1. I agree that Missouri belongs in the Midwest region more so than in the South region.
2. I think there is more than one region in what the map included in the “West” region. I think there is a West Coast Region that includes Washington, Oregon and California. Then there is a Southwest Region of Nevada, Arizona and New Mexico. Then there is Mountain Region of Idaho, Montana, Utah, Whyoming and Colorado.
3. I think of North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota and Iowa as the Plains Region.
I understand in all the above I have shrunk the Midwest Region to what I think is the heart of the Midwest, just Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin and Ohio.
4. I think Virginia, from a political standpoint, belongs more in the Northeast region than in the South Region.
Since 2000. NoVa is huge now.