OK, this taps into a long standing argument I had with a college
housemate over the defnition of the "Midwest."  You offer the Rocky
Mountain Foothills as a western boundary.  Well that puts Denver in the
Midwest.  I'm a Denver native and, as I said to this college friend,
Denver is most definitely in the WEST, not the MIDWEST.

On Wed, 6 Dec 1995,
Tom B wrote:

> Julia, et. al. -
> Perhaps the "Midwest" is that region which lies between the Mississippi River
> and the Rocky Mountain foothills, and the specific regions of the Midwest can
> be determined by more artifical boundaries.  As a southerner by birth, my
> education was begun in northeast, continued in southwest and then followed by
> professional move to Michigan and then Iowa and then Illinois.  You know, I
> always felt I was in Midwest in MI,IA,&IL.  But I never felt, or as a curator
> seeking artists about me, wanted to be constrained by mileage boundaries.
>  With Canada to the North and the high plains of the western states to the
> South, why not start with Kansas/Missouri and go northward to North
> Dakota/Wisconsin?  Indianapolis is certainly a big part.  But the Ohio River
> seems to start the trend towards S.E. region.  What do others think?
>