Started to read this article and have decided to die on this hill…
Oklahoma and Texas are not in the west.
We put up enough with the “midwest” bullshit but the US is no longer the 13 colonies… time to grow up.
The attached image has my line in the sand, and honestly… it is too far east #imho
The line should be the Rocky Mountains.
For the longest time I thought the “mid-west” was the middle of the west… so, like… Utah
Then I lived in Minnesota which has the headwaters of the Mississippi. And… one day someone said it was in the mid-west and my head exploded because half the state is east of the Mississippi.
Like… what is the damn “west” part of “mid-west”? West of what?
Turns out… the 13 colonies. (basically)
So, like I said in the above… I’m calling bullshit. We aren’t using that metric for “the west”.
Finally!
Every article talking about a portion of the country should have a map showing exactly what that portion is.
@philsplace a lot of people will be annoyed Arizona and New Mexico got left out.
Just went back and checked the article. That looks to be the case… none of the cities were in those two states.
