Real response to get some shit started:

Core Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa

Upper Midwest: Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin

Outer Midwest: ND, SD, Nebraska (parts at least)

I will never recognize: Missouri

Everything else below Nebraska is "Plains" IMO.

South of the Ohio River is upper south.

Western PA and Pittsburgh can be "Midwest" if it wants, but the rest of PA isn't and the majority of the state doesn't qualify, so we'd have to balkanize.

Does the midwest only include the US? I'm wondering if Toronto counts as part of the midwest.

very flat

Ontologically, the Mid West is the polar opposite of the Middle East.

No further questions.

all of it

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The "midwest" is more than a region. Maybe it is an idea, a world-historical landmass, light itself. North America is too small for it.

The Old Nothwest became known as the Midwest as the US expanded further westward. The heart of the Midwest is therefore Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. This is objective fact.

Iowa gets in on a corn and casserole-based technicality, but the Dakotas, Nebraska, and Kansas are wheat-growing plains states. Missouri is the south.

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Any place where hot dogs have every single veggie in the food pyramid loaded on top.

The area East of Colorado, North of Kentucky, and West of Pennsylvania

Any US state without coastline, excluding New England.

If I can't remember where a state is, or what its called, or forget to name it when naming all 50 states, thats a midwest state

Radical take:From the Eastern Rockies to the Western Applachians/Catskills/Adirondacks

DFW and everything north of it. Get mad at me now!

I'm not American but even I know that the midwest is The Real America™.

My thoughts, which is 100% right:

It's like the west, but overrated.

Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio. if you go west of that, it's Great Plains

The former northwest territory and some adjacent regions.

What is the "midwest"?

ISN'T THAT WHERE AMERICA EXPORTS ALL IT'S EMO AND POP-PUNK FROM?

Chicago, apparently

As someone not from the Midwest: Ohio, Indiana, northern Kentucky (specifically from metro Cincinnati down through Owensboro but not Paducah, and including Lexington), lower Michigan, Illinois (except for Mississippi alluvial plain) and most of Wisconsin.

Minnesota is it’s own cultural area that could or could not include northern wisconsin and the upper peninsula (greater Minnesota), nd sd ne ks is the Great Plains, and Iowa and Missouri I have no clue what to do with. St. Louis might be the Midwest that’s the only part up for debate here.

I’m objectively correct and you hate it

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