[bnelson44]

I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.

[Last Dakotan]

I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.

The West is a big place. There's enough West for all of us.

[discostu]

South Dakota was part of the Old West. Kansas too, actually Kansas even more so, possibly even more so than here in AZ, lots of important western events happened in Kansas. The West was HUGE, even a lot of Canada.

[ErnBatavia]

I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.

Wattcha gonna do....while visiting wifey's family in Minnesota, I swear I heard references to Fargo, ND, as "West Coast".

(I guess I'm on Waikiki beach and just don't know it yet....)

[philled]

I live in South Dakota and Deadwood is nowhere near here... Then again the portrayals of SD are essentially confined to 1. Deadwood, 2. Dances with Wolves, or 3. Little House on the Prairie. Last fall, I met a female reporter from the NYTimes who was out here covering the demise of Gridlock Tom and she seemed rather surprised that we "normal" people. That being said,"the West" from a historical standing means anything left of the Mississippi River. Though Wild Bill and Calamity Jane (South Dakota),the gunfights at OK Corral (Kansas), Custer's Last Stand (eastern Wyoming) and the Jesse James gang (Missouri) were all hallmarks of the Wild West, they are all just part of MidWestern (Central Plains?) folklore now...

[MarkL]

I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.

According the the MSM, Pennsylvania is "The West." Let's face it, if it's not on the east coast, or the west coast, according to them, it's just "fly-over country."

Mark

[Atlas Sneezed]

I live in the West and South Dakota is no where near here.

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The West used to be much farther East.