[Sigia-l] is midwest, is not midwest

[Heller, David]

If we want to get real chauvanistic here about these designations, most
native New Yorkers (I mean the real ones from the city), probably consider
New Jersey to be the Midwest ... Everything is relative.

But the term Midwest goes back to describe those states as a block that were
brought into the US as a large territory around the same time period. It
actually isn't meant to include anything west of the Mississippi.

But over time Midwest was assosciated to heartland so the early part of this
century states like Ohio and Nebraska were equally agricultural. However
over time, states like Ohio developed interesting metropolitan centers and
relied more on industry than agriculture, while other states remained
predominantly agricultural.

I designat the midwest as anyplace they say pop for soda. ;-)

-- dave

-----Original Message-----
From: Elizabeth Fuller [mailto:ZilF at leapinliz.com] 
Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:00 PM
To: sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] is midwest, is not midwest


molly wright steenson wrote:
> 
> ohio: midwest.

Although I know that's how Ohio thinks of itself, I'm originally from
Minnesota (definitely midwest) and have never understood how people as far
east of the Mississippi as Ohio could possibly consider themselves part of
anything with "west" in its name.  Perhaps during the early 19th century,
when Ohio was really still the western frontier of the country...but not
today.  (I do realize I'm in the minority on this, however, so you don't
have to tell me how many people disagree with me.)

Liz Fuller
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