Is the Midwest one region or two?

[Anonymous]

Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

[Anonymous]

Pa is a Great Lakes state (Lake Erie).

[Anonymous]

The biggest city in PA is definitely mid-Atlantic.

Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas are not the midwest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Pa is a Great Lakes state (Lake Erie).

but it's not the midwest

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

I did too, but I do consider the Dakotas part of it. South Dakota turns into the West at some point, though.

[Anonymous]

Sioux Falls and Buffalo/PGH cannot BOTH be in the Midwest. They're too far apart. That would just be bananas.

And I consider PGH and Buffalo more Midwest that Sioux Falls is.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

I did too, but I do consider the Dakotas part of it. South Dakota turns into the West at some point, though.

what is Colorado Or Oklahoma considered?

[Anonymous]

Some seem to associate the Midwest more with the rust belt, others more with the farm belt.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

I did too, but I do consider the Dakotas part of it. South Dakota turns into the West at some point, though.

what is Colorado Or Oklahoma considered?

Colorado is the Mountain West. Oklahoma is basically tied with north Texas, a mixed Great Plains and Southern state.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

I did too, but I do consider the Dakotas part of it. South Dakota turns into the West at some point, though.

what is Colorado Or Oklahoma considered?

OK is the Plains.
Most of CO is the Mountain West. Of course 1/3 of the state's area is Plains, but few people care about that part.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it one region or are the two halves (Great Lakes and Great Plains) fundamentally different?

Great Lakes states (East North Central division): IL, IN, MI, OH, WI

Great Plains states (West North Central division): IA, KS, MN, MO, NE, ND, SD

I have lived in the mid west for many years and never considered the dakotas a part of it.

I did too, but I do consider the Dakotas part of it. South Dakota turns into the West at some point, though.

what is Colorado Or Oklahoma considered?

OK is the Plains.
Most of CO is the Mountain West. Of course 1/3 of the state's area is Plains, but few people care about that part.

Denver is a plains city

[Anonymous]

I grew up in Kansas City, MO. when you think of regional accents, people from Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, and Indiana don't really have an accent, like people from Wisconsin and Minnesota.

We know that people on the East and West coasts would love for the entire country to be like the South, low cost of living and cheap anti-union labor. LoL.

We're not all in the Rust Belt or the Sun Belt.

We're the Heart of America.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest city in PA is definitely mid-Atlantic.

Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas are not the midwest.

Kansas and Nebraska are the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest city in PA is definitely mid-Atlantic.

Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas are not the midwest.

Kansas and Nebraska are pretty much the definition of the Midwest imo.