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But yeah that's the impression I got as well. Also could be referencing the idea that the coast of VA Beach isn't at a flush N-S angle with the Atlantic. The coast doesn't "point" due-east, that it has a more Southeasterly angle and thus "points" SE toward Africa.
No, that's not what I'm referring to. It has to do with the curvature of the Earth and the meaning of "going straight", when you are on a surface of a 3-d shape. grega94 has it exactly right.
The Columbia river is the only river that is 1,000 mi (1,609 km) or longer that flows directly into the Pacific Ocean. The only other major river that flows into the Pacific is Lerma - Rio Grande de Santiago in Mexico which is 789 mi (1,270 km)
The Colorado river doesn't count because it flows into the gulf of California
Sacramento river flows into the San Francisco bay
Fraser river flows into the Salish sea
Sepik river flows into the bismarck sea
and except for the Colorado, all the other rivers listed are less than 1,000 mi
not to mention the Colorado Rive does not reach the Gulf of California anymore.
I think the fact that Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan are all in the Eastern Time Zone (with a few exceptions) could pass as a geographical oddity.
Based off the perception of "further west" meaning "further from Atlantic coast"....it's easy to think like that.
Despite Georgia being on the Atlantic coast and Ohio and Michigan both being 3/4 states "in" from the coast.....All of Ohio and most of Lower Peninsula Michigan is actually east of Georgia.
Florida has the longest Atlantic coast of most any US State...and also has sections in central timezone.
that's just a historical vestigial term. the mississippi river was considered the west, so anything between it and the atlantic was considered middle.
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