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North Carolina Soda vs Pop vs Coke vs Tonic Map
LexiMap is collecting fresh county-level responses to one of the classic American regional word questions: soda, pop, Coke, tonic, or something else. This North Carolina page focuses on county-level results inside the state.
Current result: North Carolina is leaning Soda on the Soda vs Pop vs Coke vs Tonic Map, with 63% of 19 verified votes.
Prompt: What do you call a sugary fizzy drink?
Answer options: Soda / Pop / Coke / Tonic / Other / local term.
Open the interactive map to vote once and compare national, state, and county results.
Last updated from verified vote data: Jun 10, 2026, 1:02 PM EDT.
North Carolina Results Snapshot
- Soda: 12 verified votes (63%)
- Pop: 2 verified votes (11%)
- Coke: 3 verified votes (16%)
- Tonic: 0 verified votes (0%)
- Other / local term: 2 verified votes (11%)
County Results in North Carolina
These counties currently have the most verified votes in North Carolina.
- Wake County County: 3 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Buncombe County County: 2 verified votes, Soda leads with 50%
- Alamance County County: 1 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Brunswick County County: 1 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Cumberland County County: 1 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Durham County County: 1 verified votes, Other / local term leads with 100%
- Guilford County County: 1 verified votes, Pop leads with 100%
- Iredell County County: 1 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Jackson County County: 1 verified votes, Soda leads with 100%
- Lee County County: 1 verified votes, Pop leads with 100%
What This Map Compares
This page is meant to answer common regional comparisons for soda vs pop vs Coke vs tonic map.
- soda vs pop map
- soda vs Coke
- pop vs Coke
- tonic in New England
- regional names for soda
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. Exact GPS is not stored in public results.
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