US Midwest covers a lot of area. Where are you located?
US Midwest covers a lot of area. Where are you located?
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He resides in a vaguely defined place. Midwest is West of the Mississippi River so he is what, an Eastern person, or as I prefer, close enough to Midwest. Let the geographic arguments begin.Originally Posted by Willie
Accrding to the census. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midwestern_United_StatesHe resides in a vaguely defined place. Midwest is West of the Mississippi River so he is what, an Eastern person, or as I prefer, close enough to Midwest. Let the geographic arguments begin.
I am now almost South as Kentucky is mostly North of me.
Here this area is known as The Heartland.
Beer 1/2 full
I don't give a damn for that geographic chart. Nothing East of the Mississippi is Midwest in any way, especially Ohio which is a low to lowest sociological metric. It sucks. Midwest is the Mississippi up to the Rockies East.
Quite a way south of Jac, but we both live on the same river.
I'm in St. Louis.
Sorry, I meant to say hi a day or so ago, it's good to see a familiar face.
I never heard that. I have lived on the East Coast. That's East.
I visited the West coast, that's West and I know where the South is. Been there too.
Aren't you 10 ft west of the river?
And that river moves around
When it's in full flood, I almost get wet.
Still kinda muddy here, The Big Muddy is right here. I can swim to the Midwest.
Yeah, Randy, I know East. I was born in Warwick, Rhode Island in those good days; the late Forties, early Fifties, it was undeveloped. Me cousin and me could make our way over sand dunes and once got a sympathetic lobster trapper to give us one.
After moving from Rhode Island to suburban Chicago, still young, I took on a personal goal to lose the RI accent. Kids would say, "Ya talk funny. Is Rhode Island overseas or somethin?"
Yah, today I'm on a virtual island city on the the West side of the Mississippi, but we have two (count 'em) bridges to our East neighbor, Wisconsin, I suspect because Wisconsin sold beer on Sundays before we did. MinneSnowtans are practical, after all.
The river here no longer moves around because the Army Corps of Engineer spent untold $$ to build dikes, damns and levees to protect the river, and by accident, our town which has since been as much as twelve feet below the river crest, but dry. (A serious consequence of such construction is to maintain a high river that passes South to cause periodic devastating Mississippi river floods South, towards our MGB enthusiast member in St. Louis.)
Last edited by Jac@stafford.net; 27-Apr-2018 at 14:52.
Hi neighbor! I also live in St. Louis. To be accurate I'm in Brentwood just south of the Galleria. Welcome to the forum, Mike!Quite a way south of Jac, but we both live on the same river.
I'm in St. Louis.
About 1994 the OL Miss flooded plain went all the way to Des Moines. I was driving back from the real Mid West and couldn't get off 80 because it was all deep water, until the state of ILL.
Date of the year may be off.
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