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Where is ‘the Midwest’? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net to c/askchapo@hexbear.net

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Contentious issue I know, but recently I’ve encountered a number of people who believe that Ohio (and sometimes Indiana and Michigan) is not truly part of the Midwest. Which to me is preposterous since I’ve always considered Ohio the most quintessentially Midwestern state. Midwest to me has always been very nearly synonymous with rust belt, but it seems there are a fair number of people who place the Midwest more in what I’d call the Great Plains, or Greater Minnesota. So I’m wondering where do you all place the Midwest.

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[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago (5 children)

I’ve met people from Oklahoma who were mortified to learn the rest of the country considers them part of the South and not the Midwest

[–] Owl@hexbear.net 19 points 2 months ago

I don't consider Oklahoma at all.

[–] rootsbreadandmakka@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They will be happy to know I don’t consider them the Midwest

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They did say “ope” and “soda” so there’s an argument there

[–] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

but the real answer is that it’s wherever people call carbonated beverages “pop” instead of “soda” or “coke”,

Your definitions seem inconsistent here with the commenters...

[–] Sulvor@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Pop-users are midwestern revisionists

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They're Texas leftovers and Texas is very much south.

[–] AnarchoAnarchist@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

East Texas is south. West Texas is west.

[–] 2Password2Remember@hexbear.net 4 points 2 months ago

oklahoma has its own kind of barbecue, it's indubitably southern

Death to America

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 3 points 2 months ago

I don't consider oklahoma.