I live on the border of Missouri and Kansas. While most of Missouri is Midwestern, the southern part is definitely southern. And while Kansas is Midwestern the western part of the state is well western. So what state to you is the most Midwestern?
I live on the border of Missouri and Kansas. While most of Missouri is Midwestern, the southern part is definitely southern. And while Kansas is Midwestern the western part of the state is well western. So what state to you is the most Midwestern?
Yeah, this. Like yeah sure back in 700 BC or whatever, when people assumed that ‘it ain’t gonna go on much longer, so this must be west’, but it’s almost like new developments and information change things. But you discover, pillage and trade the country to double the size, and west sure as fuck isn’t west anymore. I don’t care what anyone’s grand-grand-grand-grandpappy said about it.
If the primary argument was that the term is historical, I’d be a lot more sympathetic. But the term “the Midwest” originates in 1926, and the explanation is very explicitly that demographically, socially, culturally, etc. everything west of the Mississippi is a rounding error, and so it makes sense to declare the Appalachian mountains the spiritual center of the country and I hate that.