The
definition of this is right...the geography is crap. The Pennsyltucky region is called a T for a reason, it's relatively thin and with a center base and two exterior arms at the top. West of the T, you have
metro Pittsburgh (including Lawerence County), east of the T you have not just metro Philly, but also the Piedmont cities like Allentown-Bethlehem, Lancaster, York, and Harrisburg. These areas aren't
hick and aren't Appelachian. The T area is the unpopulated
garbage land between these areas, plus the entire north of the state. Scranton-Wilkes Barre and Erie are refuges from it (if you can call broken down old cities refuges), but they're still in the boundaries of crap.