Today in human geo we finished separating the states up into regions. We looked at a map of 16 regions. Texas, Louisiana, Florida, Colorado, and San-Fransisco, New York were all there own region. There was cascadia, Socal, Sun Belt, Rocky Mountains, Deep North, Midwest, Deep South, Rust Belt, Appalachia, Mid-Atlantic, and New England regions. So, he gave us about 30 mins to do that. After we finished a group presented a region, what states are in the region and whether it was democratic or republican. After that we talked about how the elections work and why Donald trump won.

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