Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Iowa, Some of Nebraska/Kansas/Missouri. No one else. Dont @ me with your weird ass N and S Dakota takes.
The Old Nothwest became known as the Midwest as the US expanded further westward. The heart of the Midwest is therefore Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This is objective fact.
Iowa gets in on a corn and casserole-based technicality, but the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are wheat-growing plains states. Missouri is the south.
Finally someone that gets it.
Thank you! How is this even up for debate?
Everything to the east of the western mountains and west of the eastern mountains. The great plains = midwest. all of it.
Anywhere that black pepper is considered too spicy by the majority of the population
source: i live here
I would like to formally recognize Tornado Alley and The Rust Belt as regions that overlap the Midwest somewhat. I think this might partially be where the confusion over places like Pittsburgh and Kansas are coming from.
France.
What is the “midwest”?
any state i mistake for ohio when looking at a map of the US is part of the midwest
It’s like the west, but overrated.
The “Mid” West
Ontologically, the Mid West is the polar opposite of the Middle East.
No further questions.
I’m not American but even I know that the midwest is The Real America™.
When I was going to highschool in New Hampshire my girlfriend said that New York counted as part of New England and i flipped the fuck out lmao.
Real response to get some shit started:
Core Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa
Upper Midwest: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin
Outer Midwest: ND, SD, Nebraska (parts at least)
I will never recognize: Missouri
Everything else below Nebraska is “Plains” IMO.
South of the Ohio River is upper south.
Western PA and Pittsburgh can be “Midwest” if it wants, but the rest of PA isn’t and the majority of the state doesn’t qualify, so we’d have to balkanize.
Ohio’s often an is or isn’t it inclusion in the Midwest for good reason. We’re kinda split between Appalachia, the Great Lakes/Northeast, the Midwest, and the South. And, with all that the Midwest is probably the dominant bit by landmass, but one of the weaker areas by population.
(Also an original mostly-lurker hexbearite, and probably primarily responsible for midwest.social starting to see our communities. 👋)
one of the weaker areas by population.
aka the midwest
Agreed Missouri doesn’t count, (former) slave states can’t be midwest
Does John Brown’s Kansas territory get to be in the Midwest club?
Yes on a technicality
My thoughts, which is 100% right:
Wisconsin illinois minnesota iowa indiananaana michigan
Mostly plains, spotted with forests and lakes. If it were a magic deck it would be every color, but red.
Good lakes.
