Where Dat

[Griff]

Originally Posted by Carruthers

As an outsider looking in, one glaring omission is that of the Midwest.

I've never really known where it is and have been content to think of it as an amorphous 'bit in the middle'.

Having done a search or two I find that the Midwest stretches from Nebraska as far east as Ohio!

Really?

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Originally Posted by Clodfobble

The Midwest is defined by what it's not. If you're not on the east coast, or part of The South, or New England, or within sight of the Rockies... then you're in the Midwest.

The little gunslinger pistols in Texas are amusing. Nobody else got clipart.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I always figured the mid-west was the non-mountainous part from the Appalachians to the Rockies, but it probably would be defined a hundred ways by a hundred people.

But I wonder if these constantly thrown about "regions" are actually defined or just what they mean to a particular person. I guess it really doesn't matter until you try to define the border at overlapping edges.

Originally Posted by lumberjim

if you say 'pop' instead of soda, you're in the midwest

Tornadoes, tornadoes tell you what's midwest. I like the highlands designation, sounds kinder than hillbilly country.

[lumberjim]

Originally Posted by Griff

Tornadoes, tornadoes tell you what's midwest. I like the highlands designation, sounds kinder than hillbilly country.

and remember, if you see a tornado:


Point, yell 'tornado!' and run like hell.