FalconKing wrote:Mid-west is actually a term coined over two hundred years ago and was very applicable then. When the border of our country was the Mississippi, this was in fact the mid-west. As we spread westward, the term of mid-west went with it, but for some it was retained in the previously applicable states.
Thanks, I knew that. These sound awful - North Central States and the West North Central States - so I'll stick with advocating either Mideast (although that does refer to a particular part of the globe already) or Great Lakes (why should Ohio be grouped with the likes of the Dakota's and Kansas anyway?).
I too knew the historical reasons behind it, but times change. I think we as Americans get a little put off when the British refer to the US as the "Colonies".
Great Lakes would probably be the best fit.
After living in Ohio for a number of years, it is not midwest. Maybe in Amish country, but the state as a whole is more urban, except around BG. Fostoria is more urban than midwest.
Having grown up in what I consider to be the real midwest as I would consider it (Missouri), Ohio was much different.
'Midwest' originated on the east coast and New England and is centric to their perspective. To them, anything between Philadelphia and the Rocky Mountains is the midwest. Most of them, I imagine, aren't concerned about Ohio v. Oklahoma, Great Lakes v. cornfields....the midwest is one big amorphous blob to them.
I was saying all of Ohio isn't urban, in fact alot of Ohio isn't.(try driving east to west in Southern Ohio. Or try it in Northern Ohio.) Ohio is in the middle of the country. West of the Appalachians, and east of the Rockies. Middle America. (As for Kansas and Missouri, I thought they were Plains states, not midwest.)
MiamiBando wrote:I was saying all of Ohio isn't urban, in fact alot of Ohio isn't.(try driving east to west in Southern Ohio. Or try it in Northern Ohio.) Ohio is in the middle of the country. West of the Appalachians, and east of the Rockies. Middle America. (As for Kansas and Missouri, I thought they were Plains states, not midwest.)
That is a very big, and quite arbitrarily drawn, middle.
