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Re:Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely... by RajT88 on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:30AM (#31002441)
In Illinois there's a pretty major divide between Northern and Southern IL. A lot of people draw that line well north of Springfield.

I would say it broadly follows what some are calling the "Rural-Urban divide" - certainly the suburban areas are included. With some wrinkles of course. DeKalb is definitely "northern", but Mendota is definitely more "southern".

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Re:Why the past 10 years of American life have been uniquely... by Kon-Peki on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @05:43PM (#31008583)
> DeKalb is definitely "northern", but Mendota is definitely more "southern".

Well, one of those towns has a 16000-student public research university with over 1000 doctoral students and participates in the management/operation of FermiLab. The other one is at the junction of two railroad lines, surrounded by farms and approximately the same population over the last 100 years. I would expect that they feel extremely different, and that's not a bad thing at all!

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