I will die on the hill that “the midwest USA” means Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. rather than fucking Illinois. Nobody knows the internal or historical politics of another country. When you refer to Midwest on the Internet, people from other countries automatically assume it’s an actual direction. There’s zero reason in this day and age to refer to a region by an outdated, historical term that has no basis in reality, especially when that term is absolutely harmful to understanding.
Midwest is more like north Central, it stretches from Ohio in the east to the states in line with Nebraska on the west side and from Missouri on the southern end up to the Canadian border.
I will die on the hill that “the midwest USA” means Colorado, Utah, Wyoming, etc. rather than fucking Illinois. Nobody knows the internal or historical politics of another country. When you refer to Midwest on the Internet, people from other countries automatically assume it’s an actual direction. There’s zero reason in this day and age to refer to a region by an outdated, historical term that has no basis in reality, especially when that term is absolutely harmful to understanding.
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Hang on, where is the… er, theoretical Midwest if it’s not in the west…?
Midwest is more like north Central, it stretches from Ohio in the east to the states in line with Nebraska on the west side and from Missouri on the southern end up to the Canadian border.
I’m with you, and Ohio and whatever other states are near it (I don’t know because I don’t care about them) are the Mideast.