What area of the country do you identify NE as (Kearney: population, culture)

[73-79 ford fan]

The five regons of the United States are the northeast, southeast, southwest, northwest and midwest. Nebraska is entirely within the midwest.

[itsMeFred]

Yeah, if you use the Holt 4th grade social studies book as your be-all/end-all on the subject. lol

[Omahahonors]

Nebraska is not woven into the fabric of the midwest area. Sure we have a few ties but that doesn't make us that similar.

Nebraska and the plains states are very similar to each other and are rather contrasting to the great lakes midwest region.

The plains region which also include Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri (not St Louis or the far eastern part of iowa) have many contrasts including they types of jobs, standard of living, growth rates, politics, culture.

I'm sorry but there are way too many differences for me to blindly accept nebraska as Midwestern. Including omaha.

[GraniteStater]

Originally Posted by Omahahonors

Nebraska is not woven into the fabric of the midwest area. Sure we have a few ties but that doesn't make us that similar.

Nebraska and the plains states are very similar to each other and are rather contrasting to the great lakes midwest region.

The plains region which also include Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri (not St Louis or the far eastern part of iowa) have many contrasts including they types of jobs, standard of living, growth rates, politics, culture.

I'm sorry but there are way too many differences for me to blindly accept nebraska as Midwestern. Including omaha.

Agreed. The Great Lakes region has next to no similarities with Nebraska or most of the Great Plains states. I would classify much of Nebraska as part of the West- with the eastern 1/3 being more similar to the agrarian Midwest core.

[Filthy McNasty]

Originally Posted by GraniteStater

A large chunk of Nebraska is part of the West, not the Midwest. The dividing line is close to 100 degrees west longitude. Large farm and ranch sizes become the norm, crop land is far less, precipitation is less, and population density is much lower, and quite similar to very rural areas of the interior West.

Who decided the dividing line is at 100 degrees west longitude? The only thing that does is cut the state of Nebraska in half.
The existence of ranches and farms isn't a geographic line in the sand.

Interesting that Kearney is the half way point of the Continental US between Boston and San Francisco, and the 100th meridian is only 50 miles west of Kearney.
If that makes anything west of the meridian "West" it stands to make Grand Island (50 miles east of Grand Island) and all parts east "the East".

I'd be curious to know where the so called "Midwest" starts...where the "Mideast" starts and ends and where the "East" begins and ends.

[Filthy McNasty]

Originally Posted by Omahahonors

Nebraska is not woven into the fabric of the midwest area. Sure we have a few ties but that doesn't make us that similar.

Nebraska and the plains states are very similar to each other and are rather contrasting to the great lakes midwest region.

The plains region which also include Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri (not St Louis or the far eastern part of iowa) have many contrasts including they types of jobs, standard of living, growth rates, politics, culture.

I'm sorry but there are way too many differences for me to blindly accept nebraska as Midwestern. Including omaha.

What is midwest about the Greeat Lakes?

[itsMeFred]

Who decided the dividing line is at 100 degrees west longitude?

God. lol

Historically, this was the line past which eastern banks wouldn't lend money when the plains were first being settled. Because of the rain-shadow from the Rockies, there is a noticeable climate change right around the 100th. Rainfall drops significantly and the land goes from tall-grass to short-grass prairie. Next time you go across Nebraska on hwys 20 or 2, pay attention around Valentine or Dunning. Seriously. It's visible.

[CAllenDoudna]

The Center of the United States is in Kansas. The Center of North America is in the Dakotas. The Center of Western culture is in Denver, Colorado. The Center of Midwestern culture is in Des Moines, Iowa. Nebraska is between all these Centers--but it's not the Middle of anything.

[attrapereves]

I've always considered Nebraska to be a plains state, but it's official classification is Midwest.

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