Posted on 05/22/2021 6:25:05 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
North Dakota,
only the west side though, the oil-less eastern side I refer “back east”.
If the Mississippi River and St Louis are the gateway of the west, then anything east of there is “back east “.
Anything east of the Ogallala green line is “back east”. Migration west to the coast moved the frontier out past Kentucky, Ohio, Missouri, all the way to the west coast.
When the Texas was having arguments with Mexico over the southern territory, that when the people of the USA should have quit using the term mid west to refer to the upper Northeast.
As for Minnesota, I rarely think of it at all, and when I do, I refer speak to that as: sad ceded territory. I feel the same re: other parts of the USA, including DC and the surrounding areas.
Colorado is NOT the midwest. Neither is Wyoming.
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Any thing inland from the West Coast and inland from the East Coast is the Midwest ...
Imagine showing someone from 1500 A.D. a mobile phone or an airplane. They would consider these things to be impossible
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No they would not. They would think you are a witch and tie you to a stake and burn you alive.
GMTA
In the early days of railroads there were some who believed that speeds in excess of 100 mph would be fatal. That was around 200 years ago.
There was also the later idea that attempting to cross the speed-of-sound would cause an aircraft to breakup.
“Not unless they’re multidimensional.”
Exactly.
Meant to ping you to post #48.
Wild stuff! I didn’t google it, as I had only just come across it reading a little “History of” book online.
I think I would have hidden under my bed and awaited doom if I saw something like that!
They’ve reached the limit of what rectal probing will teach them.
“Any thing inland from the West Coast and inland from the East Coast is the Midwest”
Ergo.... Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska are the Midwest.
“Any thing inland from the West Coast and inland from the East Coast is the Midwest”
Ergo.... Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska are the Midwest.
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to include Idaho, Nevada, New Mexico, Arizona Texas Oklahoma Louisiana, etc all but the states on the immediate coast lines are the Midwest to these people
Not quite. You are painting with too large a brush.
It’s like this,
Parts of Idaho....., West, however the Idaho panhandle is northwest.
Louisiana is the south.
Oklahoma, it’s none, as it’s an Indian territory, with small exceptions of the buffer of the panhandle and then around Tulsa. (Think Cushing and sand springs,etc.)
Almost anything east of the “green line” is east, or in some cases south. Eastern side of Kansas, Nebraska, most of Oklahoma, eastern side of Texas (think east of Dallas). below the red River or perhaps below St Louis, the south begins in there somewhere.
Basically if it has humidity, it’s east.
If it is hot and has humidity it is south.
If it touches Canada, it’s east, north or both, and if it’s the northeast coast, or great lakes it may not REALLY be part of the USA.
I make exceptions for most of West (by God) Virginia, and local pockets of resistance in the aforementioned occupied places.
That kinda sums it up.
I guess you missed what I was saying - everything between the coasts is fly over country to the Left; they just use Midwest to designate the area.
Maybe your lefties use archaic terms like South and Panhandle - places the Left avoids, unless they must send volunteers to bring ‘religion’ to the misguided.
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