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Net Favorability of U.S. States (media.piefed.world)
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[–] 2 points 1 year ago (12 children)

If you can grow wheat there, it's the prairie. Therefore the Midwest. Just how the eastern parts of Colorado are the furthest west parts of the mid west. Unless you want to exclude the prairie states entirely from the mid west, which i wouldn't do.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (7 children)

    That has never been the definition of the Midwest. If you want to go by the census definition, you are wrong.

    If you approach if from a cultural or demographic standpoint, you are still wrong.

    I would argue that the Midwest ends at the banks of the Mississippi river and maybe carries halfway into the western states. Past that it is a whole nother place.

    Montana is mountain west or west. Always has been.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    Is West what the census calls it, too?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Hmm, Texas and Oklahoma in the South also feels funny.

    Well, those are descriptive of the geography, I'll give them that.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    I'll honestly agree with that. Oklahoma's northern borders literally exist because of the north south break from the civil war.

    And... Well Texas is Texas and does Texas things. Can't explain it.

    If you look at population centers and distribution, and extrapolate past those to the full state line, it does make more sense. The more west you go, the more empty it gets. Most of Texas, people wise, is south and east in the state. Oklahoma is just a vestigial burial ground for our past sins. Gotta put it somewhere.

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  • [–] 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    How many people do you know from the great plains states?

    I have family from Kansas and Colorado, who worked the wheat harvests going from north Texas through to the Dakotas and eastern Montana. Eastern Colorado and western Kansas are not very different at all. I don't see why you would want to say a cultural definition is incorrect when it's people's self identity.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    "How many people do you know from the great plains states?"

    All of them. It's where I live. It's where I have lived the majority of my life. But I'm also well traveled and can assure you, there are cultural differences between the regions you are conflating.

    Once again, you are wrong. Thank you.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    ¯\_ (ツ)_/¯ Take it up with the U.S. Census Bureau. It's their definition, not mine.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    The census bureau did not invent the term, nor are they in charge of it.

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