• Zoidsberg@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    As a non-American I always assumed “midwest” meant between the northwest and southwest. So like, California and the state to the east of it (Nevada?). Are the highlighted states not more “north middle”?

    • I'm A Different Bird@midwest.social
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      1 year ago

      You have to keep in mind that the US started on the east coast and then expanded west. A lot of the terminology we use goes back to those days, where everything west of the original colonies was “The West”.

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          Similar to how the “Middle East” and “Far East” are from a European-centric persecutive.