So I guess the US doesn't know how NESW works as well as understandable measurements...
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How is Ohio officially midwest π
I want to meet the 9% of people in Pennsylvania that think they're in the Midwest.
I mean if you live on the border with Ohio, you are basically in the Midwest culturally.
I don't.
They're probably somewhere near the midwest of the state...
Can someone explain to a european why this huge chunk of the eastern half of the country is called "midwest"?
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.
Manifest destiny / westward expansion
It makes more sense when you consider that for most of US history the country was significantly smaller than it is now. Originally the country pretty much just consisted of the East Coast - and France, England, and Spain still had large chunks of territory within the US's current borders.
Much of what's now considered the west wasn't captured from Spain/Mexico until much later. So basically just look at it from the perspective of the East Coast where the US originated. To them at that time what we consider the Midwest now would have just been the west. And the terms changed with the westward expansion.
Lol The Ohio
How does Ohio barely beat Oklahoma?
What even is Oklahoma? Other than a failed petrostate
It's at an unholy cultural crossroads. Can't decide if it's Midwestern, Southern, Southwestern, or Texan.
The weeeeed capital of America babbbbbyyyy
Thatβs Vermont, itβs Appalachia for hippies
Imagine living in Arkansas and trying to claim you are a Midwesterner with a straight face.
okay but i live on like the very edge, so⦠pseudo-midwest?
I can get on a bike and ride to Oklahoma or Missouri from my house, but I can't fathom saying "you guys."
Imagine doing so in Idaho! Like thatβs almost all the way west
Conservatives in charge of education in Idaho got mfrs identifying as Midwesterners. πͺπ
I'm a product of the Idaho education system, and it's not great. Luckily got a start in Washington, so it didn't ruin me completely. But that result does not surprise me at all.
Iβd 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
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