What makes a place western vs midwestern or southern?

[greenbay33]

Originally Posted by Mini-apple-less

I think the main difference between the West and Midwest/South is the demeanor of the people. Westerners are very private and more solitary, in my experience, and place a high value on private property whether they are trigger happy ranchers or IP-protecting Silicon Valley moguls. The Midwest and South are more about relationships with other people and religion.

True to an extent. I do hear this in Nebraska though because people will claim that those from western NE (about North Platte on west) aren't that friendly compared to eastern Nebraska folks

[greenbay33]

Originally Posted by Omahahonors

The climate starts changing as you go west of chicago. The terrain gets very interesting once you get an hour and half to the west of Omaha.

3 months above 80
5 months above 75
7 months above 65
9 months above 50
10 months above 40
All months 35 and above

28 inches of rain
26 inches of snow

Where would that be? I live about an hour west of Omaha (in Butler County) and to me the terrain looks the same from about West Omaha until you get near Columbus. On 1-80 i'd say it looks the same until you get past Seward when it all flattens out. However its still mostly farming.

[Omahahonors]

Originally Posted by greenbay33

Where would that be? I live about an hour west of Omaha (in Butler County) and to me the terrain looks the same from about West Omaha until you get near Columbus. On 1-80 i'd say it looks the same until you get past Seward when it all flattens out. However its still mostly farming.

I80 is not a good place to judge Nebraska's geography. There is a sampling bias which skews the results towards a river valley terrain almost entirely.

The terrain does vary some until you hit the sandhills. And ive driven to columbus many times from Omaha. It is about an hour and a half with a few stops on the way. Until you reach it, there are big rolling hills, small rolling hills, river valleys and the like in the eastern part of the state.

[Pincho-toot]

The Midwest and West overlap as soon as yer west of the Missouri river. I consider North Dakota down to Kansas the Midwest AND West. They're the transition from the wooded eastern half of the country to the more arid and rugged western half.

[Omahahonors]

Originally Posted by greenbay33

Where would that be? I live about an hour west of Omaha (in Butler County) and to me the terrain looks the same from about West Omaha until you get near Columbus. On 1-80 i'd say it looks the same until you get past Seward when it all flattens out. However its still mostly farming.

Well. I80 Is the problem. Just north and northwest of GI is the start of a loess and sandhills region.