I've noticed lately with all the horrible weather that has been going on that places like Iowa, Oklahoma, and Missouri are referred to as the midwest. When I look at a US map, it looks more like mideast to me. Can someone explain please? Thanks!
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In colonial times, anything west of the Appalachian mountains was considered "the west". The far west was places like California and Oregon, and places ~half way in between the Appalachians and California were called "the middle west". The US census bureau defines the mid-west as all the states west of Pennsylvania and north of West Virginia, Kentucky, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, but not including the Rocky Mountain states or anything west of these.
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The term Midwest has been in common use for over 100 years. A variant term, "Middle West", has been in use since the 19th century and remains relatively common. Another term sometimes applied to the same general region is "the heartland". Other designations for the region have fallen into disuse, such as the "Northwest" or "Old Northwest" (from "Northwest Territory") and "Mid-America". Since the book Middletown appeared in 1929, sociologists have often used Midwestern cities (and the Midwest generally) as "typical" of the entire nation.
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This area is centered around the Mississippi River, which is sometimes considered the middle of "mid" portion of the nation, even though there is more territory west of the Mississippi than east of it.
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I hope this is helpful.
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This area is centered around the Mississippi River, which is sometimes considered the middle of "mid" portion of the nation, even though there is more territory west of the Mississippi than east of it.
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I hope this is helpful.
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'The West' was anything west of the colonized East coast when these terms were formed.
The Midwest in modern parlance are the middle states of the US. They were all west of the original settlements in the US.
There was for example a permanent Indian Frontier west of the Mississippi that the US government promised would never be broken under any circumstances, forever...until gold was found there - rather like Western foreign policy in oil rich countries now.
The Midwest in modern parlance are the middle states of the US. They were all west of the original settlements in the US.
There was for example a permanent Indian Frontier west of the Mississippi that the US government promised would never be broken under any circumstances, forever...until gold was found there - rather like Western foreign policy in oil rich countries now.
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Because when the first explorers came to the united states any thing west of the mississippi was cosidered "west", but when they discovered how large the U.S was, the called it the middle of the west, hence "mid-west"
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Because they are west of the Mississipi, but in no way are they the far west.
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Its in the middle of the West?