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 > [log in to unmask] > > 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 Rive r > > and the Rocky Mountain foothills, and the specific regions of the Midwest ca n > > be determined by more artifical boundaries. As a southerner by birth, my > > education was begun in northeast, continued in southwest and then followed b y > > 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 r > > 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? > > >