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Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Cleveland, are Great Lakes States, not midwest states..
Dude, this is a first. We've argued about the boundries of the Midwest a hundred times on here but this is the first time I've heard someone claim that Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio weren't in the Midwest; I thought we could all atleast agree on that. BTW, the Twin Cities are three hours from a Great Lake - I don't see how you're grouping us in with the other three.
Dude, this is a first. We've argued about the boundries of the Midwest a hundred times on here but this is the first time I've heard someone claim that Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio weren't in the Midwest; I thought we could all atleast agree on that. BTW, the Twin Cities are three hours from a Great Lake - I don't see how you're grouping us in with the other three.
I was shocked on that as well since that is the core of the region. It would be similar to saying that Alabama and Mississippi aren't in the South. My guess is that the person equates the Midwest with the Great Plains.
Dude, this is a first. We've argued about the boundries of the Midwest a hundred times on here but this is the first time I've heard someone claim that Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, and Ohio weren't in the Midwest; I thought we could all atleast agree on that. BTW, the Twin Cities are three hours from a Great Lake - I don't see how you're grouping us in with the other three.
IDK, I sort of agree with him. "Midwest" usually carries a negative connotation with it, like we're all a bunch of socially conservative, rural, backwards thinking rednecks. That's only true of the Great Plains region, but not in the Great Lakes region.
The Twin Cities are not physically located on the Great Lakes, but they share a similar culture to cities like Milwaukee and Chicago, much more so than Omaha or Kansas City. So I can see why people would group you guys together with us.
The states of Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois and Indiana as they are l farm and rancg states,too.
I tend to think of the Midwest. I tend to think of Tulsa, OK, Pittsburg, KS, Troy, MO, Iowa City, IA, Peoria, IL., Gary, IN, Niles, MI, Door County, WI (thumb), and places like it rather than the power houwe cities . .
Most people don't think of Niles, MI at all. I used to live there. I'm shocked you've heard of it.
Wait are we talking culturally or geographically here? Because yes geographically Chicago lies on a lake and Kansas City does not, but they are Midwestern in a cultural and historical sense. If we follow along the premice of geography, then Toronto would have more to do with Milwaukee than Minneapolis does..
Wait are we talking culturally or geographically here? Because yes geographically Chicago lies on a lake and Kansas City does not, but they are Midwestern in a cultural and historical sense. If we follow along the premice of geography, then Toronto would have more to do with Milwaukee than Minneapolis does..
You have it completely backwards. The only thing Kansas City has in common with Chicago is geography, they're both located in the center of the country. Culturally, the states in the Great Plains/Lower Midwest are a lot different than the states in the Great Lakes/Upper Midwest.
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