Almost 10% of Pennsylvania thinks they are in the midwest? HAHAHAHAHHA
I think it probably has to do with the overlap between the Midwest and the rust belt.
This just in: 10% of Tennesseeans forgot what state they live in.
Probably just a coping method you develop from living there 🤷
I envy them
There are people in TN and AR that think they’re Midwestern?
“Y’all” talk too funny for that, now.
(I kid, I kid!)
3.3% of Iowans must think they live on Mars
Nah, they’re just in Davenport.
I know a dude from Michigan who insists Minnesota is not the Midwest. I won’t show him this map because offering facts and statistics doesn’t change his mind about anything.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Territory
Only half of Minnesota was part of the OG Northwest Territory, so in that sense, your friend is maybe correct.
Well this map is self reported so I don’t think it can be considered fact
It’s a fact that it’s self reported.
Idaho? Really? That 25% must not know geography at all…
Idaho and Montana I understand - no one one from the Midwest or PNW will claim either, but culturally Midwest is closer.
Who are the 8.4% of my fellow Hoosiers who don’t think they live in the midwest and where do they think they live?
Chicagoland.
hell
If I owned Hell and Indiana, I would rent out Indiana and live in Hell.
In the elementary school Indiana history class (4th grade) it was even a part of the curriculum* to learn where were are in the US.
We were taught that the Northwest Territory became what is now called the Midwest (the area east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio rivers).
- curriculum as of the late 80s / early 90s
As someone born and raised in the Midwest (Ohio and Illinois) and is currently a resident on the West Coast (Oregon), the way I define it is as such: if there is corn, it’s the Midwest. If there are cowboys on horses, it’s the west or southwest. Does your state touch the Atlantic or Pacific? That’s what coast you are on (Hawaii and Alaska excepted).
Many in Utah think they’re Midwest too. It’s wild. (In my case their answers to me indicated they didn’t know where the Midwest is, not that they identified with it)
Still blows my mind that Midwest apparently means “slightly not easy coast.”
Like in my mind it would be Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah. That kind of area. Considering it’s midway through the west half of the country.
It’s probably named by the people who named middle East, like it’s the west of the eastern Nations but they named it coz it was in the middle of their way to the east
Well, it used to be called the Northwest Territory.
Then we expanded even further west and it became the “old west”.
Then the “old west” came to mean the Southwest region pre-statehood.
So then they became the “Midwest”.
Read a US history book on the westward expansion and it will all make perfect sense. Hint; it might have something to do with older names remaining in use up until the current day.
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Jesus Christ…
So North-Central. Got it. (Am not American and don’t know American history very well)
You’ve got the East and West regions defined by the coasts. Then you have the South, but it’s really just the southeast. The rest wants to be called the Midwest. There is no North, I guess…
That’s good old Canada.
It called the midwest from a time a ago when the Mississippi river was the western edge. USA grew a bit and then more but the name stayed the same.
When I was in highschool I thought Midwest referred to California and stuff because it’s the middle (North south wise) and in the west.
Looks northeastern more than mid western
TIL that 25% of people living in Idaho are even dumber than I previously thought they were …
Idaho is a… special place… if you know what I mean.
They are roughly in the middle of the west, as a whole country. I think our Midwest is fairly far east, due in part to the fact that the western edge of the USA was once much further east, and many conventions have survived from that time.
I am from Illinois, which fits most folks idea of what is midwest, but it’s really and truly just…middle
Three wests were given to the US, wisest and fairest. Seven to the dwarf lords…
Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana are Rocky Mountain West, not the MidWest. Good grief.
