Fun fact. John Denver was writing about West-Virginia as in the western part of Virginia.
Less fun fact, explaining this to people is one of the reasons I will die on the hill that Cardinal directions shouldn’t be part of a proper noun like a state name. Looking at you too Dakotas…
That’s why I call them Top and Bottom Dakotas.
Even more fun fact he was writing about a road he was driving on in Maryland.
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 There’s zero reason in this day and age to refer to a region by an outdated, historical term that has no basis in reality, especially when that term is absolutely harmful to understanding.
Thank you for listening to my TED Talk.
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.
Then why didn’'t he say “western” Virginia? That would have even worked.
Instead he wrote it in a way that 10000% guaranteed that people thought he meant the State.
North South Dakota, Mountain Mama just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Thay would be on hell of a party trick for sure.
West Vagina?
In my mama
C’mon, y’all all were singing it too
