• Hildegarde
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    301 year ago

    Most of y’all are east of the centerline.

    You’re the middle east, not midwest.

    • @Gingerlegs@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I think you’re joking but the name comes from the migration of the incorporation of the states into the union. Not really geographically a reference

      Edit: geographically, not geologically

      • @OminousOrange@lemmy.ca
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        101 year ago

        As a Canadian, thank you for explaining. From the chart, I thought Americans in the middle states were just really bad with geography.

        (also you mean geographically, not geologically)

      • @Thisfox@sopuli.xyz
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        21 year ago

        Australian checking in with “I had never been told that”. I just figured it was geographical like our “mid north coast” but evidently not.

        • Ech
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          51 year ago

          The US started as 13 colonies/states on the East coast. In the terminology, everything past that is “The West”, and this general area is the middle-ish part of that, so “Midwest”.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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      51 year ago

      It’s the name of the region. The Great Plains aren’t particularly great either, they’re just big. It’s like how the Mediterranean isn’t really in the middle of the world

      • @TheSanSabaSongbird@lemdro.id
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        21 year ago

        “Great” in that sense doesn’t mean “good,” it means big. You see the same use in a lot of bird names as in the great blue heron or the great auk, just off the top of my head.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
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          11 year ago

          Are you telling me that great tits don’t have lovely mammaries?

          Yeah I’m sorry I know they’re the particularly large plains. They’re just also several shit states and couldn’t resist the pun to mock them

    • dream_weasel
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      -81 year ago

      If you’re west of the Mississippi river, you’re the West. Straight up.

      • @Not_mikey@lemmy.world
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        71 year ago

        Maybe on a purely east west dichotomy, but if we’re using the typical 4 regions of the u.s. : Northeast, south, Midwest and west, then that is not right.

      • @dmention7@lemm.ee
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        11 year ago

        Might want to check a map homie, cause I’m pretty sure Iowa is NOT in the captial-W West 😂

        Maybe you meant the Missouri river?