If you want to suggest your own version of the Midwest, preface your claims that you are straying from ordinary/conventional usage. If you don't know what the M

If you want to suggest your own version of the Midwest, preface your claims that you are straying from ordinary/conventional usage. If you don't know what the Midwest is, allow me to inform you. Chicago is the center of the Midwest, geographically and culturally. Always has been. Draw a big circle around Chicago, and that's roughly your Midwest states. Another good proxy for the Midwest is to look at the original members of the Big 10 athletic conference. Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota are the Midwestern states. Maybe some of Nebraska and the edge of Kansas and Missouri, but that's as far as it goes.