Comments on: Pet Peeve: Midwest

By: Nursedude

Nursedude — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 03:38:30 +0000

I’m sorry, Oklahoma is part of the Southwest-don’t get me wrong, I knew a lot of nice Okies when I was in the Air Force, but they are NOT part of the Midwest.

By: monkey

monkey — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:32:16 +0000

According to Wired, Oklahoma is now in the Midwest. Next up: Texas? (note: read the first three comments to the gallery - two point out that Oklahoma is not in the Midwest and the other points out that it's not actually a museum. Nice work, Wired editors.)

By: Nursedude

Nursedude — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:25:57 +0000

Actually, I have heard media commentators use the very term in referring to the Midwest. It is a huge area, from Ohio in the East, to the Dakotas and Nebraska in the West, to Minnesota/Wisconsin in the North, to Kansas/Missouri in the South, and all of the states in between, it is a whole lot of real estate.

It’s funny, when I studied in France and met other Americans, and told them I went to college in Iowa, they would constantly mess it up and think it was Ohio or Idaho. People from the left coast would say, “Iowa, isn’t that out by Pennsylvania?” People from the East coast would think that Iowa was somewhere out by Washington or Oregon. (And people wonder why people in the rest of the world think that Americans are dumber than rocks)

By: Explosive Bombchelle

Explosive Bombchelle — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 02:16:37 +0000

Somehow I don’t think the media outlets can refer to the area as the flyover states. That might not be very well received.

By: anderswa

anderswa — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:45:48 +0000

being a part of the midwest is just so awesome, other states are dying to be included. a-hem.

this brings up someting i was wondering about recently; shouldn’t the midwest and the middle east be closer to each other than they actually are?