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View Poll Results: Do you consider Indiana to be the eastern Midwest/eastern cornbelt?
I would say Ohio is the eastern limit to the Midwest though Indiana is also not too far from the border 7 50.00%
Indiana is in the eastern corn belt but I still wouldn’t consider anything in the Midwest as “Eastern” 2 14.29%
No. Indiana is the stereotype of what defines the Midwest, there’s nothing remotely eastern about Indiana 6 42.86%
Other option/opinion(please explain why you voted this option in the poll 0 0%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 14. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 11-29-2021, 11:08 AM
 
Location: Englewood, Near Eastside Indy
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Pittsburgh is the most eastern Midwest city.
Pittsburgh in the Midwest? I've seen it all.
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Old 11-29-2021, 12:48 PM
 
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I always hated how the Midwest includes the great lakes region.
Nebraska looks more like plains Colorado than anything over here.
Yet it's clumped with us.

I feel midwest is the most diverse of the designated geographics.
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Old 11-29-2021, 01:47 PM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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I always hated how the Midwest includes the great lakes region.
Nebraska looks more like plains Colorado than anything over here.
Yet it's clumped with us.

I feel midwest is the most diverse of the designated geographics.
The median center of population in the Midwest is Illinois. The western halves of the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas belong grouped with the western US. They are far too dry, population density much too low, and much more remote (between sizable cities), to have anything in common with the Midwest.
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Old 11-29-2021, 09:54 PM
 
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Pittsburgh in the Midwest? I've seen it all.
Well it is not northeast, thats for sure.
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Old 11-30-2021, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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Would you consider Indiana the eastern Midwest and if not then why?
Absolutely NOT!
Indiana has some hills in the south going down to the Ohio River, but otherwise a stable piece of land.
You're thinking of Ohio where it meets Appalachia in the south, Pennsylvania in the east and a big chunk of Lake Erie to the north.
That should have been the last state for the BIG 10.......
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Old 11-30-2021, 03:03 PM
 
Location: Aishalton, GY
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Pittsburgh in the Midwest? I've seen it all.
And Penn State in the Big Ten
And now it's gone to the Mid-Atlantic too
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Old 12-01-2021, 06:15 PM
 
Location: New Albany, Indiana (Greater Louisville)
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There seem to be a change in accent and mentality when you go from OH into PA / W NY or from WV into MD or most of VA. Even all of OH is certainly Midwestern, IN is for sure core Midwest. Parts of SE IN (basically all the Louisville KY TV market counties) have a lot of Mid South influence, in some areas more dominant than Midwestern culture. But the percent of IN's population there isn't huge. Basically all the Midwestern states bordering KY have some more Mid South areas that aren't major population centers to sway the whole state into a different category.
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Old 12-02-2021, 06:40 AM
 
Location: Indiana Uplands
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There seem to be a change in accent and mentality when you go from OH into PA / W NY or from WV into MD or most of VA. Even all of OH is certainly Midwestern, IN is for sure core Midwest. Parts of SE IN (basically all the Louisville KY TV market counties) have a lot of Mid South influence, in some areas more dominant than Midwestern culture. But the percent of IN's population there isn't huge. Basically all the Midwestern states bordering KY have some more Mid South areas that aren't major population centers to sway the whole state into a different category.
I think you mean Upper South influence, Mid South would be even further south geographically. Louisville with its massive urban heat island certainly has a climate these days that is very southern, whereas if you go to an elevated area outside the city it is 8-10F cooler across the board and not quite as southern.
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Old 12-04-2021, 08:09 AM
 
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Well it is not northeast, thats for sure.
Pittsburgh is most definitely a northeast city. PA is a northeast state. And the culture of the Pittsburgh area is more like areas further east than west. Having grown up in New England and also having spent a lot of time in NY it is evident that Midwest starts in OH, not western PA.
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Old 12-04-2021, 10:24 AM
 
Location: Massachusetts
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Why is most of Indiana on Eastern time? Does that make the state Eastern or Midwestern? I never understood how what region a state is considered to be developed. Even part of Florida which is definitely East Coast is in Central Time. I would consider Indiana to be part of the Central US which is the Midwest.

I definitely would not consider PA the Midwest. Be it Pittsburgh or any other community in that state.
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