"Do you live in the Midwest?" by self-report

Illinoisan here, Pennsylvania and Idaho need to get their heads checked. I wouldn’t consider anything west of Kansas or east of Ohio(being generous there) as Midwest. Also just about anything south of the Missouri Compromise Line is a southern state, the Midwest is not the home of traitors.

Edit: correct mason Dixon to Missouri compromise

Disappointed they didn't survey the whole nation. It'd be funny to see figures like "0.1%" for Florida or Hawaii.

Why is "west" in "midwest"? Can't we just call these states mid?

I'm a little concerned about Pennsylvania.

Is your house surrounded on all sides by corn?

Does Napoleon Dynamite seem like a documentary about your town?

Then you live in the Midwest.

There are people in TN and AR that think they're Midwestern?

"Y'all" talk too funny for that, now.

(I kid, I kid!)

TIL that 25% of people living in Idaho are even dumber than I previously thought they were ...

I never have figured out how to categorize Oklahoma, but Midwest has never been on my Oklahoma bingo card. It's more like a less affluent extension of Texas that is full of bogus slot machines and smells like weed everywhere.

There is some surprisingly pretty land up there though. Growing up I always thought of it as a barren dust bowl wasteland. Lots and lots of trees in reality, at least in the eastern half. Don't know what's in the panhandle. I'm not sure anybody does.

Edit: Just as I finished typing this, a commercial came on the TV. To quote, and no I'm not kidding, "Live the flyover life. Move to Oklahoma."

Still blows my mind that Midwest apparently means "slightly not easy coast."

Like in my mind it would be Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, Utah. That kind of area. Considering it's midway through the west half of the country.

I'm from Wyoming and I'm calling bullshit on that number. Unless they talked to people living in the town of Midwest.

Who are the 8.4% of my fellow Hoosiers who don't think they live in the midwest and where do they think they live?

Iowans calling themselves "midwest" while voting like southerners. You hate to see it.

So North-Central. Got it. (Am not American and don't know American history very well)

Most of y'all are east of the centerline.

You're the middle east, not midwest.

10% of Tennessee is so high on hillbilly heroin they don't know which question they got asked and just said "yes" on the off chance it was "would you like some free oxy?"

What the fuck are they smoking in Wyoming and Montana and Idaho?

"where is the middle-of-the-west?"

(American points north-by-north east)

This just in: 10% of Tennesseeans forgot what state they live in.

Wyoming, Colorado, and Montana are Rocky Mountain West, not the MidWest. Good grief.

Very surprised 42 percent of Coloradans and 25 percent of Idahoans would say they live in the Midwest.

I lived in the States for five years and I still don't really get what Americans mean when they say the midwest. I guess that's partly because Americans also don't know, so you never get the same explanation twice.

As someone born and raised in the Midwest (Ohio and Illinois) and is currently a resident on the West Coast (Oregon), the way I define it is as such: if there is corn, it's the Midwest. If there are cowboys on horses, it's the west or southwest. Does your state touch the Atlantic or Pacific? That's what coast you are on (Hawaii and Alaska excepted).

Ok Colorado and Wyoming thinking they’re Midwest is new to me. As is Ohioans thinking we arent

I know a dude from Michigan who insists Minnesota is not the Midwest. I won’t show him this map because offering facts and statistics doesn’t change his mind about anything.

Looks legit. As a Chicagoan I can confirm that Iowa is the middlest-west there is.

Almost 10% of Pennsylvania thinks they are in the midwest? HAHAHAHAHHA

I believe this is closer to reality. I forgot an east coast subgroup.

edit: It's called the mid atlantic and people are big mad about its exclusion on a shitty, crude map in context to a discussion about the Midwest. lmao

map

Idaho? Really? That 25% must not know geography at all...

Denverites and fort collins are lying to themselves if they think they have more in common with the rest of the mountain west than they have in common with Kansas City.

Just check if they say ope

Wait, what? Where do people in Montana think they live? The south?

42% of Colorado has lost their damn mind.

Who in the hell is calling Pennsylvania the Midwest?

When I got to Ohio, I was so confused when people called it the Midwest. I was like, have you seen a map.

Interesting to me that Ohio and Michigan two states that I thought were firmly Midwestern identify less as Midwestern than what I always thought of as the Great Plains states of North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, and Kansas.

Well that's a hot take that nearly makes ontario a cold midwest

Many in Utah think they’re Midwest too. It’s wild. (In my case their answers to me indicated they didn’t know where the Midwest is, not that they identified with it)