I giggled at the bulk of this, but actually laughed out loud when I got to “cold Midwest”.
As a midwesterner, we’re happy to share the term. We like to include people. And to feed people. And to make sure they have a place to stay tonight that isn’t too far away to drive safely, there’s a pull out couch, I can put a fresh sheet on it, it’s no trouble.
Canada is just Northern Midwest
“cold Midwest” is fuckin true about Alaska, though
I told a guy once I was from the Midwest and he was like oh cool me too! I asked him where he was from and he said Texas.
Thats a weird one because Texans get oissed when you say they are Southern. Seems like a California transplant because to them there is west coast, New York, and everything in between is the Midwest
Can the Midwest have a Midwest?
Yeah, it’s Missouri.
This has legitimately always pissed me off. The mid(dle) west is not in the eastern portion of the country. The first thing I’d do as supreme leader of the united furry states of america is put everyone that says things like “Ohio is in the midwest” onto a boat headed to the Bermuda Triangle. Then sink it when it approaches, just to be sure.
I’ve heard arguments “but in 1612 we didn’t know that if we kept walking we would find more land” or “the population density is what matters”. You know what I say? On the boat.
I remember being very confused about Ohio being part of the Midwest when I was learning geography in school. It’s literally one state away from the east coast.
Of course, the concept of “Midwest” as a whole is pretty confusing. I get that it’s meant to be about halfway to the western part of the US, since we started on the east coast, but it’s a bit of an antiquated term at this point.
If anything, we should call it the Middle-North or Midnorth for short, since that’s a more objective description of it’s placement in the country, without the old east-coast-centric viewpoint featured in “Midwest.”
“Great Lakes” is a regional name, but it isn’t used all that much since it’s sometimes too narrow.