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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The biggest city in PA is definitely mid-Atlantic.

Kansas and Nebraska and the Dakotas are not the midwest. [/quote]

Kansas and Nebraska are pretty much the definition of the Midwest imo. [/quote]
No. The definitive Midwest is [b]Ohio[/b]/Michigan/Illinois/Indiana. [/quote]

Sometimes I think of Ohio as being more East Coast. It probably has to do with time zones.

I grew up in Kansas City, MO. The Midwest to most of us was Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska.

We tended to think of ourselves as the Heartland of America.

Fun fact: Kansas City, Missouri is second only to Rome, Italy for number of fountains in the world. We are known as the City of Fountains. The Country Club Plaza in Kansas City, Missouri is modeled after Seville, Spain.

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Michigan, Ohio, and most of Indiana are in the same time zone. [/quote]

Yeah, the *Eastern* time zone! Central time is classic Midwest.

I grew up in KCMO too, and PP above is really showing their street cred bringing out that stat about the fountains. You’re required to bring that up to all visitors to KC :).  I’ve always considered Kansas City to be the Midwest. Much of my extended family growing up lived in Ohio, Michigan, and the greater Chicago area so I spent good portions of my childhood traveling around the Midwest. Culturally, KC felt very similar to Cleveland or Grand Rapids.

My very nuanced take is that the Midwest includes Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, and parts of Missouri and Kansas. Kansas City and St. Louis feel very similar to other mid-size Midwest cities. The more rural parts of Missouri, especially in the southern part of the state, starts to feel more culturally Southern, closer to Arkansas or Oklahoma. The parts of Kansas in the greater KCMO metro area feel midwestern, but the western parts of the state start to feel more like the broader Great Plains. I would not view the Dakotas as the Midwest. [/quote]

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