THE BIG TEN, SIX, OR WHATEVER: FiveThirtyEight polls Midwesterners to try to determine which states are in the Midwest.
In related linkage, via Marsha: a neat five-minute video on the US-Canada border and its many quirks, always a favorite around here.
Seriously, who are the 19% who think Illinois, the capital of the Midwest, is not part of the Midwest? It's the freaking center of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana and Michigan, the rest of the Midwest.*
ReplyDelete*Missouri is the one I pause on. But overall, I think it's South.
My criteria is the midwest touches the Mississippi river but isn't too far south: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois, Missouri.
ReplyDeleteI've grown up and lived in Kansas, Oklahoma and Missouri (and interned in Illinois). I always thought the Midwest was more of what others would call the Great Plains and felt that Ohio/Indiana/Illinois/Michigan were more the "Great Lakes region." But Midwest is very hard to define. The only boundary for absolute certain is the Mountain time zone and the Mississippi/Ohio Rivers, as best as I can tell.
ReplyDeleteDoes it have to be a whole state? I have long believed that Pittsburgh is in the Midwest.
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