• MeDuViNoX
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    9 个月前

    I live in the Midwest and I still don’t really understand why half of it is on the eastern part of America.

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      9 个月前

      I’m open to being corrected, but my guess would be the long time gap between the original colonization of the east coast and the spread west of there. In 1776 US borders extended to Pennsylvania, so when settlers started moving to Ohio and beyond I imagine they would have called it “The West” until they realized how much west there really was.

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        9 个月前

        That makes sense, thanks for the response.

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      9 个月前

      It’s from an east coast mentality. If you’re sitting in New York City, everything else is west. You have middle way west (Midwest), the West, and the West Coast.

      Same goes for Europe. You sit in London and you have the middle east, the east, and the far east.

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        9 个月前

        I probably should have just done that from the start, but then we wouldn’t get this interaction, lol… Thank you though.