howl
Active Member
Unless there is some legal boundary established (e.g. county lines) "regions" are almost always amorphous things. No two people will have exactly the same definition and over time even the definition in the mind of one person can change. If you stop thinking of regions as being mutually exclusive and start thinking of them as overlapping at the edges then it doesn't really matter what's in and what's out. Each region will have a heartland and a hinterland, with the hinterland being shared with the next regional heartland.