• ChestRockwell [comrade/them, any]
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    1 year ago

    Real response to get some shit started:

    Core Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa

    Upper Midwest: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin

    Outer Midwest: ND, SD, Nebraska (parts at least)

    I will never recognize: Missouri

    Everything else below Nebraska is "Plains" IMO.

    South of the Ohio River is upper south.

    Western PA and Pittsburgh can be "Midwest" if it wants, but the rest of PA isn't and the majority of the state doesn't qualify, so we'd have to balkanize.

    • CabbageRelish@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      Ohio’s often an is or isn’t it inclusion in the Midwest for good reason. We’re kinda split between Appalachia, the Great Lakes/Northeast, the Midwest, and the South. And, with all that the Midwest is probably the dominant bit by landmass, but one of the weaker areas by population.

      (Also an original mostly-lurker hexbearite, and probably primarily responsible for midwest.social starting to see our communities. 👋)

    • WhyIsItReal [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      how can iowa be part of the core, but not wisconsin or michigan??

      the core midwest are the great lakes states: wisconsin, michigan, illinois, minnesota. i’ll typically put indiana in there too

      then, there’s the peripheral midwest, which i typically consider part of the midwest: iowa, ohio, nd, sd

      finally, there’s the not-really-midwest: nebraska, western PA

        • WhyIsItReal [he/him]
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          1 year ago

          that’s fair - i’d be comfortable moving iowa into the core. i left it on the periphery because western iowa is very much great plains-esque

          regardless, if iowa is in the core, then so is wisconsin and michigan