Why do people from the Eastern U.S. call it 'soda' and people from the Western U.S. call it pop?

Question

I'm a West Coast girl born and bred, and when I went to the East Coast this summer one thing I noticed was how everyone there calls pop 'soda.' What's with different sides of the country calling it different things?

Answer 1

Just different dialects

Answer 2

It's the east coast west coast battle. Gotta change words up so they can claim the other side is "weird".
Like in the west we calling a shopping cart a "cart" in the east they call it a "buggy".

I'm orginially from the mid-west and once I visited family in the east. I asked my aunt for a "pop" and she thought I wanted a popsicle lol.

Answer 3

i live in the west but i never call soda "pop". although many people in the west do call it "pop" i prefer the word "soda"

Answer 4

Here in the Midwest, we call it soda pop. LOL

Answer 5

Well, I am from Michigan and I have always called it pop. Everyone in Michigan says pop.

Answer 6

Well, just because people are from the same country doesn't mean that they have the same customs or values. There are some places that are way more conservative than others and etc.

Answer 7

I am CA born/raised and nobody I know calls it pop!! We call it soda around here!!!

Answer 8

In the midwest we call it pop, too. It's soda-pop!

Answer 9

im from la and ive never heard any one refer to it as pop just soda

Answer 10

actually, I think you have it backwards....in cali we call it soda, but when I visit relatives in pennysylvania and carolina they call it pop. That's funny that you've heard it the exact opposite way!

Answer 11

In the South, we call everything "Coke". Even Sprite, Pepsi, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, etc. It's all "Coke" to us.