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[–] JJROKCZ 148 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (54 children)

Illinoisan here, Pennsylvania and Idaho need to get their heads checked. I wouldn’t consider anything west of Kansas or east of Ohio(being generous there) as Midwest. Also just about anything south of the Missouri Compromise Line is a southern state, the Midwest is not the home of traitors.

Edit: correct mason Dixon to Missouri compromise

[–] Piogre314 29 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (15 children)

South of the Mason-Dixon Line includes almost half of your own state of Illinois, and multiple other states that remained loyal to the union.

Did you perhaps mean to refer to the 36°30′ parallel that was used in the Missouri Compromise?

Personally I'm more worried about the 3% of Iowa who doesn't consider itself the Midwest.

[–] JJROKCZ 16 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Yes the Illinois/Missouri/Iowa group could be nothing other than Midwest, I don’t know how those aren’t 100%. We’re the poster children of Midwest

[–] tasty4skin 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

my guess is that the 4.7% of missourians saying no are all in the ozarks/boot heel

[–] JJROKCZ 5 points 11 months ago

Nah, they can’t read

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