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Can someone please tell me what it means to be Midwestern? It's not like it's a bad thing to be from the Midwest.
One problem I have seen is that when people say they are Midwestern, it is their version of it is the baseline. Then it can make other parts fo the Midwest radically different from that to the point of not sharing many similarities. This generally pops up if anyone's baseline is futher from the Lower Great Lakes area.
I don't think people in Chicago think much about the rest of the Midwest except maybe going up to Wisconsin or Michigan for a weekend in the summer.
There are a lot of transplants here from other Midwest states, so that certainly creates a dynamic that is absent from other cities it the Midwest. I myself am native to Ohio and never received any trash talking from Chicago natives. Now when I lived in California it was a different story.
Yeah, Michiganers especially hate it when you Chicagoans invade the Western Michigan beaches for the weekend. (That's why we go way north towards Traverse City, so as not to have to deal with you people).
If the city of Phoenix, AZ boasts itself as being located in "the desert" then the city of Chicago, IL should stop being ashamed of all those cornfields.
Minneapolis/St Paul owns Chicago. I love to visit Chicago but I would never visit there. Minnesota is by far the best place in the Midwest with Wisconsin and the UP the only other places I'd consider living. The Upper Midwest is where it's at.
In the Chicago metro, people identify with Chicago first and Illinois second. In Minnesota this is different; people identify with Minnesota first no matter where they live (Minneapolis, St Paul, Duluth, Rochester, St Cloud, suburbs, etc) and their city second.
I always found that odd about MN. In the other large cities I've lived in, it was city first, not state.
Although Mas23 is mostly a really good poster, I have no idea what he's talking about there. Chicagoans consider ourselves Midwestern.
He means we call ourselves chicagoans before midwesterners.
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Chicago is the Midwest's premier city!
