I thought Colorado was the Mountain region.


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On Thu, 7 Dec 1995, Elizabeth Maria Cook wrote:

> 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
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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?
> >
>