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I live in Kansas and we call ourselves Midwesterners. I get really confused when Ohio calls themselves Midwest, being 6 hours drive from Manhattan does not stri
by wincy 7y ago
I live in Kansas and we call ourselves Midwesterners. I get really confused when Ohio calls themselves Midwest, being 6 hours drive from Manhattan does not strike me as "the middle of the west".
We think of Utah or Colorado as being "The West". I guess like you say, it's all relative.
- rhino369 7y agoMidwest was defined when the country didn't stretch to the west coast yet/ Midwesterner's east of the Mississippi tend to consider Kansas and the Dakota's "Great Plains" states and not Midwest.
- samatman 7y agoAs far as I can determine, there isn't a single state in the Union that's considered the Midwest by everyone in the country. As I mentioned, Kansas is in the West if you're in Michigan, which definitely considers itself Midwestern. But if you're a Southerner, Michigan is in the North. The North doesn't even exist, outside of the former Confederacy, where it refers to states which were in the Union during the Civil War. So "the North" is a pure exonym.