“Midwest” was coined by people who had no idea how far west the country really went. Almost all of the midwest is in the eastern half of the US.
Yep, Colorado is probably as geographically mid-west as it gets and you’d get resistance from almost anyone living there if you insinuated they were Midwestern.
Iowa, at least, should be green
Having lived in Iowa for over a decade, yall wanna be from the south.
I posted this in another thread about a month ago, about why the official Midwest was composed of a bunch of eastern-leaning states:
[…] Our country was originally established on the east coast. Anything off the coastline was considered “west.” But knowing just how massive our country is now, we have the true west (left half of the country) and then the mid-west (anything not on the east coast, but not on the left half of the country).
Our basis for cardinal locations is centered around the concept of our nation slowly expanding “out west” from the east coast.
‘West’ gives a pretty clear indication of left vs right, which leaves ‘mid’ to the Y axis.
That would mean Midwest is… Oregon. Just Oregon. Idk what all this nonsense about places like Wisconsin is - that’s clearly the midnorth.
Ohio is pretty mid tbh
Utah, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming and Colorado
The region called mid west is in the mid east, time to fix it /j
We already fixed a similar problem, about going east: half-way to the far-east is the middle-east
You first past the mid west, followed by the midder west until you finally reach the middest west.
Or, and it’d put my money on this one: we from now on call the US west coast is the westest west, because in that case you can say the mid west is actually the near east, before you have the quarter east, the middle east and the far east, until you get to Japan and you’re in the eastest east. Only problem would be New Zealand and Hawaii, but sure we can find a name for them too :))
IMHO a midwestern state is north of the Ohio River, west of the Appalachians, and either has a border that’s the Mississippi or is east of it
Every time I hear the word, I remember seeing a large, barn-like girl on a Nickelodeon gameshow shout, “YO, I’M FROM DA MIDWEST AND I CAN HANDLE ANYTHIN!” to loud applause.
I’m pretty sure about Midwest Virginia being in the Midwest.
it’s a actually an abbreviation for “middle of nowhere, west of new york”
Oklahoma, Nebraska, Missouri, and Kansas. Those are the member states of the Midwest chapter of the ISA.
International States of America?
International Society of Arboriculture.
Any state which doesn’t have ocean coast or the title of Colorado is pretty mid as far as I’m concerned.
