Where's the line between Midwest and East? (Columbus, Cleveland: 2013, military)

[Kamms]

Originally Posted by bjimmy24

Cincinnati accent and culture isn't southernecessarily per se, but much more so than Columbus or cleveland. And no cleveland is not an East coast city, but there really are parts that look and feel remarkably similar to boston (public square is basically Copley and shaker square could be several different areas of boston, for two examples).

Wonder where just the ''east'' is, not just the ''east coast''? Like the west coast is just that, but the ''west'' extends much further inland. There is no ''east'' just the east coast; everything else east of the big cities is Midwest, except New England.

[notnamed]

Mideast is a much more appropriate term.

[Kamms]

The thread is the dividing line between Midwest and the east; not the east coast. Where is the east?

[CookieSkoon]

Originally Posted by Kamms

The thread is the dividing line between Midwest and the east; not the east coast. Where is the east?

Truthfully? Everything east of the Mississippi or the frontier strip.

[Kamms]

Originally Posted by CookieSkoon

Truthfully? Everything east of the Mississippi or the frontier strip.

I'd even go with the Eastern Time Zone line. The name is built-in - Eastern.

[Dec012014]

Originally Posted by notnamed

Mideast is a much more appropriate term.

I always just assumed that when the adventurous people left for further west and Ohio became conventional down-to-earth farmers they couldn't call it West anymore but it was still pretty "country" compared to the East so they called it "Mid-West". Also, now we know that the Midwest is in the Mideast but maybe those who named it never expected the Union to get that wide so Midwest wasn't even that geometrically wrong at the time. People once even rushed through Nebraska on the Oregon Trail cause they thought the short grass area were unfarmable, so they never expected a state there.

[Dec012014]

Originally Posted by Kamms

The thread is the dividing line between Midwest and the east; not the east coast. Where is the east?

How about the line between the Midwest and the Northeast? That is clearer I think. I can't edit the question, should that be a new thread?

[PerryMason614]

U.S. Census Bureau:

[CookieSkoon]

Originally Posted by PerryMason614

U.S. Census Bureau:

I'll still never understand how parts of the south can be further north than the north.

State lines are an inaccurate gauge of culture or climate.

[Dec012014]

Originally Posted by CookieSkoon

I'll still never understand how parts of the south can be further north than the north.

State lines are an inaccurate gauge of culture or climate.

Exactly. Far enough west in Texas, Nebraska or South Dakota is The West.