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Soda vs Pop vs Coke vs Tonic Map
LexiMap is collecting verified U.S. responses to one regional language question: What do you call a sugary fizzy drink?
Current result: the U.S. is leaning Soda on the Soda vs Pop vs Coke vs Tonic Map, with 54% of 1,623 verified votes.
Soda currently leads among verified LexiMap votes with 54% of responses. The map currently includes 1,623 verified votes.
Last updated from verified vote data: Jun 15, 2026, 3:15 PM EDT.
Live National Results
- Soda: 880 verified votes (54%)
- Pop: 572 verified votes (35%)
- Coke: 138 verified votes (8.5%)
- Tonic: 4 verified votes (0.2%)
- Other / local term: 29 verified votes (1.8%)
Where Votes Are Coming From
These states currently have the most verified votes in this question.
- Ohio: 581 verified votes, Pop leads with 61%
- Florida: 111 verified votes, Soda leads with 70%
- Georgia: 105 verified votes, Soda leads with 63%
- California: 80 verified votes, Soda leads with 94%
- Texas: 53 verified votes, Soda leads with 62%
- New York: 48 verified votes, Soda leads with 81%
- Indiana: 44 verified votes, Soda leads with 50%
- Michigan: 43 verified votes, Pop leads with 91%
- Tennessee: 38 verified votes, Soda leads with 53%
- Illinois: 37 verified votes, Soda leads with 57%
Strongest Regional Patterns So Far
These are early, self-selected results from verified locations, not a scientific survey. They are useful for spotting regional language patterns as the sample grows.
Soda
- New Jersey: 100% Soda (15 of 15 votes)
- Rhode Island: 100% Soda (6 of 6 votes)
- Utah: 100% Soda (5 of 5 votes)
- District of Columbia: 100% Soda (3 of 3 votes)
- Vermont: 100% Soda (3 of 3 votes)
Pop
- South Dakota: 100% Pop (4 of 4 votes)
- Michigan: 91% Pop (39 of 43 votes)
- Minnesota: 84% Pop (21 of 25 votes)
- Iowa: 69% Pop (9 of 13 votes)
- West Virginia: 69% Pop (24 of 35 votes)
Coke
- New Mexico: 67% Coke (2 of 3 votes)
- Alabama: 45% Coke (5 of 11 votes)
- Louisiana: 44% Coke (4 of 9 votes)
- Tennessee: 39% Coke (15 of 38 votes)
- Texas: 38% Coke (20 of 53 votes)
Tonic
- New Hampshire: 25% Tonic (1 of 4 votes)
- Massachusetts: 8.3% Tonic (3 of 36 votes)
Other / local term
- Louisiana: 33% Other / local term (3 of 9 votes)
- Nevada: 33% Other / local term (1 of 3 votes)
- Virginia: 13% Other / local term (2 of 16 votes)
- Massachusetts: 11% Other / local term (4 of 36 votes)
- North Carolina: 11% Other / local term (2 of 19 votes)
Worth Knowing
Soft drink became a useful label partly because it separated nonalcoholic drinks from hard alcoholic drinks; the local words people use for the same drink stayed much messier.
How The Map Works
Votes use browser location or ZIP backup, are grouped by national, state, and county result maps, and are live self-selected responses rather than a scientific poll. LexiMap does not publish exact GPS coordinates, device identifiers, or raw ZIP-level vote tables in these public result pages.
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