Having grown up in a rural part of Long Island… the Midwest started on the west side of the Mississippi. That’s what I remember from when I was kid many decades ago.
Thems fighting words, brother. I could agree with this statement if we were looking at Ohio from a pre-Louisiana Purchase timeframe.
Last summer I met some that said she was from the midwest...Kentucky. Definitely not Midwest. Having lived in Ohio my whole I consider it Midwest. Mainly because it doesn't fit in with any of our other neighbors. Pennsylvania is east. West Virginia and Kentucky are south. I think of south as south of Ohio river. Michigan is definitely considered midwest at least the northern part and the UP. That leaves Indiana which raises the same question.
Interesting discussion about Ohio. I went and found a US map and tried to find it. For us, Ohio would be considered back east as it lies directly below Ontario's golden triangle. Down east would be the Maritime provinces. For being west, you would have to start about the Manitoba border or by Minnesota/Iowa states. Mid west for us would be Alberta/Saskatchewan border Or Montana/Wyoming states. How did the Ohio area become to be called the midwest?
I agree with this map. Arkansas, Kentucky West Virginia are the south. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma are great plains states. Ohio is the most eastern Midwest state. Also I have spent some time in Iowa and there are areas that are very similar to Ohio or vice a versa.
Depends what part of Ohio I guess. The Northwest is flat. The southern part is rolling hills. The northeast us somewhere in between
Strangely enough I get lost in northwest Ohio because everything looks the same to me. Rolling hills might be a bit gracious in some areas in southeast ohio. Route 78 through Morgan, Noble and Monroe counties has extreme elevation changes.
Ohio I agree with your map until you start calling West Virginia south. Mid Atlantic at best, any state that borders Pennsylvania is not south to me.
Ill agree with you, a great deal of WV is at the same latitude as Ohio and the panhandle is as north as what I would consider NE Ohio.
When I lived in Florida I remember talking to a guy from northern Georgia who referred to Kentucky/West Virginia/Virginia folks as southern Yankees.
As an example of this I present exhibit A: Pluto. Pluto was always known as the ninth and farthest planet for the first half of my life, then "someone" decided it wasn't a planet at all and didn't deserve that designation. To which I say go to hell. Pluto was and will always be the ninth planet. I don'e care how educated you are in astrophysics, you're not going to re-write history and make Pluto disappear. And if hell is my final destination when I die then I'm going to enjoy watching you sizzle with me, along with many others.
