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Originally posted by DeltaSigStan
Coke is a specific brand of soda, so I never understood why that's the common name for the everyday soft drink. But whatever, regional dialects are regional dialects.
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It's Coke to me here in NC. I know it is a brand name so it sounds dumb, but Band-aid and Kleenex are brands too and that's what most people refer to those products as. The problem with calling it Coke is that when you say that in a restaurant if they only serve Pepsi they will just bring the Pepsi without telling you they don't have Coke. Pepsi may be from New Bern, NC but I'm a true Coke girl.
I think that map is really cool too but the numbers are not so good. I mean 120,000 respondents in approx 3,000 counties across the country...that's not very good statistics. But it is still cool to see how it is different across the country.