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The Midwestern United States (or Midwest) refers to the north-central states of the United States of America. Does anybody know why this is? |
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i dunno. i think maybe cause for the longest time everything west of the mississippi river was considered western wilderness... but, then people moved way through that, so places like wisconnsin kinda weren't the extreme west anymore, but the 'west'ern part of the name stuck.. ...and the whole southern midwest is basically just texas. |
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mid west like in middle east countries (iran, irak...) like half way to the east or to the west you know |
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because texas is so big? and because of the southern stigma of those states. |
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yes. like dis dude says. The USA was colonized from east to west. the mid-west used to be the western border of civilized country. all the rest was territories and camps mining towns and what not. like the show Deadwood. that was what, Montana territory or something? then there is that whole plot about the politicians wanting to come in and make it a legitimate tax-paying state. but i digress. |
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They were only called that in colloquial times back when the rabbit patches hadn't all been harvested and qrters ran around free and naked on the plains. The real name given to this mezographical terrain is the 'butt appalacians' named after chief appalacian of the huggies ultra thin diaper tribe. this was all fine and dandy until greedy hollywood memorabilia venders sought to change the name to one more apt for consumers and ice cream harvesters, which would incidentally be the next wave of microprocessors (see previous article). But the name only acted as camoflaughea to the ice cream vendors and the region become a ghost area for about 5 years inbetween the gulf war and the rise of the canadian empire (about the same time ewalks were discovered floating around in miniature spaceships in Bill Clintons body.) That said, one can only marvel at the longitude of the nomenclature and wonder what they were thinking. The ice cream trucks were being repelled, the canadian government was threatening banning all exports of grizzly bears, and a whole new wave of counterfitters was making fake hollywood memorabelia. Not to mention the affect this had on the microprocessors. So finally, the region went bankrupt, unable to stay afloat from attacks on multiple fronts. It went public and everyone bid on a letter for the name. the word "midwest' was finally pieced together, but it was like draining the pulp of an orange with a ladel. But on Decemburary 199the the word was finally coined and an entry was made in new oxfords seventeenth exapedia. The area still stands as it was 100 years ago to this day, a fine relic to our past and a piece of our history. I have personally urinated on the spot. |
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YOUR CUM IS BURNING ME! |
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..sorry... |
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Don't apologize. Its my fault. |
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Deadwood, South Dakota..Real town. Montana is the west It has to do with the civil war and the North's inner disdain for the south and vice versa |
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it's a best of collection from all the previous posts; everything west of the mississippi river was considered western wilderness... ...and the whole southern midwest is basically just texas. mid west like in middle east countries because texas is so big the mid-west used to be the western border of civilized country. all the rest was territories and camps mining towns and what not. |
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Is it true that the USA encompasses everything West of Los Angeles and everything east of San Francisco? |
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i still can't believe that there is a Carthage in the US. |
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i stopped reading at "colloquial times". |
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and yeah, cheers to epohs and evolume for answering my question |
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Well at least I annoyed you a little bit. |
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I see, I never thought of the term mid west as not making any sense. Yeah, it should be called central America, but we already get our designer drugs from a central america. |
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