The Miriam-Webster dictionary defines a dialect as "a regional variety of language distinguished by features of vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation from other regional varieties and constituting together with them a single language", which is pretty much how the man who made this map, Robert Delaney defines it. In other words, in different parts of the country, we speak differently. Also, it makes for a pretty map of the U.S.
On his website, Delaney goes into much more detail on how these dialects came to be and how they differ from each other.
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