Do you consider the Midwest part of the "Eastern United States"? (home, living in)
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Everything east of the Great Plains is in the Eastern US, which in my opinion is a good defining line because I don't consider the Great Plains as part of the Midwest.
Everything east of the Great Plains is in the Eastern US, which in my opinion is a good defining line because I don't consider the Great Plains as part of the Midwest.
I think it depends. Grand Forks, Fargo, Sioux Falls, Lincoln, Omaha, Topeka, and Wichita are Midwestern cities, but Rapid City and Scottsbluff are Western.
Minot, Bismarck, Pierre, North Platte, and Salina are transitional. Being a Westerner myself I think of those cities as quite Midwestern, but a Midwesterner would probably think of them as pretty western, especially if they are from Ohio or Michigan.
I would say the majority of the region is, aside from Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas which are neither or both. What do you think?
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Originally Posted by BigCityDreamer
I consider the midwestern states that are east of the Mississippi River to be part of the eastern United States.
So - Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and Ohio.
It is hard to vote on your poll because I think at least half of the Midwest as Eastern (same states as BigCityDreamer), while I think of the Dakotas, Nebraska and Kansas as more Western. The 3 states in the middle, Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri are more debatable. Its kind of tricky because Minnesota is a Great Lake state while Missouri probably has more in common with the South then anywhere out West.
I completely ignored cultural discrepancies and political boundaries and used a simple formula: If one can drive from their home city to New York City in 10 hours or less, they're in the East. As it turns out, only those living in the easternmost portions of the Midwest (Michigan and Ohio) can do this.
I completely ignored cultural discrepancies and political boundaries and used a simple formula: If one can drive from their home city to New York City in 10 hours or less, they're in the East. As it turns out, only those living in the easternmost portions of the Midwest (Michigan and Ohio) can do this.
For some reason it throws people for a loop to know that Michigan is in th eastern timezone. They don't realize how far east it is.
I find it silly that more people consider Mississippi than Ohio to be part of the Eastern US. Youngstown, Ohio is further east than Charlotte, NC! IMO the Central/East Divide should be the Central/Eastern Time Zone Boundary PLUS the states of Alabama and the Florida Panhandle, since I'd find it silly for a part of a state that touches the Atlantic to be Central along with the fact that the Piedmont and Appalachians of the mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states ends in Alabama. Nashville's NHL team is in a Western conference, and Country music is much more popular in the Central and interior Western states, too. Yes, Ohio/Indiana/Michigan are "Midwest" in terms of being part of the region of the first western expansion. But I voted no since the majority of the Midwestern States are not in the Eastern US.
For some reason it throws people for a loop to know that Michigan is in th eastern timezone. They don't realize how far east it is.
I was pretty surprised to see that Atlanta is further west than Detroit.
It also would take me the same time to drive from Philly to Chicago as Philly to Atlanta, GA at ~11-12 hours but it doesn't seem as popular to drive to Chicago. People seem to always fly there.
Last edited by 2e1m5a; 03-06-2015 at 11:44 AM..
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