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Originally Posted by Six Corners
Ohio is surprising to me. Almost a quarter don't agree they're midwestern. Is this Cincinnatians identifying more with the south? Appalachians considering themselves to be in their own Appalachian region (or also the south)?
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Some in Ohio and Michigan bristle at being lumped in with the "Midwest".
From what I've learned on this forum, apparently it's because they were the last states to generally fall under the umbrella of the term, so they don't have as much history with the identity as the states to their west do.
We're chicagoans, so that may not make much sense from our perspective, but it is what it is.
And lord help you if you ever happen to mistakenly refer to rustbelt cousins like Buffalo and Pittsburgh as "Midwest".
It can be a really triggering word.