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All interesting observations, indeed.
I was born in FL and then we moved to GA. I didn't see much in the way of antique televisions or radios down there, but boatloads in the Northeast where I now have lived since the early 1970s.
It's not to say that I didn't see the occasional relic in the Southeast, but not nearly as often as here.
Columbus, GA back in the '60s had two television stations--WRBL, CH 3 as a CBS affiliate, and WTVM CH 9 as ABC affiliate that also broadcast some NBC programming for a while. There was a spell where we had no NBC coverage, then in the early '70s WYEA CH 38 came along. We did have an NET network station WJSP CH28 that came in with a snowy picture from Warm Springs. But obviously TV had not greatly developed in that area, and there weren't many relic TVs in any attic.
I think that in New England there is a combination of the long-term population density, coupled with the nature of the old-time Yankee to be reluctant to toss away something that might later be repaired and put back into use, that makes antique radios and TVs so plentiful here.
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