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Buffalo is in the Northeast. NYC is closer to Buffalo than Milwaukee is as well.
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Originally Posted by Pincho-toot
The Great Plains are still part of the Midwest, though not all of them. Sort of like Great Lakes is part of the Midwest, but not all of them.
I also associate Iowa with tornadoes to a large degree though not to the extent of states west of it. This is childhood bias though because a book I had when I was a kid had a cartoon tornado for the Iowa section I credit that book with what got me into US geography growing up.
I consider the eastern parts of the great plains states to be midwestern but the great plains west of the 100th meridian has more in common with the west.
Oh come on! We were in Wichita in October 2016 and my husband remarked about the lack of sweet tea lol. Wichita is Midwestern. Lower Midwestern, but Midwestern. The southern states it resembles is Oklahoma and Texas and those states have Midwestern geographical influences anyway.
I don't know about Texas but true that northern Oklahoma from long ago had a lot of people moving there from Kansas and Missouri.
I'm not sure I'd even include Kentucky in the midwest. to me the southeastern boundary of the midwest would be Cincinnati. Actually, to me these states are fully midwest:
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
ND
SD
Nebraska
Iowa
Missouri
Like what? Catholics are the largest religious group - more than doubling Baptists. The cuisine is Midwestern. The accent is Midwestern. The settlement patterns are more in line with the Midwest than the South.
Wichita is warmer than most of the Midwest, but culturally it just isn't Southern.
Places like the Missouri Bootheel and Little Egypt in Illinois are better examples of Southern culture in the census Midwest than Wichita.
I agree Wichita is Midwestern, but I don’t think the Midwest is defined by a single religious denomination, but more so, of religious and cultural pluralism. Catholicism being the dominant church to me, is more emblematic of the Great Lakes and Northeast.
The Great Plains are still part of the Midwest, though not all of them. Sort of like Great Lakes is part of the Midwest, but not all of them.
I also associate Iowa with tornadoes to a large degree though not to the extent of states west of it. This is childhood bias though because a book I had when I was a kid had a cartoon tornado for the Iowa section I credit that book with what got me into US geography growing up.
I agree Wichita is Midwestern, but I don’t think the Midwest is defined by a single religious denomination, but more so, of religious and cultural pluralism. Catholicism being the dominant church to me, is more emblematic of the Great Lakes and Northeast.
I'm not saying Catholicism = Midwest, I'm saying that it's dominance over Baptism/Evangelical churches is an indicator a place is NOT Southern.
Just out of curiosity, where do you get your sources from on this sort of stuff? Moderator cut: link removed, competitor site
I just googled "Wichita religious demographics" and Catholics were the largest group at 15.6% with Baptists being half of that.
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I credit that book with what got me into US geography growing up.
