Everything to the east of the western mountains and west of the eastern mountains. The great plains = midwest. all of it.

Where “inland northern English” is dominant… no southern drawl allowed.

Young and restless

A hellhole. Source: grew up there.

Anywhere that black pepper is considered too spicy by the majority of the population

source: i live here

central time zone, north of missouri, not including nebraska. southern illinois thinks they're midwestern but they've become some other worse thing more or less since bush II.

I would like to formally recognize Tornado Alley and The Rust Belt as regions that overlap the Midwest somewhat. I think this might partially be where the confusion over places like Pittsburgh and Kansas are coming from.

France.

The Atlantic Ocean

Mostly plains, spotted with forests and lakes. If it were a magic deck it would be every color, but red.