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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To say nothing of Idaho... What bunch of fucking morons. The state is one away from the left coast and they're calling themselves "mid" west? Are they actually that stupid? (Yes, rhetorical.)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

As someone from Idaho: yea this pretty much tracks

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, if we went with what the word should indicate, Idaho is absolutely the Midwest. As it stands, there's no Mid or Mideast, the real "Midwest" is actually just the middle of the country. At this point, "Midwest* has almost nothing to do with relative location, it's more of a social and economic distinction, which Idaho does fit in with imo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

IIRC, the term was founded when "The West" was pretty much everything west of St. Louis, but it's been decades since primary school, so I could be (and often am) mistaken.