"agree. I do not approve of Grayshi's maps.  He has an agenda to exclude some census-defined regions of the South. Who is he to decide which regions get certain shades of red to indicate their ""southern-ness""?  His maps are too vague and too subjective.  Stop replacing the maps, sir, or we will continue to reverse your edits, which you take at liberty without a backing of facts or consensus.  There should be, like there is now, only 3 ways a state should be shown on the map: Southern (red), Not Southern (beige), and Southern with debate (striped red).  It is inaccurate to shade maps because there is no way that a gradation can be accurate in describing the various degrees of southern-ness.  For instance, I can tell you that the region of Maryland in which I work is more ""Southern"" than parts of Montgomery County (which is geographically to the south of me) - so, in no way, would the shaded map be accurate in this, and other cases.

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