean the one that includes CT, then no. That's a different tri-state, up by Port Jervis. Also a valid answer, but I wanted to move around the country at least a little with the poll options, and the CT one is better known than PA.

Also, ^5 the 9% of you that know the correct answer to this question is Delaware, South Jersey, and SE PA.

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New York. I have no idea what the 3 states are tbh, but I know NY is one of them.

Never heard anyone say Delmarva before, it's always DMV.

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foolm0r0n posted...

Never heard anyone say Delmarva before, it's always DMV.

Those are two different places. Even the Maryland and Virginia parts of them don't overlap.
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None of the above - Near Lake Erie, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio.

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Maine NH and VT - growing up we had Tri State Megabucks and thats what comes to mind.

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neonreaper posted...

Tri State Megabucks

Tell me more

Oh that's a lottery not a currency isn't it

Lol