The "Eurozone"

This tweet was posted, with the joke being that Utah was a "great lake" state, but it is vert interesting to compare this region with the rest of the country, especially when imagining Medieval America. It's an easy trap to fall in to depict Medieval America as a carbon copy of other old world cultures, particularly European ones. But the fun, the point of the experiment is to see what kind of unique cultures result from the process. However, the above mentioned area, the Great Lakes region, (nd the St. Lawrence Valley) is definitely what you could call the nexus that most resembled the ten centuries of Medieval Europe. This is because the 1) The geography and 2) the ancestry. People would largely "fall back on" techniques, fashions, warefare and crops their ancestors did. Not full motalgia, not fully necessity, but a sort of synthesis of the two. Someone transported to the Great Lakes region or Quebec would find it the most familiar, if not fully comfortable. The Northeast is not radically different geographically or genetically, and it was settled at the time closest to the Middle Ages (and thus, much of the architecture feels the most "athentically quaint"), the states there have simply become too dependent on or accustimed to Republicanism. Once we get into the south, however, see a climate that's similar to China or Japan--areas that are not unfamiliar with feudalism, but sort of in their own way. And a populace with a largely non-white ancestry might now have as many romantic notions of old Europe. Though I have a theory that the Piedmont region, with its warm but mild climate, tethering to the Old World much like the Northeast, and relatively little warefare would theoertically be the most pleasant place to visit for a European tourist. The right mix of exotic and familiar. I have a theory Interestingly, even though the Pacific Northwest actually has the climate most similar to England and France, it would simply drift too far apart of Western aspects, due to Mexico, Asia, and the Indiginous tribes having as much, if not more influence on the area than Eastern America. (And of course that the West coast is inhabited by folks who porudly flaunt tradition and embrace their own quirks.) And as for Utah? That's something I often imagined. On one hand, this is in the part of country that the new Middle Ages has made the most "eccentric". The perception of Utah, and of the Mormons, has always been a subject of debate. Are tney esoteric, more American than American, or esoteric because they're more American than American. So one if left to wonder what aesthetic Utah would embrace; Something akin to the European Middle Ages, the era the Church was founded, really old school Biblical times, or something altogether new?