The Midwest: one region or two?

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Originally Posted by JManc

Two; Ohio and South Dakota have zero in common.

i disagree greatly. the historical immigration patterns and even dialects have some overlap, depending on what part(s) of ohio and south dakota we are talking about. i travel all over the midwest from south dakota to ohio (actually my area goes to the east coast but my new company is mainly has a footprint from the appalachians to the pacific) as part of the region i administer in my profession and there are a lot of overlap(s) of all kinds.

i will say that there is no way to split the midwest into only two sections. its far more cohesive AND balkanized at the same time. to me, looking at it as one superregion that can be sectioned into like four to eight regions? certainly more than two.