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> the other western states But the midwest is not the western states...?

• shadowofneptune 3y ago
  Read what I said again. People went from east and mideast to west by ship, and SF is the best port.
• cwalv 3y ago
  It's not. Not sure what the official boundary is (if there even is one), but Midwest is far east of Western. It would better be called 'Norcentral' these days, but the name is probably left over from times when St Louis was considered western