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The Midwest states are home to over 68 million people, a very underrated area of the country.
Most of the geographical area is flat, or has small hills, a few notable exceptions are areas of southern Ohio and Indiana, and of course the Ozarks in Missouri. I am sure other states have notable hills too.
Yes, certainly not exclusive to the Midwest, though.
I think farms are one thing you can count on seeing a lot of were you to drive through the entire midwest. Soybean and corn farms are probably more common in the Midwest than other parts of the country.
To be more specific the Midwest is culturally viewed as the Breadbasket of the USA. The region even though there are farms everywhere, there is more of a cultural tie to farming in the Midwest versus other regions. The Corn Belt also occurs in the Midwest.
Another thing the entire Midwest has in common is being a 4-season climate with ever-changing weather. The saying "if you don't like the weather in "insert state here" wait and it will change" really describes the Midwest probably more than any region in the USA or even globally.
Other than that the Midwest is just like any other USA region and has its differences between its subregions. Just like there are different variations of the South or the Northeast the same is true for the Midwest.
Most of the geographical area is flat, or has small hills, a few notable exceptions are areas of southern Ohio and Indiana, and of course the Ozarks in Missouri. I am sure other states have notable hills too.
The Arrowhead of Minnesota, northern Wisconsin, and the UP of Michigan are also quite hilly/rugged.
The Midwest states are home to over 68 million people, a very underrated area of the country.
Most of the geographical area is flat, or has small hills, a few notable exceptions are areas of southern Ohio and Indiana, and of course the Ozarks in Missouri. I am sure other states have notable hills too.
Yes, S. IL; IL, IA, WI, MN Driftless; N. MN, WI, MI are all rugged and hilly.
There are some geologicial similarities— big rivers, for example. It is generally unremarkable in terms of relief (relatively flat) but almost every state has at least one anomaly (Black Hills, Ozarks, Flint Hills, Arbuckles, etc. ) and glaciation over a large part left a remnant topography. Much of the region has been converted to agriculture but the presettlement forests, prairies, and plains were quite different over the region.
There are actually a lot of differences over the region and the label “Midwest” is artificial and simply reflects the middle position between more prominent mountain ranges or near-desert plains. If there were three or four countries occupying the same space as the USA there probably wouldn’t be any reason to consider this a region.
The Midwest is pretty diverse. The only thing I can really think that literally all of the Midwest has in common is the absence of an ocean or a massive mountain range.
Where I live looks pretty similar to the PNW and Lake Superior is large enough to substitute for an ocean. Our hills make us think we have mountains.
German ancestry. While some states are higher than others if you average it all out the Midwest is the most German part of the country.
I was going to say this also.
Most of the Midwest, including every major city, features a humid continental climate, with the exception of far southern Missouri, Kansas, Illinois and Indiana which have a humid subtropical climate. Kansas City, Saint Louis and Cincinnati are in a transitional zone between continental and subtropical, but are officially considered continental.
Most of the Midwest, including every major city, is east of the 100th meridian and is humid; the arid areas are sparsely populated.
All areas of the Midwest normally receive at least some amount of annual snowfall.
Deciduous and conifer trees dominate the landscape.
Mexicans are the dominant Hispanic group in every state and nearly every major city. Cleveland is the only exception among major Midwestern cities, with Puerto Ricans being the dominant Hispanic group by a large margin.
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