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how the hell is Ohio midwest?

• selectodude 4y ago
  West of the applachians, east of the rockies. Midwest.
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  • goatlover 4y ago
    I always thought west of the Mississippi was Midwest.
    • trillic 4y ago
      (Rockies, Mississippi River) == Great Plains States?
• AnimalMuppet 4y ago
  If you look at a map, it's clearly not. Not "mid", which would be from Chicago to Denver, and even more not "west", which would be west of Denver. But "midwest" is a term for a region, and terms last longer than the reason for the term. When the term was coined, the US essentially ended at Chicago, and Ohio was midwest. Hmm. I must be in a mellow mood today. I've made the exact same complaint you did when others said Pittsburgh was "midwest".
• SapporoChris 4y ago
  Standard cultural conventions of the locals I suppose. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States
• jplona 4y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States - The Background section has the explanation. I've always understood it as a sort of historical anchoring bias. Compared to the areas that were settled during colonial times, Ohio was indeed "West" in people's minds, just less so than the Pacific coast.
  • ikiris 4y ago
    Wild. Learned something.
    • fuzzfactor 4y ago
      For a while there, the Mississippi river was the western extent of the USA. In places like Ohio, you were midway there.
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