Face to Face popularity

I am looking to move and was wondering if any anons have insight on how popular nerd shit is by state in burgerland

>Northeast, Northwest USA
Optimal. Still seen as a niche hobby but pretty easy to find players if you actively look. Lots of closet nerds and "would try it if they had friends to teach them" types hidden in the normie crowd. Northwest is pretentious and backstabbing, Northeast is rude and aggressive. Pick your poison.

>Midwest
Never met anyone out of there who plays, but I can't imagine they don't exist. Not like there's much else of note out there so they must have some kind of domestic hobbies market.

>The South
I know a lot of players from this region but almost all of them speak ill of the reputation the hobby has. Rarely all the way into "burning D&D books at the church gathering" but closer to the whole "people who play Veeky Forums games are seen as antisocial crazy people" thing.

>Florida
This is the only state I've gotten confirmed reports of a "D&D is a tool used by Satanists to convert children to devil worship and suicide cults" parent from one of my players. That is all you need to know, aside from the fact that it is Florida.

>Southwest
We don't speak of that shithole.

>The South
Can only speak for Georgia, but I know lots of players from here (as I live here). I run Numenera modules every year at a local con and it's often well received, though most people in my area are AAA-Title vidya players, so when you bring up Veeky Forums stuff they go "like Skyrim with dice?" and it's easier to say "yeah kinda."

>Florida
All the best gaming stores I've been to were in Florida. FLGS and Borderlands in Jacksonville (even Jax's Games Workshop is full of pretty cool dudes) and The Game Academy in Tampa (go there about every three months for medical stuff, always stop in while I'm in town). Can't speak for the rest of Florida, but the only other cities that matter down there are Orlando and Miami, so...

I come from Jersey and it seems like I cannot get a consistent group.

Believe it or not, tabletop is extremely popular in Utah.

Yeah but they only play Dogs in the Vineyard

Very popular in NYC, but unfortunately being taken over by disgusting nu males, to the point that I'd rather go fuck it and play online.

Orlando is pretty good for gaming. Plenty of game stores and megacon comes around every year

In West Virginia, the Nerd culture centers mainly around South Charleston, Charleston (capital), Beckley, Vienna and Prinston. Once a year in October we have Charcon in Charleston, which is where a decent number of our local nerds congregate because they can't afford to go to Origins Game Fair in Columbus during June.

> Florida parents think dnd is devil worship

Florida is pretty varied. My grandpa thinks it's satanic but in his defense the only book he found if mine is my copy of call of Cthulhu 6th edition