[Sigia-l] is midwest, is not midwest

[Louise]

David,

I designate New England as any place where they say 'soder' for pop.
When I was in undergrad school in VT (lo, these many years) I used to
have arguments with New Englanders who claimed that Illinois was not the
midwest. They said that Colorado was the midwest. As far as they were
concerned, New England was New England, and everything east of the
Mississippi was east. (I can't remember where south started.) Also, I
think New York was in a special category of its own.

Geography, like everything else, apparently resides in personal mental
schemas.

Native Chicagoan (that means I'm immured to weather conditions from
Georgia to South Dakota),

Louise Gruenberg

"Heller, David" wrote:

>
>
> 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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