Midwestern Cities (Chicago, Evanston, Ohio: neighborhoods, university, live in)

[Katiana]

DH, from Omaha, says it's the "Mid-Plains" or the "Great-West". It has an identity crisis, that's for sure.

[Fishtacos]

All of them except Buffalo.

[jm31828]

Originally Posted by neonwattagelimit

If you'd have asked me a year ago, before I moved to Chicago and before I saw these kinds of threads on C-D (I participated in another one, and got a bit too complicated for my own good) I would've argued 'till I was blue in the face that Buffalo and Pittsburgh are the Midwest, more or less. Now that I see people from those cities and people from the Midwest usually disagree with that notion, I'm willing to say they aren't.

But Cleveland? Seriously? C'mon....Cleveland is the Midwest. It sure as hell isn't the East, I can tell you that.

Omaha is a tricky one. I'd say it's definitely Great Plains, but the real question is whether you consider the Plains an independent region or a subregion of the Midwest.

Omaha definitely, without a question, is in the Midwest. Living in this area I know for a fact that it is- everyone here refers to this as the midwest, and we have advertisements all the time for places in Omaha that are "biggest in the Midwest", "best in the Midwest", etc. People in this region have always known this area as the Midwest.

[LASam]

If you have Big Ten schools in your state, you're in the Midwest!

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by LASam

If you have Big Ten schools in your state, you're in the Midwest!

I agree, except for the "11th Big Ten School", Penn State.

[Katiana]

Originally Posted by Lookout Kid

I agree, except for the "11th Big Ten School", Penn State.

My immediate thougt, too! My bro, an alum of PSU from before its entry to the Big 10, said Joe Paterno just wanted to go to the Rose Bowl. Then along came BCS and everything chaged anyway!

[r0dpe2c]

Buffalo and Pittsburgh are not in the Midwest. They are rust belt cities in Great Lake states, so that is were the commonality lies with some of the other rust belt Midwest cities. Being "rust belt" does not make you Midwest.

One has to look at the broad picture and realize that Buffalo and Pittsburgh sit in states that formed the 13 original colonies and I will argue with anyone that says any parts of New York state and Pennsylvania are Midwest.

I'm from Northeast Ohio and I still consider Omaha the Midwest due to I feel that Nebraskans still have a commonality with the old Northwest Territory Midwest states, but they are on the edge of the plains states . The Midwest does not only include the old Northwest Territory or Big Ten country (excluding Penn State, remember the Nittany Lions were known as the Beast of the East).

I feel that too many people try to act like Clevelanders or Northeast Ohioans are kind of eastern. NO WE ARE NOT! Cleveland acts no more Eastern than Chicagoans or people from Detroit. Yes the northeast part of Northeastern Ohio (makes sense?) was settled and was a territory of Connecticut (Western Reserve) and there are some historical Eastern influences that helped shape the region, but let's not get it confused, Northeast Ohio is CULTURALLY Midwestern.

[beadster]

Omaha is not in the midwest, and is not part of the midwest and has zero relationship to true midwest cities. While Pittsburgh does have some of the same issues as midwest cities such as cleveland and detroit, does not make it a midwest city, and should not be part of it.

A couple cities should have been included were Indianapolis, St Louis, and Minneapolis in the midwest

Nothing in New York is the Midwest. New York is just New York

[EventHorizon]

Chicago and Omaha. The others simply aren't 'mid' or 'west' being that they are too close to the east coast and all the nasty things that come with being closer to states that have a "new" in front of them i.e. New York, New Jersey etc.

[Lookout Kid]

Originally Posted by beadster

A couple cities should have been included were Indianapolis, St Louis, and Minneapolis in the midwest

Agree with that. Another midwestern metro area is Milwaukee. And if we're going to go down to the smaller Omaha level, we'd have to throw in Columbus.

What about Cincinatti? I've always thought of Cleveland as being midwestern, but Cincinatti is pretty darn close to Kentucky...