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Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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lugnet.loc.us.mo
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Thu, 16 Sep 1999 00:16:30 GMT
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In lugnet.loc.us.mo, Steve Bliss writes:
> [snipped cross-posting to MO group only]
> On Wed, 15 Sep 1999 18:42:26 GMT, Larry Pieniazek <lar@voyager.net> wrote:
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> > Where DOES the midwest end? Isn't mizzourah part of the south? (yes, I
> > know it wasn't part of the Confederacy)
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> Didn't we have this discussion before?
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> When I (briefly) lived in Arkansas, many of the locals believed Arkansas to
> be part of the Midwest.
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> IMO, the Midwest doesn't go South of the Ohio River,
What do you base that on?
> and if your state
> considers itself to be on the Great Plain, then it ain't Midwest.
I don't think MO does, but again, what has that to do with it?
> Or maybe the Midwest is everything in the Central time zone. Between the
> Northern and Southern US borders, of course.
This would seem to me to be the correct assumption.
Neither MIDdle nor WEST have any Latitudinal connotations.
It seems to mean In the middle between the East (New England) and the West (The
Rockies to the Pacific.)
They do call the Rockies the Continental Divide, after all.
-Amos Bieler
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| (...) Well, Missouri isn't south of the Ohio. (...) Part of Missouri is on the Great Plains. (...) I think it's close. I was a Missourian and I know that Kansas, but not Colorado is in the MW, and Indiana (I guess), but not Ohio is in the MW. But (...) (25 years ago, 19-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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| (...) Didn't we have this discussion before? When I (briefly) lived in Arkansas, many of the locals believed Arkansas to be part of the Midwest. IMO, the Midwest doesn't go South of the Ohio River, and if your state considers itself to be on the (...) (25 years ago, 15-Sep-99, to lugnet.loc.us.mo)
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