Contentious issue I know, but recently I’ve encountered a number of people who believe that Ohio (and sometimes Indiana and Michigan) is not truly part of the Midwest. Which to me is preposterous since I’ve always considered Ohio the most quintessentially Midwestern state. Midwest to me has always been very nearly synonymous with rust belt, but it seems there are a fair number of people who place the Midwest more in what I’d call the Great Plains, or Greater Minnesota. So I’m wondering where do you all place the Midwest.
I’ve met people from Oklahoma who were mortified to learn the rest of the country considers them part of the South and not the Midwest
I don't consider Oklahoma at all.
They will be happy to know I don’t consider them the Midwest
They did say “ope” and “soda” so there’s an argument there
Your definitions seem inconsistent here with the commenters...
Pop-users are midwestern revisionists
They're Texas leftovers and Texas is very much south.
East Texas is south. West Texas is west.
oklahoma has its own kind of barbecue, it's indubitably southern
Death to America
I don't consider oklahoma.