Ask the Midwest

Michigander here - Pop.

STL: "soda" or "sodie"

Pop in iowa

There both wrong the right answer is obviously soda pop water

Northern Illinois checking in. It’s pop.

Soda is where ya go for the land of 10,000 lakes.

Strangely, Decatur, IL is in the "soda" region, but my family usually says, "pop." I knew a guy from Peoria that said "sodie," no idea if that was regional or just him.

Pop (in Illinois)

Soda. But I also moved here from the west coast and held on to soda as it trolled my midwest friends

So we're fighting already? lmao

Northwest Indiana and we say Pop.

Grew up calling it pop. Went to college in Tulsa and have converted to the one true name, soda.

I say soda. I feel it's about split 50/50 in my local area

Soda, always and forever. (I even converted friends and my spouse from "pop.")

I use both; often soda to pad out shorter sentences and pop for longer.

Pop

Soda, grew up in Michigan. But all it took was living in liberal California for 2 years to make pop sound weird.

I'd just like to know why STL and the central IL region is so deep in saying "soda". Granted, any time I've headed up to Chicago I don't think I've heard "pop" so I'm not sure how ubiquitous it is in most of IL even including Chicago. But having not grown up there I can't say myself.

Anyways, it's definitely soda in most of IL. Don't think I've ever heard it called pop there, other than by my grandma who was from the southside of Chicago.