An international team of researchers, led
by scientists from IFISC (UIB-CSIC), has mapped the different cultural regions
in the United States of America through a
lexical analysis of the content that citizens themselves post on their social
networks. The results show a clear separation between Northern and Southern
cultures, the latter influenced by the African-American population, as well as subtler
differences between the East-West axis and urban or rural populations. To
obtain the extent o...