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minus-squareRato@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·27 days agoMidwest comes from when the East Coast was the only heavily populated part of the US, and the rest of it was just called “The West.”
minus-squaretyler@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·27 days agoI understand where it came from. It has been incorrect for over a hundred years. It was actually called the North Central Region up until 1984, so we’ve literally regressed from the 80s. https://web.archive.org/web/20240926043523/https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/regions_and_divisions.html
Midwest comes from when the East Coast was the only heavily populated part of the US, and the rest of it was just called “The West.”
I understand where it came from. It has been incorrect for over a hundred years. It was actually called the North Central Region up until 1984, so we’ve literally regressed from the 80s. https://web.archive.org/web/20240926043523/https://www.census.gov/history/www/programs/geography/regions_and_divisions.html