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Wait, westerners? You mean Chicago? I always thought "west" was west of the Mississippi. I guess some of this stuff was to be on the Mississippi and the Great Lakes.

Before 1850 or so, Chicago and Milwaukee were "the West." Before the Civil War, much of Minnesota was Indian country.

Read any book about the Jacksonian Era. Back then Cincinnati and Louisville were "the West."

It wasn't until after the Civil War that "the West" came to be restricted to the land west of the Mississippi.

Well they were paying for the bulk of the costs. If I was paying the vast lion's share of the bills, I would be less bothered that some of the money got spent back on me.

Guy, you gotta take an economics class sometime.

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Guy, you gotta take an economics class sometime.

Because some sort of magical ownership transfer to New York occurs when products are shipped to Europe?