Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agoSo some folks wanted a new silly struggle session that can demonstrate for all new arrivals and visitors the sort of silly shit we debate. So I ask you Hexbears: What is the "midwest"?message-squaremessage-square190fedilinkarrow-up1117arrow-down10
arrow-up1117arrow-down1message-squareSo some folks wanted a new silly struggle session that can demonstrate for all new arrivals and visitors the sort of silly shit we debate. So I ask you Hexbears: What is the "midwest"?Nakoichi [they/them]@hexbear.netM to chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square190fedilink
minus-squareWhyIsItReal [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agohow can iowa be part of the core, but not wisconsin or michigan?? the core midwest are the great lakes states: wisconsin, michigan, illinois, minnesota. i’ll typically put indiana in there too then, there’s the peripheral midwest, which i typically consider part of the midwest: iowa, ohio, nd, sd finally, there’s the not-really-midwest: nebraska, western PA
minus-squareilyenkov [she/her, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 months agoIowa is the paradigm midwest state, how the fuck can it be peripheral??
minus-squareWhyIsItReal [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-211 months agothat’s fair - i’d be comfortable moving iowa into the core. i left it on the periphery because western iowa is very much great plains-esque regardless, if iowa is in the core, then so is wisconsin and michigan
how can iowa be part of the core, but not wisconsin or michigan??
the core midwest are the great lakes states: wisconsin, michigan, illinois, minnesota. i’ll typically put indiana in there too
then, there’s the peripheral midwest, which i typically consider part of the midwest: iowa, ohio, nd, sd
finally, there’s the not-really-midwest: nebraska, western PA
Iowa is the paradigm midwest state, how the fuck can it be peripheral??
that’s fair - i’d be comfortable moving iowa into the core. i left it on the periphery because western iowa is very much great plains-esque
regardless, if iowa is in the core, then so is wisconsin and michigan