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The real one is equally messed up:
For the longest time I assumed the Midwest was a purely descriptive term based on location and not one that was defined... Finding out Ohio was in the Midwest blew my mind.
I'm from the Midwest and so many people when I tell them or discuss being Midwestern have no idea that it's Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio, etc. They treat me like I'm stupid. Well they're not wrong, but I didn't make that shit up.
It’s because the term came from a time when everything west of the Mississippi River was “the West”
Ohio ain't even mid it's skibidi
cracks me us there is not southwest as in the desert southwest
Yep, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii, all the same.
"East North Central" is in the "Midwest"
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This is obviously poorly designed.
I'd say so too. If you're in Detroit or Chicago, you're in the East North Central, Midwest, lol.
I want to argue, but Kansas is definitely mid.
Shouldnt it be SouthMid and NorthMid?
Seems like I live in the Neutral Evil part of the US. Yeah that tracks.
Glad I'm not the only one who saw an alignment chart. West Coast the best coast, but it's especially fun given Florida is Chaotic Evil.
I love that SoCal is the midwest now
Honestly, I like this version better than the real "Midwest", which isn't western at all, and hasn't been for well over a century. Hell, there were forts on the west coast in 1792.
I mean yeah there were forts there but they wouldn't be American for another half century. So, I don't know that that is particularly relevant to this discussion.
Yep, I'm going to the MidEast for a business trip next month.
What? Doha?
No, New York, New York City...
I don't like this.
in alignment chart terms we'd call that True Mid
Bottom row is fucked from increasing heatwaves, colors should reflect that
They do reflect that.
"Midwest" needs to be red af
OK, but That's not bottom row.
Giving Midmid.
What is this? A southwest for ants?
This angers me
The projection is what annoys me the most. At least have it line up with latitude/longitude.
Wiki wiki mid-midwest
Midmid is basically the old Big 8 conference, which made a lot more sense than the bastardized hellscape we have now
i refuse to belive california is in the midwest
Missing 49, 50, 51. Alaska, northwest, northwest. Hawaii, west, west. And Canada north, north
Alberta: NorthMidNorth
Needs aligned with latitude and longitude. The North-South(or East-West, idc that much) middle should be "Center", and the Coasts should get their own thing.
Points for "Midmid" when "Middle" and "Central" were right there though.
this post was submitted on 06 May 2025
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