[Sigia-l] more on mixing apples, oranges, tomatoes, Cleveland , Kansas City... (was IA practice maturation)

Fri Apr 19 10:31:38 EDT 2002

Well I find it interesting that in the link provided, Iowa and Minnesota
are listed under both Midwest and Great Plains. So does that mean we've
just come back to our original question: do you put tomato under fruit or
vegetable? ;)

Deb
who is a Wisconsin native who identifies as a Midwesterner, but feels more
aligned to the sub-region "Great Lakes States" due to the fact she grew up
spending a lot of time on the lakes.
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Deb Reiser
User Interface Designer / NuEdge Systems
262.446.6214

                    Steve.Mulder at corp.terr                                                                                   
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                    04/19/2002 09:16 AM                                                                                      

I lived in Michigan for a few years and have lots of family there, and can
attest that to them, Michigan is squarely in the Midwest.

This is an interesting organization/labeling question, of course. My take
is pretty similar to that of the Open Directory:
http://dmoz.org/Regional/North_America/United_States/Regions/Midwest/

steve

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                    04:50 PM

The good Peter wrote:

> Actually, as a resident of the Midwest, I can comfortably say...

Okay, that makes two of you.  After Lou's last post, I emailed him off list
to hear more about when Ann Arbor started being in the Midwest.  Having
grown up in Michigan, I always lumped it into a geographic category with
other Great Lakes states like Ohio and Pennsylvania, not quite Northeast
(Boston) but not Midwest (Omaha), either.  Afterall, Detroit is closer to
Buffalo than it is even to Chicago.   I'm sure that to many folks on the
list, the Midwest is anything between Philadelphia and Las Vegas, but to me
your locating Michigan in the Midwest is another interesting example of how
categories of place can differ even within a relatively similar user group.
Or maybe I'm just weird....   Lou claims he's never heard otherwise.  Does
everyone else think that Michigan is in the Midwest?

-john zapolski

p.s.  Speaking of geography, and since the chicken is our new mascot
(http://www.boxesandarrows.com/archives/SummitAlbums/Chicken/index.htm), I
propose that the Official Headquarters of Information Architecture is
located in Delaware, a state that has more chickens than people.
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