Don't you know, MIDWEST is a state of mind? It's a place where people
say things like "can you borrow me your car" and "turn the corner
around". It's also a place where people think of HOME in the same way
Dorothy thought of it when she was in OZ. People decide they're
midwestern, irrespective of geographic boundaries.
On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Schansberg, Jennifer A. wrote:
> And what about Minnesota? I remember reading somewhere that the term
> "midwest" was actually coined there--and being FROM there
> originally, I was always TOLD I was from the "midwest"... I hope
> I'm not wrong because I'll have to retrain myself into calling
> myself a...westerner? :) What does the MMC have to say about all
> of this?
> Jennifer
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> 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:
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> > Julia, et. al. -
> > Perhaps the "Midwest" is that region which lies between the Mississippi Rive
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> > and the Rocky Mountain foothills, and the specific regions of the Midwest ca
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> > be determined by more artifical boundaries. As a southerner by birth, my
> > education was begun in northeast, continued in southwest and then followed b
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> > 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 curato
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> > 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?
> >
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