south dakota is just like nebraska but about four hundred degrees colder in the winter
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
also, btw, you know that trope about the midwestern/alaskan "connection"? like, that got thrown around a bit during the elections w/r/t palin's accent and support, etc.?
they were not talking about illinois, indiana, ohio, or pennsylvania.
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:50 (fourteen years ago) link
MIDWEST ="rust belt"IN, MI, OH, PA"north central"IL, IA, MN, WI"prairie"KS, NE, ND, SD
"rust belt"IN, MI, OH, PA
"north central"IL, IA, MN, WI
"prairie"KS, NE, ND, SD
this sounds about right, with the "rust belt" provisos posted above.
― get killed walkin your DOGGIE (get bent), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
mookie otm!
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yes cosign
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:52 (fourteen years ago) link
btw for those of you that are defining the midwest as vast expanses of agri flatland, you should prob tweak that definition a little bit, given northern mn, western SD, and pretty much most of WI.
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:53 (fourteen years ago) link
No it's okay! I mean obv I'm totally clueless about the Dakotas. And I really can't recall why I thought they had mountains. I'm trying to think of a book or a toy or a map or something but no good.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
mount rushmore?
― brownie, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
insidious north dakota tourism propaganda
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
My MidwestND SD NE KS MN IA MO WI IL MI IN OH
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:54 (fourteen years ago) link
I love how emotional people are getting about this!
― existential eggs (Abbott), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
I've driven across Nebraska on the way to Colorado, but no further north than that.
― I would feel confident if I dated her because I am older than (Laurel), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
― Don Quishote (jjjusten), Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:53 AM (24 seconds ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
yeah, see, i tend to think of Midwestern as more of a cultural thing, which is why western sodak and s missouri and parts of the rust belt and like all of KY doesn't ring right to me
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
what is oklahoma, btw? just north texas?
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
ND SD NE KS MN IA MO WI IL MI IN OH
― Mr. Que, Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:54 AM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
this is otm
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:56 (fourteen years ago) link
OK=Texas's trucker hat
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
wisconsin is such an attractive state
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
it's an area of the map, not whether a place has the characteristic of midwesternness. imo.
― harbl, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:57 (fourteen years ago) link
some parts of the rust belt, like pittsburgh and buffalo, are not in it. and some parts that are not flat are in it.
― harbl, Thursday, 22 October 2009 15:59 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, you are correct, not a single part of penn or fucking NY is in the midwest, who on earth would even suggest that
also i can categorically say that there are no mountains in the midwest
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:00 (fourteen years ago) link
our state boundaries were drawn by slavers and plutocrats and paid for in blood anyway, fwiw
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:01 (fourteen years ago) link
^^ i mean, just the midwest's
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
u_u
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:02 (fourteen years ago) link
waht is the mesabi range a range of
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:03 (fourteen years ago) link
holes, now
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:05 (fourteen years ago) link
tru
― mookieproof, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:06 (fourteen years ago) link
I really do think being a Chicagoan has a great deal to do with my conception of the Midwest. In some ways, the states that I consider "Midwestern" are ones that don't feel that far away, and that I've been to more than a couple of times. So Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and (obviously) Illinois all fit -- and as I said earlier, I'd be willing to accept Missouri, too (especially since St. Louis is only 4.5 hours away, and I've visited there no fewer than four times).
Whereas the Dakotas and Nebraska and Kansas just feel instinctively wrong to me -- but maybe that's because I've never been to North Dakota or Kansas, and have only been to South Dakota and Nebraska on a big family road-trip vacation to Yellowstone and back when I was nine years old.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:07 (fourteen years ago) link
Oh wait, my band played a show in Omaha once. But still, that's like 7 or 8 hours away.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:09 (fourteen years ago) link
Like Iowa, Kansas is quintessentially Midwest to me. We're not in Kansas anymore etc etc.
― hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:12 (fourteen years ago) link
a graphical delineation needs to be made for the boundaries of 1) the cultural midwest 2) the environmental midwest and 3) the political/economic midwest. then, using GIS spatial analyst tools, the boundaries of these three concurrent regions can be extrapolated and a generalized midwestern boundary that accounts for all geographic aspects of the region can be decided upon. and it won't include kentucky
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:13 (fourteen years ago) link
Kansas is Middle America to me, but not Midwest.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:15 (fourteen years ago) link
oh brother
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
or pennsylvania
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:16 (fourteen years ago) link
have you met a person from kansas?? if you ask them the question:
"are you from the midwest?" they will answer YES
― how rad bandit (gbx), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:17 (fourteen years ago) link
yes^^^ same with Nebraska
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:19 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean i realize we all love to have our own personal definitions of the Midwest, and that's fine, too
if you wanna be rong
jaymc where does "Middle America" end and the Midwest begin?
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
at the edges of a John Cougar Mellencamp video
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
Missouri is 100% midwest, no contest― Mr. Que, Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:48 AM (26 minutes ago)
― Mr. Que, Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:48 AM (26 minutes ago)
y'all ever been to Springfield? (3rd largest city in MO)
cuz i have and it is way more Southern than Midwestern.
Quick wiki browse: Sits in the Ozarks, Confederate stronghold from 1861-1865, site of the first recorded shoot-out, birthplace/terminus of "SOUTHERN" intercontinental Route 66, etc.
― ♪♫(●̲̲̅̅̅̅=̲̲̅̅̅̅●̲̅̅)♪♫ (Steve Shasta), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:23 (fourteen years ago) link
iiiijjjj, you been to Springfield right?
The Midwest is part of Middle America.
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:24 (fourteen years ago) link
i dunno there's burbs up here that are pretty "southern" imo
― cialis morissette (goole), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
Isn't the Midwest meant to be neutral, "accentless", Mom's Apple Pie America? If so, no way the Dakotas are in it, that's witch country.
― Gravel Puzzleworth, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
lol
― M. Grissom/DeShields (jaymc), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:25 (fourteen years ago) link
just because MO has a "southern" city doesn't mean it is not, as a whole, "midwestern" imo
― dr. johnson (askance johnson), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
yep, I canvassed for Obama there and I would say that based on the lay of the land, including plenty of creeks and hollows, the per-capita frequency of churches and Waffle Houses, not to mention the physical size of the numerous churches, that it felt distinctly more southern than midwestern to me at least. all this could be said about Branson and the Ozarks in general too. also, I drove past Roy Blunt on I-44.
― iiiijjjj, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
accentless lol
― harbl, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:29 (fourteen years ago) link
i have been to Springfield twice. seemed Midwestern to me.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link
PARRk THE CARRR
― Fox Force Five Punchline (sexyDancer), Thursday, 22 October 2009 16:30 (fourteen years ago) link