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Re: Greater Midwest Lego Users Group
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lugnet.loc.us.mo
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Tue, 26 Oct 1999 14:08:05 GMT
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Missouri IS in the Midwest. Thats all I have to say about that.
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Christopher Weeks wrote in message <37E4FDBC.EEBBDAA1@eclipse.net>...
> > > IMO, the Midwest doesn't go South of the Ohio River,
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> Well, Missouri isn't south of the Ohio.
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> > > 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?
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> Part of Missouri is on the Great Plains.
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> > > 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.
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> 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 because I've heard several other different opinions, I think that
> anyone who considers themselves part of the midwest, extends it out at
> least to the next state over. I know someone in mid Ohio who thinks
> he's in the MW and thinks it extends into Western PA.
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> > Neither MIDdle nor WEST have any Latitudinal connotations.
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> Well, one could take middle to have latitudinal connotations. Like, not
> northern, and not southern.
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> > It seems to mean In the middle between the East (New England) and the • West (The
> > Rockies to the Pacific.)
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> Shouldn't it mean the middle of the west? So, we draw a N-S line
> through the center of the lower 48 and then we identify the middle of
> the W side. That centers it on Colorado which is clearly not culturally
> affiliated with the MW as I think of it.
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> > They do call the Rockies the Continental Divide, after all.
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> Well, it happens that the continental divide runs through the rockies,
> but that doesn't make it a reasonable divider. We could just as
> reasonably call the Appalachians the continental divide.
>
> > -Amos Bieler
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> Christopher Weeks
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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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