Does Denver feel like a city in the midwest?

[LisaCACO]

I dunno. colorado seems to me like a strange mix of the two, like someone put the midwest and the west in a blender.

given a choice, however, I'd say it's more "west". too many jeans and cowboy hats.

the city of denver is a bit different. it's when you get out to the 'burbs and then other cities and towns that things "change".

[GhettoKC]

Originally Posted by escapecalifornia

i don't even consider the coastal cities be part of the west. just like south florida isn't really the south. Coastal california's cities are more like the northeast with better weather.

wtf

[denverian]

Originally Posted by GloriaDei

Kansas City always seemed to me to be the city most like Denver. The climate and topography is different, but you're exaggerating the cultural differences between the two cities.

I've lived most of my adult life in Denver and the Los Angeles areas, but grew up in KC. Denver seems culturally more like the West and LA than KC to me. People in urban KCMO are quite similar to people in urban Denver, but Denver has a much larger and denser urban environment compared to KC. I've never lived in any of Denver's far flung suburbs, so that could have an effect on my opinion.

[denverian]

Originally Posted by GhettoKC

wtf

I don't consider south Florida really part of the South either, at least culturally speaking. Obviously it's far south, but you have a large Hispanic population, many Northeasterners who moved down there, not a dominate southern accent. I think that's why people consider southern FLA to be "south of the South".

[BlackOut]

I moved to Minneapolis from Denver and I think the two resemble one another in many ways. I do think the central cities of MPLS. & STPL. are more liberal than Denver. Suburban Denver seems a lot like suburban MPLS. - STPL. in that it's conservative.

I guess I don't know what "midwest" really feels like. I've been to several cities throughout the midwest: Duluth area - very unionized, liberal; Madison liberal college town; Chicago - there isn't really a regional vibe; Fargo - very flat, agricultural activity, conservative; Des Moines - is what I picture as being midwest; Kansas City - great city in mid-America; Wichita - very conservative, with pockets of weirdness, Lawrence - college town, Omaha - seems like a mix between Denver and Minneapolis, Lincoln - another college town, but more conservative vibe than Madison, Milwaukee - hard to get a vibe there too, very underrated city, St. Louis - doesn't resemble the majority of cities I've mentioned so far, which isn't a bad thing.

I could go on, but I think you get the point that you can't compare a city to an entire region.