Midwest

[Smoothbill5]

I see people posting from the Midwest so can someone tell me what the boundaries are. North South East West?

 

[makemewet69]

I see people posting from the Midwest so can someone tell me what the boundaries are. North South East West?

Personally I consider it to be Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska

 

[THROBBS]

I see people posting from the Midwest so can someone tell me what the boundaries are. North South East West?

"Officially":
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas


so "boundaries":
(states or country just OUTSIDE of MidWest)
North —Canads
South — Oklahoma, Arkansas, (Tennessee), Kentucky
East — West Virginia, Pennsylvania
West — Colorado, Wyoming, Montana

Though I tend to look at the St. Louis Arch ("The Gateway to The West") as a "boundary" (loosely, as it is on the on the Eastern side of Missouri) and tend to think of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas as Plains States. But that's me.

"Core" MidWestern States (for me) are:Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota (Minnesota, cuz they seem friendly and talk funny — a bit like Yoopers)


For the sake of realistic "potential", one tends to draw the boundaries closer.

 

[tallandtrainable]

I always understood it as it related to the Louisiana Purchase and the Confederacy. If it wasn't in the Confederacy, and it either was considered the far west of the US before the Louisiana Purchase or it was part of the eastern third of the Louisiana Purchase, then it's part of the Midwest.

Basically, it's everything within two states east and west of the Mississippi from Kentucky and Missouri north to Canada.

Some would argue and include Ohio and some of the southern states below Missouri and Kentucky close to the Mississippi. They are heretics and apostates as far as I'm concerned. ;-)

 

[AdorkableBatgirl]

I'm from Minnesota, we've always considered this as the Midwest.

 

[Coach25]

I'm from Minnesota, we've always considered this as the Midwest.

Id say youre right but I call it the State of Hockey

 

[PapaRomantic]

Kansas has always been considered to be Midwest, and since we are right smack dab in the middle, that makes sense.

 

[ksmith475]

This may the only thing on here that I'm ashamed of- whispers ...i live in..ks. shhh

 

[sexlover66]

Kansas really isn’t that bad if you live east of Hays....maybe Salina....but if you’re living in western part of the state you basically don’t exsist...

 

[ksmith475]

Ok, there are quite a few supporters of this WONDERFUL state in which I live. I was mainly being a smart ass or I wouldn't have come back 3 times. So, my sincerest apologizes to whom I offended, I truly am sorry.
Yup still a smart ass
Xoxo

 

[Smoothbill5]

Smart Ass is Ok as I am one

 

[ksmith475]

I'm thinking u have to be one to survive this lovely syate

 

[staylate]

"Officially":
Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas


so "boundaries":
(states or country just OUTSIDE of MidWest)
North —Canads
South — Oklahoma, Arkansas, (Tennessee), Kentucky
East — West Virginia, Pennsylvania
West — Colorado, Wyoming, Montana

Though I tend to look at the St. Louis Arch ("The Gateway to The West") as a "boundary" (loosely, as it is on the on the Eastern side of Missouri) and tend to think of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas as Plains States. But that's me.

"Core" MidWestern States (for me) are:Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota (Minnesota, cuz they seem friendly and talk funny — a bit like Yoopers)


For the sake of realistic "potential", one tends to draw the boundaries closer.

I'm a life-long Midwesterner and I completely agree with this post.

 

[THROBBS]

I'm a life-long Midwesterner and I completely agree with this post.

Don't encourage him.

 

[sexlover66]

Ok, there are quite a few supporters of this WONDERFUL state in which I live. I was mainly being a smart ass or I wouldn't have come back 3 times. So, my sincerest apologizes to whom I offended, I truly am sorry.
Yup still a smart ass
Xoxo

No offense was taken....and it must be the state breeding us because I too am a smartass

 

[CuMex1]

Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
Spent some summers in the Midwest (Illinois & Missouri) and didn’t like it much.

 

[minn]

Minnesota

Minnesota is definitely considered Midwest AND The State of Hockey!!

 

[PapaRomantic]

There's nothing wrong with Kansas - why often, we have all four seasons of weather in the same day! What could be more exciting than that? Until you live through a snow thunderstorm complete with lighting, you don't know what you are missing!

 

[tallandtrainable]

Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska.
Spent some summers in the Midwest (Illinois & Missouri) and didn’t like it much.

I grew up here (Southern Illinois and East Central Missouri) and don't like our summers. We tend to have almost all the humidity of a place like New Orleans but with temps a few degrees warmer.

This year was awful. It seemed to go almost straight from winter directly into summer. We really didn't have much of a spring. In late May we had highs in the 90s around 10 or more degrees above normal. Current temps continue to be above average for this time of year. Usually when this happens the heat breaks mid-July and the rest of the summer is milder. One of these times though, it's going to stay brutally hot all summer and it'll just be one long nasty heatwave.

I do hear that summers in Florida are worse though, hotter and more humid so I guess it could be worse.