• stupidcasey@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    The new world is sometimes referred to as the west and that is the middle of the continent so I guess by that logic No Mexico would be the Mid-West

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      4 months ago

      the actual answer is because the area pictured was west of the original colonies but I didn’t want to ruin my joke

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        4 months ago

        the actual actual answer is that people east of the mississippi river haven’t looked at a map since 1803.