What do you consider the "midwest"? (in the US)

[acheron]

People seem to have different definitions of where the "midwest" is. Which of these states do you consider as midwestern?

 

[rcpratt]

 

[jonks]

missouriish

 

[Jadow]

missing WI and MN

 

[rcpratt]

Uh, yeah, fail.

 

[acheron]

missouriish

exactly my opinion, but then you get people like rcpratt who say Ohio and Michigan and so on.

 

[acheron]

missing WI and MN

Only allowed 10 options. Also missing Dakotas. Tried to get a line through the middle of the country, so the northern states got left out.

 

[rcpratt]

exactly my opinion, but then you get people like rcpratt who say Ohio and Michigan and so on.

I don't know how you could possibly not.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Personally, East of Colorado/Wyoming, West of Pennsylvania, North of the Mason Dixon line...+ Missouri.

 

[Jadow]

UTAH, Wyoming, CO, definitely not midwest

 

[Gooberlx2]

Poll is missing Wisconsin, Minnesota, Dakotas and Michigan.

 

[Jadow]

The Midwest = all states with an original Big 10 School. Penn State and Nebraska don't count.

 

[Malak]

That would be the middle east. But the media assumes America ends at Texas and California is an island. That's why the news goes crazy about a few inches of snow while the west side gets record snowfall and is ignored.

 

[BoomerD]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States

"The Midwestern United States (in the U.S. generally referred to as the Midwest) is one of the four geographic regions within the United States of America used by the United States Census Bureau in its reporting.

The region consists of 12 states in the north-central United States: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin.[1] A 2006 Census Bureau estimate put the population at 66,217,736. Both the geographic center of the contiguous U.S. and the population center of the U.S. are in the Midwest. The United States Census Bureau divides this region into the East North Central States (essentially the Great Lakes States) and the West North Central States."

 

[zoiks]

Most are flyover states except for a couple.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Sweet! I was totally right. :awe:

 

[Macamus Prime]

Anything with a drawl.

 

[lxskllr]

Western Ohio.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Anything with a drawl.

That's stupid. You consider Florida, Alabama, Georgia, etc... Midwest?

 

[ViviTheMage]

Anything with a drawl.

The south has a drawl, not the north.

 

[yh125d]

KS NE and the dakotas are not midwest. They are plains states, like oklahoma. Which is not southwestern like some say

 

[Macamus Prime]

Southern parts of NJ have a drawl as well.

 

[Gooberlx2]

KS NE and the dakotas are not midwest. They are plains states, like oklahoma. Which is not southwestern like some say

So then why would Iowa or Missouri be Midwest? I feel "Plains States" simply refers to the farmland moniker, and not so much the geographic region. Just as the "Mountain States" are part of the "West".

Examples of other regional monikers:
Fly-over States
Heartland
Bible Belt

 

[Malak]

KS NE and the dakotas are not midwest. They are plains states, like oklahoma. Which is not southwestern like some say

Midwest is a location, not a description. Plains is a description, not a location. They are not mutually exclusive. You have the reasoning of a walrus.

 

[Dr. Zaus]

There are only five states, in rank quality order: Texas, Eastern sea board, Left coast, Chicago and the middle of nowhere.