Where is ‘the Midwest’?
Where is ‘the Midwest’?
Contentious issue I know, but recently I’ve encountered a number of people who believe that Ohio (and sometimes Indiana and Michigan) is not truly part of the Midwest. Which to me is preposterous since I’ve always considered Ohio the most quintessentially Midwestern state. Midwest to me has always been very nearly synonymous with rust belt, but it seems there are a fair number of people who place the Midwest more in what I’d call the Great Plains, or Greater Minnesota. So I’m wondering where do you all place the Midwest.
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Western Pennsylvania is a special economic zonespecial economic zone
Ohio's illegal occupation of Western Pennsylvania cannot be allowed to stand, regardless of the fact that there are ethnic Midwesterners who live in the disputed region, and Ohio's claims that they are protecting this oppressed minority
The big "T"
That nickname is reserved for the exclusive economic use of Mr. T should he decide to
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That's the mid-north, not the mid-west...
It was named that in the 1800s, before all the actual western states joined the country