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Buffalo is in New York State, most would say that's the Northeast but Buffalo is the Midwest to me. More in common with Milwaukee than it's in state NYC neighbor.
Is Kansas City the end (or start depending on which way your headed) of the Midwest? St. Louis the original "Gateway to the West" Or could it be once you hit the Rockies and Denver is the sign of something different.
Everyone will have their own opinion. I'd draw a line from Detroit to Atlanta. West of that line is the Midwest, continuing to Omaha. West of Omaha is the Great Plains. My perspective is from where I grew up in St. Louis and lived in central Missouri. If I lived 200 miles east, say in Indianapolis, I would likely push the line farther east to Pennsylvania, maybe Pittsburgh. Buffalo would never be Midwest.
In this small town one can see:
- very wide streets (typical of western small towns)
- some dusty areas where grass is patchy, brown, or nonexistent (typically western)
- predominantly deciduous trees (typically eastern-half-of-US)
- little to no topography (typically Midwestern)
- it's close to an Indian reservation (typically western)
- it's very agricultural (typically Midwestern although certainly parts of the west have this)
When you get east along US-212 to Gettysburg, SD, you're clearly in the Midwest.
Heading west from Dupree along the same road to Belle Fourche, SD, you're clearly in a western town.
Everyone will have their own opinion. I'd draw a line from Detroit to Atlanta. West of that line is the Midwest, continuing to Omaha. West of Omaha is the Great Plains. My perspective is from where I grew up in St. Louis and lived in central Missouri. If I lived 200 miles east, say in Indianapolis, I would likely push the line farther east to Pennsylvania, maybe Pittsburgh. Buffalo would never be Midwest.
Atlanta?
I wouldn't go beyond Cincinnati with that line.
I'm fine with the official definition because otherwise there will literally be 100 different answers from 100 different people.
It's also a word from a much different time. What is "middle west" in the coast-to-coast era?
Perhaps "north-central" doesn't roll off the tongue as well, or old habits just die hard.
Maybe it needs to be ditched in favor of Plains and Great Lakes. Culturally, that might make more sense, but then what to do with Missouri and Iowa?
Everyone will have their own opinion. I'd draw a line from Detroit to Atlanta. West of that line is the Midwest, continuing to Omaha. West of Omaha is the Great Plains. My perspective is from where I grew up in St. Louis and lived in central Missouri. If I lived 200 miles east, say in Indianapolis, I would likely push the line farther east to Pennsylvania, maybe Pittsburgh. Buffalo would never be Midwest.
Atlanta?! And Columbus, Cleveland, etc. aren't the Midwest to you?
While inconvenient to further breakdown, the typical map of the Midwest still follows state lines. The Midwest entails Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Missouri.
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