Where does the Midwest start and end? (metro area, cities)

[TheseGoTo11]

I think the Census definition for Midwest comes pretty close. Mountain time zone areas like Rapid City, SD could pass for the West and there's a transitional area around the Eastern Great Lakes in places like Buffalo, Erie, and Pittsburgh, but otherwise the Census area for the Midwest is more accurate than its definition of the South.

[pnwguy2]

The midwest generally is where you feel humidity around June 1 through Labor Day, almost like clockwork.

[Avondalist]

Originally Posted by sub

True.
Gotta draw the line somewhere.
Southern Indiana, Illinois, and Ohio can feel a bit southern too.

I’ve lived in both northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. It probably blends a little more, but even over there, even in the Bootheel, that state line can be a more stark change than people might think.
Not a bad thing either way, just observations.

Hell I know people in Iowa who think the Missouri-Iowa state line divide is stark. And I've met people from Minnesota who thought the same about the Iowa-Minnesota state line.

For how artificial and permeable state lines are in the US, they can demarcate meaningful differences.

[Corey the Otter]

Here is a map created online that does not use state borders to judge (most of the time) and I think could be a good definition for showing what is Midwest or not. Subregions are also included.

[Kaszilla]

Originally Posted by Corey the Otter

Here is a map created online that does not use state borders to judge (most of the time) and I think could be a good definition for showing what is Midwest or not. Subregions are also included.

This is fairly accurate. The only things I kinda disagree with is South Dakota having more midwest shading than North Dakota. ND seems more Midwestern imo. And I don't see why Appalachia is always grouped as it's own region. North Georgia and Alabama is not the same as Pennsylvania.

[P Larsen]

Originally Posted by Kaszilla

This is fairly accurate. The only things I kinda disagree with is South Dakota having more midwest shading than North Dakota. ND seems more Midwestern imo. And I don't see why Appalachia is always grouped as it's own region. North Georgia and Alabama is not the same as Pennsylvania.

I'd include Piedmont with Tidewater instead of Appalachia (this map subsumes Piedmont into Appalachia).

[Duderino]

Originally Posted by pnwguy2

The midwest generally is where you feel humidity around June 1 through Labor Day, almost like clockwork.

You must never have experienced late spring in the Mid-Atlantic. It's very much an "Eastern" thing.

[pnwguy2]

Originally Posted by Duderino

You must never have experienced late spring in the Mid-Atlantic. It's very much an "Eastern" thing.

I was referring to the Midwest. Don’t get your mid Atlantic comparison. What does an “eastern” thing mean?

[jaysan89]

Originally Posted by Corey the Otter

Here is a map created online that does not use state borders to judge (most of the time) and I think could be a good definition for showing what is Midwest or not. Subregions are also included.

This is a nice map of the different regions of our country.

[IowanFarmer]

Originally Posted by Corey the Otter

Here is a map created online that does not use state borders to judge (most of the time) and I think could be a good definition for showing what is Midwest or not. Subregions are also included.

I'd push that Midwest farther west, but otherwise generally agree with it. The Dakotas east of the Missouri are almost indistinguishable from western Minnesota and western Iowa.