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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
submitted 10 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver to c/mildlyinteresting
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[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I mean, if we went with what the word should indicate, Idaho is absolutely the Midwest. As it stands, there's no Mid or Mideast, the real "Midwest" is actually just the middle of the country. At this point, "Midwest* has almost nothing to do with relative location, it's more of a social and economic distinction, which Idaho does fit in with imo.

[โ€“] Piecemakers3Dprints 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

IIRC, the term was founded when "The West" was pretty much everything west of St. Louis, but it's been decades since primary school, so I could be (and often am) mistaken.