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The Dakotas and Kansas. Eastern OH has a lot of eastern influences, and you'll find a lot of cowboy boots in rural Indiana and Illinois too. There's not much of a difference culturally between Western Ohio, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska. It's all Midwestern corn belt territory.
Missouri also lies within that region, at least 3/4 of it is in the corn belt (Osage Plains and Central Till Plains). You'll find those so-called cowboy boots as well.
Sorry they are both considered a part of the Pacific West,The NW is a group within the Pacific West as a whole.
So what, Texas many times is grouped with part of the west, doesn't mean that most people put Texas in the same category with a state like California.
I'm just saying that putting Hawaii and Alaska together does not make sense, and you hardly ever see it.
States and regions are often times grouped together based on cultural/bio/geographical/fauna. For instance I think everyone pretty much agrees that the states of Idaho, Montha, Utah, and Wyoming, Colorado are part of the intermountain west.
I think most people would agree that Arizona, Nevada and a few other states constitue the SW.
Hawaii may be in the west, and it may be part of the pacific, but really its a category of its own. Geographically and ecologicaly speaking it has nothing in common with the other western states.
There are some states like the Dakotas or Utah that are more of a transition between two regions. For instance Utah is really a transition state between the Southwest and the intermountain west. Sometimes you even seen it thrown in as part of the NW.
The Dakotas are in a similar situation. They are really the border land between the western states and the midwest.
Ohio and N.D. don't seem that different for two places within the same region. I mean what about El Paso and Baltimore in the South! They're as different as you can get in the US.
Culturally and geologicaly speaking it is western.
No, it's not. ND culturally is very similar to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Michigan. It's part of the Upper Midwest. It has the same accents, same Scandinavian hertiage, same love of hockey. It has NOTHING in common with places like Washington State or California, or even Montana or Colorado. ND is both culturally and geographically Midwestern.
So what, Texas many times is grouped with part of the west, doesn't mean that most people put Texas in the same category with a state like California.
I'm just saying that putting Hawaii and Alaska together does not make sense, and you hardly ever see it.
States and regions are often times grouped together based on cultural/bio/geographical/fauna. For instance I think everyone pretty much agrees that the states of Idaho, Montha, Utah, and Wyoming, Colorado are part of the intermountain west.
I think most people would agree that Arizona, Nevada and a few other states constitue the SW.
Hawaii may be in the west, and it may be part of the pacific, but really its a category of its own. Geographically and ecologicaly speaking it has nothing in common with the other western states.
There are some states like the Dakotas or Utah that are more of a transition between two regions. For instance Utah is really a transition state between the Southwest and the intermountain west. Sometimes you even seen it thrown in as part of the NW.
The Dakotas are in a similar situation. They are really the border land between the western states and the midwest.
No,I definitely agree with you.all I am saying is they are apart of the same region but fall into very different sub regions. (Hawaii of course being in it's own)
No, it's not. ND culturally is very similar to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Michigan. It's part of the Upper Midwest. It has the same accents, same Scandinavian hertiage, same love of hockey. It has NOTHING in common with places like Washington State or California, or even Montana or Colorado. ND is both culturally and geographically Midwestern.
Actually in many ways the rural western plains of the Dakotas are probably more similar to the rural eastern plains of Montana and Colorado than the forested, dairy or urban landscapes of Michigan or Wisconsin. Whether you like it or not, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio etc. probably looks more like New York or Pennsylvania than the Black Hills, Sand Hills or the Badlands. Unfortunately, nature does not make it easy for us here on CD to put places in perfectly neat categories the way we might want too!
No, it's not. ND culturally is very similar to Minnesota, Wisconsin, and northern Michigan. It's part of the Upper Midwest. It has the same accents, same Scandinavian hertiage, same love of hockey. It has NOTHING in common with places like Washington State or California, or even Montana or Colorado.ND is both culturally and geographically Midwestern.
Have you been there? Go to Williston or Dickenson some time and tell me they are not more like Bozeman or Sterling than they are like Fond du Lac or Mankato...
Actually in many ways the rural western plains of the Dakotas are probably more similar to the rural eastern plains of Montana and Colorado than the forested, dairy or urban landscapes of Michigan or Wisconsin. Whether you like it or not, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio etc. probably looks more like New York or Pennsylvania than the Black Hills, Sand Hills or the Badlands. Unfortunately, nature does not make it easy for us here on CD to put places in perfectly neat categories the way we might want too!
the only thing michigan, wisconsin and ohio have in common with ny and pa are dairy farms, forest and urban areas, those states including the dakotas are very flat compared to ny and pa even though southeast ohio
has some hills
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