Americans' Thanksgiving Side Dish Preferences, Broken Down By State

These reports reveal which states prefer mashed potatoes, stuffing, green beans and more.

People have strong opinions about Thanksgiving side dishes. Some are mashed potato loyalists while others stuffing purists. And not everyone agrees about the relative merits of sweet potato dishes.

But where you stand on these debates might actually come down to where in the country you live. The folks at DoorDash released a Thanksgiving Trends report breaking down the most-ordered fixings in each state.

“Turkey may get the spotlight, but the sides are where Thanksgiving gets personal,” Cristen Milliner, a consumer trends expert at DoorDash, told HuffPost. “What stood out to us wasn’t just which sides were popular, but how they clustered geographically, almost like regional dialects rooted in place, history and habit.”

The findings are based on the most-ordered grocery items for popular Thanksgiving side dishes during Thanksgiving week last year.

“Our data shows that the South gravitates toward sweeter, warmer flavors like sweet potatoes and cornbread, the Midwest leans creamy and comforting with mashed potatoes, and the Northeast skews more vegetable-forward,” Milliner said. “It’s the same holiday tradition expressed in different local ‘languages.’”