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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_States - The Background section has the explanation. I'v
by 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 agoWild. Learned something.
- fuzzfactor 4y agoFor a while there, the Mississippi river was the western extent of the USA. In places like Ohio, you were midway there.