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It stops at Montana. Anything west of the Dakotas, Nebraska, or Kansas is either the “West”, “Mountain West”, or “Southwest”.
by bart_spoon 5y ago
It stops at Montana. Anything west of the Dakotas, Nebraska, or Kansas is either the “West”, “Mountain West”, or “Southwest”.
- AnimalMuppet 5y agoThere are two "lines". One is the hundredth meridian. It's important because west of there, there's much less rain. (The hundredth meridian lines up pretty closely with the western edge of the Gulf of Mexico, meaning that moist air from there doesn't lead to rain west of that line.) Also, west of (approximately) there, the elevation rises to above 2000 feet. Agriculture is much more limited by water west of this line. The other line is the mountains. Draw it through Denver. West of that line, you are definitely in "the West". It's the western third of the country. Between Denver and the hundredth meridian? Maybe call it the "Great Plains".