Table 4.

Influence of geographic place of origin in the United States on percentage of survey respondents who indicated a residential landscape preference for desert, oasis, or mesic landscape design motifs in Phoenix, Arizona, metropolitan area.

Place of originzLandscape design
DesertOasisMesic
Northeast33%y51%16%
Southeast30%54%16%
Midwest33%47%20%
Great Plains43%38%19%
Southwest21%54%25%
Arizona16%50%33%
Pacific West33%40%27%
Intermountain23%49%28%
  • zNortheast = Delaware, Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont; Southeast = Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia; Midwest = Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio; Great Plains = Kansas, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska; Southwest = New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas; Intermountain = Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming; Pacific West = Alaska, California, Hawaii, Oregon, Washington.

  • yRows that add up to <100 had nearly 1% “no preference” responses.