Midwestern Cities

[Avengerfire]

Originally Posted by stlsmoore

To call STL strickly southern is rather silly, it borders on Ill. and is higher up on the map than the lowest point of Ill. I've never heard anyone call St. Louis a southern city but I've heard certain parts of Missouri called southern with good reason.

I never said St. Louis or Missouri is strictly southern. I just said Missouri is very Southern. Nobody can argue with that.

Jeez.

This is the original quote that people are giving me heat for:

Originally Posted by Avengerfire

Ohio is sort of a tossup for me. The Southern and Northeastern portions of Ohio are very non-mid-western. The Plains states are not very mid-western at all.

Missouri? No way. Very southern.

[GraniteStater]

Omaha is at the very edge of the Midwest core area. The Midwest core= Most of Iowa, southern MN, central and northern IL, central and northern IN, eastern NE, and northern MO.

[GraniteStater]

I wouldn't consider places like North Platte, NE, Garden City, KS, Rapid City, SD, or Williston, ND as part of the Midwest. These places just have way to many differences to even associate with the Midwest core itself. These places are all western, have very low precipitation, have a semi-arid climate, have few trees, and little Midwest agriculture without the aid of irrigation.