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So, basically, 2/3rds of the country is the Western US? Mississippi is in the West? Minnesota and Wisconsin are is the West? Portions of Tennessee and Kentucky are Western?
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So, basically, 2/3rds of the country is the Western US? Mississippi is in the West? Minnesota and Wisconsin are is the West? Portions of Tennessee and Kentucky are Western?
If the discussion is drawing a line down the middle and separating the two halfs then yes those places you mentioned could be included also. I actually always would say Mississippi river Eastward is included, for the purposes of CD though I'm just saying there is a gray area somewhere around those middle states.
ATMO, the West begins at Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and New Mexico.
ATMO, the West begins halfway through the states immediately east of those states. In other words, semi-arid high plains with badlands and center pivot irrigation, and a legacy of the cowboy culture ain't the East.
No, I dont count the Midwest as part of the Eastern states. For me its "out East", but not Eastern. Chicago might feel more East-like than anything else, but the rest of Illinois is decidedly Midwestern in feel, not Eastern.
If the discussion is drawing a line down the middle and separating the two halfs then yes those places you mentioned could be included also. I actually always would say Mississippi river Eastward is included, for the purposes of CD though I'm just saying there is a gray area somewhere around those middle states.
The problem is that some regional definitions are so distinct yet some are just outright broad like the west.
What exactly is so similar about California and Montana?
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No, I dont count the Midwest as part of the Eastern states. For me its "out East", but not Eastern. Chicago might feel more East-like than anything else, but the rest of Illinois is decidedly Midwestern in feel, not Eastern.
I think the question is assuming the term "mid Western"never existed and you had to draw a line somewhere, do you consider those states Eastern US or Western US. They definitely aren't Western states.
What exactly is so similar about California and Montana?
Libertarian/liberal politics, hippies, cowboys, mountains, expensive living, widespread cannabis use, secularism, Western individualism and the reservedness associated with it.
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