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Western Iowa gets awfully Great Plains-ish. I could see someone living there answering "no" to the survey.
Actually the lowest value on the map for the discrepancy to the definition.
I would call ND SD KS NE "Great Plains."
Idaho? Really?
Great Plains and Midwest are almost synonymous.
As a Wisconsinite, I've always been confused why it's considered "midwest". Wisconsin is in the eastern half of the US, and at the very top. Should be called the "midnorth"
As a born and bred Seattleite, I consider Wisconsin east coast. I also consider Montana east coast. Idaho? Not Midwest. East coast. Spokane? East. Hawaii? So far west it's east. Everything is east.
Imagine living in Arkansas and trying to claim you are a Midwesterner with a straight face.
Can someone explain to a european why this huge chunk of the eastern half of the country is called "midwest"?
Manifest destiny / westward expansion
As someone who moved here from New England let me explain.
- Cheese curds
- Dontcha know?
- Discount Canada
That's the midwest.
Man, I WISH we had good cheese curds in Ohio.
Lol The Ohio
I’d be curious about Texas. I hear it labeled as South, Southwest and then just Texas
Coastal part is The South. Inland, you get Southwest. Then there's the panhandle, and while I don't know much about what the locals think of it, from the driver's seat of a semi it's indistinguishable from the flatter parts of Oklahoma. (Meanwhile, one of my favorite truck stops is in the hilly part of Oklahoma: the Chocktaw travel center in Stringtown.)
SW = texmex so def SW
How is Ohio officially midwest 🙄
!cartographyanarchy@lemm.ee