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"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report (lemmy.world)
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[–] 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.