Pet Peeve: Midwest
Tuesday, February 3rd, 2009
Number 1 in the 2385 part series of things that annoy me. Today’s topic is use (or should I say ‘misuse’) of the word “Midwest”.
I really hate when people use the term “Midwest” to basically mean anything west of New York and east of Los Angeles. (Besides, we all know that the proper term for that is “Flyover Country”) As someone who was born and bred in the actual Midwest, I can’t stand people assigning random states as Midwestern.
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